The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-07-04
INSULT ADDED TO INJURY.

.yb;ch hos tn do with the result of the late
primary election. In summing up IL VIII pe
noticed that editor Bloom stated nothing but
the existing and easily proven facts as an ah-
" he took occasion to point out the aosolute
Justice of the farmers cause and the utter
futility-for the time being, at least-o1 tne
ill-advised and INSCRIPTIONS opposition In GER
tain quarters thereto.
For thus having had the temerity to state
his candid convictions he was made to suner
the humiliation of having had his office build
ING besmeared with yellow paint by a coWardly
bastard or dastards, actuated and INSPIRED as
we must believe, by some OF the equally craven
'higher-ups," who true to their nefarlous ma
ture took advantage of the night time to carry
ont their iniouitous designs. Nor was this all:
In q succeeding issue of The Journal Mr.: +. +.
Mann. one of the principal merchants OF Devils
Lake. took occasion to voice his dissent and dis
approval of The Journals editorial utterance
in question through the medium OF a lecture
thereon delivered in the shape OF a card IN MS
regular advertising space in that paper, where
in he read Col. Bloom a highly platitudinous
homily on the error of his way, deprecatlng
"All this poison and breeding of class-hatred,
utterly ignoring the fact that the hands OF the
leaders and spokesman OF his W party or Po.
litical clique were far from being clean in that
particular regard. In this lecture OF the Jour-
nal editor Mr.. Mann evinces far more OF the
Indifferent spirit of the disgruntled and dis
credited politician than he does OF the broad
minded business man, intent solely in acting
succeeds only in proving-if ne proves any
thing-that egomania is really what is the mat
ter with him. Also, that he is intensely par
tisan and deeply prejudiced, and therefore to-
tally unfit to pass judgment as ne did, IS clear,
ly proven by his ready reproof OF The Journai
mans political expressions while he maintained
a profound silence regarding the rabid strlc-
lures on the same subject. made at about the
same time, in the editorial columns OF the
Devils Lake World; the lack of reproot in this
instance is only to be accounted for by the TACT
that the World, whose editor is political para
noiac of the most hopeless type. is the accred-
tied organ of the AUTHORIZATIONS in Devils
Lake. -.---- ~% -~' . H.
= The members of the Nonpartisan League are
but human, and therefore are fallible, but not
one of them, so far as we are aware, has ever
vet resorted to the methods of the cowardly
noltroon in taking advantage of the darkness OF
the night to desecrate the place of business or
dwelling house of a political antagonist, as their
opponents have done in Several instances OF late,
neither have any of them been guilty OF COM
hitting a deliberated and premeditated muir,
der. under the camoufage of loyalty" as did
members of the political opposition in Emmons
county-the unfortunate victim of their un-
governed fury having been a poor, lone woman
but a few days since.
Mr.. Mann may be. and undoubtedly is, a very
clever m0rCndnC anu, Ill LIIc llldlIl, q W ~
lent business man, but when he proceeds to
rush into print in defense of a cause which mas
lust been repudiated by a majority OF $1,000
of the electors of the state, and in so doing
evinces a carping, intolerent and jaundiced
spirit. as he does in this instance, he merely
succeeds in writing himself down as an ass.
If it were of the least possible moment
which it is not-the following from the Minot
Messenger might be cause for some small con-
Germ on the part of the Nonpartisans. Also, in
view of recent events, the Messengers assur-
ance of it's determination to support any le-
gitimate farmers organization" promises to be
something of a joke on the Nonpartisan league
that being the only legitimate farmers or
ganization now in existence, or that Is llkely
to be, in the state:
This paper will fight Townleyism and
Socialism until they are driven from North
Dakota. We will support any legitimate
farmers organization.
Having been nominated for the legislature on
both the Republican and Democratic tickets Mr..
Teigen's hyphenated organ is very much exer-
cised as to which of the two tickets Messrs.
The Courant is not in the confidence of either
of these gentlemen regarding this matter, still
it has no hesitancy in giving it as it's opinion
that in due season they will make their choice,
as the law directs, and without any assistance
from the political outfit which exerted them
selves to the uttermost to compass their defeat
at the primaries-and with such Indifferent
success.
There appears to be something radically
wrong with the anti-Nonpartisan outfit Of late,
two whole months having elapsed since they
have found it necessary or expedient to change
the name Of their organization. However, if