The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-10-06

from the primary candidates could be
supported by any man without stul-
! tifying his political conscience. They
were clean, able and patriotic men
who would serve people Loyalty and
| faithfully, With such men to select
from there were no personal reasons
why ticket composed of any of them
should not be Loyalty supported.
No effort is being made by the
democratic party to elect any of its
ticket except it's candidate for gov
ernor. In fact, many of it's candidates
did not receive enough votes in the
primary to secure a place on the tick
ct, While republicans should by no
means over look the importance of
working for the whole ticket, especial
| efforts should be made in the case of
/ governor The democratic party is
not so pure that it does not have party
| desires. Neither is Governor Burke.
| What it and he wants is such a dem
ocratic machine in the state that they
can, in time, control its policies. The
| appointing power of the governor is
the means by which they intend to
build up this machine. 1t has been
so used in the past, but with Just
enough republicans who were Burke
supporters thrown in to lull the people
| to sleep and give the appearance of
lack of political intrigue. But when
an opportunity to appoint a United
! States senator arose Governor Burke
did not maintain his nonpartisan poll
! 10y. He did right in appointing a
democrat, but it shows that when it
counts for the democratic party, the
appointing power is so used. 1t is
| this power that the democratic party
! leaders want and is the reason why
they are so earnestly working for a
| third term for the present incumbent.
What do the democrats offer as an
| inducement to aid them and upon
| hat means are they relying to ac-
complish their aims? They are Of
| fering a candidate for a third term
a violation of an unwritten law as
sacred as that laid down by Wash
| ington in his farewell address, and
violated only once in the history Of
| the state, and then to do honor to a
man who had won distinction in
| fighting for his country. Governor
Burke has been only an ordinary gov
ernor. He has done nothing that he
was not required to do by law. He
has initiated no great reform nor
! been sponsor for no great movement.
He has been plain, common govern
| or. He is said to be honest but he
certainly deserves no special honor,
no chisled monuments, because he
| possesses one of the cardinal virtues.
Is it such particular attitude that he
or any other man should be worshiped
because they are honest? Such an
argument is a reflection upon honesty
itself 1t indicates that among North
Dakota people 1t is such a rare thing
that it's possession entities its pos
SCISSOR to an unlimited term as gov
ernor.
BY what means is the democratic
party seeking to win the election of
| its candidate for governor? Upon the
platforms and history Of his political
party in the past or it's condition at
present? Not by any means. Govern
or Burke, though he endorsed both
the presidential candidate and the
party platform at that time, will not
tell the farmers of this state that he is
asking his election because of the
democratic tariff which forced farm
ers to sell wheat for so cents bushel
That is Governor Burkes party Is
he honest enough to stand by It in
this campaign and own its incompet-
ency? Not by any means. Does he
owe his allegiance to that doctrine
that brought about that result? But
talked and voted for it, and declared
| it was the only political salvation of
the people just as he declares his own
election is now But instead OF TAX
! ing a manly stand on his partys
record and failures, he seeks election
! by fomenting strife and dissention in
the republican party, 1t reads like
the story of the two farmers who be-
came involved in lawsuit over COW
and while one was holding onto the
animals horns and the other to her
tail the lawyer MIXED the animal dry
THAT may be practical politics but it
savora of something else Is there
/ anything to commend the election poll
/ icies of Governor Burke to any man
/ who believes in standing on the rec
4 ord of the party with which he is
1 identified and who likes to see cam
didate as honest and fair in his cam
paign as the average man is in his
4 business?
Mohall News 1t looks like a re-
publican victory in the state fight
this fall, despite the desperate efforts
of the opposition Stories are circu-
lated about G. A. Johnson seeing and