The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1907-11-22
AS Viewed by a Citizen of
Kramer.
FOUR CANDIDATES
H. c. HansbrOugh, NJ. N. johnson,
G. b. Little, and ThOS Mar
shall in the Race.


North Dakota politics and po-
liticians seem to be consider
ably stirred up these days over
the L. 5. senatorial situation
and the various candidates for
that office who have, up to
date, announced themselves as
active seekers after that high
office.
Perhaps this communication
coming from one who has lived
in the state for over twenty
years and who knows the var
ious candidates personally may
not be altogether aniss.
The candidates are, as every
body knows, the present in
cumbent of the office, Hon. II.
6. Hansbrough, of Devils Lake,
Congressman Tom Marshall, of
Oakes, ex-Congrcssman Martin
N. Johnson, of Petersburg and
Hon. 6. b. Little, of Bismarck.
Senator Hansbrough has been
repeatedly and continuously ell
ected to the office since we be-
came a state and has, on the
whole, worked hard for his
constituents and has been a
potent factor in the buildingup
of the state as it is today, while
by no means a brilliant man,
such as Beveridge, Knox, Bal
ly and others he has at all
times displayed good common
sense and has won the respect
and confidence of the members
of the Senate generally. He
has place on important COM
mittees and is chairman of the
committee on Public Lands,
which, in view of the investiga-
tions now being made into var
ious land frauds, is a very i'm
portant one indeed. Every
settler on the public domain in
North Dakota ought to feel
grateful to him for his efforts
in getting the land laws relaxed
last winter so that they could
leave their claims for a time
and not be subject to contest
and we believe from the ex-
pressions we have heard that
they are and will show their
appreciation at the proper time.
Then again, though he has for
many years associated with the
intellectual lights of the land
fand those who are called great
he is sill the plain, approach
able citizen he was twenty
years ago. There is nothing Of
the snob about him, He is a
good mixer and North Dakota
will not lose anything if she
again elects him in March 1909,
Ex-congressman johnson re-
presented the State in the Ma
tional House of Representatives
for six years and then conclud-
ed that his services and abilit-
les were entitled to higher
recognition and so made race
for the United States Senate;
but the State Legislature of
1898 did not put the same val
uation upon Mr.. Johnson's SER
vices as he did and Hon. p. J.
McCumber was elected to fill
the place and the state has had
no cause to regret that choice.
Since Mr.. Hansbrough, if one
can put any confidence in the
newspapers of the state, his
senatorial balloon has been
slowly but surely collapsing
and now one scarcely hears his
name mentioned. His erst-
while friends, the insurgents,
have forsaken him and gone
over to Marshall horse, foot
and dragons.
Truly the Petersburg states
man may say like another
whose towering ambition led
him too far, This is the state
of man; today he put forth:
The tender leaves of hope. tomorrow
blossoms,
| And bears his blushing honors thick upon
/ AK him:
The third day, comes frost. chilling
| frost:
And-when he thinks, good easy man. full
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