Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-07-11
Our Washington Correspondent Inter-
views Congressman Hansbrough
Before Leaving for Dukota.
Our Representative Does Not Feel
Uneasy About the Result Of !
the Coming Campaign.
He is a Candidate for Reelection.
and Thinks the Republican
Party il All Right.
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 2, 1890.

To THE TRIBUNE: To-day Representa-.
tive HansbrOugh will leave for North Da.
kota to visit with his constituents for a
brief season. He said IF congress con-
time in session after August 1st, I will re-
turn to Washington. Meanwhile I have
arranged to have my friends look after
certain legislation in my absence"
Are you a candidate for reelection 90
asked the correspondent.
"Very emphatically l am a candidate
for several reasons" replied the congress-
man. First, l regard it as a duty l owe to
the state IL especially to my friends in
the state, to come to Washington for a Sec
ond term, in order that l may complete the
work I have begun
IL don't care tC come back here for the
honor there is in it, for l have been SO
busy that [ have not had time to see the
! honor. ldOn't care to come back for the
money there is in it, for there is none. [
lave been compelled to employ out Of my
salary a s%tenographer and typewriter, and
also a man to look after the land cases
sent me by my constituents, so that l find
when l pay my bills at the end of the
month that there is very little Of my sal
airy left, if any. In fact, there is a great
deal less profit in it than there is in run
ming a weekly newspaper"
"Secondly, l do not believe that the re-
publican party of North Dakota has un-
dergone such a change OF mind and policy,
after having given me nearly $4,000 ma
jority, less tnan a year ago, as to desire my
retiring at this time"
LAS l was the candidate of the party last
year l shall attempt to he this ~year-purely
upon merit-as an American citizen and as
a republican. II my record here during
the brief time l have been permitted to Oc-
cupy a seat in the house is such as the
party feels it can endorse, then l feel that
l am entitled to a denomination, as an en-
dOrsement of that record. | know of no
party exigency that should require a
change with the view of holding the party
together for l can see no imminent danger
OF pending party dissolution"
"Will the lottery be all issue in the cam
paign"
Il hope not; yet | suspect thai it may be
to some extent. I notice, by the way,
that a number OF those who were leaders
in advocating the establishment of a lot
terry in our state are now strongly advocat-
ing for a place on the republican ticket
" "AAo ~ poA y ~ ll"SV UCCu DlG-
terly opposed to the lottery scheme. This
would indicate that there has been an in
terment of hatcheJS on both sides. l hope
wiser counsels and advice of cool heads
will prevail, and that nothing will tram
spire to decrease the splendid republican
majority that we begun business with as a
state last year."
"Of course the democrats will take ad-
vantage Of any mistakes we may make,
and | know OF no greater calamity that
could befall our people than to be placed
under the supremacy of the democratic
| party"
Mr.. Hansbrough evidently believes in
short-range fighting and as his pause at
this point indicated a desire for a change
OF topic your correspondent requested a
prediction as to the probable fate of the
Mckinley tariff bill in the senate. Our
representative said:
"The Mckinley bill will pass the senate
substantially as it left the house. Blaine's
ideas are very good but he has been so
wrapped up OF late III Dan-American af-
fairs that he greatly over-estimates the ex-
the adoption of his reciprocity policy. To
let in free wool from the Argentine Re-
| public would be tOdeal u deadly blow to
the sheep industry of this country"
NO new man IN congress stands higher
in the estimation Of his colleagues thar
Mr.. Hansbrough, and Judge Clifford re-
marked to your correspondent last Sunday
tina North Dakota will make a mistake
should Hansbrough not be returned.
Mrs. Hansbrough will visit her father at
Observation-Disclosures during the alb
sence Of her husband.
3D., j. c. B.