The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-03-14


Office seekers who are willing ia
Jeopardize the interests OF the state
they so loudly say, have been traduced
In order to obtain Office for themselves
Let The Fargo News remember only
few short years ago when Spaulding
the logical candidate Of the good gov
eminent league, was seeking the nom
nation at the hands OF the people OF
North Dakota; Thomas Marshall and
his henchmen, are alleged to have
packed the Grand Forks convention
and by an adroit act turned the real
representative OF the league out and
secured the endorsement for himself
This Is case Of purity of the politics
or the big man in the insurgent party
in North Dakota.
On another occasion, in his own
county. at convention held two years
ago, to name delegates to the Minot
convention, held in that city May ID,
1908, fine bit of "Cannonism" was ex-
hibited by Marshall's business partner
and campaignor. A man from Ellen
dale sought the floor. He was not
recognized, and hence, a solid delega-
ton to Minot for Marshall. That was
another case OF purity in insurgent
politics.
We also call the attention to the
sending to Courtenay during the cam
paign two years ago, an article con-
traband under the constitution in this
state, to, 1t is alleged, further the cam
paign. A reverend gentleman and a
few others caused the stuff to flow
back to its home, Minnesota. OF
course this could have been expected
of the stalwarts, but does 1t exhibit
good caean politics on the part OF the
man who does things?
Subserviency to party lash is an
other of the charges made by The
Fargo News. Is the advocacy of the
campain Of the sore heads, right or
wrong, anything else than dancing to
the music of the party whip crack i?
Is not concealing the real facts in re-
gard to the actual work of the tariff
upon the interestssof the state, subser-
viency to the party whip? is not the
advocacy of the insurgent party which
will persistently refuse to grant to the
national legislature common sense,
subserviency to the party lash? Does
is styling itself 1.-THE insurgency" place
the judgment of eleven senators and a.
handful of congressman, over and
above the judgment of several hundred
other representatives and senators?
Does this little group of babes found
in the bulrushes on the banks of the
river of political oblivion, by any real,
common sense argument show the peo-
pie that they are the new Moses an
nointed by the Lord to lead the people
out of bondage into the promised land
of pure politics?
Apparently the News and it's bunch
of stragglers rate the intelligence of
the American voter very low when 1t
says cit does not seem yet to realize
that the country now recognizes these
men as the regulars" while the reac-
tionaries have lost cast in proportion? ?"
Assuming that few do call them
selves the regulars, is it not trying to
make oct the people of nearly 95 per
cent of the country as people who do
not know how to cast an intelligent
vote? Does OF not look as IL the few
insurgent leaders have taken pretty
big load upon their shoulders when
they say the common sense and justice
and right in America rests upon their
own heads and not in the vast ma
jority of the people7
If the majority of men who have
been elected to the national legislature
are scoundrels, where then must we
look for the little bit of honesty and
truth that does live? Must we seek it
In The Fargo Daily News enlighten-
ment bureau which exists possibly in
some cold storage plant where it is
being preserved?