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

Linton ana EmInOnS county Hds
generally been overlooked durin
political campaigns by men of state
wide reputation. For this reaso
the Record believes that. when can
didates of any faction or party dis
cover that Emmons is on the map o
North Dakota. they should get
good sized crowd out to hear them
This reflection is called forth BY ths
fact that two of the leading lights o.
progressive republican, or in
surgent. or mutineer. or bush
whacker faction Of the state were il
Linton last Friday night on their
political medicine making campaign
of the Missouri Slope. The gentle
men present on that date were
James Buchanan. insurgent candi
date for the republican guberna
torial nomination. and H. I. Hedge
sen, who has an abiding faith thai
membership in the lower house O.
congress would just about fit him
self. The crowd in attendance was
small, not more than twenty person:
being present. 1t should be stated
however, that there was show in
the opera-house that night, and. al
though the show had a small at
tendance and majority of the au,
dience were ladies. yet the play un-
doubtedly drew some who otherwise
would have attended the meeting.
The Honorable Gustavus Adolphus
Herolz that noted local humani-
tartan whose unselfish heart bleeds
at thought Of the wrongs inflicted by
organized capital upon himself and
the rest of the common people-pre-
sided. And. when Mr.. Hedge
son spoke of the outrages put upon
the poor by the bloated capitalists
and corporationites, the presiding
officer looked with sad and appealing
eyes at the Record reporter as
though to say. Listen to that.
Doesn't that settle it? See how out
rageous has been your conduct and
that Of the other financial nabobs
toward the downtrodden class to
which belong. Go. thou, and sin
no more" But we digress. Bu-
chanan and Helgesen. not Gus, are
the basic cause for the writing of
this report.
The two gentlemen are pioneers Of
North Dakota. They have done their
share toward converting the sparse
ly settled half of territory into q
great and prosperous common
wealth They are entitled to respect
full consideration. even by those who
do not agree with them, and who do
not fear the political and economic
scares thrown by them. That they
are honest in their beliefs should be
taken for granted by any person who
asks that he be credited with hon.
esty as to his own opinions. although
it really does seem absurd to see
calamity orators stand before an
audience in an agricultural state
and in basso-profundo tones inform
their hearers of the poverty-stricken
and down-trodden position which
such hearers occupy. which has all
been brought about by the course
of the dominant element of the par
ty to which they claim allegiance.
1T also seems strange to the thought
full nearer that they should as loudly
as any democratic speaker roast the
tariff as it is at present and has been
during the most prosperous years
~ the history of the United States.
shout for its lowering along demo-
cratic lines, and then, in conclusion,
heap ridicule upon the democrats.
their fellow-workers in the political
vineyard. Another popularity of
insurgent speakers and writer's is
that. while they denounce the tariff
and say that it must be lowered.
they never tell US along what lines
IT ought to be lowered-whether on
the product of the eastern factory
or on the meat. grain and other com
modities produced by the western
farmer. Their hearers and readers
are left completely in the dark as to
whether the minimum tariff limit is
to be below the danger line which
will let down the industrial bars
to the cheaply made goods from
across both oceans, and no definite
information is given by them to the
protectionist on which he may study
out for himself the question as to
whether the cry of the insurgents
for lower tariff calls for figures
above or below those he believes to
be safe and necessary for the well
fare Of his country.
MIR. Buchanan spoke first. He de
clared himself in favor of q lowe
tariff; said that he was firm be