The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1910-05-20
JUDGE EnGERuD's SPEECH
Republican Candidate for Senator De-
llvers Plain, Sensible Address.

lIvers Plain, Sensible Address.
Hon. Edward Engerud of
Fargo, former Judge of the
supreme court and at present a
republican candidate for Un-
tied States senator, was in Bot
tineau Wednesday night and
delivered an address at Greiner' 8
opera house. Scarcely n y
notice of the meeting had been
given, nevertheless good
audience greeted the speaker,
who was introduced by Peter
Scott.
Judge Engerud's address was
devoted mainly to a history of
the insurgent movement in
North Dakota and a discussion
of the tariff bill passed by the
present congress.
In reviewing the causes
which led to the insurgency he
called attention to the fact that
the two politicians who now
have appropriated to them
selves the leadership of the
progressive republican fac
ton had themselves been the
benefciaries of the political sins
committed by machine leader
ship. In 1900 the bosses had
turned down Judge Is. f,
Spaulding, then representative
in congress from North Da-
kota, and given his place to
T. F. Marshall, for no other
reason than that they could not
control Mr.. Spaulding. In 1902,
the state having been given an
additional representative, Mr..
Spaulding was again sent to
congress, but his independence
had so displeased the machine
leaders that in 1904 his place
was given to A. ]. Gronna.
The selection of Marshall and
Gronna and the unjust and
arbitrary manner in which Mr..
Spaulding had been twice dis
placed were causes of the in
surgent movement and the
primary laws of 1905 and 1907
were the result. With the en-
actment of the primary law it
had been presumed, and not
without reason, said he
speaker, that bossism and
gangism as then dominating
the republican party in the
state, would disappear. But
this was not to be the case. A
new machine was organized,
the primary law was violated
in spirit and in fact, by the
holding of the Grand Forks
conference in 1907 and the
creation of the elimination COM
mittee of twenty-one in 1910.
And the self-appointed leaders
of the new machine are thesame
Marshall and Gronna who had
been the cause of the insurgent
movement and whose elevation
to political preferment had
been the result of the sins
committed by the old machine.
In discussing the tariff bill,
Judge Engerud called attention
to the similarity of conditions
now and as they existed twenty
years ago after the passage of
the Mckinley tariff bill, and as
they have existed after every
revision of the tariff schedules.
Mckinley was maligned and
defeated for reelection. But a
short time thereafter, the peo-
pie saw their mistake and
showed their approval of Nc
Kinley's course by electing him
president of the United States.
He showed how utterly i'm
possible it was to frame bill
fixing the duties on several |
thousand items and make it
satisfactory to the diversity of
interests of a great country
like the United States. He
denounced the methods of the
muck -raking magazines and
the insurgent speakers who
were using the same methods
to discredit the republican ad-
ministration.
Judge Enperl1d ia one Of the |
;ablest lawyers in the state and
his address was a sensible,
analytical discussion Of the
conditions which now confront |
the republican party. His re-
marks were we'll received and
he was heartily applauded d at
the close of his address.
The Bottineau Military band
furnished excellent music.