The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-09-14

government or improved political con-
ditions but rather a working out of an
old political grudge and an effort on
the part of political tricksters to gain
control of the state government. DIR.
Creegan was being used as a tool and
he is to be congratulated that he found
1t out before 1T had impaired his USE
fulness as the head Of one of the
states greatest educational institu-
tions,
Nome Tribune: If the few knockers
that are opposing Congressman Hanna
for governor would take time to see
how little their a~ntagonism will
amount to, they would drop their pres
ent tactics and get their dollhouse
frost.
Grafton Record: The progressive
party which has been created by the
followers of Colonel Roosevelt met in
convention at Fargo last Friday and
after adopting a platform and listening
to a speech by the colonel nominated
a state ticket. That is, the delegates
endorsed the nominees of the republic
can party with the exception of gov
that position DIR. c. c. CreeEan, presi-
dent of Fargo college. On Monday DIR,
Creegan found himself unqualified for
the place because of a lack of residences
III NAAO Sk"NS Ill 4 z w IG
utive committee of the party then nom
mated w. d. Sweet, mayor of Fargo,
to fill h vacancy. There are a few
in the front rank of the new party
who desire to accomplish the defeat of
Congressman IN and this nomina-
ton of a candidate. against him is
largely the result of spite. We are
much mistaken III the innate fairness
in the public mind does not see that
Mr.. Hanna's majority is most substan-
tiaI as a rebuke to the men who have
been scheming to get a third candidate
In the field.
The Milwaukee Free Press publishes
the following editorial concerning the
giving away of newspaper space, and
1t just about comedies with the sftua-
ton In a good many towns and cities
besides Milwaukee. The Free Press
says:
Advertising publicity is what a
newspaper has to sell. 1t is ais much
a commodity marked with a price as
the wares in a dry goods store, Yet
of asking a merchant to give them so
much as a necktie have no conpuhc-
ton in asking that an advertisement be
given them by a newspaper. The
heads that every inch of space so giv-
en-, in addition to providing them with
the most valuable kind of service, &C.
tually costs the newspapers in editor
ldI tdbOIp ~ C0l4lpOEllA0ug III IlGIdls III
ink, in stereotyping, in printing, etc,
q very definite sum of money.
The Free Press, like every other
Milwaukee paper, is liberal in giving,
It's space to further the cause of phil
anthropic, public and other institu-
tons, enterprises and causes where
the object is non-commercial and con
ducive to the public welfare.
In return 1T expects only appreciation
appreciation of the fact that the
press is giving its most costly COM
modify, a service so valuable that the
heneiciaries could not afford to buy it
and without which their institution,
enterprise or cause could not exist, n
service which Is always made at a sac
actual expense
1t expects recognition of the fact
that while halls, theatres and other
public places, bill posters and all the
other service enlisted In these causes
demand compensation with but few ex-
c~eptions, 1t is the newspaper that gives