The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-18
COMMON SENSE TRIUMPHANT !

Thank God for common sense!
While Minnesota soldiers were fighting
to make the world safe for democracy
Minnesota voters were proving yesterday
that democracy is safe for the world.
1 Studying the election returns this morn
ing. when the tumult and shouting have
died away, ones feelings are divided at
wonder over the fact that one saw any
thing to worry about in the situation yes
terday, and regret that Mr.. Lindbergh re-
ceived as many votes as he did.
The victory is above all else victory OF
loyalty and common sense.
! The loyalty issue was the chief issue
raised against Mr.. Lindbergh and his book
was the chief basis for this issue. Mr..
Ifndbergh and his hackers vehemently pro-
tested his loyalty to America, but with
4 the gelf-revelation of a narrow, envlous,
embittered mind before them on the
printed page Of the atrocious Lindbergh
| volume, the voters decided they would take
no chances on it's author being governor
during wartime. It was a victory OF COM
nonsense
] It~was a. singing defeat for the doctrine
of discomfort and class hatred preached
(! by Townley and his organizers. Mime
sofa, farmerss were never so prosperous as
| theynare today. It is doubtful if there is
] anyone class Of citizens approaching the
farmers In prosperity. There was no at
Tempt to- deny them the right to organize
by anybody but Mr.. Townley and his as
sistants. Every one but Mr.. Townley
seems willing that the farmers be per-
mitted to organize and handle their own
affairs. Mr.. Townley prefers to handle
them himself for few million dollars. 1t
was victory Of common sense.
It was also a stern rebuke from organ
lied labor to the American Bolsheviki.
Organized labor was fortunate in having
leaders with vision which the league
lacked. Organized labor had leaders in
spired by unselfishness and loyalty, in
stead Of greed for money and power and
indifference to the country's welfares Or
ganized labor voted with those leaders
and announced in no uncertain terms that
it proposes to handle it's own problems
and adjust it's own difficulties through a
Economically organized federation of
unions, rather than through an autocrati-
cally managed corporation Of red-card
Socialists. 1t was a victory of common
sense.
It was also ringing announcement that
the average citizen doesn't believe every
big business is necessarily bad business;
that every newspaper not owned by Non
partisan league body and soul is except
press that every man who has earned
and saved enough money to pay an in
come tax is crook and CRATER. It was
ia victory-for common sense.
For weeks past the word has been
passed around in North Dakota that
league defeat in Minnesota would be fol-
lowed by q Veritable landslide to John
Steen and the Minot ticket in North Da-
kota- There is good foundation for this
belief. The Minnesota debacle has proven
that the league political machine is not in
RvinGible. It has proven that the Townley
idol is just human being after all and not
very heroic figure at best 1t will
thearten every opponent Of Townleyism
and every man who fervently longs for
return Of sanity and better spirit in the
political affairs of North Dakota. The
t'tprairie fire. which was supposed to be
sweeping the Northwest has been checked
at the borders of North Dakota by cloud
burst of loyal voters. It is now ND to
North Dakota to stamp out the embers
next Wednesday and North Dakota is GO
ing to do it.