Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-06-14
) MARSHALL AND LAUDER 3
y YEARS AGO AND NOW.
+ = = = + + + = = > = =

Grand Forks Times: Any man has
a perfect right to change his political
| allegiance, whether it be from one
| faction to another or from one party
to another. He also has a right to
say, under either alliance, just what
he thinks of the leaders and principles
of the other side. But when he be-
comes candidate for party confidence
and asks support because of his pres
ent alliance, the people have a per-
feet right to measure both his sim
cerity and his reliability by his rec
ord, 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
q candidate for United States sena.
tor. Two years ago Mr.. Marshall
was a candidate for the same Office,
and on December 10, 1907, shortly az
ter the conference in this city at
which slate was prepared by the
insurgents, Judge Lauder. published
an open letter, in which he made the
following statement, concerning Mr..
MARSHALL:
I said that the conference (the one
held in this city, had been packed in
Mr.. Marshalps interest, and told the
truth. l had been supporter of the
Good Government league from the
time of it's organization, and l wished
to see it succeed in the good work in
which it was engaged, and I resisted
the coarse attempt of a mere machine
politician" by the lavish use of mon
ey, to obtain control of the organiza-
ton 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 Estate ma
chine" to take him up as candidate
Tor 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 man of his type and record ask
ing for an endorsement for senator at
the hands Of the Good Government
league. He has been so in the habit
of pursuing mere machine methods"
in political affairs that apparently he
has no conception of the real purpose
for which the Good Government
league was organized.
Political principles or mere ques-
tions Of right and wrong in politics
apparently never enter into his CAL
cuIations. a
With. Mr.. Marshall, the inquiry us.
ually is: can it be done and how much
will it cost? When he had succeeded
in gathering 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 flattered 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 de-
cent, right thinking men everywhere
should be Disguised with the specta-
Gle.
Such was the opinion of Judge
Lauder concerning Mr. Marshall less
than three years ago. Such was the
opinion 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 man in that faction today I?
AZ