Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-04-29

lnVldlOuS comparisons between can
didates shat have been and are being
supported by the Tribune and some
that have been most vigorously sup
ported by Editor Hager, and invidi-
GUS comparisons are not especially
profitable. The Tribune has sup
ported and is supporting Senator Nc
Cumber for the senate. We do not
think the Record will insist that he
Is unfit, although for personal and
factional reasons the Record has sup
ported Mr.. Marshall, who was iden-
titled with the republican organiza-
ton of this state just as long as it
maintained him in Office. The Trib-
une two years ago supported Mr..
Gronna, who was then an organiza-
ton republican, for congress. We
presume, the Record will this year
support him for the senate. The
Record will hardly declare that Mr..
GrOnna was one of the unfit" can
didates supported by the Tribune.
Indeed, Messrs. Gronna and Marshall
had their political training with the
republican organization in the state.
And they have graduated from what
the Record terms the machine" in
to the leadership Of the insurgent
movement in North Dakota.
The Tribune has supported and
!is supporting the administration of
President Taft. 1t believes that by
the close Of his term he will have
accomplished more constructive leg
islation for the good of the whole
country than any president we have
had for a great many years. The
Record will hardly declare that Mr..
Taft is unfit. 1t may disagree with
him in some matters, but we must
remember that congress is a big
body and that it cannot be driven
through with a coach and four, and
that federal legislation takes time
and long, hard work.
AS to the candidates that have
been supported by the Tribune in
the state, they have been republic
cans regularly nominated. Their
record speaks for itself. We have
heard of no grave scandals in the
administration of affairs by the re-
publicans of this state since state
hood. There have been some petty
ones-regrettable enough-but of
small volume when cOntrasted with
the sum total Of the republican ad-
ministration in the state. Gener-
ally, the republican administrations
of North Dakota have been clean
and honorable. There has been a
good deal of loose talk among fac
tionists who have been anxious to
get into Office But there has been
nothing in the history of the state
from its beginning to justify the
of the Record that re-
publican newspapers have supported
unfit men for Office. They have been
the exception and not the rule. And
it is more than. likely that Editor |
Hager, in his career as a newspaper
man, has supported some candidates |
for Office who proved to be unfit, not
desiring to seee unfit men in Office,
but through the weaknesses of hu-
man nature that occasionally mani
lest themselves to the discredit of
men in office. And, as we have said,
hose cases are the exceptions and
lot the rule.
Mr.. A. c: Weiss, general manager
If The Duluth Herald, has been
elected director the Associated
Press at it's annual meeting in New
York. The Associated Press is the
greatest news-gathering organization
n the world, and supplies the news
service of all the leading newspapers
If the country. This is the first
ime that the honor of a dictatorship
n this splendid organization has
:ome to city of Duluth's size, the
places usually being filled from large
titles, and Duluth and The Herald
ire proud of Mr., Weisss selection to
his important post-and northwest
I'm friends of the Duluth newspaper
nan will tender congratulations.
Contrary to what nave been ex-
some of the before
,lection statements-Mayor Lowell
las put the lid on gambling in Far
20. The mayor continues to sur
Prise those who were his political
opponents for the Office
"Progressives in the state gaining!
ground" says the Grand Forks Her.
I'D. Some candidate been buying
mother quarter section?