Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1910-03-17
THE ELlMINATORS.
Hso<h OF Rinssters. Representing
>eNcts Rut Themselves. Meet II
Valley eity asd Pvt lp What
They Term - neket
4nar ssrA,sk asA Rardi >kuiason
Are EliminateA it'll >eatne>s
ana Di<rateh as Candidates
for Congress.
Bu, >ksla<en AMI BardieA Refuse to
&c Sat lron ,. the Mar shall
dronna Forces and Will Stay
in the Field.

0t0au8 tVtkSS 0h0 ~ ~ 10y
in the Field.
he recsn. ac,ion .: s small
bunch i alleged republicans VINO
csIl themselves proeresSiveS and
VIC asss.,alei s. Valley City 10
prepare Wis. they term q ticket
hiss stirred Up poli,ics. matters and
things in great shape throughout the
ssa.s. The men who me. .here rep
resented nobody but themselves.
They had not been chosen BY the re-
publican voters Of any faction in
North Dakota. If EnAmons county
was represented a. all. such rep
resentation is not matter Of public
know ledge.
The object sough, when the legis-
latuse replaced the convention syS-
TEN by the primary law was 10 do
away with conventions and allow any
citizen to run for Office on his own
merits. Under the convention sys-
TEN the delegates TO a state conven-
ton were chosen BY county con-
yension composed OF delegates
selected by caueuses in the various
precincts. II the precincts were
no, properly represented at the
county convention and the county
a. the state convention. the party
voters Of the county had only them
selves TO blame. for there could be
and often was-as good an attend
ance at the caucuses as there has
since been at the primary, the at.
tendance at either being governed
entirely by the amount Of interest
developed in the nomination Of the
various officers to be elected. No
man could go before state conven-
tion-unless he was man Of un-
usual ability and statewide popu-
larity-and get a place on the state
ticket. in the absence of the support
of the delegation from his own
county.
| But, under the insurgent methods
at Valley City this year and at Grand
Forks two years ago, a bunch of
politicians may gather and put up a
ticket regardless Of the wishes Of
the rank and file even Of their own
faction, and then announce with
flourish of trumpets that they have
formulated the only true-blue,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ticket Of their
particular faction. and everybody
else must keep off of the political
grass. At the Valley City gather
ing everything else was sacrificed
to the interests of the two rich men
who. with absolutely nothing but
Itheir wealth to recommend them,
are striving to push their way into
the senate Of the United States, and
who are believed to be financing the
campaign of the faction of the as
sistant democrats who met at the
Barnes county metropolis. In order
to secure the support Of Lauder and
Helgeson. who were protesting be-
cause Of a probability that they
were to be eliminated. Speaker Bur-
dick and Representative Bardi Sku-
Jason. progressives of older date than
either Marshall or Gronna, were side
tracked in the race for membership
in the lower house of congress.
As sample of the material that
was chosen for the progressive"
ticket. take Helgeson Of Cavalier
county and Aieck Macdonald of En-
mons county. The former is man
who had no word against the regu-
lar organization as long as he could
procure Office through that organi-
cation; and the latter, Macdonald.
who never in his life but once and
that was when he was first elected a
commissioners in this county got an
Office that he did not obtain under
false pretenses, and who was chiefly
noted. when he was a county COM
missioner. for compromising the
| Northern Pacific Company taxes.
after securing lawyer to fight the
case; then refusing to pay the law
yer after the board had yielded to
the Establishments of the N. P.'s
'aS-commissioner, and finally being
. compelled by the court to pay the
. attorney. In this matter Emmons
= and kldder counties were creditors
Q! the N. P. company to the amount
= o. many thousands Of dollars each
: M about the same amount Each
= county employed Attorney Baker.
!" ~ Detroit. Mich, to represent
'l'efn. He was one Of the most