The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-06-19

table citizens. He has also stated
more than once that he did not ex-
pect to be nominated but that the
campaign would cost him nothing
and serve as an advertisement.
1t don't matter whether the money
comes out of Mckenzie and Patter-
son, or from some of the interests
they seek to promote-the question
is, whose Judge will Mr.. Wright be
if, elected, rel though he intends
and tries to be as fair and impartial
as any man can be. Think Of these
things before you vote.
Much might be said as to the i'm
propriety Of a candidate for this Of
flee holding public meetings and con-
Quoting a campaign in his own be-
half with the members of his own.
profession almost solidly against
him. 1t has never before been done
in this state.
No comment is stronger than the
fact that of their own volition every
attorney in Barnes county except
one, and about fifty Of those of Cass
county, some time after Mr.. Wright
announced his candidacy Joined in
the request to Judge Spalding that
he permit them to present his name
for nomination on the republican tic
ket. These r the counties where
MI. Wright has lived, and is known.
The Democratic Endorsement Of
Judge Spalding's Ability and Fair
ness.
The Forum charges that Judge
spalding admits defeat as a republic
can and says he has filed, a petition
as a democrat.
This is untrue. ~
He has filed no petition except to
go on the republican ballot as a re-
publican.
The democrats endorsed the can
didacies of Judges Young, Morgan,
Engerud and others for the same
place. They, through q state COM
mittee, have filed a petition asking
that Judge spalding be put on the
ballot as a republican.
The primary election law provides
two methods for getting the name of
a candidate on the ballot. BY one,
the candidate himself makes the APP
plication; by the order, five voters
when backed by a petition of three
hundred others make it. This latter
method is provided for cases where
the voters desire to place a candidate
in the field without his seeking it,
and all he need do is to consent to
the filing of the petition.
Their petition %recites that the dem
acratic party has for many years
last past stood for, and advocated
the principle of a non-partisan ju-
dicary and in furtherance of that
principle has endorsed as its candi-
date for Judge of the supreme court
that member of the court whose
term of Office was about to expire,
and who vas a candidate for reelec-
ton, and has done so without ref
enc to the political beliefs of the
persons SO endorsed; and that mas
much as the term Of Judge Spalding,
a republican, is about to expire, and
he is a candidate Cor reelection, and
has discharged the duties of his Of
flee with ability and impartiality,
and his official record has met with
approval of the bar and the citizens
Of the state.
That, therefore, they ask that his
name be printed on the ballot, and
they certify that he is a republican.
The petition is endorsed as follows
by Judge Spalding:
II consent to the filing. of the
within petition for the reasons and
purposes therein stated, it being un-
derstood that politically 1 am a re-
publican"
It has always been regarded as a
marked compliment and evidence of
confidence when a party to which a
Judge did not belong enorsed him.
1t cannot be done in the same form
as under the old law, but has. been
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permit. IS
Don't be fooled by the talk that
this means that the Judge is q demo-
crat.
Judge Spalding has a high appre-
citation Of the honor which has been.
conferred upon him and Of the du-
ties of the position he occupies, and
neither he nor the voters need any
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