The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-10-14
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sad spectacle to see The Grand Forks
Herald stray away from the folds
aliured by the siren song OF the man
who seems TO have thought more of
his home town than he did of the
dairy industry of the entire state.
What does The Herald expect to ac-
complish for itself and the people bv
this course anyway?
Rugby Optimist Governor Burke
is busy now-a-d days explaining. or trv.
Ing to, rather, his reasons for vetoing
number Of comparatively insight
Meant appropriations by the Iegisla
ture, that were aimed to benefit the
farmers and their sons and daughters
OF the state, and signed his name 70
several appropriations affecting tha
interests of his home CITY of DEVILS
Lake, as well as an APPROXIMATION
raising his own salary to almost
double what it was before. or coursa
the governor is witty and sarcastic
and says all manner of cute things
put whether he can again befog the
minds of the voters of this state bv
sophistries remains to be seen.
Walhalla Mountaineer: 1t is a trife
amusing, if it was not for the glar-
ing inconsistency, to watch The Grand
FORKS Herald sidestep in it's attitude |
Of making believe to be consistent
Last campaign The Herald put its
loot In it. by insisting that the mem |
pers or the legislature were morally |
pound to vote for the senatorial nom
NEE CHOSEN by the republican pri-
mares 1t made this announcement |
SO loud-and so soon after election |
that IT could not reverse ITSELF when |
the time came that it wished to sup |
port John Burke for governor. This I
year 1t is the same fix, but the press |
is after 1T so closely that it makes /
faces while 1t is attempting to JUS
tify its course OF course, there is no /
Jurisdiction. To be absolutely con- |
sistent, The Herald should oppose
John Burke on the grounds that he
did not carry out the will of the peo-
pie or of his party when he failed /
to appoint John l.. Cashel to the Unit
ed States senate. Mr.. Cashel was the 1
party choice of the democrats for the
position at the election, 1908. as we'll
as the ablest and most prominent
democrat in the state. Mr.. Cashel is
SO consistent that he refuses to lend
his assistance to the democratic, Of 4
ncially, in the present campaign.
Grand Forks Times: One of the ,
contentious of the democrats in North |,
Dakota--a party much given to vi
sions, however-is that they expect to
elect one congressman. The plan is
the usual one to avoid all reference
on the part of the democrats TO the
real issues involved and to stir IN L
strife in the republican party. In fact |.
the argument advanced to catch the 1,
voters is that the democratic party is
so much, purer than the republican
that voters must support it's candf-
dates out of pure self respect. They /,
make this claim while the stencil :
from the New York convention i'm II
which Tammany hall dictated the par
Ly platform and candidates is still ,
vile in the nostrils. That organization
has been guilty of every political Z
crime on the calendar and vet :
It owns the democratic party in New \
York.
But what would be the result of :
adopting the plan proposed By the L
democratic party? The fight Just now
S to control the lower house of con- G
sress. There is q possibility that the {
democrats may have a majority-cer- \
ainly the republican majority will be In
small. 1t is a change of public SEN
iment with reference to the political
,arties-it is time. But there was the
same kind of change in 1892 when ,
Y11n 81 |
he house was changed to a democrat
C majority of thirty two, Massachu-
ietts sending one lone republican to r
hat body. The change in public SEN S
iment was emphatic The three 6
branches of government were in the f
lands of the democrats and they pro- A
eeded to put their platform and prin- v
iples into practice. The result was Il
he greatest Industrial calamity the h
COUNTRY had ever witnessed. North ~
Dakota farmers sold wheat for fifty c
ents bushel and oats for less than
wenty. A printer now employed in n
his city travelled from Denver to Z
sioux Falls without finding a days '
york and Toasted on fish caught in a h
AXE and cooked in the mud Soup G
ouses were maintained everywhere "
nd honest men became tramps be- $
ause they could not do otherwise. t.
hat was the result of giving the o
emocratic party a majority and the Il
arty must denounce its own and p
rinciples of eighteen years ago or s.
xactly the same thing will happen
gain. II the party admits that its II
octrines caused starvation and dis D
ster in 1893, to 1897, how much con. a
dence can an intelligent voter put in u
ny promise Of reform it may make O
ow? r.
The republican party in this state a
presenting two candidates as clean =
nd honorable and able and patriotic n
$ could be selected. Others might be --
lst as much So but they could be q
o better. They stand for republican !
rinciples and republican prosperity |
Congressman Hanna has accomplish I
more for this state in the short G
me he has been a member of the
ouse than was ever done by any
Their man. He was able to secure
lore than men from other states who
ad served four and five terms 1t
oes not seem that such an asset to
forth Dakota should not be thrown
way. Mr. Helgesen, while without
experience in congress-, is man of
-ide experience in public affairs and
better prepared to take up the
'ork of national legislation than half
ne men who assume those duties.
-e is thoroughly familiar with the
istory of the government and is
versed in the great ques-
ons that must be solved lay the
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