The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1890-09-06
Favors Col. Lounsberry.
(From Fargo Argus.)

Favors Col. Lounsberry.
(From Fargo Argus.)
Minnewaukan, N. D., Aug. 26.-To The
Argus: In response to your mention OF
Colonel Lounsberry in connection with
the senatorship, hand you the enclosed,
and hope you will give it place in your
columns.
knew Colonel Lounsberry in Mime
sofa before he came to Dakota, and am
familiar with his career in this state. It
will be an easy matter for You people TO
elect him, and want to assure you that
the Farmers Alliance will help you do It,
no matter If you were the first to suggest
his name. Colonel Lounsberry is growing
every day in the estimation of the peopla
and your recent attack upon him ont,
made him stronger in this section of tho
state where we know the good work done
BY him in connection with his land Office
work. This county-Towner, Eddy and
Nelson were specially unfortunate. Here
Sparks held scores of claims for cancella-
tion without cause which we're sent to
patent on Colonel Lounsberry's report
without dollars expense to the claimant.
THE ENDORSEMENT.
Minnewaukan, N. D., Aug. 26.-To The
Argus: In suggesting the name of Colonel
Lounsberry for the United States senate,
you have touched a popular chord, and
there ought to be just such response to
it as there was to the suggestion of the
name of M. N. johnson for congress by
The Argus.
As you very well know Colonel Louns-
berry ought to have been made governor,
when Pierce was appointed. He was the
choice of North Dakota, at least, but Dako-
tans were not governing Dakota in those
days. he was the real choice of this coun-
ty when Hansbrough was nominated, but
he was forced aside in order to make the
delegation solid for this section of the
state.
have read, think in The Argus, that
Colonel Lounsberry was the first newspa-
per man to cast his lot in North Dakota,
and that he gave to the territory his best
energies seventeen years ago, long before
nine-tenths of the people now in North
Dakota thought of coming here. His
ready pen has been welded for North Da-
kota from that day to this and he is today
better acquainted with the people of our
state and has more personal friends than
any other man in the state. His heart
goes out to the old time settlers and there
is not man among them who does not
know him and admire him for his loyalty
to the state, to his friends and to his party,
and for his fearlessness under all circum-
stances. You who dictate the politics of
this state may prefer to discover some
new man who has the charm of money
about him, or who may be backed by q
railroad or some nationality OF sectional
influence, but you cannot name man cas-
ier to elect or who would represent the
state better than Colonel Lounsberry.
He has never been recognized as an
ally of the railroads, and yet they doubt
less admit that he would be Just with
them. Those who have attended the last
three sessions of the Farmers Alliance
know that he has been admitted to their
executive sessions, though not member
of the alliance, because the members knew
that he would treat them fair in his news
paper work. The old soldiers recognize
in him oomrade worthy of their conf
dence and support. The temperance
people know he is temperate man and
in sympathy with their fight for the home,
though not crank on the subject, and
therefore not antagonistic to any element.
He is friend of the state administration
and not an enemy to either The Argus or
any others among those who were in the
lottery camp, though hewas not connected
with them in any manner. For me, en-
dorse Colonel Lounsberry for the United
States senate and hope the people viii do
themselves the credit to endorse for this
position one who has neither wealth nor
combinations to back him, who cannot be
claimed by any locality in particular, for
he is known to all and In sympathy with
all, and who is strong in the affections Of
the people, strong in his well known abil-
ity, and strong in his unainohing integ-
rity. p
Grand Forks Herald: The mammoth
railroad scheme of ex-Gov. Gilpin, of Col
orado, who is now in Alaska making ex-
plorations in connection with IL, appeals
to the imagination, if not to the judgment.
It comprehends nothing less than railroad
from the Rocky mountains, through Alas
ka, across Behring strait, through Siberia
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