The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-30
Press Comment

Stanley Promoter; e. B. Hanna is
one Of the best men we could possibly
select for governor. He has ability and
is absolutely on the square, In the
legislature he always did what was
right, and I'll think twice and think
hard before vsting against him." said
a prominent democrat a few days ago.
Hanna will be the next man at the
democratic friends who will give him
their support. Papers all over North
Dakota have a good weird to say about
his candidacy, and If he has a majority
OF the newspaper bunch IL ig up to l.
b a. to do the rest.
LaMoure Echo: A call has been is
sued for a mass convention to be held
at Fargo on Friday, July &c, for the
move. n to select delegates to a ma
tional convention to be held at Chicago
on Aug. s. 1t Is a result of the steam
roller tactics in controlling the chiea-
go republican convention, thereby fore
ing the nomination Of Taft for president.
Even though the procedure of the ma
tional republican committee was dis
loyal to American instincts, although
though 1t disregarded = the majority
choice, although 1t outraged the spirit
Of r~epublicanism, 1t exploded Taft's
"soliditary" bomb, thereby wrecking
khO tEPA1AltAh RATNy al now COnLIOAlSQs
Possibly the grand old party has passed
Its period of worthy performances. In
so far as the popular mind is concerned,
the administrative party doctors "sav-
poison has set in, and the parental body
is In a critical condition. MOI yet dead,
but sorely incapacitated. And who, or
what will nurse h child2 The mid
wife Of capital will do her best, but
there has come q time when the party
voter win be iistIess to the cry and
pleadings OF the boss. Love for party
has been shattered by broken promises
and u~nfaithfulness. Self-divorced and
homeless, thousands Of republican vot-
ers are in the receptive mood, And
what Is the third party call? Waited
on the breezes of defeat, scented with
progressiveism and indignation &C
tuated by the personal ambition of one
man, Teddy, the Great I Am" and
trumpeted by the so-called seekers for
responsive chords?
The country knows full we'll that the
recent Roosevelt campaign vas inanc-
ed to a large extent by corporate in.
t%erests, even though he was heralded as
the only progressive whom the republt-
knows full wen that the third party
movement means nothing if It does not
mean Roosevelt. The country remem.
bers too well that active progressives
have pleaded with Roosevelt for the
past six years to come out in the
open" and 1t is proof positive that he
did not step into the progressive lime
light until he became candidate for the
presidential nomination. There is crvs-
talized sentiment that there are pro-
gressives of a tried and true type, fight.
ers, with loyalty unquestioned, who
are armed and qualified to serve the ma.
nation in an executive capacity.
Woodrow Wilson, the democratic
nominee, is an avowed, forceful and
incorporating progressive, but o.
the democratic faith. Why should hi
faith disarm him, Why cannot Thee.
dore Roosevelt, Robert M. LaFollette
VIM. ]. Bryan, Cummings, johnson
Moore, Folk and other genuine progress,
sives join with Wilson and give the ma,
ton a progressive, hroadminded admin
istration? Why not show the un,
that they are Undesirable citizens"
What is there to be gained by tn,
third party movement? Probabl,
nothing. True, many of the states viii
go into the Roosevelt column. but Their,
is little probability that he will be CIV
en- the majority of the electoral college
He will take some states from Taft. H
will take some states from Wilson, bu
with h republican party vote divided
Wilson will doubtless hold the poll.
And then what? With the third par
ty move unsuccessful, the national re
publican committee endorsed, can tn,
third party hope TO maintain and be
come a component part in nationa
po1itics2 Isn't there better hope 70
republican progressives to hide thei
time, educate along progressive line
and control the party four years hence