The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-05-02
Succoring the Lincoln Child.
bismarck Palladium

held at Valley City during the past
week. Editors Of the local newspa-
pers failed to get in on the doings,
but enough inside information was
cleaned to warrant the statement that
the gathering consisted Of affiliators
of the newly-born Lincoln Republican
League, which first saw the light Of
day at Grand Forks several weeks
ago. Since it's birth, the infant has had
several attacks of diarrhoea, whoop-
ing cough and brain fever, but, with
the able assistance of prominent poll
teal medicine mixers, life has been
sustained and prolonged, giving it
sufficient stamina to insure life until
at least May LIST, when it will again
appear at Minot, the Magic City, made
famous by Preacher Powell ofthe long
ago, and McGahan Of the Magic Mes
senger.
On Wednesday, May 1st, the great
gathering Of "Lincoln republicans"
will assemble at Minot for the purpose
Of selecting a state ticket designed to
beat the Nonpartisan league ticket rs
endorsed some four weeks age at
Fargo. The gathering will consist Of
one hundred per cent loyal politicians,
who expect to strike out the word re-
publican, or "has-been," and insert
the camoufage word Of loyalty"
which is a mighty gay deceiver now
adays. The L~incolnites have agreed
not to agree with the present state
ticket as endorsed at Fargo, and
there is no question but what a fine
bunch of real loyal office-seekers will
be found, willing to sacrifice them
selves in that great clamor for office
and throw themselves on the mercy
of n hundred thousand farmers,
who, two years ago, resolved to be re-
leased from bondage and "stick" for
aSbetter state government than has
ever before been handed to them since
North Dakota entered statehood.
At the coming meeting will appear
such well known celebrities as Tom
Marshall, of Cakes, Gunder Olson Of
Grafton, Jerry Bacon of Grand Forks,
Senator John E. Paulson of Hillsboro.
L. D. McGahan of Minot, John A. Eng
lund of Kenmare, Edmund A. Hughes
of Bismarck, E. A. Tostevin of Man
dan, Senator Hans P. jacobson of
Mott, Norman Black of Fargo, Walter
Gushing of the same place, Homes
of Crosby, and other minor real un-
a~dulterated loyalists, including the
secretary, Percy M. Clark.
This loyalty" stuff seems to be
about the only plank left on which
the ever-hungry office seeking bunch
have to stand, and they already are
possessed of a full one hundred per
cent connection, which is to be turn
ed loose on the farmers Of North Da-
kota, in hopes Of deceiving them, and
with but M object in view-that Of
getting back the power of which they
were deprived two years ago.
The coming Minot meeting, it is ex-
pected, will give concrete form to the
fight between the Nonpartisan League
and the Old Gang, the latter having
nothing to offer but a return to the
old political conditions, which, as we
all know, means a returning to power
of q bunch Of disgrSnted politicians
who have fought among themselves
for SO long a time for the spoils Of
office. It took the real farmers Of the
state to retire them to civil life,
where it is hoped and believed they
will be permitted to remain.
In the meantime, the Nonpartisan
League still sticks to its adopted for
Il mula. well Stick and Well Win"
In matrimony one and one make
. one. hr1t in divOrcn ono from nno loavos