Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-23
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Kansas C4.y journal: In view OF
the fact that the DakOtas and other
sections of the great Northwest are
generally regarded as recruiting
grounds for the progressive cause
the attitude of one Of the senators
from Mort. Dakota in the present
campaign is invigorating to all rea
republicans. Senator Gronna who
was an ardent opponent Of President
Taft before and during the Chicago
convention is quoted as saying in Min
neapolis the other day:
IF left the republican party l
should feel under obligation to re-
sign my seat in the senate. was
elected by the republicans as a re-
publican and | am still a republican,
The senator will Loyalty support
President Taft, the standard-bearer OF
the party, and while his declaration
is manly and vigorous it is neverthe-
less only simple, fundamental homes
ty. There are many politicians who
regard it as 'all in the game and
wholly excusable and expected to
falsify and e%quivocate to accomplish
desired ends. For that reason the
Dakota statesman's course is all the
more admirable. Senator GrOnna's
attitude is that of any honest mar
similarly situated, and the more the
progressive policy of trying to steal
in the interest of the "ThOu shalt not
steal" candidate is contemplated by
the fair.minded voters OF the country,
-, more they will incline toward the
view that there is no honest way of
DESERVING the republican party and at
the same time using its name and
party machinery to overthrow its can
a4uates.
F. The progressive leaders are in for
a very emphatic disillusionment II
they believe all the rank and file who
voted for Roosevelt as the republic
an candidate against Taft will vote
for him as the candidate OF a party
that is doing its utmost to destroy
the republican organization. The
primary states" figures r absurd
when used as a basis of estimates OF
Roosevelt's electoral vote. The rank
and file of the party are honest and
they believe with Senator Gronna
that no man can be a republican and
an anti-republican at the same time;
that there must be a choice in the
matter.
This is the fair, manly, honest and
straightforward view, yet there is
presented the spectacle of Progress
ives in states where they have the
machinery Of the republican party
under their control trying to steal
privileges of position and other adj
vantages to which they have no just
title. Tor the first time in the his
tory Of American politics members OF
one party have set up the preposter'
oulis claim that their candidate should
receive the votes Of the electors OF
another party; that electors hostile
to the candidates of he republican
party should be voted for by and as
republicans and yet who, If elected,
would vote in the electoral college
not for the republican candidates but
against them.
Senator, Gronna's attitude is unol-
terably opposed to such chicanery,
and the senator's attitude Is that OF
the honest rank and file Of the Amer
lean people. One Of the most import
ant issues of the campaign is whether
mon elected as republicans shall act
a. republicans or as republican enc
mics.
The Bull Moose state convention
which 10 slated for Fargo September
8, the day when Teddy isFthere, prom.