The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-11-25

Bottineau News: Governor Rurke
didn't have to appoint a republican
senator and did not but he could have
appoited a democrat with a good leg
lsiatlve record as a friend of the peo-
pie. This he refused to do and apnoit-
| cd man friendly to the interests
partner of c. J. Lord-one Of the Lead
ing Mckenzie men of the state.
Burke's action in this case is very
Questionable to say the least. Senator
Thompson may be a, good man but he
was the candidate of some of the
leading railroad men of the state and
the appointment looks bad on the face.
The Bottineau News, a strongly in
surgent sheet has the following:
This talk by Burke's friends about
senator thompson being a dark horse
Is the cheapest kind of poppy rot. We
were told the week after Senator john
sons death, by democrat friend Of
surge who resides at Devils Lake that
thompson was the man Burke wanted
10 appoint, but that Thompson wasn't
Well enough known for Burke to ap-
point him right off. Burke played the
political game well and fooled his
friends and supporters to a fare-you-
Well We always held high opinion
OF Burke but are now convinced that
ne stopped to play the political game
70 the probable detriment of the state.
Thompson was not candidate but had
shipped his auto already to California
where he and his wife were going to
spend the winter. Burke simply waited
TIL the democrats got into a merry war
over who should be the next senator
and when 1t got good and warm he
passed UP every man of legislative ex-
perience-against the advice of many
warm friends-every man with a rec
ord and every man who might be ex-
pected to do the state some good. in
order to appoint a business partner of
Curt Lord who is Alec McKenzie's
right hand man in Towner county.
Doesn't 1t look suspicious.
Devils Lake Journal: The Journal
has never had quarrel with any dem
ocratic newspaper in the state. The
Journal and the democratic press of
which 1t claims to be one, have always
dwelt in perfect harmony The Journ-
al does not regard Tom Marshalps "in-
dependent" Fargo News as democratic.
and the entire democratic press of the
state shares In the same belief. The
resources of every democratic news
paper in the state have been touched"
more or less to sustain the mongrel
rag, and the Journal, for one is mighty
tired of the News graft. AS Colonel
Kelly truthfully remarked in his in
terview concerning the News the other
day, "at every conference or conven-
ton of democrats held in the state of
late representatives of The Fargo News
have been on hand begging assist
ance." Last year the funds of the
state central committee were raided
for nearly $1,000 to help the News"
money which rightfully belonged to
the country newspapers of the state.
But this is a mere bagatelle of the
raids which have been made upon sup
port belonging to the country press in
the interest of the Marshall organ. In
nearly every county in the state where
there was democratic newspaper
leading democrats were importuned to
lend their credit TO the Fargo sheet
while a number advanced the cold
cash. Every man who went good"
for $1,000 OF News Indebtedness very
naturally felt that he had done his
part toward maintaining democratic
newspapers, and as result the local
papers in the various counties have
had to hustle for themselves, carrying
on the work OF the campaign without
price or pay or hope or expectation Of
reward. This they have always done,
but 1t does make the newspaper boys
sore to see good democratic money
money which should go to the demo-
cratic newspapers il to any paper
going to support a mongreI newspaper
the object and purpose of which is to
make the democratic party of this
state the tail to Tom Marshall's in
surgent kite.