The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-06-05
Ed COLE SLIPPED
LID OFF IN SPEECH
DID NOT KNOW THAT RooF-GAR-
DEN MEETING WAS NOT PRI-
vATE AND ADMITTED THAT
BURKE BOOM FOR PRESIDENCY
WAS MERELY A BLUFF.

i Minneapolis Journal: The North
Dakota democrats showed that they
were real Give ones" when they lured
all the assembled democrats from the
lobby of the Saint Paul hotel to the
roof garden for an informal meeting"
| where they proceeded to touch off the
boom for John Burke for president
4 late yesterday. They insisted that
they were not trying to force any
candidacy, only to bring Burke's name
before the democrats Of the north
west for consideration
The purpose of the Burke boom was
well understood by the hundred or
more who gathered on the hotel roof,
but no one went as far as Ed Cole of
Fargo. He said that Governor Burke,s
friends have no idea Of nominating
him for president, but they think the
northwest can get recognition for once
by going to the national convention
united for Burke and with such a
showing land him In a high place at
Washington" Mr.. Cole made this
statement with an idea that it was a
private meeting, and his taking the
lid off was not relished by some Of
Immediately after he spoke. The
Burke men really think there is
good chance of nominating the North
Dakota governor for vice president.
d. III. Macarthur Of Fargo, chairman
of the North Dakota state committee.
who is credited with the original idea
Of making the dinner a northwestern
affair. got UP the roof garden meeting.
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T. ID. Casey Of Grafton. J. e. Kelly OF
Flandreau, s. D., was made chairman
and he called on a long list OF speak
ers, the meeting lasting for an hour
and a half. w. e. Purcell of Wahpe-
ton, the former senator, was called on
first, and after a little talk about the
record of the democrats in congress,
he opened up on presidential candi-
dates. Applause marked the mention
of each.
YelIs for Favorite Son.
"There are many men available for
the nomination" said former Senator
Purcell. land any one of them is en-
titled to the support of the united |
party. Nebraska has her great and
matchless leader, whose policies, once
ridiculed, have been adopted and car. |
ried out by his opponents. Ohio has
another son, a man we'll qualified TO |
lead the party. New Jersey has an |
other, man Of the people fitted to |
lead. Indiana presents her gallant |
son, and Missouri has two or three |
who might be chosen. But we, coming |
from the fertile prairies of North Da-
kota, have in our midst son Of our |
state, man of the people, and when |
you assemble in the next national |
convention, we do not want you to |
forget the name of John Burke"
There were yells for Bryan's name. |
faint clapping FOR Harmon, round
of applause for Wilson, not much for
Champ Clark and Folk, but the North
Dakota boomers got genuinely noisy
for Burke.
4 Senator S. d. Works of Mankato
gave a welcome from Minnesota and
referred to the late John A. Johnson
as the man who would have been nem-
mated IL he had lived. George Il.
Duis Of Grand Forks said that John
Burke, a winner three times, in a
republican state, is OF presidential
size. d. d. Murphy of Elkader, Iowa,
said some good things for the Iowa
democracy and then complimented
Burke as an Iowa man, and classmate
of Judge Martin ]. Wade In the Iowa
university law school. He held out
prospects for democratic victory, and
said that President Taft, without in
tending 1t. has opened the eyes of the
people on the tariff question. James
Carley of Plainview, Mimi, said the
farmers are going democratic and the
result is certain IL the cities stand
firm.
Orator Turns Loose.
George p. Jones once famous in
Minnesota as Zones Of Rock" but
now of Edgeley, N. D., and doomed
as the democratic candidate for gov
ernor to succeed John Burke, made
one of his spellbinder talks, and
wound UP with a tribute to Burke.
saying that his greatest asset Is plain
justice and common honesty" and |
that ''his heart beats in harmony with |
the song of the harvester and mower,
with the machinery Of the factory and |
the woodsman's ak"
Tobias ID. Casey of Grafton, N. D., |
said that, though he was the only |
democrat In the North Dakota legis-
lature in 1905, in the next year the |
democrats elected a governor and |
since have repeated. Had John A. |
Johnson lived, North Dakota DEM
ocrats would have been for him. Now |
they put forward John Burke. also
elected three times in a strong re-
publican state. James Doyle OF Car |
rington, M. d., and f. o. Hellstrom. |
warden of the state prison at Bis
marck, joined In the chorus and Mr.. |
Hellstron made quite a denunciatory /
speech leveled at the courts for the |
Minnesota rate decision and the |
STANDARD Oil case.
Charles @. Heifner OF Seattle, the
Washington representative, talked on
the Alaska situation, condemning the
Taft administration for the Ballinger
course on the Cunningham claims and |
for failing to decide the pending coal /
claims. This delay, he said, ID shut
ting out little men who have filed and
who can neither get their claims or
their money, and Is playing into the |
hands of the Guggenheins.
Ed Cole of Fargo was the last
speaker, and he cut loose as already |
described He declared that this is an /
age OF commercialism and ii il proper
in politics to go to a convention with
something and ask for something. II
the northwest goes united for Burke
1t can land him In a high place In the
next administration at Washington.
The meeting broke up ait this point
with an announcement that national
committeeman and chairmen Of state
committees we're requested to meet III
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