The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-09-10
Press Comment

Grand Forks Herald: The Herald
has already expressed itself on the
stands for the ticket nominated by the
stands 70 rthe ticket nominated by the
republican voters of the state at the
primary election in June. The move
ment for. a third state ticket was in
splred by the personal spite of two or
three men against the republican can
didate for governor. These men may
have deluded and bamboozled many of
the other adherents of the new party,
and have succeeded in making a cats
paw of the estimable gentleman whom
they have induced to run for governor
on their ticket. What representations
may have been made to Roosevelt we
do not know but 1T Is pretty safe to say
that Roosevelts chances of carrying
North Dakota have been lessened so
per cent by the action taken at Far
go on Friday.
Devils Lake World: These are
troublous times, politically in North
Dakota, and nobody sees to have a
clearer idea of the fact than the mem
bers of the republican state central
committee at it's meeting in Bismarck
this week. After fighting out the ques-
ton of whether or not the state organ
ization should repudiate both Taft and
his platform, and finally settling it in
favor of Taft, the committee proceeded
to get on all sides of about every po-
litical question that has arisen or is
likely to arise during the campaign.
They condemned the old convention
system, affirmed their loyalty to the
fundamental principles of the republi-
can party; insisted on a revision of the
tariff schedules downward; declared for
the election of senators by direct vote
of the people; threw up their hats for
parcels post; declared for direct nomi-
nation of candidates for president and
vice president; favored the Kenyon
Shepard bill providing regulation for
interstate liquor shipments and did
several other things equally harmless.
The whole proceedings were in the
nature of a beautiful compromise. The
progressive wing progressed to it's
hearts content, n the s~tandpatters
stood pat, "four-square to every wind
that blew"
Seriously the committee did the only
thing it could do and did it tactfully
and with dispatch. There was no
earthly reason why men calling them
selves republicans, should go down to
Bismarck and split the party in this
state as it has already been split, ma
tionally. The republicans of North
Dakota have a first class state ticket,
made up of good men from top to bot
to. There was no reason why the
chances of this ticket should have been
jeopardized by an unseemly squabble
| among the members of the state cen
trail committee.
scott and call the resolution finally
promulgated a straddle, but how much
better have they done?
Their are indeed troublous times,
politically, and a half loaf is better
than no bread.
Grand Forks Herald: The platform
adopted by the Fargo convention is
one of the most remarkable documents
ever put orth by a political gathering.
It's first section is a reiteration of the
declarations of the national progress
live platform, and that follows very
| naturally the lines of that document.
It's peroration is a curious tumble of
m~isquoted poetry and misplaced argu-
ment such as might have been expected
| at the close of the campaign address of
an impassioned and not too discrimin-
! ating orator, but which, tackled onto
the tail end of a party platform, bears
the marks of hypocrisy or hysteria, or
both. Let the reader glance over those
| high-iown phrases and then size UP
Lauder and Rourke.