Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-03-18
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WIN q SaCrlnCe OF Ills own Feelings
almost as sublime as that of Editor
Winship Congressman johnson an
nounces that he will not be a candidate
for denomination to the house but will
stand for election to the senate. So far
as the house of representatives is con-
cerned the congressman states that he
has permitted himself to remain in that
body until his country was delivered
from the danger that menaced it. When
first he went to the house, the United
States was threatened with various
things, any one of which would have been
fatal to the government. 1t was neces.
sary for some Hercules to arise and clean
out the Augean stables and Hercules
was found on a farm in Nelson county.
During his first term as congressman,
johnson reformed much of the evil
which existed in the house and defeated
alone and single handed a great share
of the bad legislation that was suggested,
while the other members of the house,
blind to the welfare OF the nation, we're
sending out seeds to their constituents
and otherwise triaing with the safety
of the United States. But it was i'm
possible for Mr.. johnson, heroic through
his efforts we're, to place the nation on
it's feet all in n term, and SO, as there
was much still for him to do, he per-
mitted himself with another noble
sacrifice of his inclinations, to be re-
elected to congress, and took his seat a
second time, just in time to prevent
the nation from backsliding. A second
time he raised it up out of the
slough of despond, and slew it's
enemies, defeating sac free coinage
measure, and passing a new tariff bill,
nearly all of the provisions of which
affecting the northwest we're framed and
carried alone by Mr.. johnson. We have
his own word for this, and it is we'll
known that egotism never prompts any
statement of MIR. johnson. Therefore
we must admit the great service Mr..
johnson has rendered his country, all
for a paltry $1,000 a year, when he would
have been able, had his country not
needed his services, to have cleared
many times this amount in the raising
of wheat at thirty cents a bushel. These
are the men who make a nation glorious
among the nations of the earth. Now
having twice or thrice delivered the
house of representatives from the evils
that threatened it, Congressman John.
son believes, and rightly too, that the
house cannot longer expect him to act
as it's guardian and knight Grant. The
house has had the benefit Of several
years Of his presence and wisdom, and
if it cannot now struggle along without
him it is pretty nearly a hopeless case.
Therefore Mr. johnson is resolved to
forsake it, and to stand for election to
the senate, which has greater need OF
his services and wisdom. And once he
has reached and reformed the upper
house of congress, there are great hopes
that Mr.. johnson may finally decide to
stand for the presidency, with a view
to placing that eminently respectable
position back upon the high plane set
up by George Washington, Abraham
Lincoln, and other historic counterparts
of Mr.. johnson, and shedding broadcast
over the entire United States the lumi-
nous brightness of his intelligence, wis.
dom and statescrafl.
We cannot resist the impression that
this move of Mr.. johnson is but an
incident is a deep laid plot of the con.
gresham and Editor Winship of the
Grand Forks Herald to bring to the gov.
eminent Of the United States a series Of
reforms which shall be deep and lasting
Mr.. Winship furnishing the lines and
general scheme of the movement and
Mr.. johnson posing as the lever by
which the government is to be jerked
from it present foundation and lacked
up to the Winship level. 1t is a well
known fact that the government is al
present several degrees below the. idea
of Mr.. Winship, particularly in the
matter Of Offices, where Mr.. Winship has
been overlooked. What is more likely
therefore, than that a plan has beer
entered into between the two giants Of
reform, whereby Mr.. johnson is to make
ameteoric fight through the house and
senate of the United States, casting &C
great a luster of achievement around
him that. the people will arise as one
man, or two men at most, and proclaim
for Mr. johnson for president and Mr.
Winship for the constitution, for it ii
admitted the one now in use is worn in
places, while Mr.. Winship has the
advantage of being almost entirely new