Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-23
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THE TIMES AND THE TRUSTS.

I"GS ANIL nSo
The ways of the trust buster are de-
vious. The path of the trust buster
is not always strewn with roses
Sometimes there is the darting shad.
ow of a brickbat or the passing frag.
rance of dead cat Such seems to
be the case with the esteemed Grand
Forks Times, which has been busy
busting the harvester trust and seek
ing to rouse the people to sense of
their danger from this monstrous in
stitution which the Times has been
attacking tooth and nail with more or
less effect since the Times candidate
for the senate discovered that it was
necessary to create some great and
overweening issue upon which to base
a campaign.
At the Minot convention the Times
discovered that agents of the harvest.
er trust were about, looking evilly
upon the proceedings and possibly
taking orders for extras from local
dealers. Among the visitors present
at the convention was Charley Nc
Manus, an employe of the harvester
concern, who was formerly resident
of Grand Forks and who owns a
couple of hundred of acres of land in
Grand Forks county He CHANGED to
be in Grand Forks at the time of the
convention, and being a live American
citizen who desired to be on the
ground whenever there was anything
doing, he went up to Minot to watch
the fun. His real estate holdings in
the state, it appears, led him to be-
lieve that he had a right to be in Mi
not if he chose, even if his right as
an American citizen did not qualify
.Ainl SO to be present.
So Charley went to Minot, and the
eagle-eyed Times man discovered him
1t has. not been stated what he was
doing when he was discovered, wheth-
ting shave. Suffice it to say that he
was engaged in some similar business,
fraught with import to the nation, the
state and the republican party. The
Times forthwith exposed HIM 1t ar
gued that he was there for no good
purpose, and the horrid head of the
harvester octopus peered about ali
the window corners and from behind
the back fences at the Times, like
fearful looking bugaboos. With
goosepimples all down its back and
its teeth chattering the Times went
home and created special telegram
from Minot telling how Charley
had been at Minot, presumably seek
ing to corrupt the 446 sovereign cit
liens who constituted the conven.
tion body.
Charley read it and was wroth
as an American citizen has right
to be when he is thus dragged into
the limelight for the purpose of serv.
ing the political ends of a newspap,
er. He called on the Times, so tbs
Times itself informs us, and threat.
ened to lick the editor, if there were
any more insinuations that mis- Fisi,
to Minot was for the purpose of cor
ruption. But the Times was moi
affrighted. Not it. 1t buckled its
armor tighter, grasped the pen more
firmly, and flashed few lightning:
from it's eyes. In fine frenzy tn:
Times tells us that 1t will not be
deferred from exposing the trusts il
all the agents Of corporations III
America threaten it with violence.
It is all very pretty little oft 81
opera bouffe. The people must bs
made to believe that they are in dan-
ger. Charley" McManus must be
taught that he cannot attenI a
North Dakota convention with i'm
punity, even If he does own solle
land in Grand Forks county. Tie
must back gracefully out of the state
and get into the deep woods, leaving
the fair field of politics to the Times
and its trust destroying myrmidoEs.
He cannot even be one of the COM