Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-06-09

! as whole to consider the benefit Of
having its representative in positions
of prominence and influence and to
claim and receive value from the long
service and ability of its senators.
In the lower house North Dakota
has two energetic and capable repre-
sentatives. Congressman Marshall
has had the advantage Of several
years of experience. v He is untiring
and his efforts are of value to North
Dakota. Congressman Gronna is serv-
ing his first term but he has familiar
lied himself with his work and is
energetic and his services have been
and will be valuable to North Dakota.
Working tremendously together, in
positions of influence and leadership,
the state delegation is eminently
qualified to achieve legislation that
| will result to the benefit of the state
and for that reason the sober, sound
| sense of the whole people should be
brought to bear in deciding the ques-
ton of who shall represent them in
congress, to the end that the matter
may be decided wisely and for the
good of the state, and not because of
| the effect of insistent and persistent
SANDERS on the part of muck raking
newspapers and public speakers,
| whose chief aim is to tear down and
not to build up. =.
The state has in it's executive, Gov
ernor Sarles, man of splendid in
tegrity and probity, man Of keen
business acumen, of uprightness and
ability. He has brought into the ad-
ministration of state affairs a frmness
and determination for the conduct of
state business upon the same lines
that private enterprises are conducted
Under his administration, the state
has received value for every dollar ex-
pended. He is entitled to renomin-
alton by his party by every consider
ton of fairness, public policy and re-
gard for faithful public service. There
is virtually, no opposition to him ex-
cept that which has been sought to
be created by few disappointed, dis
gruntled and carping office seekers,
whose aim is to wreck, If possible,
| the party organization of the state, in
the hope that they may find some loot
of Office in: the disaster. ~
| It is not true that public officials in
North Dakota are and have been cor.
rupt and unmindful of their obliga-
tons to the people of the state. It is
not true that North Dakota has been
looted by the officials who have been
chosen by the republican organization
since statehood. It is true that some
of the men engaged in inveighing
; most loudly against the present ore.
publican administration have been
proven guilty Of practices not entirely
to their credit 1t is enough to say
that these men are out of office-as
they should be, and it is their desire
to get back in that lies at the bottom
of their sudden and intense desire
for reform <s@#s 8 2a,s. II. ,f...sG g.
/ The state of North Dakota has ad.
| vanced steadily during it's career as a
state. Its institutions have fourished
1t has gained substantial benefit from
legislation enacted by the national
congress. There are on its statute
books no laws favoring class as over
class, individuals as over individuals
or corporations as over other corpora.
tons or individuals. Its taxes are
fairly levied. It's property is fairly
valued. Its finances are in good con
dition. On many matters OF public
tpolicy 1t has taken advanced ground
SO much SO that it is warmly com
mended by publicists and economists
!. 1t is not the hiving place and breeding
. ground for filth, corruption and rotten
ness that it is pictured by the es
1 Unable gentlemen who are makins
!, their venomous and slanderous cam
paign against the present administra
J ton. Its public men are decent and
upright. g The voters Of the stats
should at the Forthcoming primary
election administer rebuke to the
element that is blaekening the state il
e che eyes of the nation and by theil
IVotes declare that a clean, fair and
honest administration of state affairs
is deserving Of Endorsement.
i ,~ NOTICE OF