The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-02-25
WANTS TO KNOW .
HOW TO STOP IT
Eliminating Committee is Trying
to Wreck the Republican
Party.

Burlington, N. D., Feb. Ito
The Fargo News: AS an original
insurgent 1 desire to voice my pro-
test against the close corporation
gang methods of the Marshall
Gronna- Burdick- Hanson Taylor
Devine-Steele bunch of so-called
insurgents who seemed to .have
called themselves together at Val
ley City, and who appointed a
press censor committee to give out
a most meagre account of their do
ings to the press, and who also
appointed an elimination COM
mittee' to say who should and who
should not run for Office in this
big state of North Dakota.
1 ask you insurgents who may
read this, were you, and you, and
you-voters who were tor clean
politics, reform and progress,
along political lines,and who'fought
and bled for those things for years.
many years before Tom Marshall
of Oakes was induced CO to re-
place the upright and conscientious
B. F. Spalding at Grand Forks,
when other republicans like Pierce
of Ransom county, McGillvery of
Stark county and a half dozen
other gang politicians were asham-
ed to do so (the deed was so cold
blooded and in-human) we're you,
I.say, invited to attend the elimi-
5 nation convention at Valley City?
How do you-you who were
fighting for reform and primary
election principles, when Marshall
and Grohna were eating out Of Nc
Kenzie's hand and doing his bid
ding (and they did)-how do you
like it? Are you to have no voice
in what shall be done?
In the old convention days no
man was placed on the ticket sun-
less he had at least, his own county
behind him and often times he had
to fight, and fight hard, and get
out every vote to win at home be-
fore he would be even considered,
and when he did win, he at least
had constituency in his own
country. Now, who is behind this
elimination committee? Did, the
true insurgents of Ward county
delegate Joe Devine and Thirty
Percent Steele to act for them?
Hardly.
If the primary election law was
to be made, dead letter and it
seems. that it was the intention Of
the Valley City convention (l,e-
cause you wouldn't call it.anything
else), to make it, such why were
not the insurgents Of each county
asked to meet in their respective
county seats and elect men to re-
present them? This would have
at least, semblance of fairness.
If the letter and spirit Of the pri-
mary election law is to be out
ragged, raped, defled, why couldn't
1T be done with a little politeness
and at least show Of decency?
Simply because the. II per cent
twins and their paid henchmen,
who no doubt got their expenses
paid to Valley City were afraid
that Lauder and Helgerson and
Skulason and johnson and
Michaels' and Bendeke, and the
insurgents from principle might
prevail. That's why.
The old gang in it's most arro-
CANT days never attempted any.
thing 50 high handed. The near
est the old gang ever came q. to this
was when, during the petty
jealousy Of the Hansb brough regime,
Spaiding was twice decapitated,
against tho yigorous protests of
# McC Cnmber and Kennedy and Tai
cot the insu,rgs j 81 those days,
Marshall beck oming the Rene6 6ciary
of the first behea ding process and
Gronna of the second that was
the beginning of the end of the
Hansb sbroueh reign. This y i Valley