Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-01-20
THE LEGISLATURE.

THE LEGISLATURE.
Continued from Pagy One.
to those around him that it was possi-
BILE for one fellow man to do another.
He has achieved what few men have
been able to do, the undying friend
ship of those with whom he has ass0-
ciated. His record as q legislator has
been q most enviable one, and as he
has become acquainted with the
greaternumber Of persons in our state
the same fact has been noticeable
that he has enjoyed in his home, that
he has won friends and he is one
with whom it is an honor to be ac-
Quainted.
Gentlemen, I believe that If you
vote for Hon. Louis B. Hanna for
United States senator you will never
regret the action you have taken, be-
cause, If he is sent to the United
States senate, we know that he will
labor untiringly, and for the best in
~terests of North Dakota and her peo-
pie, and the needs of our grand coun-
try and that he will he alert to the
interests of u people from east to
west, in all parts of our country.
Gentlemen, ! nominate Louis Il.
Hanna.
Mr.. Porter seconded the nomination
IofMr Hanna.
HON. e. G. COOPER.
Representative Bacon of Grand
Forks nominated Hon. e. G. Cooper.
Mr.. Bacon said:
Mr.. President and gentlemen of the
joint assembly: I wish to bring be.
fore you the name of a gentleman
whom I think it would take the abil-
ity and talent Of a Blaine or Garfield
to do justice on an occasion of this
kind. He is q gentleman with whom
l have been acquainted ever since I
was four or five years old. He is one
to whom none a ever point to as
ever having done a dishonorable act.
He came to Waverly, Iowa, from a
farm and entered school, from which
he graduated. After graduation he
filled the Office of clerk Of the court.
The gentlemen of this assembly are
all well acquainted with his career
since he has been here. While he is
not exactly an orator, he is q gentle
man of great business ability, and
one who could appear before the SEN
ate of the United States with great
credit to the state of North Dakota.
l think as a business man he has no
superior in this great commonwealth,
and very few equals. He never loses
sight of the most minute details of
any business proposition. He is we'll
acquainted with foreign affairs and
with the demands oft he future. I
think, from the demonstration he
made two years ag owhen this great
state hung almost in the balance, that
every republican can point to him
with pride and say that his was the
guiding hand that set North Dakota
in the ranks of republicanism with
the other great states of the nation. l
tell you, gentlemen, when the state of
North Dakota, after being in the po-
sitiOn it q about four weeks be-
fore election two years ago, was land
ed with a percentage of majority
greater than the old states Of Illinois
and Iowa, that some ones hand guild
ed and engineered that campaign in
such a way that it reflected credit on
every republican of this state.
I think, if the gentleman is elected
to the office of United States senator,
everyone will be pleased after six
years. 1 nominate Hon. E. c. Cooper
of Grand Forks.
Mr.. Murphy seconded the nomina-
ton of Mr.. Cooper.
HON. DENNIS HANNAFIN.
Mr.. Creel did not join the Roach
force He had IL candidate of his own.
He said:
l have prepared no speech today, but
| will say that if we were not in North
Dakota I would think that Montana
methods had prevailed. The official re.
cord shows that my candidate received
one vote yesterday, and, his name has
been omitted from the tally sheet. This
may result in serious injury to him, but
Notwithstanding this, I desire to place
his lame in nomination here today. If
brevity shall be the soul of wit, 1 shall
be witty. Fervid oratory has described
the various attributes of different candi-
dates. My candidate has each and
every n of those attributes. I am safe
in saying that if elected, he will be in
touch with Mckinley and I believe Nc
kinley will be in touch with him. His
name has long been known throughout
this country, from the mighty Pacific to
the ebbing tides of the Atlantic, and as
a representative of the Queen city of the
inland sea, in the northern part of this
state, | bring greeting across the state to
the Missouri slope. I, too, sympathize
with the orator from this county, and
say you have done much for the republi-
can party, and if you have, we, as repre-
sentatives in the northern tier, are will
ing to second your motion, and if you
want a representative from the slope you
can have it in my candidate.
Last Sunday I went to visit the old
site at Fort Lincoln. I could not but
think of the times passed by, when gal
liant officers and gay horses and mar
tial music spread over the plain of that
magnificent post. Today all is deserted
and gone-everything but a few trees.
They came, fulfilled their mission; many
of the officers are dead and buried; the
rest that are living are scattered over
this broad land. Before they came, dur
ing the fulfllment of their mission,
and today my candidate was and is a