Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-09-06
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So. ATORSHIP.
1T seems to be the general belief
among republican that the matter of
the United States senatorship should
be settled by the republican voters
Of the state in the second primary
choice to be expressed on little bal
lot this fall, that factionalism and or
CARNATIONS should be kept separate
and apart from the primary choice
and that the senatorial campaigns
should be made by the candidates
and their friends as republicans and
not as party officials or party man
ayers. We do not know of any incli-
nation in the part Of the officers of
the republican organization, as such
officers, to conduct campaign that
shall be in the. interest of one candi-
date or another. And it. is only the
supersensitivenes of some of the
partisans of either one candidate or
another that feels the existing in
f1uences of any such effort.
It is not to be expected that the
men who are chosen as party leaders
and campaign managers shall have
no beliefs or opinions as to the sena-
torial choice. It Is not to be said
that because a man in his capacity as
an individual or a republican favors
either Mr.. Marshall or Mr.. johnson,
that he is thereby disqualified from
holding a place in the councils of the
party. And we do not believe 1t is
the part OF keen partisans OF either
candidate to encourage the belief
that this man or that man was sup
ported for place as part of the re-
publican organization because of
his leaning either toward one candi-
date or the other. "
There are in the state a number
of republicans ambitious for prefer.
ment and for place, anxious to serve
the people in various capacities, and
as republicans they claim their right
as individuals to vote for whichever
senatorial candidate they choose. 1t
is not at all unnatural that some of
them should seek the advantage of
the man or men they favor. But to
serve notice upon candidate who is
nominated by the republicans of the
state that if he looks crosswise in the
matter of the senatorship, whispers
above his breath or forms an opinion
as to his own choice, he will be pun
sished by the wrath of the partisans
Of the candidates he may choose to
vote against, at the polls, is to preach
very poor doctrine of repub1icanism
indeed. We believe that every man,
candidate or not, is entitled to his
views on matters which are yet to be
decided, and if, he not entitled to
them, then we shall in time have a.
Spineless list Of candidates, whose
great activity will be needed in walk
ing on the eggs of partisan and
factional feeling.
1t has seemed to us that the re-
publican candidates and party lead.
ers have managed to keep as clear of
this senatorship matter as could we'll
be expected under all the circum-
stances and considering the natural
tendencies of human nature And it
seems also that the further these at
tempts to create feeling and preju-
dice among partisans of one candi-
date or the other are carried, the
more probably will there be fractional
and partisan advocacy of one candi-
date or the other at the polls The
ghost" stories that are being carried
by some of our strongly partisan
brethren in the matter Of the sena-
torship, as to the splits and difficult
ties and battles within the councils
of the party and among its leaders
are doing the very thing that good
republicans through the state want
to avoid, and that is submerging eV-
cry interest and every feature of the
republican party campaign in this
state to the senatorship struggle.
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