The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-02-19
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Ellendale Leaders Petitions were
circulated and received a good many
signatures the past week requesting
that Theodore Roosevelt be placed
upon the ticket for the primary elec-
ton In March as q candidate for the
presidency. Mr.. Roosevelt has said
many times since he left the White
House that he would not be a candi-
date, but there seems to be a sponta-
neous combustion going on to make
him a candidate against his will. Many
think he win accept a nomination il
forced upon him. That is the way it
looks In North Dakota. In some other
states there is the same kind of a sem
timent and 1t seems to spring from the
same source or the same incentive as
here. Down in one Of the southern
states the other day Roosevelt men
bolted the republican convention and
the Taft men stayed with the regular
organization and elected delegates so
there viii be a contesting delegation
from that state. Report comes that
LaFoilette viii give up the fight and
the next day the announcement that
ne will stay in the game until the fin
ish. One a hardly believe what the
newspapers say regarding the presi-
DENTAL candidates on account Of the
many conflicting rumors. we predict
that LaFollette will not be running
when n time comes; that the Roose-
velt boom will fall fiat before the pri-
mary election and that President Taft
VIII win out in the convention, easy
and that his election is a dead sure
proposition. The country cannot af-
ford to do anything else but elect q
republican president and that a
William Howard Taft, of Ohio.
Cooperstown Courier: Two Years
ago when Governor Burke was
running for a third term big
posters were gotten out by the
state committee plcturing the govern
or as a presidential candidate and calf
ing upon the voters to elect him for
the prestige it would give the state and
the governor. The people bit nicely
and the democrats won out and they
have been laughing ever since over the
way they slipped over ON the re-
publicans. At a recent democratic
Inner at Fargo the democrats went on
record as favoring Governor Burke for
the presidential nomination, and the
bosom of the governor rose and fell
with delight as he listened to the ex-
presions of loyalty to his cause from
the lips of his Office holders and fellow
democrats and since which times his
dreams have been filled with visions of
sitting in the upholstered chair now
being held down by one William How
ard Taft. But the good resolutions
adopted at that big feed are like the
ordinary new year resolutions many
people adopt at the beginning of the
new year-they are soon forgotten and
now those same var friends and Of
nee holders in the democrat ranks are
vieing with each other in seeing how
deep they can bury the hatchet in our
worthy governors back-they are all
loudly shouting for Woodrow Wilson
and the same newspapers that worked
over time to get Governor Burke before
the people as a candidate for president
are now putting in great ticks working
for Mr., Wilson. Such is and always
has been the consistency of democracy.
Governor Burke has served his state
Well and has been faithful to the DEM
ocrats. He has built up a wondrous
machine which he will leave as a her.
itage for four years to his successor
and he Is to be crucihed on the altar
of political greed and ambition by a
hungry bowling mob who want office
more than they do principle so they
are crying cruelty him, cruelty him,
the king is dead, long live the king
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tribe of Wilson.