Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-09-13
GRAND FORKS HERALD BOLTS
REPUBLICAN, PRIMARY
RESULT.

REPUBLICAN PRIMARY
RESULT.
The declaration of the Grand Forks
Herald that it will support the demo
cratic candidate for governor of North
Dakota at the forthcoming election.
in the parlance of the financial row,
has been "discoun,ed." ald will there
fore occasion no surprise.
The Grand Forks Herald has been
"near-democratic" for several years
and that it should be still nearer as
time rolls on was to be expected
For many years the Herald has not
been entirely satisfied with the states
governors, senators, congressman or
minor officials. And although it was
an early advocate of the primary cleo
ton law, it has never declared that it
would be satisfied with the result.
The Herald is very much like thu
old school Congregationalist brother
who was arguing with hard-shell
and destinies of mankind when for
lack of further ammunition the good
Congregational brother declared that
anyhow one was entitled to his own
opinion; whereupon the Presbyterian
disciple retorted, NO, brother; not
uness that opinion is right" OF
course. from the profundity of it's own
experience and exalted opinion of it.
self, the Herald should be the judge
Of what is right.
1t should be remembered that the
Grand Forks Herald, while an advo-
cate of the primary election system,
went into the recent primary struggle
with the mental reservation to bolt if
the oucome did not suit, and If search
ing X-ray had been applied we are
not so sure but that at the very out.
set the Herald had not the least idea
that the outcome would be such that
its finer political instincts coud toler-
ate the result.
The Herald declares that Governor
Burke stands before the people with
an unbroken record of four years
good work, and that The has given the
state the best law enforcement that
it has ever had, and that he believes
in and practices justice, and equality
and the square DEAL" The Herald
: further says that there is no good
reason why any man who voted for
Burke four years ago, or two years
ago, should fail to give him hearty
support now" From an entirely non
partisan standpoint possibly this may
be true, but the Bismarck Tribune
has not lost all faith in political parties
and is not ready just yet to admit
that our system Of government is en-
tirely wrong.
But we do not underestimate the
strength of the Grand Forks Herald,
and it's position In this campaign, after
a fair and unquestioned primary elec-
ton, in disregarding the verdict of
the majority party as to the' choice
of candidates to be supported at thei
November election, cannot but help
democracy in this state. 1t seems
hardly fair, however, to give all the
credit for law enforcement to the
democratic executive. According to
the Herald's lexicon law enforcement
means chasing of blind pigs and pun
ishment of violators of the prohibition
law. Well, have we not had a repub-
lican attorney general all this time, |
and who can say that Attorney Gen
eral Miller has not been vigilant-or
would have been vigilant, whether we
had a republican or democratic exs
ecutive? 4 And Attorney General Mil
Ter has been renominated by the re-
publcansa of the state BY an over.
wheming majority, has Re not and
win, Of course, Be elected y his
marty. And what knovledge does the
Herald possess, hidden from the fe-
publican rank and file Of this state,