The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-10-28
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can party has not d man big enough
70 NIL the governors chair? Is Burke
North Dakota's only hope? If. unfor-
tunately, the governor should drop off
one or these days, would the state i'm
medlately start on the CREASED track to
perdition? Those are not pertinent
questions, but they might properly be
considered by republicans before de-
Gliding to vote for democratic candi-
dates.
Maxbass Monitor: What Is more
natural than for the stalwarts and pro-
sressives to vote the ticket selected
at the primaries? That is honesty and
carrying out the principles of the pri-
mary law. The people demand honesty
and fair play from the newspapers as
Well as from individuals and it was
to be expected that the propressiyes
as well as the staIwart press would
line up for the ticket selected at the
primaries and this fact is causing the
democrats great uneasfness as it means
their defeat on Nov s. The stalwarts
viii vote the ticket straight. why not
the progressives also? They have
everything to gain and nothing to lose
by so doing.
Cooperstown Courier: In another
column of this paper we print an arti
Gle touching upon the character Of
Hon. G. A. Johnson, the republican
candidate for governor, and we would
ask our readers to give earnest consid.
Grafton and to read it. Mr.. Johnson is
q man of good character, has made
good in every public office where he
mas been placed, and he would make
good IL elected governor. Republican
voters should not be carried off their
feet by Governor Burke's eloquence-
because of his ability to talk himself
back into the governors chair is the
only real asset he has in this campaign
Mr.. Johnson is not the taIker that Gov
ernor Burke is, but he is a clear-head- |
ed business man, a man of exceptions |
ally clean moral character andeknows
the needs of the people of the state |
Why not give him a chance to make |
good and why elect democrat for the /
third time in strong republican state? |
winston State: Hon. L. B. Hanna |
Is here looking after his political in |
does not accord with Congressman /
Hanna regarding his political views we
10 admire his honesty and ability. 1t |
was his first trip to Williston in many /
years, but he has a pretty firm hold |
upon the affections of the people be-
cause of his firm stand for williston
when it came to the provision for a
government building here. |
He has done more for Williston than /
any other man who has ever repre-
sented North Dakota in Washington,
hundred times more than Thomas
Marshall did in all the time that he /
was in congress. The government
will be a monument to the
nan who was TOLD that he could have I
.wo government buildings, possibly, I
put that maybe he could have only one,
and he made Wlliston his first choice
and secured 100000 for the Williston
Linton Record: The democratic
Fargo News recently had dirty fling \
about the Scandinavians of the state L
trying to elect Johnson governor be- |,
cause he is of that descent and a prot
estant. lis it not rather late in the I
worlds history for newspaper to at
.empt to help or hurt a candidate be-
cause of his religious beliefs? The
writer served in the legislature with |,
:. A. Johnson and knows him we'll
While he is a Presbyterian church.
member he is broad and liberal in his
views, and is the last person who would
wish to have man selected for official
position because of his religious be-
iefs. Mr.. Johnson is an American, too
y the best sense of the term-a term
hat may better apply to citizen of
'oreign birth who believes in our in
situations than to a native who does
rom such institutions Although of
extraction, you can't re-
1eat a word that he has ever spoken
'r a line that he has ever written, in
which Mr.. Johnson has sought to con-
rev information as to his extraction
which might enlist political support
or him because of the fact that the
ccident OF birth gives him descent
rom parents whose countrymen hap
zen to have settled in North Dakota
n large numbers. Mr.. Johnson Is a
rue and loyal American, and he is
lot pleading for support because of his
hurch or his blood descent.
Darlington Record: Is the criticism,
made by the newspapers over the state
f Governor Burke taking money out of
he state treasury contrary to the con-
titution justifiable?
The Record has been careful not to
Din in this contention until it had been
ally advised as to the exact situation. Y
We have taken considerable time In
boxing up this question. and have de- a
lded to put the matter before our t
eaders in the light as we see it.
House bill No. 10, of the laws of the
Ieventh legislative assembly provides &
v eection /, as follows: III
THAT governor shall receive the o
I'm of $500 for the purpose OF de-
aging his personal expenses, such -
mount to be payable monthly with i
ut the filing of any itemized state /
lent, provided that the provisions of t
lis section shall not apply to any gov /,
nor hereafter elected &
Section "a of the constitution Of our i
ate provides that the salary Of the +
1vernor shall not be increased or di- t
finished during the perod for which y
e, is elected, ard that all fees and h
rofits rising from his ONCE shall be Z
'yered in the state treasury. 4
The question at issue is; Is the pro-
sion Of house bill ITO above referred n
unconstitutional? RI 1t Is unconsti- Il
ltional, then the governor of our state u
taking money and using 1t Illegally. G
Tt will be observed that the eleventh q
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