The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-11-04
BURKE'S "noN.PAR1ISAn"
CLAIM IS DISPR0vED
lAUDAToRY RESOLUTIONS ON
GOVERNORS PRESIDENTIAL
BOOM DlsPRovEs NON
PARTISAN CLAIM.

Some time last spring, at a demo-
cratic banquet held in this state, Gov
M Burke was proposed as a candi-
date for the presidency on the demo-
cratic ticket by the faithful and en-
thusiastic democrats present; failing
20 land the presidential nomination
they would strive to secure his nomin-
alton for the vice presidency.
Things on a pace, and the
scheme begins to unfold. A great plea
Is now being made for North Dakota
republicans to vote for Governor
Burke, for a third term, on the ground
that he is a mon partisan candidate"
A dodger that is being circulated
through the state b. democrats, shows
on Its face, the utter falsity Of such
claims to non-partisanship for their
candidate. The dodger reproduces a
cartoon taken from the Chicago Trib-
une of April Is, 1910, which shows the
pictures of FIVE democrats, mounted on
traditional democratic mules. and des-
| cribed as Yearly At THE WIRE"
FIVE DEMOCRATIC STATESMEN
ENTERED FOR THE DEMOCRATIC
PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN 1912"
Among the five, is Governor Burke,
the others being Governor Harmon Of
Ohio, Mayor Gaynor Of New York,
Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey, and
Governor MARSHALL of Indiana.
The dodger also gives an account Of
Jefferson Day banuuets held in var
1ous cities at which democratic pres
idential timber was trotted out
and The dispatch from st. Paul, telling
of the Jefferson Day banquet there
said:
st. PAUL-The overthrow of the
republican party in congress and in
the white house was the topic OF MINI
nesota democrats at the Jefferson Day
banquet. Martin L.. Wade OF Iowa,
suggested o John Burke of North
Dakota as a candidate for president"
SAAS Ao'N INV q It'll- ptl ttSdII
candidate? One who is plotting and
working to overthrow the republican
party in congress INC in the white
house," Is that the kind of a non-par-
~tisanship which the republicans of
North Dakota wan to bring about?
Yet they are begged to vote for Burke
for governor because he is a -non-par-
| tioor -4nISl-<~ w.
! ROT!
Spreading the advertisement OF his
candidacy for the presidency on the
democratic ticket, and begging for re-
publican votes as q non-partfsan at
h same time. This looks like playing
both n d against the middle, and by
n who is described in the d,dger re-
ferred to as a MAN who put NORTH
DAKOTA in the HONOR COLUMN.
Eager to crafty his personal political
ambition, he seeks to obtain an office
at the hands of the republicans, under
the guise of non-partisanship, and ex-
aggerated claims Of service as a state
official
To give some alleged reasons for this
SsSOSN ASRu0A4AOA4 uNAO1k kllS OOuk0E
says:
Governor Burke has reduced taxes"
How, is not stated, but the reduction
probably referred to was that made by
the republican state board of equaliza-
ton Of five members, Of which Cover
nor Burke is but one member. The,
dodger also says that the governor
has taken the state institutions out
Of politics."
Is that SO? Ask anyone posted in
the various towns of the state, where
the institutions are located.
The dodger is published by the State.
League Of Young Mems Democratic
Clubs with the approval Of Governor
Burke.
In the light Of such partisan demo-
cratic efforts to secure the election of
the democratic candidate for governor,
and such a frank admission Of the real
purpose Of doing SO, do republican vot-
ers Of this state think they would get a
non-partisan il they again elected Gov
eernor Burke? A man who is pledged,
to do everything ITO overthrow the re-
publican party and defeat the repub-
lican nominee for president.
We're Taxes Reduced
By Governor Burke?