Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-08

governor received 20,591 votes; Blu.
chairman 1906; Aaker 1880; Wilson
6,OO4, and Stimmel 1885, making a
total Of 56,376 voters who participant.
ed in the republican primary. The
democratic candidate received in that
less than fifteen per cent OF the vote
cast by the two parties. Mr.. Johnson
received more than thirty.one per
cent of he same total, or more
than twice the per centage Of the
of the democratic candidates. Three
candidates in the primary received
more votes than the democrat and
yet he is making his campaign on the
grounds that his choice represents a
popular upheaval
Such a contention is reflection
upon the political honesty and intel
ligence not only of the twenty thous.
and voters who voted for C. A. John
son, but likewise upon the thirty
thousand others who voted for other
candidates and who like honest men
are ready to accept majority rule.
Had Mr.. Aaker or Mr.. buchanan
been the Republican choice, the DEM
ocratic candidate would have made
the same contention. Thus the the
ory that republicans should vote for
the democratic candidate because he
is the popular choice, when subjected
to analysis, fades into thin air. Gov.
ernor Burke has been the beneficiary
of discussions in the republican ranks,
not because the people loved him but
because he was their opportunity.
Now look at the record of the dem
ocratic candidate on the public ques-
tons which touch the pocket books
of the people of this state. He is a
democrat. Grover Cleveland was the
democratic candidate for president in
1892. He was a believer in free trade
and sent the only message to congress
devoted entirely to that subject. Gov
ernor Burke as democrat talked and
voted for his election as well as the
democratic congress which came into
power with Mr.. Cleveland. Not only
did he do this as citizen but he was
a member of the senate which cOnVen-
ed in January, 1898, and that legis.
lature elected Roach to the United
States senate, and when the notorious
Wilson bill was passed by the senate,
it had one majority Roach voting for
it. Under that tariff bill North Da.
kota farmers sold wheat for fifty
cents bushel and the present demo
ratio candidate for governor helped
to force it on the nation.
When the duty of selecting a Unit
ed States senator rested upon him
two years ago, the governor did not
seek out a man who stood for dollar
wheat to place in the position where
he would vote upon that question, but
took rather fellow democrat who
had, like himself, in his private ca
pacty, talked and voted for the party
which believed in and put upon the
statute books the fifty cent wheat
law.
Do the farmers want a return to
fifty cent wheat? Once before one
vote in the senate and that one from
North Dakota, permitted the passage
of such a law. Within the last two
years the democratic candidate has
appointed member of the seate. The
wisdom of omnipotence is such that
this power may again come to the !
governor who is elected next month.
Do the farmers want man who has |
worked and voted for fifty cent wheat :,
or one who stands for exactly the re- !,
verse to make that appointment?
That is a living issue in the present !
fight. 1t is based not on more essen !
tial to the welfare and prosperity of
the people of the state than the hero
and popular idol theory upon which
the democratic candidate seeks to
win.
Editor Streeter OF the Linton Rec