The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-09-30
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jamestown Alert: Governor Burke
is clearly on the defensive explaining
to his farmer audiences how 1t is that
he turned down several necessary APP
preparations but signed the bill al
lowing himself an increase in salary
Edmore Herald News: After John
Burke was elected governor and for a
time he went after the blind pig ele-
men of the state rough shod, until he
got the newspapers and the people
talking about him-and them. well go
into his own home town at Devils
Lake, where beer and whiskey is sold
in violation of the law as free as milk
or soda water and you will find that
further comment is unnecessary. Gov
ernor Burke need not chase out to
Dickinson or some other remote
point to establish reputation as a
''blind pig" chaser, but let him begin
right at his home town where he has
lived and practiced law for many
years.
Minot Optic: From present indi-
cation Grant Hager has Honest John
so tangled up in explaining the mis-
takes of his administration that the
governors chances of comfns back
grow simmer every day.
Mr.. Hager has been doing some
keen investigating and has been CIV
ing the people some real facts and fig
ures relative TO the democratic regime
during the past four years. Mr..
Burke has not taken kindly to the
Walsh county mans exposures and
is right up against the ropes ON the
defensive. His excellency, like the
late lamented Mr.. Jeffries, thought
that he could travel through the cam
pagin on his reputation, and let his
friends persuade him into taking the
pitcher to the well once too often.
Before Nov. rolls around the voters
will be thoroughly familiar with his
record, and knowing the truth about
the great man" they will conserve
their interests by retiring him to pri-
vate life.
Bismarck Tribune: The voters of
the state ought to be pretty we'll in
formed by the time the campaign
closes this year as to the democratic
claims to superior administration of
the state government. The republican
campaign bureau will probably deal
with the administration of the DEM
ocrats in it's various departments and
seek to prove the hollowness and in
sincerity of the democrats in their APP
peal to the republicans of this state
for votes to re-elect their candidate
for governor. And in the meantime,
the governor Is busy on the stump de-
Tending his administration, it being
one of the first times the democratic
party in this state has been on the
defensive. And the voters Of the
state win thus have an opportunity to
hear both sides of the case and decide
whether the democrats have justified
their claim to republican SURFACES on
purely nonpartisan grounds. This
claim would come with better grace
from the democrats if 1t had not been
plainly apparent during the last two
years that the democrats are seeking to
build up party machine in the state,
and that lucrative offices have passed
generously into the hands Of those of
the democratic faith and that the
state institutions are gradually going
the same way. OF course, no one
would accuse the democratic leaders
of such lack Of Judgment as to make
sudden changes in the management
of state institutions, for political rea-
sons. But the change is going on
pretty steadily and the republican
voters ought to understand that an
other democratic administration will
mean a pretty well intrenched demo-
cratic machine, and that North Da-
kota will be good fighting ground
in the next congressional and presi-
Dental election.