Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-01-13
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OTHER LOGICAL CANDIDATES.

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OTHER LOGICAL CANDIDATES.
The more the campaign resulting in
the present contest for the senatorship
is analysed the more apparent it becomes
that Mr.. johnson has waged a purely
personal campaign while his opponents
have worked more assiduously for the
success of the party, making their per-
sonal interests a secondary consideration.
Both before and after the election, and
since their arrival in Bismarck, each of
Mr.. Johnson's opponents has conducted
a clean campaign, and there is the very
best of personal feeling among all the
field candidates. Mr.. Little has been an
ardent Republican, and the result of his
influence in politics is shown by the in
creased and continued republican ma
~jorities returned for the ticket from his
section of the country. Marshall has
always been a republican, and has sim
ply worked for the whole ticket, and left
personalities out of the question. His
home county, and adjoining county, Ser
gent, formerly solid populist strongholds,
have, since he entered the arena, been
placed in the sure republican column.
McCumber has travelled all over the
state, making speeches for the party in
every campaign. Mr.. Cooper has been
chairman of the State Republican Cen
trail Committee and has done much hard
work for the party's success. Mr.. Han
ma has followed out the same lines in his
political work, is a man of ability and
would be generally acceptable. Mr.. La
Moure is an old time wheelhorse and has
brought republican victory out of a
county, naturally fusion.
Any one of these gentlemen has done
as much or more for the republican party
as has NJ. N. johnson contributing
their time and their means and infu-
ence to the success of the whole party,
while Mr.. johnson has worked always
for the upbuilding of himself rather than
his ~party-always shaping things so that
the party has had him as we'll as the fu-
sionists to contend with on every occa-
sion.
So far as influence and ability to do
something for the state at Washington
is concerned, it is admitted by MI. John
sons friends that any one of the gentle
men who are opposing him possess ele-
ments of strength which greatly outrank
Mr.. johnson in this particular. He has
confessed his weakness and lack of in
fuence on many occasions.
The gentlemen in the so-called field
are a unit on the proposition that the
election of M. N. johnson is not for the
best interests of the party. The methods
they are using to accomplish his defeat
are clean. You hear nothing in their
ranks but kind words for the congress-
man but they are me the less earnest
in their desire to defest him and unlike
him no one of them thinks for a moment
the future of the party hinges on his
election. They are unselfsh in their de-
sire to have a united delegation at
Washington and a united republican
party at home. By clean, manly and
American methods they are making votes
for the republican party every day. It
is evident that the gaeat rsilroad corpor-
ations are not against Mr.. johnson nor
are the immensely wealthy lumber and
pine land rings.
MIR. johnson has had transportation
for hundreds of his friends who have
aocked to the city.
Then again with Col. Robinson, the
direct representative of the great lum-
Der and pine land ring, managing Mr.
Johnson's campaign it is easy to figure
where the funds can be found to main
tain the enormous lobby for johnson.
Mr.. johnson is a pet of the lumber ring.
Why? Because the senate having passed
the tariff bill fixing the rate on lumber
at 81 per thousand, Mr.. johnson voted
in the house to increase it to 81; thus
doubling at once the tariff on lumber in
his native state within the borders of
which not n pine tree stands, thus ad
ding hundreds of thousands of dollars to
the burdens of the people and swelling
the pockets of the pine land ring who
are in the meantime destroying the for
ests of u neighboring states at an
alarming rate.
Granting that on the money issue and
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other party questions Mr.. johnson has
voted right-when the roll was called
that does not constitute sufficient reason
for Mr.. Johnson's election to the senate.
AS the representative of the state in con
gress he has been a failure. He does
not possess the tact or elements of popu-
larity calculated to bring to his state the
fullest measure of consideration.
AS an indication of how easily names
may be obtained to a petition, it has
cOmo rndar tho Obaorvot;on ~ %bo H.,