Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-06-19
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Some time ago committee OF
twenty-one politicians met at Valley
CITY and selected a state ticket for
the "insurgents" or "progressives' OF
this state. The ticket was selected
with the view OF furthering the sena-
torial chances OF T. F. Marshall and
A. J, Gronna. Mr.. Buchanan, a kind
hearted man with a desire to be gov
ernor, was placed on the ticket be-
cause he was willing to boost for
Marshall and Gronna, and to carry
some water to the two big elephants
in the parade. Some were taken and
some we're left. Speaker BurdicK
wanted to run for congress, but he
was showed off the gang plank, AID
Helgeson and Lauder put in his place
and that of Skulason. The Valley
City meeting was for the sole and
undenied object of boosting Marshall
and Gronna for the senate.
The people themselves, the rank
and file of the insurgents" or PRO
gressives,' or whatever they may be
called, had nothing to say about this
ticket 1t was prepared for them and
administered like a physicians pre-
scription. Those who refused to take
it and called it bitter was cast into
outer darkness. Skulason was driven
out of the camp. Other insurgents"
we're branded and turned loose as not
blown in the bottle.
Now comes this aggregation of po-
litical wire pullers and asks to be in
dorsed by the people of the state as
representing reform and purity in
politics. 1t has adopted a platform
indorsing every ISM that it believes
will catch a vote. 1t will swallow any
person and anything if by so doing
it can further it's own cause.
The Grand Forks Herald publishes
some resolutions adopted by what it
calls scandinavian State League"
indorsing the progressive" ticket as
representing the desires of the Scan
dinavians of this state. The resolu-
lions are signed by Carl Sorenson
and are published for the sole pur-
pose of befuddling some Scandi-
navian voters. The Scandinavian re-
publicans of this state have not gone
into the business of indorsing Mar
shall and Gronna and the committee
of twenty-one. If memories are short,
a good many of the Scandinavians of
this state remember the Grand Forks
convention of three years ago, the
casting out of M. N. Johnson and
the Endorsement of T. F.. Marshall
through delegations whose fare and
expenses were paid to come down and
boost, and boost for Marshall. &
Who is Carl Sorenson, and by what
authority does he speak for the Scan
dinavian republicans of this state?
And when did the Scandinavian re-
publicans of this state declare for
the nomination of a ticket by a COM
mittee of twenty-one selected dele
gates?
The Scandinavian voters of this
state do not need any resolutions to
instruct them to do their duty as
voters. They have pretty good un.
derstanding of the political issues of
this state. They will speak for them
selves at the polls, and they have not
asked and will not ask any committee
to pass resolutions declaring for the
political buccaneers who have made
off with the insurgent" ship and are
flying the skull and crossbones on
the seas of political piracy.
Does the Herald really mean to
have us believe that the Scandina-
VANS of this state are indorsi1g Tom
Marshall, the fixed" convention at
Grand Forks that turned down M. N.
Johnson and Endorsed Marshall, the
committee of twenty-one at Valley
City, Joe Devine, Judge Lauder, who
fumed and frothed at Marshall dur
ing all of the last campaign as the