Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1910-07-15
LOCAL PRIDE.

LOCAL PRIDE.
Wednesdays Journal takes excep-
ton to certain editorial which ap-
peared in the Inter-Ocean last week.
The subject matter Of that editorial
was Burke and Johnson" The pur-
pose of the article was to bring before
the people of Ramsey county the truth
that the republican voters of this Sec
ton may know what they are voting
for on the governorship question, this
fall Evidently the truth hurt, judging
srom the tone of the Journals editor
sal, headed youthful Politics."
The old-time club of Local Pride"
as brandished by the Journal and we
are told to keep still. Our contem-
porary cries Shame, Shame" at us
for criticising some of the official acts
of Governor Burke and bewails our
lack of local pride. According to the
10 .lnal, since Governor Burke is a
Ramsey county citizen, his record in
Office is above reproach. No man may
talk against it, write against it, or
think against it. He who speaks of it
in aught but a whisper, is traitor,
false to his political beliefs. This is
the Journal doctrine-when the man
in question is a democrat. When the
Ramsey county man is a republican,
the Journal mysteriously forgets this
doctrine at frequent times. When O..
P. N. Anderson is successful in secur-
Ing the nomination for railroad COM
missioner the Journal somehow tucks
this doctrine safely away, gets down
the tar-pot and proceeds to blacken
Anderson's reputation before the state
as deeply as the limited powers of the
Journal editorial writer will permit.
We merely mention this to show the
1nsincerity of the Journal in crying
for Local Pride" That is a conven-
lent cry when a friend of the Journal
is in danger.
No man or set Of men, and no poll
~tical hybrid like the Journal, can make
as remain silent on any political ques-
ton whether that question involves
men and measures in the nation or in
=, our own county and city. Whenever
: the policy of this paper must be warp
ed and twisted and the truth stifled to
suit the needs of some local Office hol-
der whose political record will not
stand criticism we will lock up shop
and turn over the keys to the ,rufded
representative of democracy across the
way.
We ask no permission from any pa
per or official to speak the truth and
want none. If we have stated facts in
regard to Governor Burke which make
~unwelcome reading among the local
Democracy we regret it exceedingly
we can not Change me ldClS. lucy
were made by the leader of North Da
kota democracy.
In former campaigns the writer vot
Led and worked for Governor Burke
= We don't care who knows this or how
it may strike either republican or a
democrat We did II consfentiously
z=and gladly. Today we are opposed to
him because we believe the party he
represents in North Dakota has be-
come controlled by machine methods
The sum and substance Of the Jour
4 mails article is frightened squeal at
O supposedly unwarranted attack up
on Governor Burke. We have made no
|. attack upon Governor Burke which is
nnwarranted or unjustified. We stat
old three phases Of his administration
FIRST he has resided at Bismarck. Is
this untrue or ig II going too far to
say that four years I'd the Governors
\ chair IL q sufaciens reward for resfd.
I Ing in Bismarck? Second. we stated