The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-03
ENCOURAGING SIGNS

ENCOURAGING SIGNS
Returns from recent primaries in Michigan,
Montana and South Carolina are most encourage
inq. In Michigan we find the republicans reject
ing by most emphatic majority Pacifist Henry
Ford much admired Of the league. In Montana
we see jeanette Rankin, that states first mis-
representative in the national congress- repudated
bv her fellow citizens who have found two years
more than enough time in which to find her out.
She probably would have lost majority support for
the United States senate in any event. The open
support of A. c. Townley served to make her de-
feat douby certain. In South Carolina we see
Cole Blease former governor, man after Town.
ley's own heart, refused the democratic snomina-
ton for the United States senate by an over
whelming verdict of his party.
Ford-Rankn-B lease!
All pacifists, all advocates of the demagogery
which Townley has preached, all emblematic OF
much that Townley stands for, and everyone OF
them repudiated and discredited by their own
people. .,..-.. - =. T.. T..
May we hope that these primaries are prophetic
in their bearing on North Dakota? ~. ~"
On the one hand we have as a candidate for
governor a man who welcomed to this state the
peoples peace party after it had been driven out
of other patriotic commonwealth; man who
souqht to throw the protection of his office about
the l. w. W. at the very time they were deepest in
their plots to embarrass the American govern
ment in it's prosecution of the war, and when
their dirty fingers drpped with German gold, and
a man has sanctioned the perpetuation OF foreign
ness by permitting American born boys and girls
to be taught to worship their God in the tongue
of an alien enemy. On the other we have man
who has always been loyal and stalwart Amerl-
can; man who has ever been on the alert to run
down enemies of our government and who has
made his name one to be feared by seditionsts,
traitors and pro-Germans; man who has re-
ceived the endorsement of the national adninstra-
ton and who if elected governor of North Dakota
would swing this state into line with the common
weaths which are standing soidly behind the ma
tional administration.
It is for the people of North Dakota to decide
with which program they will ally themselves.
They know the public records of both Of these
men, They know which will best protect the in
terests of those $4,000 brave boys who have al
ready dedicated their lives to the service OF our
republic and of the 25 900 more who will go before
the end Of another year. 49,
OF these men, Henry Ford, has said:
every man who deliberately devotes his life
to the trade of the soldier is either lazy crazy
Henry Ford said:
''What difference would it make if all Bel
GUM fell into the sea tomorrow; who could notice
it in business?"
Henry Ford said
THE WORD MURDERER SHOULD BE EN-
BROIDERED ON THE BREAST OF EVERY
SOLDIER AND EVERY NAVAL SAILOR"
May we not find parallels for Henry Ford's say
ings in the utterances of some of our own public
men?
= Michigan, Montana and South Carolina have
to come. Will this state whose young men are
making the highest sacrifice to patriotism on the
bloOd-stained fields of France measure up to the
American standard set by sister commonwealth,
or will it endorse the teachings of Townley and
Kate Richards O'Hare?
Governor Fraziers personal honesty and his
personal patriotism are not the ISSUE He must be
judged by his public acts and no one in North Da-
kota can make ignorance of Frazier's public
career an apology to his conscience.
WHIPS DAD.
As general thing we are not in favor of per-
hitting boys to administer corporal punishment
TO their erring fathers. But there are exceptions
There are times and fathers which bring about