The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-09-18
Press Comment


Pembina Pioneer Express: The "bull
moose" crowd met at Fargo last week
and as might be expected made a "bull''
IN a man for governor who
mad lived in the state only three or
four years, when the constitution says
ina such candidates shall hav re-
Slded IN the state at least five years.
30 Dr. Creegan resigned and Mayor
sweet of Fargo was substituted by the
committee later. Except in two cases
there were no new nominations for
state officers. We had supposed that
Mayor Sweets political affiliations were
de~mocratic; but even SO, it is all the
same as a vote for Sweet will be equiv
alent to a vote for Hellstrom.
Mountaineer: The expected
has happened and the bull moose party
in this state has named a full ticket
that is, they have named the full
t1cket that was nominated by the re-
publfcans at the primaries with the
exception that they have named one
sweet OF Fargo for governor in place
Of Congressman Hanna. This means
that the soreheads are bound to defeat
Hanna even If by so doing the demo-
Gratis are given the go~vernorship. Mr..
Sweet may be all right. He may be
an honest, though mistaken, man. But
he is trotting in mighty questionable
company-consequently he is a can
didate whom it is Unsafe to elect.
w NASlN vi SOlOItl INOOS6NSlI 10 NOIIn
Dakota has had anything but a quiet
ing effect upon on the political situa-
ttons but he has apparently been sue
cessful in his object, which is to defeat
the republican ticket. In his egotism
he may believe that he can be elected
president of the United States-but no
one else has any such hopes. He
has apparently gone insane on the
matter of his personal Importance to
the country and is ready to sacrifice
his friends to gain a little import
ance or prominence. Way back he was
heralded as an unsafe man. The Amer
lean people refused to listen to the
rumor and elected him first to the
vice presidency and then president.
During his term as president the re-
mainder of the Mckinley term, he
was both safe and sane, but when
he was elected president he began
to think the people could not do with
out him, and he has since made him
self ridiculous and the nation along
with him. The people are tired of the
Roosevelt-Taft buffonery and will not
stand for it any longer.
Cooperstown Courier: The third
party convention at Fargo last Friday
nominated DIR. C. C. Cregan, president
of Fargo college, as it's candidate for
the governorship, and in so doing the
convention named one of the finest
men in the northwest, as well as one
of the best equipped for the position.
IIio wac dbOuL Tie OIAJ ICdl SOOu
thing the convention did at Fargo.
1T deliberately urned o and en-
dorsed every candidate nominated at
the primaries in June, including that
arch traitor, Andrew Miller, late of
Garner, Ia, The argument was put
forth at Fargo that 1T was necessary
to nominate a state ticket in order
for the third party to poll a 5 per
cent vote of the state In order to get
a place on the ticket at the election
two years hence. This is strictly all
| right, but The Courier cannot see why
the third party could not just as well
endorse Mr.. Hanna as the rest of the
republican ticket and thus have placed
the party in shape to poll the S per
cent. The whole business to our mo-
for governor is concerned, because 1T
shows that the third party leaders,
or a few of them, merely wanted to
get Mr.. Hanna's scalp.
Mandan News: Political history
was made Just a little faster than
when Governor Burke made senatorial
toga for Thompson and Purcell in 1910
this week when DR.. Creegan, president
of Fargo college, accepted the bull
moose nomination for governor on last
Friday and after being the nominee
until Monday he was found to be in
eligible and Mayor Sweet of Fargo
was made his successor. This has the
minority party, indicating haphazard
management and a serious blunder for
a beginning.
Creegan had no political record in
North Dakota or any other place, but