The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1909-12-25
FERRIS IS
sTRoNee! G!

SIkuN s.
Would be Political Blunder to Make
Change. People Taking a Hand
in Asking Senator McCumber
for Ferris Re-appointment.
The Post last week certainly showed
its duplicity and decidedly exceeded its
authority when it practically announced
the demise Of S. M Ferris as Register of
the Dickinson U. S. land Office. and to
keep up the pretense of being Ferris
good fellow. wrote Mr.. Ferr is nice
obituary.
The Ferris obsequies over. the Post
proceeded to toot from the new band
wagon hoping to create stampede in
that direction
Now dispatches from Senator McCumb-
Der this week say that Mr.. Ferris has
not been turned down and the Post is
placed in the light of being premature
and unreliable in its statements
The quest ion naturally arises. what
was the object of the Posts land office
article?
Simply this To stop the volume of
personal letters which are going to Sena-
tor P. j. McCumber at Washington, D.
c.. from all over the Dickinson land dis
trict, requesting that S. NJ. Ferris be re-
appointed. If the people could be made
to believe that the matter was settled and
Mr.. Ferris down and out so that they
would think it no use to write in his be-
half, the chances for the Post candidate
would be greatly improved.
In its anxiety to see MIR. Ferris lose
his position the Post did just what it
hoped to avert When it became known
that no decision had been reached. it
appeared that the Post as the mouth
piece of the anti-Ferris faction, was
deliberately trying TO mislead the people.
But the people. inf cad of lying down
and keeping quiet, :4s it was hoped they
would do. are sending and will continue
to send. their personal appeals to Senator
McCalmber that Mr.. Ferris be reap
pointed.
It looks as if few men who claim
great political influence. which they
have never demonstrated in a fair
contest, are trying to hoodwink the people
of the Dickinson land district to secure
the defeat of Mr.. Ferris.
Not thousand miles away and not
many months ago political miracle
was wrought. Men violated their
promises and others were persuaded. for
various selfish reasons and under
pressure, to call it all right.
When a man has made good in q
place of responsibility as Mr.. Ferris has.
it is customary and right to give him
another term and it is poor policy and
poor politics to do otherwise even if an
other good man would like to serve the
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S. M. Ferris is man whose word is
good throughout the length and breadth
of the Dickinson land district. He is,
and ever has been. true and loyal re-
publican. The attempt to show that his
appointment was personal one with
President Roosevelt and not desired by
the people, is the widest kind of politi-
cal bombast. No appointment ever made
in North Dakota was more generally
gratifying to the people than his. 1t is
true that Mr. Ferris is a warm friend of
Theodore Roosevelt and this alone is a
strong factor out in this country. in max
ing him favorite with the people. The
hundreds upon hundreds of homesteaders
in this part of the state appreciate the
fact that the present register of tie
Dickinson land Office has always given
them square deal. They see no fault
in him and want him re-appointed.
Are the supporters of Quinlivan, the
head of the former local land firm.
Ouinlivan E. Lvtle askind the endOrse-
ments of the homesteaders and ranchers?
No.
Who are the men who want 10 put
Ferris d0wnS
What is the motive7
Certainly not to solidify the republi-
can party in this part of the state. The
success of the anti-Ferris scheme means
disruption where there is now no disrup-
tion and would be political blunder
on q par with the Creel appointment and