The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-11-22
North Dakota Political Gossip

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The following correspondence wa.
in The Hillsboro Banner OF last week
One Of the most extraordinary dis.
. plays OF journalistic conceit and self.
appropriated dictatorship ever launch
ed by periodical OF any repute, waG
the editorial In the last issue of Tht
Search-Light published in Fargo, under
the caption, The Senatorial Situation
This editorial serves notice on all
progressive republicans that they
must, under no circumstances, become
senatorial candidates; that the United
states senatorial togas allotted to the
state of North Dakota will not At Mr.
Marshall and Mr.. Gronna that the
United States senatorial seats from
North Dakota are their special pre-
serves, and for others to Keep Offl"
9 Gods! What have we come tot The
notorious Matt Quay or Alexander Nc
henzte, In the zenith of their power,
would have blushed at such brazen
dictatorship. The editorial, comment
ing on the reported candidacy OF At
torney General Miller. for senatorial
honors, says In part: I'm his present
office he has done fairly well, and has
established with the people some cred
1T as an official. To his present Office
be can be renominated and elected, but
he cannot be nominated or elected
senator. The Search-Light has on fire.
quent occasions heretofore warned the
progressive republicans against get
ting too ambitious to hold Office. Please
keep off the preserves! A little farther
N he ~
General Miller, can, IL he does not
get the Office itch too bad, be renom-
mated and re-elected to his present
office" In other words, IL he, as
progressive republican, will bow and
scrape and obedientIy submit to the
dictates Of The Search-Light, and do
1t now, he may have the office which
he now holds-but he must act at
once.
Our constitution assures to every
citizen, resident within the state, the
right to aspire to, and become a candi-
date for any office within the gift of
the people, and the writer has been
unable to discover any provision max
ing 1t a condition precedent to becom-
ing such a candidate, the obtaining of
q special permit from any self styled
dictator.
This writer has always been a pro-
gressive republican, and in conjunc-
ton with great many other repub-
licans, has considered that it would,
probably, be for the best interests of
our states and ration to support both
Mr.. Gronna and Mr.. Marshall for the
senatorial nominations next summer
but If they are parties to, or approve
OF the theory advanced that they, and
they alone, have the RICH. to aspire to
and become candidates for these posi-
lions, that they are the right kind Of
men to represent the great state of
North Dakota in the greatest legisla-
tive body of the world. Speak UP,
gentlemen!
Progressive Republican,
Bottineau Courant: The Courant is
not surprised that the senatorial va
cancy has proved the political undoing
of John Burke. Heretofore the gov
ernor has been able by his foxiness to
sidestep and put the other fellow in
the hole, but the Johnson vacancy CALI
ed for a show down and the afadavit-
faced one was forced to go on record.
What he did is now a matter of his
tory. For three weeks he kept half a
dozen or more applicants on the anx-
ious seat, being too weak and vacillat-
ing to turn any of them down. When |
finally his backbone stiffened he threw |
the plum to an outsider, whose chief
qualification was the readiness with |
which he had furnished the governor |
with the sinews of war in past cam
paigns. Turning down Cashel the |
choice Of his own party, flirting with |
his political benefactors-the insurg- |
ents, he finally passed up half a dozen
democrats who were entitled to con-
sideration and appointed the man with
the barrel"
Pembina Pioneer Expresses: The