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

Drake News: Dorr H. Carroll, chief
advisor for the bull moosers' in North
Dakota, has nominated Martin Jacob
son of Minot to oppose w. c. Gilbreath
Tor the office of commissioner of agri-
culture. 1t is evident that Committee
man Carroll has some personal grieve-
ance against Gtlbreath TN will attempt
20 get revenge, regardless Of the fact
that Mr.. Gtlbreath was the choice of
the people at the primaries, by trotting
out Jacobson.
When Carroll owned The Minot Daily
Reporter, he was one of the loudest
MOWERS for clean politics and fair play,
which meant that he was opposed to
having a half dozen men control either
factton of the republican party, but
when the bull moOsers organized he
saw a chance to be what he opposed so
st~renuously "a boss) inc no urging was
required to get him to cop off the Job.
It's hardly probable that the voters
Will turn Mr.. Gilbreath down at the be-
9est OF Mr.. Carroll: Mr.. Gilbreath has
done some splendid work in advertis-
ing the state through the North Dakota
magazine, which he has issued monthly
Tor several years, He was one of the
promoters Of the North Dakota Indus
trial Exposition, now an annual event,
where the products of the state are ad-
mired by thousands of outsiders, with
the result that many new settlers were
brought to the state through this sys-
tenn or advertising. It's hard to get
a more capable man for the office, so
let's re-elect Mr.. Gilbreath.
Edinburg Tribune: That third state
ticket was a find and no mistake. Here
IS Mayor Sweet. What a pitiable fail
ure to arouse interest. His candidacy
is about as much of a joke as Dennie
Hannihn's. He stands no more chance
OF election in November than The Trib-
une editor does of landing a job in
President Taft's cabinet. Why doesn't
he go back to Fargo, where he belongs,
10 devise another means to rid the city
OF that terrible burden, the contingent
fund
Maddox Standard: Doesn't it seem
like base ingratitude to the republican
democrats, who three times in success
sion have elected John Burke governor,
Tor him now to come out and say that
President Taft's record is after all a
creditable one?
Boston, Daily Advertiser: Mr.. Taft
has again shown his ability to avoid
extremes and to keep to the middle OF
the road; this time on the suffrage
question. He has expressed himself
upon 1T and declared that 1T is a ques-
ton which each state must decide for
itself. This is probably too constitu-
tlonal Tor some reformers and for the
wilder variety of suffrage advocates
who demand that the privilege Of the
ballot be given to women by some
authority, no matter whether 1t is the
authority which has Jurisdiction over
the question or not. The president has
also declared that women are as cap
able, in his belief, of a wise use of the
ballot as are men. There is not very
much to be added, upon the suffrage
question, to what Mr.. Taft has said.
he Will probably be attacked for his
u~tterances by people or 10Th sides, but
his stand is reasonable and 1t is clear.
Springfield Union: The great west is
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ty n sober-minded judgment as the
November election draws near. The
Taft cause is steadily gaining ground,
and it's strength will increase every
be remembered, two vests. There is
the radical, emotional, populistic west
that gave us Simpson, PETER and others
of the same school, and which became
fired with the ~greenback and free silver
crazes, and there is that sound, prudent,
sober-thinking west that in the times
of stress and doubt comes up quickly
vet nightly and upholds the laws of
economy and the constitutional princi-
pies of the fathers.
Springfield Republican: President
Taft undeniably touches one of the
danger spots in the Roosevelt ~proposa
for the supervision and control of the
trusts by a federal commission in say
ing: 1T would create the most mon
strous monopoly of power in the history
of the world-a power as much greater,
as much more a~utocratic, than that OF
a Caesar or a Napoleon, as the business
interests of the twentieth century are
greater, more dominant and far-reach-
ing than were those of 1000 or 100
years ago. An u~nprincipled man with
such power in his grasp could perpetu-
ate his authority, perhaps under legitt-
mate forms, and become a dictator un-
til his hold could be shaken only by
revolution" An unprfncIpIed, ambt.
tious man as ruler could certainly find
the business of the country an unequal
ed weapon for perpetuating his power
and the necessity would enormously In.
crease of keeping sucn a man out oil
Office.