The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-08-19
Press Comment

Steele Ozone: Senator Gronna saws
ne viii stand by the national party
nominee, and that If he were to line up
with the R~oosevelters he should feel it
nus DUTY to resign his senatorship. He
Viii come to the state TO work for
Iaft and the ticket. Mr.. Gronna is
consistent and straightforward, AS a
simple citizen he would have ali the
right In the world to support any can
dldate II he did not like the Chicago
result, but under the circumstances ne
Is taking the true course.
Fargo Blade: Some day the people
or Fargo will awake to A reaIIzinp
sense Of the fact that they have had
more than their moneys worth from
the local daily press. The papers have
given the patrons more than they have
PAID for. While 1t may be admitted
that IN some degree, there has been
management that has not been high
class, the record. as a whole stands in
taVor or the newspaper and against the
adVertlsing public. The revenue from
auVertisinE has not been on a par with
the expense of placing the news be-
fore the readers. Fargo has ba5 roc
many sixteen and twenty-page ma
pers, The average newspaper man is
Optimistic, and inclined to bank on the
ruture"-and about all ne gets is a
pat on the back and an assurance that
ne is building up a great business"
The Blade is not in the daily newspa-
per game but If 1t was It would cut
Lne garment according to the CLOTH"
Keep expenses down and give the peo-
pie as much newspaper as they paid
Tor, It's a business propositions same
as selling dress goods, sugar or shoes.
Forman. Independent: The former
friends Of Theo. Roosevelt in this
state did not enjoy reading the ac-
counts of the antics cut by Judge Lau-
der ana Pat Rourke at the third party
convention at Fargo recently. There
were many genuinely enthusiastic
friends of Colonel Roosevelt at said
convention who are also devoted
friends OF L. B. Hanna, republican
candidate for governor. These Messrs.
Lauder q Rourke Immediately refused
to recognize, and the cause for which
the convention was called got enveI-
oped by a wet blanket, so to sneak.
or course, Colonel Roosevelt was not
TO plane in any way, but any effort
MADE to put a third party in the field
just because two or three men have a
grouch-means that most Of those who
voted for Roosevelt in the March pri-
maries, will be necessarily forced to
support a straight republican ticket,
from president down, this fail. Real
republicans n real democrats die
hard anyhow, and this is not a jest.
Towner News-Tribune: Senator
Gronna has laid aside all differences
va AAS AOPh1AtSdlI party ana WIFI SUD-
port the straight ticket this fall. He
arrived the first of the week from
washington and will AXE an active
part in the republican campaign. 9th
er progressiVes In congress are being.
urged to support the progressive party
ticket, but several have good reasons
for not leaving the republican party,
The outcome of the test Of strength
between Tart and Roosevelt among
our statesmen at Washington will be
eagerly watched.
Mandan Pioneer: Senator Gronna
has come out openly for the regular re-
publican ticket headed by President
sition taken by LaFollette, Borah and
Kenyon, who, it is understood, will not
ally themselves with the so-called pro-
gressive party headed by Colonel
The situation existing in North Da-
kota is certainly interesting. Presi-
dent Roosevelt's followers are for the
most part represented by a wing Of the
progressives who last March were rid
lculing the former presidents presi-
Dental aspirations and declaring that
LaFollette was the only Simon pure
progressive. Because of the fact that
attended the Grand Forks convention
were not allied with the progressive
wing of the party the Roosevelt move
was characterized as an effort to
IlS SLdL0 10 1dII. InGSe same
men who In March were so ~cantanker-
u In their denunciations of Roosevelt,
his followers, nave had a change OF
heart and are shouting for Roosevelt
and the third party. Being deserted
by LaFollette n Gronna, their pre-
dfcament is amusing, to say the least.
OF those who were foremost in the
Grand Forks convention quite a few
viii be found still supporting Roose-
welt, while others, for the sake of
party regularity, are standing by the
regular ticket and platform. The ma
Jortty OF republicans were for Roose-
welt in March n up to the time of the
national convention felt that he was
the one who could bring together the
discordant elements in the party.
Roosevelt has demonstrated that he ID
a poor ~harmonizer, though his popular
| ity has enable him to do what perhaps
no other unsuccessful candidate could
have done--that is-the Organization
of a powerful new party with he him
self as its central figure.
We are promised a strong campaigp
through the state by Roosevelt himself
and his. running mate, Governor John
son; the Taft forces will fight their
ground, and the democrats hopeful 81
| profting by the breach in the republf-
can party, will not leave a stone I'm.
turned In heir effort TO capture the
state; surely an interesting bill for the
fall season.
What we need b is a crusade
among mosquitoes for safe and sane
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