The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-05-27

Washburn Leader: 1t is a significant
fact that since the meetings in Grand
Forks and Valley City, which insurgent
| gatherings, dominated by one or two
self constituted leaders, resulted in the
famous eliminating" committee and
the complete reputation and disregard
or either. the letter or spirit of the pri-
mary law, Hon. T. F. Marshall has not
been much in evidence on the rostrum.
He has not appeared before very many
audiences and therefore has not exer-
cised either the pleasure or audacity
of telling the people just why they
are especially indebted to either HIM
self or his running mate, Mr. Gronna.
he of mammal fame who has made
such mess OF il in recommending
and sustaining incompetent and un-
welcome postmasters.
True the memory OF man is short
but friends and advocates of fair play
remember very well the misrepresenta-
lions made by Mr.. Marshall in the last
campaign. They remember well the
cruel and unfair treatment of Hon,
Fl. c. Hansbrough who had so long
and so creditably represented North
Dakota in both houses of congress.
While the senior senator was lying al
most at deaths door, following critical
surgical operations, Mr.. Marshall, then
member of congress, with aspirations
for the senate, by fair means or foul
fairly dubbed with glee as he went
about the state sowing poison, herald
ing the suddenly acquired riches of
Senator Hansbrough-how he related
with great emphasis his actual knowl-
edge of the fact, coupled with the init
nation of possible-probable-
sources from whence this wealth came.
And this at a time when Mr.. Hans
brough was laid up in the hospital,
lingering between life and death, with
out funds, save the measly stipend of
a United States senator and a few dol
lars advanced by loyal personal friends
who knew t he real facts and wished to
save him the modification of sacrific-
ing a little property at his Devils Lake
home.
And thus was Senator Hansbrough
injured. Many people believed Mr.
Marshall. They thought he knew what
he was talking about when he declared
that he knew the senator had couple
of hundred thousand cashed away in
a safe place in washington knew
pretty we'll how and where he got it
and where he had it, 1t is an old and
trite saying that chickens come home
to roost." While these misrepresenta-
tons injured Hansbrough, they avail
ed Marshall nothing. He got his later
on at the election. But even this les
son-this manifestation of a power
that Furnishes the guilty and the de-
ceitful-seems to have had little effect
upon the gentleman from Dickey-the
beneficiary of a monumental political
crime at the Grand Forks convention
that SO unceremoniously and unjustly |
retired Hon. B. F. Spaulding from con-
gress-for is he not just now. under
conditions quite similar resorting to |
the same tactics? Senator McCumber |
is lying in hospital in Washington, |
brought to the verge of the great be- |
yond by the surgeons knife but saved |
thus far by the skill of medical science. |
But these men-these very recent but |
very blatant and ambitious converts to |
much misjudge the tenn
per of the people of North Dakota. |
Now will be good time for Mr.. Mar /
shall to get out and stand on his rec
ord. A proper occasion to let little |
insight into the means and operations /
Of those who have accumulated wealth, /
in banking or corner and i'm
side track on fat government survey |
contracts extending over a long period /
Of years. A proper time for him to do |
q little explaining himself as well as
others
No, Banker Marshall, while repudi-
ating trifiing obligations incurred by
publication of his political
announcements here and there, cannot
make successful Roadway in reputing
Ill gotten wealth any dishonest dis
and corrupt motives to others,
and surely he cannot claim superiority
IN attributes of gentility, craftsmanship,
ability. fair play or loyalty to state
and good government.
RI. c. Hansbrough is making grimaces
at the flourish of trumpets of the Mar
shall Gronna bombast, when he says:
Nothing that has happened. how
ever could drive me to the desperate
end of being anything but a republic
can. Measures are bigger than men,
and principles greater than politics,
and regret the condition Of chaos and
discord that now prevails among the
factions. You will pardon my egot-
Ism when ! say that no one knows bet
ter than what 1t all menas. It is
simply a scramble for pace and pow
Or, and If 1t were possible for me to
impress my Views upon the self con-
and ambitious leaders whol