The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-06-18
why JOHNSON QUIT
The Insurgents
BROTHER OF LATE SEN. M. N.
JOHNSON STYLED MARSHALL
AND GRoNNA AS RETRoeREs-
sIVEs-oRGANIzE FACTION FOR
OWN SPECIAL BENEFIT.

BY permission OF the mayor of the
city and in his own right as an Ameri-
can citizen, wearing the collar of no
faction of the republican party, L. C.
Johnson, brother of the late Sen. M.
town. made an address on the tarIts
at Island Park last evening.
His audience was small but he
presented to them a mastery address
that for logic, sound reasoning and
good common sense would rank with
anything that he been said or written
on that important question.
In his opening remarks M. John
son stated that for twenty years he
had trained with the insurgent or
so called progressive element Of the
republican party and only left II when
he found the leaders of, that faction
had adopted machine methods and ex-
pected the rank and file of tnat faction
to absolutely obey their behests. He
classes himself now as a republican
without any other qualification. He
stated to his hearers that he should
vote on Messrs. McCumber, Engerud
and Hanna because their actions had
been right On this important question,
because they had stood by our able
president in his efforts to better the
condition of the country. -
He paid his respects to Thos. Marsh
all and Alse j. Gronna, whom he de-
scribed as retrogressive republicans
that were running the engine back to
the the old Cleveland station Of TWEEN
ty years ago, and said that Marshall
was for many years, the plant tool of
Alexander Mckenzie, not counsellor or
adviser, but servile sycophant. When
that gentleman would no longer toll
crate him he proceeded to organize
a faction by himself and for himself
and that he carried the same Mckenzie
machine methods to that organization
and was now the boss of the retro
gressive faction Of the party. He de-
scrtbed Mr.. Gronna as an ignoramus
that the same Mckenzie had picked
out at one time to do his bidding and
relied on the Scandinavians to vote
him blfndly into office. Mr.. Gronna
was neither competent nor honest and
Is not honest in the present campaign.
Mr.. Johnson agreed heartily with
President Taft's statemen. at Winora
that the present tariff was the best
one ever given the country and said
his opinion was based on the old state
ment by their fruits you shall know
them" That was his test OF a man
or measure. General prosperity prevails
and nothing farther should be
expected. The country is at the
present time the most prosperous In its
history since the time of washington.
Make the tariff one for revenue only
and you will put it in condition that
Grover Cleveland had it. AS for him
self he wanted none Of it.
He traced the tariff from it's first
application to the present time and
showed that at every time when a
protective tariff aided the manufac-
turer the condition of the country was
good and that for a few years only
at the time of the Crimean war and the
discovery OF gold in California was
the condition good under tariff for
revenue only.
AS to electing a governor he would
have none of democrats. He want
ed a man that in case of the
sad necessity of appointing a
senator from this state would appoint
man that would work in harmony
with a republican president and he
strongly praised both Hanna and Nc
Cumber for their firm stand when the
tariff was revised.
The speech was an able one through
out and contained facts that every yot-
er should ponder on before voting
June 20.