The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-09-13
Press Comment

Lewis Lake "OTlQ. Inc action OF
the progressive party at Fargo last
Friday, when Or. c. c. Creegan of Far
go college, was nominated FOR govern
or and ther rest of the republican ticket
endorsed, has cleared the political at
mosphere considerably and~made plain
TO even those who take no particular
interest in politics, the game the lead
eTs of the third party in this state are
playing.
Despite the fact that the same voters
VINO assisted in nominating the balance
or n ticket nominated Hon. l.. b.
Hanna as the republican candidate for
governor, and despite the fact that the
self-constituted leaders of the third
party have heretofore been strong for
party regularity, the action of the con-
Ventlon at Fargo has made 1t clear that
these selfsame leaders desire. not the
success of the third party but the de-
feat of Hanna,
In their haste to relegate him to no.
lltical oblivion they have apparently
the head front of the Roosevelt
movement in this state, and that to
the activity of Mr.. Hanna and a few
others, Roosevelt's candidacy was
mage a possibility; They have over
no more the nominee of the republican
party than were the balance of the
men who go to make up the republican
state ticket.
= iC EXDSISOIHGl or M
men who presume to lead the progress
siyes in this state is such that their
action is not going to carry a great
zeal OF weight or cut a very great
in November. Most of them have been
on every side Of every IMPORTANT
question which has come up in the
last twenty years, and always on the
side which promised them the great
est political or financial advantage.
They have betrayed their friends with
out compunction, turned suuarely
about in their political beliefs. Some
OF them have been democrats (presum-
ably for revenue only in times gone
by. IT a party label amounts to any
thing, then 1t is worth standing by. If
common honesty and decency amounts
to anything, then these men certainly
have cause to blush.
By their action last Friday, these
progressive leaders t?)% have not only
taken themselves outside the republi-
can party but also outside all tradi-
lions OF fairness and courtesy.
The World was probably the first,
certainly one of the first, papers to
advocate Colonel Roosevelt's candidacy
for the presidency in this state. We
feel that this paper and the voters
which it represents are as progressive
as any newspaper and any body of
men to be found anywhere. But it will
be a party to no such game as the
progressive leaders propose to play.
They say that they have taken them
selves outside the republican party.
IL this is true, we would ask them why
was not a complete state ticket placed
in the field? The men whom they en-
dorsed are no less republicans than is
Hanna. Why did they not start the
fight all along the lne2
l.. b. Hanna made the same fight for
the nomination that was made by the
rest of the republican nominees, no
more, no less. He won a splendid vic
tory against tremendous odds, and he
is entitled to n should receive the
vote of every man who believes in re-
i've form of government.
The progressiveS lave declared war
not particularly on the republican
party of North Dakota, but rather or
L.. B.. Hanna personally.
The World elects to support Mr..
Hanna In this campaign. He is clearly
entitled to such support, If for nc 9th
err reason than that he has incurred
renegades and turncoats as go to make
up the first line of battle of the pro-
gressive party In his state.
They have declared war and we for
one p to see that they get what
Is popularity known as a "bellyful."
warwick Sentinel: 1t makes the
democratic press feel real sore to see
so many enthusiastic and favorable
comments relative to the republican
party's nominee, Louis B. Hanna, 1t
appears that as election approaches l..
b. Hanna is gaining material strength
in the ranks of both parties. Mr.. Han
ma will have the solid support OF the
republicans at the November election
and his majority Will easily exceed
10, 600 votes: this in fact an estimate
al a large figure taking all into con-
s~ideration. There is no room for a
shadow OF a doubt but that the repub-
lican party will be successful at the
next general election in electing a gov
| ernor. Owing to the fact that the
democrats with the assistance Of the
republicanS) have been successful In
| eIecting Johnnie Burke for the past
six years, the opinion prevalent among
| the democrats is to the effect that they
can do the grand old party
every crack out of the ballot
| eliminated, time will soon tell.
If the republican party would have had