Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-06-07
great state, to establish its institu-

great state, to establish its institu-
ltions, to endow them, to encourage
settlement and pave the way for the
oncoming tide Of civilization. These
men are entitled to some considera-
ton; they should not now in their
declining years be reviled, traduced
and yillified as members Of the rot
ten old gang, as some Of our insur-
gent friends call them. They We're
here when it took blood and iron to
lay the foundations Of the state;
they were here to face the inclemen-
cy Of the climate; they were here to
lay the foundations of towns and
cities, to open up farms and to pre-
sent to the world its. great advan-
tages and to encourage others to fol-
low. You owe them debt Of graft
tude, you owe them more than you
can know, and now because you, in
your young manhood, have come into
the political and social arena don't
scoff at the old timers who made
what you enjoy possible.
If you are republicans stand by the
organizations which gave birth to
the state, which gave to this great
northwest the homestead law and
the various other land laws which
opened up this vast expanse OF coun-
try from the international boundary
line to the northern boundary of
Texas to the settlement Of natives
and emigrants from all parts Of the
world. These old pioneers are de-
serving Of some little credit and
some little consideration; their adj
vice IS worth something to you who
have come to succeed them.
+ Let all young republicans and old
act together for the good Of the par
/ ty, for the good Of the country and
for the good OF mankind. Now repub-
licans of North Dakota, it is up
to you to say what shall be the
ticket under which we shall go into
the campaign; it is up to you to say
whether you will loyolly stand
by that ticket after It is once nomi-
ated and floats at the mast head and
thus perpetuate control in the state,
or whether you will throw all that
has been done in the past into the
waste basket and turn the state
over to the control of the democratic
party. Out of respect to my demo-
cratic friends, don't say this would
be calamity; it might be a blessing
in disguise for it would certainly rid
the republican party Of the element
that know has never been truly re-
publican and that has always been
following off after reform jock o'lan-
terms. i 4 ~ s.
Instructions In the Past.
During my life time have wit
messed many Instructions in the re-
publican party. I remember in the
presidential campaign OF 1864 there
was an Instruction got up against
the administration Of Abraham Lin
coin. It acquired SO much impetus
that it resulted in the holding of an
Insurgent convention at Cleve-
lad, Ohio, at which it was resolved
that Lincoln didn't go fast enough,
that his administration had failed to
prosecute the war with SUFFICIENT
vigor, and John G. Fremont was in
weighed into accepting the candidacy
Of that insurgent element OF; the par
, ty for the presidential honor, but in
less than two months after the con-
yention was held General Fremont
stepped out Of the field and Abraham
Lincoln was triumphantly reelected.
The party survived that insurrection.
Again in 1872 there arose liberal
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was willing to share office with the
democracy in order to form an ALI
ance with them. It held its conyen-
ton at Cincinnati. The venerable
Horace Greeley. q lifelong foe Of the
democratic party, was nominated ais
the liberal republican candidate, with
Gratz Brown OF Missouri as rum
ming mate. The democratic national
convention held subsequently adopt
ed this ticket. The result is known
to every student OF political history
lit went down to defeat; Grant was
triumphantly reelected. That ALT
ance did more to disorganize the
democratic porty than any event that
had taken place before. The republi.
can party survived that insurrection
There have been Instructions in
various states that could name, hui
time and space forbids. The republi
can party has always survived and
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