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

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The st. Paul Dispatch, one Of the most vicious,
relentless and wholly INSCRIPTIONS foes of the
farmers mo ement for economic justice and
self-betterment, recently, in discussing the re-
suit of the late primary election and it's cause,
SO far departed from it's heretofore inf1exible
policy of vituperation and falsehood as to SUBJ
scribe for the nonce to the plain, unvarnished
truth, as follows:
Still more years must pass before North
Dakota finds itself recovered from the
wounds inflicted by the old stalwart Re-
publican regime, when Alex. Mckenzie
welded a power more absolute than that
of the Romanoffs. Out in the rural dis
tricts the sores still smart with the salt
rubbed in by that arrogant domination and
the farmer mind is closed tight against
everything but a sense of injury and a de-
termination to even things up. **** The
worm which has been 'trodden up in the
ruthless clash of partisan battle turned
and stung.
frequently was torn up by the struggles be-
tween the old stalwart Republicans and the
irrepressible insurgents of the same party.
It had it's remedy then, it has the same
remedy now. Alex. Mckenzie controlled
the party primaries, but was helpless be-
fore the popular tide in November. Three
times in succession the revolt of public
sentiment put John Burke at it's head, ig-
nored his Democratic affiliations and land
ed him in triumph in the Governors chair.
True to it's rule-or-ruin policy and urged on
by it's Bourbon instincts and utilization, the
Grand Forks Herald still insists that it alone is
in the right and that the great majority of the
electors of the state are in the wrong, and it
promises to continue to wage a relentless, if
futile wal on the popular choice of public Of
fcials. Well, no Nonpartisan should object to
such a course on the part of the now utterly
discredited Herald, inasmuch as the rank and
file OF the majority party are a unit in agreeing
that the Herald's campaign of villification and
untruthfulness, supplemented by the asinine
public utterances and the publication of the sill
ly screeds of it's publisher were prime factors
in causing hundreds of voters, who were never
before affiliated with their cause, to vote the
Nonpartisan ticket. In fact, many critical OBJ
servers of the trend of public thought have no
hesitancy in giving it as their opinion that but
for the opposition Of the Herald and the Fargo
Forum the Nonpartisan majority would nave
been greatly reduced, if, indeed, it would not
have been entirely eliminated. Nonpartisans
generally are firmly convinced that no greater
disaster could possibly overtake their party than
to have this precious pair of journalistic bri-
gands espouse their cause.
Boswell said a long time ago that spa
triotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
Rather a hard saying, but simply a very
direct way of presenting the idea that
there are som men who seek to turn pa
triotic impulses to their own financial or
political advantage.-New Rockford State
Center.
If it be true, as our respected Methodist
brethren contend, that "Open confession is
good for the SOU" what a burden must have
been lifted from the shoulders of the now SEEM
ingly r~epentant editor of our New Rockford
contemporary-not the least among the old
gang newspaper boosters in the primary cam
paign just closed-and what relief he must have
experienced when he was impelled to make the
above frank and truthful confession!
Rebuked and totally discredited by upwards
of $4,000 of the electorate of the state the
thimbleriggers and adherents of the old gang,
aided and abetted at every turn by a venal
press which is wholly subservient to their in
t~erests, and who made loyalty the keynote of
the campaign, appear to have completely aband-
oned the disloyalty charge against the Nonpar-
tisan league-even they nave been made to see
the utter futility Of their attempting to 'indict
a whole people'-and as a last resort have been
compelled to fall back on the only standby
which they have left-that of Socialism" Now
listen to the Grand Forks Herald and it's fol-
lowing of cuckoo newspapers harp on that
threadbare string from now until the polls
close next November.
j. S. Milloy, the bright young genius who