The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-10-19


Senator Hansbrough in The Devils
Lake Inter- Ocean: Here are two ques
tions that the Independent voter would
do well not to answer too hastily:
Am / republican or am / a demo-
craft" If he is so ultra independent
not to be either of these, then before
casting his ballot he should question
himself further, thus: What do the
two parties stand for and what is the
issue in this campaign"
A great many people have been say
ing that there is no difference between
the two parties. Amidst so much con-
fusion in political opinion there would
tseem to be some ground for this as
sertion. Yet, in truth, the difference
between them has never been quite SO
great as now. The republican party is
all for progress. 1t is moving rapidly
forward to better things. This is in
harmony with the age. Now and then
it does not appear to advance with as
great rapidity as a considerable num-
Der of it's adherents think it should;
and again, there are those who believe
that at times it goes forward too rap.
| idly. Still to use colloquial expers-
sion, 'it gets there just the same" In
a word the republican party is pro-
gressive; 1t has always been so. A
great popular demand for progress
brought it into existence It is such
a demand that is causing the people
60 turn hopefully to it now
To what else could they turn, we ask.
with the least possible prospect that
their appeal would be effectually an
swered? To the democratic party ?
! Certainly not To the socialist party
Not at all; socialism, although it had
| its inception as early as the time of
Plato, is not yet ripe for the purpose
of government. A century or perhaps
| two centuries hence socialism, with
some modification, may become prac-
tically useful as an instrument of po-
litical control.
And why are not the people turning
to the democratic party? Because the
democratic party is not one of pro-
gress; it never has been. 1t moves not
| forward; it never will-except as a
mischief making concern, an institu-
ton of disruption and discord.
! We repeat, the democratic party
never goes forward with the march of
progress Today it stands for the
same old policy Of "a tariff for rev.
enue only that it stood for fifty years
| ago. Today, 1t is the same party of
state rights that it was before the Civil
war Today, it is the party of mac
ton, of spells, as it has always been.
| 1t hasn't moved UP a peg in respect OF
either of its traditional doctrines.
True, its leader in this state, who
was twice elected by the aid of re-
publicans, is not saying much Of any,
thing about a revenue tariff or about
state rights, for that would arouse the
old-time republican spirit against him
But, in this connection, the old-time
republican spirit is already aroused
Republicans are waking up They see
| that they have been used--quite a few
of them-to put the democratic party
into power, and that Governor Burke
under the guise Of securing good gov
eminent, conservation, and the like
has been playing democratic politics
all the while, and that he is not above
profiting politically by Tammany Hal
methods Republicans all over the
state have come to realize the demo-
cratic purpose. and have resolved no.
to be humbugged any further.
Having brought about readjust-
ment of their own party affairs the re.
publicans of North Dakota are coming
together, as Taft and Roosevelt came
together in the New York contest, fol
the party's good, Indeed, there is nov
every indication OF the restoration oil
party harmony and of party fealty 81
along the republican line, and this
means republican victory in Novem-
Der.
/ 1t is this that is worrying our demo
Icratic friends, who can no longer sue
cessfully appeal to the passions thai
sometimes break out in the republican
ranks When the democratic party II
denied the sweet privilege of disrupt.
ing something and OF damning every
| thing else II is out of a lob