The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-09-06
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Mohall News: Hon. c. A. johnson
is getting number OF fine boosts from
all parts Of the state. OF course there
are disgruntled newspapers who large
ly from personal motives are knocking
him and knocking everybody and
everything. But whether these papers
march under false colors, wearing
the cloak of hypocrisy matters little
to the average voter for there must
be better reason than mere venom
; displayed. Let us who are republicans
and stand for progressive principles,
keep our party integrity, thereby in
surfing the greatest good to the great
est number
Brocket News: The republican
party Of North Dakota looks forward
to the coming fall elections with con-
idence; and it has all the reasons
to feel confident of state-w wide vic
tory. The state ticket is as clean
throughout as any ticket that ever
was presented for the consideration of
the people of this state. Every name
on that ticket represents a public
spirited and thoroughly reliable man.
in other parties have not found any.
thing to say that would in the least
detract from their regulations.
The men on the county ticket we all
know personally and know them to be
men fully able to fulfill the duties of
the different offices they are seeking.
Devils Lake Jouranl: Gen. H. M.
Creel of Devils Lake probably has as
many friends throughout North Dakota
as any man in the state. At every
election in nearly every county he is
remembered by some friend who votes
| for him for office whether he is can
| didate on the ticket or not. At the pri-
mary election held in June he received
more votes in Ramsey county than any
man on either ticket but they were
scattered so much that they did not
count for much, although a change Of
seven votes would have given him the
nomination on the republican ticket for
member of the legislature. Although
he was not a candidate on the demo-
cratic ticket he received enough votes
to give him the nomination for the
legislature on that ticket, but he has
not yet announced that he will accept
the nomination The general received
votes for every office on the ticket,
nearly, both republican and democratic.
The returns from Nelson county show
that the general received % votes for
| United States senator, and a prominent
citizen of Nelson county who recently
visited Devils Lake said that if he
had been a candidate for senator he
would have defeated Gronna in his
own county two to one.
The friends of General Creel are
urging him to accept the nomination
for representative on the democratic
ticket which was given him. Certain
interested politicians have nothing to
gain and much to lose by the election
OF man who is not pledged to them
body and soul before election are wise
ly predicting that the general will de-
cline to be a candidate-the wish be-
ing the father of the thought.
Bismarck Tribune:. We are very
much pleased and a little graft
fled to note that the insurgent leaders
of the state and some of the insur-
gent newspapers are discovering that
about all the use the democrats have
for insurgency is to get the votes of
insurgents for democratic candidates.
This has been pretty thoroughly dem
onstrated in this state in the past few
years. Brother Joe Bloom of the.
Devils Lake Journal never misses a
chance to hammer an insurgent head
when he sees 1t, but he accompanies
the hammering with a plaintive re-
quest that the insurgents vote for the
democratic candidate for governor.
Blooms mission is to keep alive the
foolish and unreasonable warfare with
in the republican party to the end that
the democrats may step in and carry
off the bacon"
Now, Bloom wants the insurgents
to ignore the result of the republican
primaries and vote for Burke. Bloom
doesn't think much of the primary law
anyway. He is one of the old time,
hard shell, dyed in the wool democrats
And the Valley City Times Record,
whose editor is a candidate on the re-
publican ticket In replying to a recent
attack Of insurgents by Bloom, says:
is the primary law no improve
ment over the convention system? If
it isn't if we shall refuse to abide by
the results of it's operation, what then ?
E1o" sHdu politlcal parties be main
tanned? If men like Cummins aid
Dolliver and La Toilette and Bever-
idge insist that the differences be-
tween the progressive and stalwart
factions shall be settled within the
party, it would seem that the lesser
leaders of political reform in North
Dakota need not be deferred by the
yelpings of a political cut throat like
Bloom.
Bloom claims that 1T is the pro-
gressive leaders the Journal has al
ways criticized and he has criticized
them because they have kept a great
mass of voters within the republican
party and have thus lead them TO their
own undoing.' There Is the milk in
the cocoanut. Progressive leaders are
ace high with the Journal so long as
their efforts for reform lead to strife
and turmoil within the party; but the
moment they object to party disrup
ton for the special benefit of the dem
ocrats, the Journal digs up its little
bludgeon and goes after them. But it
doesn't get them, you'll notice"