Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1908-03-19
A coaparlsea q Parties.
tpembina Pioneer Exuress

this state Is beginning in the loca
caucuses of the republican party. A.
We observed in a late issue it is yer,
evident that spirit Of conservatism
has come over the large part Of tn,
party and even the extremists arr
comparatively silent.
This means that the voters are real
zing that this is not altogether figh,
between a number of ambitious indi
viduals but an issue OF party princi
pies.
1t Is true that at the present time
ne issues between the two great par
ties are not SO strongly and distinct
ly defined as in days OF slavery, but
there are issues of vast Importance
New issues have arisen every yea,
since the civil war. aud. every time
such new questions have come into
view. the grand old republican party
has taken the right side and, so far
as they have been solved, they have
always been settled right.
The conditions that arose from the
conditions after the civil war. both
political and financial. and the issues
that were the results OF the Spanish
war, including Cuba, Porto Rico and
tho Philippines. have all been settled
i'm the republican way by the repub-
lican party and against the strong op.
position OF the Democratic party.
Now the great issue is that of cor.
poration greed. and the concentration
of wealth in the hands Of few.
Against this stands Rooseveltism,
which is the exponent OF what the re-
publican party as u party stands for
today
II is very true that many in the
democratic party believe In reform
along these lines, including the great
"commoner." but there Is this great
distinction: Mr. Bryan and his fol.
lowers stand on the pages OF history
as absolute failures on almost every is.
sue of the many important ones that
have appeared during that eventful
period. Of which the most prominent
were the silver question and the
Philippine issues.
Now, suppose for the sake OF argu-
ment we grant that Mr. Bryan Is as
equally in earnest as Mr. Roosevelt In
reference to the corporation issues
and other familiar matters. Why
change? Certainly MIR. b. could and
would be no better, while on the other
hand, why replace a man who has al
ways been success with man who
up to this time has always been a
failure? And. to change from the in
dividual exponents to the party each
represents, the logic is the same.
In other words, give the democratic
party all due credit for the same good
intentions as those of the republican
party, what benefit is possible by the
change other than change, which in
itself must be other than beneficial, for
no great political upheaval like that
can occur without damage to the
country
AS to the general idea that there are
no political issues, the success of the
democratic party at the succeeding
election would soon prove the con-
trary People who were Of mature
age at the time that the Cleveland sur
prises We're sprung on the country
will be able to tell the young voters
all about that.
II Mr.. Bryan should happen to be
elected. there will be plenty of parti-
sanship after the fourth Of next March.
Hence. it behooves the republican
party OF North Dakota to see that
this state remains in the republican
column. It is an issue OF vastly more
Importance than the ambition OF either
of the candidates for senator or rep
resentative. In minor Offices, it does
matter whether a republican or
democrat is elected. Not perhaps per
sonally. but every Official stands for
and exercises large influence for the
party Every democrat elected works
for and uses all his power for his par
ty. and he does it Just the same even
If he does owe his election to the ia
vors OF republican majority.
Some people say and think that par
tisanship is an unmitigated evil. We
say that when the day comes that
there are no more parties, then the
days Of the republic are numbered.
We are for parties as against per.
sons, whether those persons are with.
in or without the party lines. The ba-
sis of the government OF this great
naticn is and always has been parties
and partisanship, and no better gov
ernment has been seen under the sun.
For Sale.
will sell one pair of mules 8 years old
this spring; pair Of mules and 8 years
old this spring; sets of harness; two
wagons. one new and the other has been
used about years.