Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-03-19
INSURGENTS AND OTHERWISE

that if Roosevelt were to join hands
with the insurgents, it would len
tremendous impetus to the insur-
gent movement, but it solemnly
warns the former president that if
| he makes cause with Taft\ and the
regulars, the insurgent juggernaut
will run over him and keep on 60
ing. The Herald dwells at the
length of a column or so on the In
surgent cause-tells how it is old as
time AMI indestructible as the rock
ribbed granite base of the earth.
LaFollette, Cummins, and their CON-
patriots might all go wrong, accord
ing to the Herald, and still the in
surgent cause would go on and on,
sweeping the earth, breaking the
bonds of slaves, striking shackles
from the fettere1, and. otherwise
distinguishing itself.
The Herald takes the solemn view
that Insurgency alone stands between
freedom and the assaults Of those
who would wreck the ship of state.
TIE Herald is prone to take itself
solemnly and seriously, AMI some
times lacks the saving grace Of OPP
timism, which is the leaven of this
lump of existence. There are two
views of insurgency. One of them
is that it is the manifestation of the
enlarged ego-a belief that the min.
GRITTY must of necessity represent the
right. In this state, for example, we
have a large number Of aspirants for
office who are making use of the Sin
surgent" movement in an effort to
ride into Office. We have a large
number of ex-office holders, whose
disappointment at failing of renom-
ination and reelection has driven
them into a faction of the republican
party, whose main desire is to wrest
control of the party machinery AMI
party patronage from those who
have managed to control great
share of it. We ask with all respect,
whether this is the spirit that
wrested Magma Charta from King
John, signed the Declaration of In
dependence, inspired the charge of
Balaklava, or did any of the other
great AMI enrolling things so flu
emily enumerated by the Herald?
A couple of years ago a conven-
ton of "insurgents'' was called at
Grand Forks for the purpose of in
dorsing certain and particular can
didate for Office, who hal been reg
ular in his party Affiliations. An
other candidate for the same office,
who had been a consistent opponent
of the organization for a great many
years, was turned down." III the
parlance of politics. In the final
election, the candidate who was in.
Iorsed was rejected at the polls.
The voters of the state saw pretty
clearly through the thin pretense OF
insurgency" that CLOSED over the
convention and the candidate in
question.
We have in this state large ele-
.ment of ''insurgents'' banded to-
gether by the desire for office. Take
away the offices and the patronage
and some of the leaders of the
movementrwould disappear from the
ranks like the frost before the sun
in July. We find the desire for au.
thority and control strong in all men.
We find general inclination to do
battle ad gain the victory. But the
partisan whose disappointment at
defeat is so great that he leaves his
party and takes up arms with the
political enemy is not necessarily a
patriot. .,s..$,,Z @;s:s.
There are many good and honest
men in the insurgent ranks-men