Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-04-12
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The Fargo Forum accuses Editor
Hager of having once had. aspira-
lions for Office. We do not know
with regard to the office seeking as
pirations of the gallant colonel, who
is now urgently promoting the cause
OF reform in politics. but it is
generally known that in Bismarck
last winter, Colonel Hager diligently
and noisily protested that at one
time he had almost had the insur-
gent microbe- but, he declared, s.it's
I out Of me now-it's out of me now
and he made this declaration so
& ponderously, SO thunderously, and
with all the vitality of that magn-
hcent voice, leading nearly every one
who heard him to believe him.
But 1t appears the insurgent mi
j crobe has gotten back in, and Col.
Hager sees nothing but gloom ahead
for the republican party unless the
stalwart leaders are driven out of
4 the fold and into the deep woods
But it should be remembered that
even Col. Hager loves to speak
ponderously, thunderously and with
declamantory emphasis, so he loves.
also to write after the same fashion.
and what is there to make spread
prfc 61f wi<,1o .,1,
What, forsooth? In what cause can
the human voice, like Col Hager's,
thunderous and magnificent, be so
telllngly employed and wake such
great echoes, as in hurting thunder
bolts against the walls of constituted
authority? Who can tear his hair
SO effectively as. the man who is
certain the body polite is entirely
corrupt, the foundation stones of
government cracking, and the pill
lers of the temple being pulled
down?
In considering Col. Hager's week
ly ebullitions we must remember
that he is equipped with a leonine
voice, and that it must be used,
otherwise its repression might work
an eruption that would shake st.
Thomas from the Times office to the
town pump.
We must not be too hasty to crit
icize Col .Hager. We must remem-
Der his peculiarities and believe that
he does not by any means believe
all he says or writes and that he is
not nearly so evil an enemy as some
of his spoken and printed declara
tons would indicate Everybody
knows Grant and if he wants to
shake his name and dash off light
nings from fine pointed pencil, let
him reverberate. He is in lots Of
ways a clever fellow just the same
and not nearly as had as he sounds.
Senator Hausbruugh has been in
terviewed and denies that he is
Notwithstanding with Marshall, and
also says Mckenzie cannot represent
Taft and he (Hansbrough), there
fore cannot work with Mckenzie be-
cause he fHaHsbr Mgh) is agin cor
4 poratinns and trusts Here is evil
dence Of a tinge Of humor in the
senator's nalSeup that has been per-
sonally recognized before, or else a
& dependence ON the credulity Of the
people Of North Dakota not at all
dattering to the senator's judgment
IS PA
The st. Paul Dispatch, which pro,
fesses so much interest in reform in
North Dakota politics and publishes
so many columns Of slush regarding
the sta1Wart republicans of this state
and in behalf of the insurgents, X
also vigorously opposing the McCum
Der grain inspection bill because Il
threatens to Interfere with the pref
Y ty little business Of the Minnesota
grain inspection system The Dis
patch will find that the farmers 81
this state will stand with Senator
Mr,(,I,yYf hks,, In this matter 0f grair