Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-27
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TRUSTS AND OTHERWISE

TRUSTS AND OTHERWISE
Some time ago the Fargo Search.
light inaugurated the custom of charg-
ing the opposition candidate with be-
Ing the emissary or representative of
the interests" and. after delivering a
solemn pronouncement upon the evils
of'the trusts or interests, would admit
that it had no proof of its statements
but would call upon the candidate so
charged with this iniquity to disprove
tie charge, under the various pains
and penalties Of popular displeasure
This line Of Misunderstanding attack
should have no place with the news.
eaper or individual protesting or prac
ficing any kind Of fairness, and should
certainly have no influence with the
voter. unless the charge is substanti-
ated with proofs. In the ordinary mat.
ters of crime and misdemeanor, the
defendant is not called upon to prove
his innocence. fla candidate for pub.
Tic Office could be disposed of by en-
gagiHg enough c1aekers to cry out that
he represented some trust or interests.
then the battle. would go to the can.
didate or followers having the loudest
voices.
The Grand Forks Times has taken
mp this line of attack Upon those it is
pleased to consider Its opponents in
the senatorial struggle, and repeats
the charge that G. B. Little is the can
-didate of the International Harvester
company, which is too patent an at.
tempt to create prejudice to be at all
noticeable, except for the purpose of
6howing some Of the methods of the
campaign. The Grand Forks Times
has advanced no proof of any kind
that Mr.. Little is the candidate of the
Harvester Trust, and it has no proofs
to advance. Its clacking is solely for
the purpose of seeking to create preju-
dice against Mr.. Little in the minds of
some farmers, who may not have TAX
EN- time or trouble to investigate and
who might possibly accept as truth
everything appearing in newspaper
during political campaign.
If the Times has any proofs to ad.
vance in this matter, it should advance
them, or admit that it is actuated sole
" by desire to create prejudice and
sstir up an unjustifed. telling agains.
Mr. Little. 1t is as easy to charge
Senator Hansbrough with. being the
candidate of the Standard Oil Trust or
the Beef Trust or the Sewing Machine
Trust or the Railroad Octopus, or the
Labor Trust, or some other dreadful
monster, and then call upon him to de.
aend himself against the charge If
$he Harvester Trust matter is the sole
standard of Judgment, then every sen.
'afor who has not presented resolu-
Tim for the investigation of Standard
Oil or Beef or Beans or Sewing Ma.
chine or Knitting Needles or Clothes
pins, must be candidate, respective.
aF OF the trust against which he has
offered no resolution We might charge
Twfchell with being the representative
or the Machinery Trust or the Irvine
Trust or the Calico Trust or the Gun
powder Trust, and Johnson with be.
ing the candidate of the Shoe and
Leather Trust or the Mattress Trust
or the Coffee Trust, or the Sugar
Trust and Marshall with being the
candidate of the Money Trust or the
Eunnysack Trust, or the Glmshoe
thrust. Thus we could dispose of al
fhe candidates, and having pronounc
ed them unfit for Office, clear ne fielt
xor new candidates.
The whole charge Of the Times i,
Ona Of those that needs but analyst,
and common sense to reduce it to al
Ahslrdity. Particularly is it notice
able that the Times smears all OF tn,
opposing candidates for the senate
with the possibility OF having been con
sidered as candidates by the Harvest
er Trust, but smears the larger share
-of Its raprpbrium upon Mr.. Little be
cause he seems to be at this time thu
candidate having the largest supper
in the state and consequently needin,
Ehe larger share of abuse to serve thu
xyurpuses f0f the Times.
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