The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-21

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ing. This suggests an interesting
query. | wonder who they are? We
| must be guided, in making the guess,
! by what we know of your habits in
! the recent past. You undertook to
name an executive committee in Feb
! ruary. 1928. On this committee YOU
put several men who opposed the
democratic nominee for United States
Senator in 1922, when there seemed
a chance to win; you put on this
committee one Ma1oney, who in at
! least eight years, has never support
ed democratic candidate for any
state or national office; Ire is now
chairman of the board of directors
of the paper, edited by John Bloom,
which is the personal organ Of the
senators from North Dakota, elected
on the republican ticket! These
/ senators and this paper will not sup
port the democratic candidate for
president; Laid and his henchmen
have announced their support of
Coolidge. You have said you did not
know Maloney when you named him.
Who advised you to name him or
named him for you? What demo
Gratis did you confer with when you
tried to give us this kind Of an ex-
ccutive committee? Are you con
,ferring with" the same kind of
democrats now? Is it any wonder
that this state committee repudiatei
| your action on March 3, 1923, and
discharged your so-called executive
committee" by decisive vote, hint
that many persons of less intelli-
gence than you would not have in
terpreted with complacency?
Comforting With Others.
l wonder if you are now confer
ring with the same democrats you
conferred with when you put over
the endorsement of Mr.. Perry for
national committeeman in your local
club? In other words, do you feel
that you cannot trust the State Com
mittec to carry out your scheme? Re-
Gently you had a meeting at Fargo,
| am told. AT that meeting were
men who opposed Mr.. O'Connor in
1929. John Bloom was there, the
personal representative of Ladd ana
Frazier and the would-be Ambassador
to poor old Mexico. If you did not
call this democrat" yourself, | WON
der if you are "conferring" with him
and his kind now.
Mr.. Wooledge, the democrats
You have been comforting with lately
are not the democrats who have kept
the party respectable in the fight
against radicalism in this state dur
ing the past seven years. Under
their leadership, in a state over
whelmingly republican, relatively
more votes have been cast for the
democratic candidates than at any
other time in our history. In the
last campaign republican governor
conducted strenuous speaking cam
paign for democratic candidate for
United States senator, and repub-
lican press almost unanimously sup
! ported him, when some of the "dem-
ocrats" with whom you have been
recently "conferring" secretly or
openly opposed him. l am not ready
I TO deal with those who helped elect
Senator Frazier against Mr.. O'Con-
nor, even if they call themselves
democrats now. They should re-
pcnt in sack cloth and ashes before
the democratic party gives them its
confidence again.
/ National Deal Charged.
+, To the "Man from Mars" the situa~
| ton you have precipitated looks as
/ follows: A democratic candidate for
national committeeman, whom you
are supporting, has suddenly recall
ed that during his incumbency a
that Office and while a democratic ad-
ministration was in power, perfectly
competent democrats were turned
down for postmasterships at Fargo,
Dickinso, Grand Forks and other
plac, certain republicans were named;
that the democrats quite generally
! in the Office of national committeeman
who will be able to present to the
administration with some force the
claims of North Dakota democrats to
recognition at Washington, if dem
ocratic president be elected; that
Laid and Frazier look with alarm
upon the crumbling political machin-
cry that was once their joy and pride
and see the possibility of democratic
success nationally. 1t also appears
to. this Marian visitor that if Ladd
and Frazier can IDEAL with the
democratic national committeeman,
they can save their machine from
collapse; that such a deal has been
made and that in consideration of
committeeman to do what he and his
! friends can to get the league leaders
back into power in this state, these
league leaders will look after the fed
eral patronage with him and see that
his appointments-go through, provid
ed they are satisfactory to the sena-
! tors.
Yes, such is the appearance of
/ things, not only to the Man from
! Mars, but to an increasing number
of democrats. They are not going
to stand for it, The democrats have
/ nothing for sale or barter. Let the
State Committee decide. have done
my duty in laying before it, what con
ceive to Be crisis confronting the
party. am. confident that the par
ty will not depart from it's honor
able policy of "no compromise with
wrong" and permit a small coterie
oil job-seeKers to scduce the party
into an unholy alliance with the
Ladd- Frazier 81 oom Maloney-P TT y
group, whose only interest in poli-
tics seems to be the patronage con-
nected with success at the polls.