Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1910-05-05

of crop failure here on the Slope,
Mckenzie was one of those public
spirited and big-hearted men who
advanced several thousand dollars
with which to procure seed grain
for those who otherwise would have
had to leave the country, and that
many wel-to-do elderly pioneer OF
the Missouri Slope owes his success
and the independence and comfort
of his declining years to the men
who raised that seed-wheat fund.
And Friend Helgesen also failed to
inform his hearers that for more
than twenty years he himself strug-
gled for the leadership-as to his
opponents he would term it boss
ship of Cavalier county, until at
the present time he is a leader or
boss more powerful in that county
than in McKenzie's palmiest days
the latter was leader or boss Of the
republican forces Of Burleigh and
the Missouri Slope. He failed to let
his audience know that even as pop
ular resident Of his home county
as Speaker Burdick was compelled
to PROSTATE his ambition for con-
gressional touchdown before the
political juggernaut Of the Boss of
Cavalier.
Just as every one in the audience
had come to the conclusion that Mr..
Helgesen and a democrat were dis
tinction without a difference. he
astonished the audience by bouncing
on the democracy. He ridiculed
their pretensions and adversely
criticised their ability to do any
thing should they acquire power.
calling attention to the fact that
practically all of them in congress,
during the consideration of the
Payne bill. had at one time or
another cast his individual vote for
a high tariff on the particular prod
ucts Of the section represented by
himself. 1t seemed to the writer
that Mr.. Helgesen had made so much
democratic medicine in his speech
that he recognized the danger there
might be in it of aiding democratic
success in securing majority in the
next national house of representa-
(tives; that democratic success
wouldn't help HelResen in his con-
gressional ambitions any more than
stalwart success would help, and
that, having crippled stalwartism
by his speech, he must logically. for
the political salvation of Helgesen,
proceed to orally slaughter democ-
racy.
But. just the same. the writer
hopes we'll have other public speak
ers here Of ability and statewide
reputation. and any one who can
conveniently get the time ought to
give them the courtesy of attend
ance, whether they be stalwarts.
bushwhacker republicans. or demo-
Gratis. The old-time copy-books of
the schools usually carried the line,
Many men of many minds" There
are certainly many men and
women, too. judging by the suffrage
agitation-of many minds, in the
United States to-day. Education
from year to year is becoming more
general. and as a consequence more
people read and keep posted on
public affairs than formerly. Every
honest citizen wants to see his coun-
try prosperous. The entire popula-
ton is either helped or hindered by
certain applied public policy.
What every true lover of his country
wants is the best that can be had for
it in a politico-economic way. No
one firm in the righteousness of his
belief should fear to hear the beliefs
of others expounded. The editor
hopes that the people of Emmons
county may have an opportunity to
hear McCumber. Engerud. Lauder,
the able and genial democrat Pur-
cell, and the other state candidates
who are accustomed Ito speak in
public on the stage" Even Mar
shall and Gronna would be welcome.
If they couldn't talk. they could
stand on the platform. look wise,
and rattle their money-bags. If any
of them come they should draw au-
diences whose numbers are not
wholly Disappointing.
Everybody in the state, regardless
of faction, will be glad to learn that
Senator Porter j. McCumber. who
recently underwent a surgical opera
ton in Washington. is getting along
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