The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-03-21
LIE ROI EST MORT.

LIE ROI EST MORT.
On the 18th inst. at an obscure winter resort in Florida, there
PASSED from ah earth tn am "a man aM whose di in nn hd 1ie nave Mou GiG baye sh a KEW
this state from it's center to it's circumference and would have at
Of Of a any o t~s individual who ever lived in North Dakota, and that
man was Judson LaMoure, pioneer, Indian agent, U: S: marshal
p ppominen nN figures i'm in What is now North Dakota.
good 1t ma mas ju 1Ssem as i he %ouid be- s1j jad l is He Rsf tno%s that t men are are
only fragments-that the ,a greatest est walk wall lin in SHADOW af s1 wa and I'd. that a
e cept th ann m isi%'t that ae "H HH' Who dies Mes' pays 1 NO debts " as being ntsy wor-
thy of credence, and even believe that in the grave should be
buried the prejudices and passions born of conflict, and that Char
ity should hold the scales in which are weighed the deeds of men,
but the all too prevalent practice of the post norton whiteWash-
ing of vice into a semblance of virtue is one to which The Cour-
ant refuses to subscribe.
which he lived. He entered public life at a time when the West
was in the first stages of its ma making akin when 1 the adventurous et Soa and
heasd, and the weaking was speaddy crowded to the wall or entire
712s: territory and Later the asa9 new state at ,,. afforded ed. a : fertile tisst field
and the venal were prompt to avail themselves: An organization
was effected, for which the then mighty Republican party stood
ary poitica! machines--with LaMoure as its field manager-that
f fssF e ysars d IN 5h n feiit and 9a shs%s s5a5ss; as sbs %n5dh tSe m ts11j sns9
and later the state of North Dakota.
,nae Of n Tx sa s" yss:t tSf t s5iG:;Ss' Gee: +: H St Sni 5sh rs Hs1 A!:T;
and c. B. Little, only McKenzie and Little remain, and they are
sbie exception of Mckenzie the name Of no one man is more insep,;
Of JUG Judson LaMoure, %Th Fl Tall Chief of the Pemb;uas," as he was
not averse to being designated: He was ever a Republican Of the
ience," and he was a firm believer in the apothegm let the end
Justify the means" He was a natural born leader of men and a po-
itical boss of the Jethro Bass type, with all the craft and cunning
of that master character, minus his illiteracy: Ever unquestion-
ably obedient to the master voice at st. Paul, he made governors,
United States senator's and congressnen-and unmade them as
readily at the same behest-always accomplishing his purpose so
effectively and quietly that but few knew what was transpiring
until it was "Al over but the cheering" He was of an Uncommon
ly strong personality and the transcendent genius of the man was
undeniable. Shrewd, far-seeing, subtle, listener but rarely a
talker; he gave the Impression 1T that he was following when in real
almost any sacrifice in the interests of a friend and per contra, he
would go to any length to compass the defeat and downfall of a foe;
he was remorseessly vndictive in his hatred and it is doubtful
if he ever forgave one whom he held to have done him an injury.
In his home life and in the company of those whom he trusted he
was one of the most lovable of characters, and to all such his
death will be sincerely mourned.
And so has passed away one of whom, had his death occurred
in the zenith of his fame and power, his friends might we'll have
p%araphrased Prince Halls lament for the dead Falstaf: 1--WE could
have better spared a better man."
He was almost the last of the old political regime to outlive
the time in which it fburished, and to whom, by the irony of fate,
it was given to witness the passing of-let us hope never to re-
urn-the sordid political order of which he was a mighty factor,
with all it's manifold abuses and shameful history, and to be per-
mitted to see the dawn of a brighter and better day wherein the
awakened citizenry of North Dakota give promise of freeing
themselves from political bosses, and the vicious system which
makes political bossism possible.