The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-06-14

Grand Forks Times: Any man has
perfect right to change his political al
legiance, whether it be from one faction
to another or from one party to the
other. He also has a right to say, I'M
der either alliance, just what he thinks
Of the leaders and principles Of the
other side But when he becomes a
candidate for party confidence and asks
support because of his present alli-
anCe the people have a perfect right to
measure both his sincerity and his re-
liability by his record, and because
that record is Of his own deliberative
making he can not complain if the facts
are against him.
Judge Lauder is a candidate for the
republican nomination for congress. He
is on the insurgent ticket, which is
headed by Thomas F. Marshall as a
candidate for United States senator.
Two years ago Mr., Marshall was a
candidate for the same office, and on
December 10, 1907, shortly after the
conference in the city at which slate
was prepared by the insurgents, Judge
Lauder published an open letter, in
which he made the following state
ment concerning Mr. Marshall:
/ said that the conference (the one
held in this city, had been packed iii
Mr.. MarshalPs interest, and 1 told the
truth. 1 had been a supporter of the
Good Government league from the
time of it's organization and 1 wished
to see it succeed in the good work in
which it was engaged, and l resisted
the coarse attempt of a mere machine
politician" by the lavish use of money
to obtain control of the organization
and use it to promote his own selfish
ends.
Mr., Marshall has never been in
sympathy with the work of the Good
Government league. On the contrary
no man in the state has abused it's
members more persistently than he.
For year past he has been working
industriously to induce the state ma
chine" to take him up as a candidate
for senator and he turned to the Good
Government league only after it had
been made plain to him that the ma
chine would not support him, but had
another candidate.
Quite likely Mr.. Marshall could see
nothing inconsistent or incongruous in
a man of his type and record asking
for an endorsement for senator at the
hands of the Good Government league
He has been so in the habit of pur-
suing mere machine methods" in po-
litical affairs that apparently he has
no conception of the real purpose for
which the Good Government league
was organized.
Political principles or mere ques-
tons of right and wrong in politics
apparently never enter into his calcu-
lations.
With Mr.. Marshall the inquiry us
ually is: can it be done and how much
will 1t cost? When he has succeeded
in gathering a crowd of followers at
Grand Forks and obtained from them
in the name of the Good Government
league an endorsement for senator, he
no doubt fattered himself that he had
done something of which he might
justly be proud The immortality Of
the whole proceeding apparently never
entered his mind And even now he
can not understand why decent, right
thinking men everywhere should be
disguised with the spectacle.
Such was the opinion of Judge Lau-
der concerning Mr.. Marshall less than
three years ago. Such was the opin-
ion of him published to the world. The
Good Government league was the style
under which the insurgents were then
acting. If Mr.. Marshall had such low
conception of it's purpose at that time.
| is he worthy of the support of the
honest men in that faction today? If
Judge Lauder believed him to be the
political degenerate he then said he
was, can Judge Lauder support him
now without making himself an Access
sorry after the fact? If he was the
man Judge Lauder painted him three
years ago, is not Lauder asking the
people to support an unworthy man?
| If Judge Lauder merely said what he
| did to blacken the character Of Mr.
Marshall and defeat him for office, IL
he worthy of the confidence of men
who believe in honesty and square
deal in politics? Could such man be
trusted in a public position? Is not
the mere fact that he said those things
three years ago and now lauds Mr.
Marshall as an ideal candidate, proof
that Judge Lauder deliberately stated
a falsehood one time or the other
Is that the kind OF man North Dakots
republicans want to send to congress
Edinburg Tribune: One man out o.
every thousand in Devils Lake attend
ed Judge LADDERS speech when he ap.
peared there recently. Isn't 1t pos
sible that this cold reception. whicl
has already been recorded on the pages
Iof political history under the sugges,
tive appellation OF THE Devils LAX,
frost" is forerunner Of another fros