Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1908-08-13
ELECTION ECHO
One Of the Political Chapters in
the Senatorial Struggle
in This State.

in This State.
The Grand Forks correspondent of
the St. Paul Dispatch says: Geo. B..
Winship has shown that he is one of
the shrewdest and deepest political
thinkers in the state. There has
been bitter feud between Hans
brough and Winship ever since Hans
brough came to the state. Hans
brough started weekly paper in
Grand Forks, and Immediately COM
menced newspaper war.on Winship,
which was kept up presistently until
Hansbrough was elected to congress.
Then there was partial truce for a
time, but each kept close watch OF
the other.
The slick Hansbrough tried to han
dicap Winship by having him ap-
pointed receiver of the o. S. land
Office at Grand Forks. Winship could
not stand for the methods of the
.sgang'' and the dictations of the
bosses, and resigned the receivership.
The relations between Winshir and
Hansbrough Immediately became
strained. Hansbrough finding that
he could not control the policy Of
Winship's paper, organized the
Grand Forks Evening Times, he and
his friends making their boasts that
they would put the Grand Forks
Herald out of business. This was
more than Winship could stand, and
necessity being the mother Of in
vention,'' his genius was drawn up
on, and he commenced the laying of
plans to defeat Hansbrough.
The far seeing Winship, knowing
that Tom Marshall was fairly popu-
lar in the state, and had the major
portion of the postoffice patronage of
I the state, decided that Marshall
would be strong candidate for the
senate against Hansbrough.
While Winship was opposed to Nc
Kenzie politically, the. personal and
social relations between them were
most cordial. t.ss 5is5
When Mckenzie was sent tc jail in
California for contempt of court.
Winship went to California and called
to see him and offered to assist him
in any way he could. Mckenzie has
never forgotten this kindness, and
when Hansbrough was organizing the
Evening Times he requested Nc
Kenzie to take stock in the paper,
and Mckenzie refused. Hansbrough
then requested Mckenzie to see some
OF the federal officials and use his in
!, fluence as national committeeman to
have them take stock in the Times.
4 This Mckenzie declined to do. This
was probably the first time that Nc
Kenzie declined to obey the wishes
of the senior senator, and he became
angered at Mckenzie and was more
determined than ever TO, 60 through
with the project. He Immediately
began representing that G rand Forks
was much in need Of a strong Repub-
lican newspaper, as the Winship pa
per was too much Of a mug-Wump
sheet. But the slick Hansbrough
kept 81 per cent Of the Times stock,
and when any of the officials, politi-
clans or officehold lders who had taken
stock in the Times did not work in
harmony with his policies, the inf1u-
ence Of the Times was turned against
them, as in the case of Congressman
Gronna, who subscribed for SC, 600 Of
the stock and paid for the same in
full. When Gronna refused to be
\ dictated to by III sbrough h, the in
u fluence of the Times was against him
4 and has been against him ever since.
s5i Winship began TO widen the breach
between Nc Kenzie and Hansb rough,
and when y. B. Little announced
5E5 himself Il as; a senatorial candidate,
Winship outraged and published
many nice things about him. Know
IS inghe d 4 teal between. Little and
ag H ansbrough five years ago, he dis.
counted what ~ Mel Kenzle would do.
The deal was that Little was to
throw his strength i To- Hanbsroug
thereby giving Hansbrough y " mani; INF;
Il nous election. Hansb ough led Lit.
u tie to believe, that he would not be- 8
.5ss8 candi date again, and that he would
q supper little. q Nc Kenzie, being
Hansbr Dug n . Inanag ger sat that time,