The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-11-25
FORUM BUILDS A
BOCEY MONSTER
OLE SMOKE DEALS WITH SE-
CRET CAUCUS BUGABOO
IN POPULAR VEIN

CRET CAUCUS BUGABOO
IN POPULAR VEIN
A few months ago there was panic
among the school children of a town
back East; so terror stricken did they
become that several schools were COM
peleld to close, and the cause of the
great fear was strange demon-beast
called the "Hogwallercus."
Even many parents and teachers
got nervous, but finally one suggested
making hunt for the "Hogwallercus"
and they found him or "it" down in
a dark cellar Of one of the schoolh; he
was, indeed, frightful to look upon,
but, when some bold spirit walked
right up to the dragon and took him
by one Of his three sharp horns,
general ha-ha-ha went up from all
present, for the fierce "Hogwallercus"
was nothing but a STUFFED FIG
URE, with two pieces of green glass
for eyes, the awesome light from
which had been caused by candle
inserted into the head of the dummy.
It then came out that several of the
older boys had created this terrible
dragon out of NOTHING but STRAW
and RAGS for the purpose Of soaring
the younger children stiff and fright
ening them into doing THEIR WILL.
. Now, every time people read the
Forum they should think Of this wild
"Hogwallercus" that was going to eat
everybody up alive and Of the fact
that only light within him came from
a fast melting candle and, that like
the Forums "brains" it was nothing
but RAGS and STRAW, or rather,
should we say, BILE?
The Terrible "Secret' Caucus"
After having worked the "Pro- Ger
man., the "Bolshevik," the "Free
Love-" the ."Run- 'em- QUITO town.,
etc., etc. "Hogwallercuses" to a fraz-
zle on the simple minds Of us North
Dakotans, the poor old Forum is now
trying to scare up another terrible
"hogwallercus"; this time is the awful
"SECRET CAUCUS, and by Judging
from the "idiotorials" that are daily
pouring from the source of I. v. A.
intelligence, the "idiotor" Of the For
UNI knows less about the origin and
history Of the parliamentary or polit-
ica1 state than he does about econom-
les, and his knowledge Of the last
seems to be nil plus nothing,
Either the "idiotor" of the sTorum
is totally ignorant Of the subject he is
trying to discuss, or he is deliberating.
perverting truth, for to those who
know anything at all Of the history
of the political state must realize that
the party caucus is as old as that
State, if not older, and this includes
the so-called "secret caucus. For the
caucus is nothing more or less than a
meeting of party's representatives,
whether in State Legislature, Ma
tional Congress, or otherwise, to de-
wise the party's PLAN Of ACTION in
an assembly, what acts and laws it
will support and what it will oppose;
and, hence, the party would be de-
cidly infantile, if it opened the doors
of it's Caucus to any and all comers,
especially to it's sworn and bitter en-
emies, such as the "idiotor" of the
Forum, the Langers, the O'Connors;
the Eeversons and the rest Of the /.
v. A. saboteurs of the Farmer-Labor
Program.
What the Forumites are aiming at,
however, in this howl about the "se-
cret caucus, is together with their
hypocritical pleas for tolerance" to
attempt to SPLIT the League delega-
ton in the Legislature and the Lea
que itself throughout the state. That
is all they are after If they can sue
ceed in this, you farmers can get
ready to become tenants and you
workers poems. And if you don't be-
lieve it, read the dope the United
States Chamber Of Commerce is send
ing out over the Nation.
Between the times the "idiotor" OF
the Forum is flushing up some new
"Hogwallercus" to scare you with, he
is busy making faces at, or yapping
at Attorney General Lemke, but if
BILL was canary bird, and the
brains of this "Idiotor" was strych-
nine, and you fed said brains to Bill,
it wouldn't give Bill bellyache.
Yours Till The Cows Come Home,
80 ole Smoke.