New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-08
POLITICAL OBDS AND ENDS
SPEAKING FOR NORTH DAKOTA.
SENATOR HANspRJUGH TELLS WHY THE STATE
WILL GO REPUBLICAN,.

one Of the most popular and influential Republicans
+, tho thriving new state OF Nolth Dakota Is Senator
H. G. IIansbrougl. OF Devils Lake. In that state. with
several other members Of the National Legislature who
hnvc been released nom official duty In Washington
bv the adjournment OF Congress. Senator ilansbrodGh
has come over 10 NcwYork and means 10 remain here
for three or four week., During that time he NAV
be able 10 give the National Committee at No 5l5
Fifth-ave. the aid Of his political experience. In
speaking Yesterday Of the Democratic Congress which
has Just adjourned. the senator said:
THE Democrats have spent In this session Of theirs
s4C 100000 more than the Republicans did In their
fist Sos SION which closed two yrars ago. Some OF
the Democrat, claiming that Il + only S4i0oO0Oo
more than were the appropriations Of the first session
OF the last Republican Congress, but they wrong
and am prepared to show By the actual nghres TINT
the excess for which they responsible Is TidCoo
600 not IA 100000 When Il Democratic orator in
this campaign begins TO proclaim the extravaGanc" OF
the Billion Congress- there Will always be somebody
at hand To ask (which Billion Congressr And none
OF this money has been appropriated by the Democrats
for public buildings, OF which the Republicans tool
| proper care great deal OF this monstrous has
been spent by the Democrats river and harbor I'm
provements In the SOUTH The southern representative
and citizens are great for river and harbor improve
ments ~ they to be made In the south In fact they
can't get along without river and harbor improvements
down there | don't find much fault, though, with tbs
Democrats Dculs " ~
Of economy. This Is BIZ Government and II cannot
DO run without money"
Ia regard 10 Republican prospects In his own State
senator Hansbrough said that. while the fight would
lie "a determined both sides, he wns confident
that the Republicans would carry the state.
- carried the state by $1,000 majority In lSss
when ! ran for Congressman, and cannot see how
we can be defeated this time Many things are IN
our favor thus far which had not operated In the
last state election william Andrf2 Jackson sparks
IS one OF them sparks was GrovXCleveland's Com
missioner OF the General Land Office, and his admin
isI70n was most distasteful to our people SPARKS
Looked upon men who came out 10 the Northwest To-
take UP land and make homes for themselves ana
their children Is thieves and robbers, ana ne reatc
them accordingly. In the face OF the law and the
decisions ~ the supreme Court, sparks undertook 10
DESTROY their right Ia their holdings when they were
ready 10 prove mp their titles, and sought 10 dlVr
thousands OF honest men and their famine, rom
their homes. During the whole of the nfst part OF
Cleveland Administration and up 10 March ., lo@'.
when Congress took the matter In hand SPARKS kent
them with eviction and destruction OF their claims
Our farmers want more SpareS Ia terrorlze them
They do not mean give Mr.. Cleveland the chance
Of sending them any man Of the Kind
Thirty per cent 81 In" voters OF NORM DAKOTA nr'
Norwcyian, They are intelligent, thrifty.
Woodworking class and most Of them are farmers.
Naturally they Republicans, and the pnrty ms
recognized them In North Dakota, choosing TWO on
Of orr thpc Presidential Electors from among the
ScaudIuavianS. cur member Of Congress ana seer
tary OF state well many II our other orclnlS are
taken from that nationality. The Farmers Anhcr j.
working hard un-ettle Republican niuenc" In u"
state bni think they will find II hard 20 turn The
scandinavian farmers against us