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people against such a charge. and re
quested The News to publish this let.
ter. But 1t seems The News did no
like the tone of the same and / would
therefore ask The Forum to publish
part Of this letter, as The News article
would leave it's readers under the i'm.
preston that this would be the only
reason why a Scandinavian should MOI
vote for Burke.
stated in the letter that while
always acted up to and held to the
principle that religion had no place ir
politics, and had spent my money and
efforts accordingly, still was The News
posted as 1t is on men and affairs OF
the democratic party in this state and
knowing these, really surprised that
such articles as complained of In The
Scandinavian should appear?
| plead guilty to being so little clan
nish that / am not a, subscriber to any
paper printed in the Scandinavian
/ language, so did not know just what
the article in question consisted of.
4 But to accuse the Scandinavians as d
| nationality of ever considering religion
in politics is an injustice. The News
| knows it is not true.
| How many counties in this state,
where the Scandinavian vote predomi-
mates, have and are not represented
| by Catholics in office?
| But why is IL that following the
splendid support given John Burke by
this nationality the first election, in
return for the same there appears to
be combined effort to keep that ma
tionality out Of the democratic party
| in North Dakota except as votes?
Was there a Scandinavian name on
the democratic state ticket in 1908?
There happens to be just one there
this time.
/ have always been independent
enough (even while holding a chair
manship in our party) not to vote for
crooked democrat, and to support
honest men, regardless of their politi-
cal Affiliations. Their religion never
entered my mind. But / am not blind
to the affairs in our party in North
Dakota and certainly admit that mat
ters have come to a point where they
at least do not look right
am not church man by any means
and one could hardly hold more liberal
views Of religion than / do. But as
stated, / insist upon the other party
also to leave religion out of politics.
My nationality, as voters and men, are
entitled TO all the confidence that
reform party, as the democratic party
claims to be, can give.
Scandinavians cropping to find some
reason for the elimination of his ma
tionality by Burke, Kelly & Co. of
Devils Lake, in view of our past sup
port of reform men and measures,
come to the conclusion the chief rea-
son is that a Scandinavian is invari-
ably a protestant. Burke can only
blame himself and his political man
ayers.
The picture of Governor Burke
placing a wreath upon the statue of
Wergeland in Fargo as reported, while
his friends and personal political man
ayers are doing their utmost in knitting
that nationality politically within their
own ranks. is certainly sickening, to
say the least.
The News, presume, considered this |
letter, coming from democrat, mat
ter of les majestic, and did not print it.
But why should The News, / repeat, |
knowing men and affairs of the demo-
cratic party take it for granted that |
we all must support Burke, and as a |
matter of course ask the insurgents |
to flock to Burke's aid?
The News knows very we'll there is
an older fight in the democratic party |
than that of insurgent and stalwart |
within the republican ranks and that |
thef fight is upon the same lines.
The News really knows that there
is no difference between a so-called
sane, conservative democrat as
these call themselves and a stall
wart republican. The latter are more
honest in their stand with the voters
that is all. The sane democrats pre-
tend to be reformers, whereas, in
reality, when ever they secured COM
troll of the party organization or were
elected to legislative offices they turn
ed traitors to the people who elected
them. We can follow this up from the
time of Wilson German act of 1898 to
the twenty conservative democrats
who, with Fitzgerald, voted for the
Tannon-Aldrich programme down to
he state of Illinois democrats, who
voted for Lorimer for $1,000 a piece.
Tht News always says to vote for
party Certainly, that is right, but
Why should we democrats take party
abel for guarantee of quality more
than the republicans?
Political history of the United States
and of the northwest certainly has
showed us as true men, according to
our standard of political rectitude,
within the republican ranks as within
The democratic party. :
The News knows, as we'll as /, that
talk is cheap" and that there are
many democrats talking reform who
never fail to vote for corporation
and have known even
,talwart so rankly conservative that I
could not agree with him five minutes,