The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-01-13

that j. J. Jordan has bought out the
leading, Norwegian newspaper of the
| state. We have pictul of Jud sit
| ting down to his old Smith Premier
! writing Norwegian editorials and hol-
| lering out go" in the Norsk language.
It is to snickeE
Crosby Review There seems to
be a growing feeling among the
| masses that the "poor mans cam
paign" has been worked to the limit
in North Dakota, and that a mans
| poverty will no longer be accepted
as entitling him to special political
| preferment over ADLER aspirants for
office.
Petersburg Record: One of the men
in the legislative halls at washington
who will experience no difficulty at
the coming primaries for re-nomina-
ton, in Congressman L. B. Hanna, of
Fargo. Upright, honest and capable.
the people of North Dakota, recog-
nizing mis- moral worth will at some
time in the future be anxious to ten
der him their highest gift If he care
to accept. At present he is but the
rough diamond whose brilliancy when
once brought out the admiration of
all.
Flasher Hustler: We are compare
lively new in the state and don't know
much about its politics, but with mis-
control Of the federal patronage; the
prestige of one term in office and the
Endorsement of the Society of Equity,
the logic of events would indicate that
Senator McCumber will be a hard man
to beat, AS practical politicians why
don't the insurgent forces concen-
trate their efforts and land one of their
numerous candidates for the senate?
That would be sort of proportional
representa- ton anyway.
Buford Tribune: Politics in the
state and county as well as in the
congressional and senatorial field are
getting up to the boiling point. and
there is little doubt but that long be-
fore the June roses are In full bloom
there will permeate the state of North
Dakota a POLITICAL heat that will make
the dense warmth of the Great Sahara
Desert look like 80 cents. IL news
papers in the eastern part OF the state
are to be believed. Gronna and Marshall
are buying up all the newspapers whose
managers say a word against their
candidacy for office as insurgents. re
this be true, these candidates would
seem to have less faith In the wisdom
Of the voting populace than than or
binary, and more OF the root of all
evil'' than they care to hoard. Under
this system of campaigning, IL thor
Az eva1 xxy4II
reason to be grouchy DER the plethora
of their financial exchequer-for there
are few, if any, financiers other than
newspaper men who can SOW shekles |
to the four winds of heaven" WITH
lightning rapidity.
1t would seem from the activity of |
some OF the stalwart republicans
assisted by insurgents in the north /
western part of the state in placing in |
position for nomination at the June |
primary election of a multiplicity OF |
candidates for county, state and con- |
gressional offices, that their desire is |
to again have but the eastern part of /
the state represented in state and ma
tional law-making bodies. If the /
thirty to forty thousand votes in the |
several counties in this part of the |
state can be split UP among num-
Der of candidates for the various /
state and congressional Offices. the
rest of the state will be able to shake
the persimmons' and tnis section will |
get nothing. Every man has, under /
the primary law, an inalienable right /
to run for any public office which he
feels he is capable OF filing, butts
II good politics to place our govern
ment into the hands of It's enemies by
d surfeit OF candidates whose personal
desires are paramount to the welfare
OF the whole people?