The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-12-18
North Dakota Political Gossip

General Miller has announced his can
didacy for the United States senate,
supposedly as an insurgent republican.
To this the friends of Marshall and
Gronna are entering protests on the
ground that it viii divide the insurgent
strength and permit Of the selection
OF a stalwart candidate. There is truth
in this for 1t will divide the vote of
the. insurgent faction, but is Miller
to blame? Would not the same unity
Of action prevail IL either Gronna or
Marshall were to Withdraw? There
has been no convention or gathering
of the insurgents sufficiently large to
fairly well represent them and the
candidacy of Marshall and Gronna,
like the candidacy of Miller 6to put
it mildly, springs from the wish of
a few personal friends. Mr.. Marshall
is convert to insurgency of compare
lively recent date. At the jamestown
convention the insurgents would have
carried the day. lie Marshall had stood
with them. 1t was after that he became
an insurgent Mr. Gronna was nom
mated by and Ii was understood that
he was the candidate of the stalwarts
at the primaries in 1908. Miller has
been an insurgent during the brief pc
Rod he has taken active part in poll
tics and has made the record he bases
his claims for preferment in carrying
out insurgent ideas. 1t may be that
Mr. Miller is not the choice of the in
surgents for the position, buC. under
our primary law, there being no con-
ventions, the only way the real wish
OF the insurgents can be ascertained
Is by putting it to vote at the pri-
maries. This Is not said with view
to casting reflection on any 5of the
candidates, but because it seems to us
to be the spirit of our primary law
that the proper place to definitely de-
eide who Is the choice OF any party,
for any position, is at the primaries.
Minot Democrat: Congressman
Hanna will be a candidate to succeed
himself in congress and all rumors TO
the contrary are political canards. Mr..
Hanna has little to worry about in
the coming campaign. With a dozen
or fifteen candidates in the field it
looks like a walk away--even if he did
not deserve election, which he
does. s--... ..,...
Wahpeton Globe Gazette: The an
nouncement of Congressman Gronna
and ex- Congressman Marshall as can
didates for United States senator from
North Dakota appear on another page
Of this paper. Mr.. Marshall is a cam
didate for the long term or to succeed
Mr.. McCumber and Mr.. Gronna is a
candidate for the short term or to
succeed Mr.. Thompson, VINO was re-
Gently appointed as successor to the
late M. N Johnson. The announce
ments appearing simultaneously ii ia
evident that combination has been
formed by the two gentlement by
which they both expect to gain the
offices to which they have both aspired
for several years. The announce
.ments were not unexpected. Rumors
have been current since shortly after
the death Of Senator johnson that
these two would be the candidates OF
the insurgent leaders.
Minot Democrat: Nearly every
newspaper in the state has published
the twin announcement of Marshall
and Gronna as candidates for the
United States senate--and thew have
published it gratis-and yet we were
told that all announcements of a, po-
litical nature must be- paid for In adj
vance--and the first one that comes
along is not. accompanied by a check.
This Is cruel world. where even the
newspapers are stung.