Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-07-11
Our Washington Correspondent Inter
views Congressman Hansbrough
Before Leaving for Dnkota.
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. lie said IF congress con-
time in session after August LIST, 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 ?'
asked the correspondent.
"Very emphatically J. am a candidate
for several reasons" replied the congress-
man. "First, l regard it as a duty l owe to
the state and especially to my friends in
the state, to come to Washington for o Sec
ond term, in order that l may complete the
work l have begun"
Il don't care to come back here for the
honor there is in it, for I have been so
busy that 1 have not had time to see the
honor. Id0n't care tt come back for the
money there is in it, for there is none. |
lave been compelled to employ out of my
salary a stenographer and typewriter, and
also a man to look after the land cases
sent me by my constituents, so that l find
when I 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 mar a year ago, as to desire my
retiring at this time"
year l shall attempt to be this year-purely
upon merit-as an American, citizen and as
a republican. If 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 1t can endorse, then | feel that
! am entitled to a denomination, as an en-
dorsement of that record. l 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"
paign"
II hope not; yet l suspect that it may be
to some extent. | notice, by the way,
that a number OF those who were leaders
in advocating the establishment of a lot
terry In u state are now strongly advocat-
ing for a place on the republican ticket
those who were reported to have been bit.
terly opposed to the lottery scheme. This
would indicate that there has been an in
terlnent 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 adj
vantage OF any mistakes we may make,
and know OF no greater calamity that
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 in Dan-American af-
fairs that he greatly over-estimates the OK
tent OF the benefits we would derive by
the adoption of his reciprocity policy. To
let in free wool from the Argentine Re-
public would be todeal a deadly blow to
the sheep industry of this country"
NO new man IN congress stands higher
IL the estimation OF Ills colleagues than
Mr.. Hansbrough, and Judge Clifford re-
that North Dakota will make q mistake
should Hansbrough not be returned.
Mrs. Hansbrough will visit her father at
Observation-Disclosures during the alb
sence OF her husband.