The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-07-05
North Dakota Political Gossip

Bismarck Tribune: Although he
was i'll and unable to be in the state
although he could not take the stump
and defend himself against the attacks
of his political enemies and opponents
and although pretty nearly everything
was said against him that could be
said to prejudice the voters against
him, Senator McCumber is renomi-
mated at the senatorial primary and
will be re- elected for the six-year
term.
| His majority was not a large one,
but it must be remembered that his
candidacy was handicapped by his
own enforced absence from the state,
by the fact that tariff legislation with
which he was intimately concerned
/ is always unpopular in the first few
months after revision, and that he
was continually the target for the
whole battery of insurgent speakers
and newspapers. His election by a
popular vote under all the circum-
stances is a splendid tribute to the
good work that has been done by
Senator McCumber in the senate, and
I! to the good work that was done by
his friends in the state in defending
/ him against continual attacks.
| Mr.. Gronna wins by a large major
/ ity over Judge Engerud. This was
not unexpected. Mr. Gronna has been
in congress for several terms, has a
wide acquaintance, has had a good
organization through the state, and
had the benefit of the irsurgent vote
and of good many stalwart votes
| that for various reasons were cast
| for him. Mr.. Gronna has never been
considered very much of an insurgent
anyway, and his presence in the in
surgent ranks was due largely to the
mutations Of politics that brought M.
/ N Johnson to the senate from Gron-
mas county. Mr.. Engerud made a
clean and dignifed campaign, but in
good section of the state he could
not hope in one campaign for the
senate to make and profit by the ac-
Iquaintance that Mr.. Gron1a has made
in his six or eight years of public
life AS a commentary upon popular
choice of senators, 1t might be haz-
afied that no legislative assembly
would at the same session choose two
men so radically different in tempera-
ment and platforms as McCumher and
+ LIOIltlos
i Hanna and Helgesen have won the
congressional nominations, and there
again we have direct division be
i tween the congressman chosen. Mr..
Hanna has been a pronounced in
lsurgent. Both are chosen by the same
4 electorate at the same election. II
would indicate the effectiveness OF
personal campaigning, and that the
\ voters after all vote more for men that
they do for issues or platforms.
g. A. Johnson wins the guberna
torial election for the second time
He should be supported and elected
by the republicans He Ia entitled
to it, after being twice chosen by the
voters at fair election covering the
whole state. The indications are thai
the republicans. now that a ticket has
vlbeen chosen representing both factions
OF the party pretty equally, will lay
! aside their differences and give pretty
| harmonious support TO the candidates
They ought to do so, else where Is ths
Iuse OF holding primary at all? The
republicans have profited little by tbs
detection OF democratic governor FOL
1.-TWO terms. 1t Ia time that ambitions