The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1890-08-30
INTERVIEW.
In Which Senator Pierce Declares
the Republican Ticket of North
Dakota q Strong One.
He Doesn't Know What His OPPOSE
ton Will be, But Will do
the Best He Can,
And Then Let the People of North
Dakota Do as They Like About
Rejecting Him.
Isn't Sore About Anything.

Isn't Sore About Anything.
Minneapolis journal ed: Senator
Pierce left Minneapolis for Washington
last night. just before his departure I
had an interview with him in his at
the West hotel. During this CONVERSE
ton the senator expressed himself as be-
ing to some extent surprised at the state
ments made in the interviews the Journal
had had with Jud LaMoure and others.
81 don't thoroughly understand what
point they are trying to carry out" said
the senator. II do know, however, tina
so far as the people quoted in these in
terviews undertake to give the facts ret
garding my connection with them, they
are utterly wrong. 1 saw Mckenzie as
he wa taking the train for the west,
probably for 20 minutes. Haggart I
only saw for q moment and I had no con-
~versation with him. I had a talk with
LaMoure both yesterday and the day
before. There was nothing tragic about
our intel view, I assure you. Half the
time we were talking in the presence Of
other people in the office of the Mer-
chants hotel"
"Will Mckenzie, Haggart and La
Moure support you" was asked.
81 do not know. They did not say
they would or that they would not, and I
do not know what they would have said
had I asked them this question, which I
did not. I know, of course, that some of
my appointments have been distasteful
not only to these gentlemen but to others
in the state. I am sorry that this should
be so. but it seems inevitable. / an glad,
however, that with all the objections
raised, no one has questioned the qualif-
cations of those appointed"
"Is it true that the railways will OPP
pose you?"
"That 1 do not know, either. I hope
not, for I have not been unfriendly to
them; but they may for some reasons
known to them, see proper to do So"
"How about the lottery company"
81 have heard the lottery people would
oppose me because they attributed the
message of the president against lotteries
to my influence, saying that l had in
duced the president to send it in. I
heard this before leaving Washington,
and it was repeated to me here, but /
have no further knowledge of their in
tentiOns."
"To sum it all up, senator, what do
you think the chances are for your re-
election?"
IF I am going to have the active OPP
position of the railroads, supplemented
by that of the prominent men who have
been mentioned as opposed to me, 1
think my chances slim. If, however, as
I believe, the railroads will let the cleo
ton alone and allow any man to work
out his own salvation, I've an idea that I
shall be returned. In any event 1 shall
not be q sore head. I do not regard
offices as the property of any man.
These places belong to the people. and
they bestow them where they please.
They gave the ~senatorship to me for the
time being and I wal gratifed. II now
they choose to give it to some one else, 1
shall not complain.
zone thing you may set down as cor
tain. The republican ticket in North
Dakota will be elected by an increased
majority. The state is IN the best posi-
ton, politically, Of any in the union. The
ticket could not be stronger"
You regard Inou, III H6tEouS
man?"
"Most certainly l do, and this entirely
aside from his strength with the Nor
wegian element. He is q man of fine
address, a fluent speaker and thorough
ly educated gentleman"
"When will congress adjourn" I
asked, changing the subject.
"No one knows. I should not be q r
prised to see the whole question of the
election law opened up under the Quay
resolution and debated for q month"
"Will the tariff bill pass?"
eyes, in q somewhat modified form.
As q rule the northwestern senators favor
q reduction in some of the schedules and
will vote to reduce the duties when those
articles are reached. There are several
such upon which I want to see the duty
reduced, and shall so vote"
W. lL@lA.. - 90.