The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-06-17
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comes a candidate for party confidence
and asks support because of his pres
ent alliance, the people have a perfect
right to measure both his sincerity
and his reliability by his record, ano
because that record is OF Its own De
| Lucrative making he can not complain
if the facts are against him.
Judge Lauder is a candidate for the
republican nomination for congress-
He is on the insurgent ticket which
is headed by Thomas Marshall as q
candidate for United States senator.
| Two years ago Mr.. Marshall was q
candidate for the same office, and on
December 10, 1907, shortly after the
conference in the city at which a slate
was prepared by insurgents. Judge
Lauder published an open letter, in
which. he made the following state
ment concerning Mr.. Marshall: =
said that the conference (the one
held in This city, had been packed In
Mr.. Marshall's interest, and told the
truth. l had been a supporter OF the
Good Government league from the
time of its organization and l wished
to see it succeed in the good work in
WulCu IL was OuEd6OOS KIN l ASoAoS~~
the coarse attempt of a mere machine
politician" by the lavish use of money
to obtain control of the organization
and use it to promote his W selfish
ends.
Mr.. MARSHALL has never been In
sympathy with the work of the Good
Government league. On the contrary,
no man in the state has abused it's
members more p~ersistently than he.
For a Year past he has been working
industriously to induce the Estate ma
chine to take him up as a candidate
for senator, and he turned to the Good
Government league only after it had
been made plain to him that the ma
chine would not support him, but had
another candidate.
Quite like Mr.. Marshall could see
nothing inconsistent or homogeneous in
a ma of his type and record asking
for an endorsement for senator at the
hands of the Good Government league.
He has been so in the habit of pur-
suing mere machine methods" in po-
litical affairs that apparently he has
no conception of the real purpose for
which the Good Government league
was organized.
Political principles or ques-
tions of right and wrong in politics
apparently never enter into his cal
culations.
With Mr.. Marshall the inquiry u.s.
ua1ly is: Can it be done and how much
will it cost? When he has succeeded
in gathering a crowd of followers at
Grand Forks and obtained from them
in the name of the Good Government
league the endorsement for senator, he
no doubt fattered himself that he had
done something for which he might
justly be proud. The immortality of
the whole proceeding apparently never
entered his mind. And v en now he
a not understand why decent, right
thinking men everywhere should be
disguised with the spectacle.
Such was the opinion of Judge Lau-
der concerning Mr.. Marshall less than
three years ago. Such was the opin-
ion of him published to the world. The
Good Government league was the style
under which the insurgents we're then
acting. If Mr.. Marshall had such low
conception of it's purpose at that time,
is he worthy of the support of the
honest men in that faction today? II
Judge Lauder believed him to be the
political degenerate he then said he
was, can Judge Lauder support him
now without making himself an acces-
sorry after the fact? If he was the
man Judge Lauder painted him three
years ago, is not Lauder asking the
people to support an unworthy man ?
If Judge Lauder merely said what he
did to blacken the charcter of Mr..
Marshall and defeat him for office, is
he worthy of the confidence of men
who believe in honesty and a square
deal in politics? Could such a man be
trusted in a public position? Is not
the mere fact that he said those things
three years ago and now lauds Mr..
Marshall as an ideal candidate, proof
that Judge Lauder deliberately stated
a falsehood n time or the other?
Is this the kind of man North Dakota
republicans want to send to congress?