The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1908-01-03
A. Shown by the Kramer Citi-
zen are Convincing.
ABOUT JAS. J. HILL
Says That Mr.. Hill is and always
Has Been for the Best In
terpstS OF North Dakota
TO The COurant:

10 ne AOuTlIlt.
The Omemee Herald's APP
pology for The Hon. Thos. +.
Marshall furnishing transporta-
ton, and other necessary things
to those who attended the
Grand Forks aggregation Of
political nistits is ingenious to
say the least 1t only needs a
little reading between lines to
convince one the The Hon.
Thomas put up the dough III
order to have Il united Conven-
ton, or indorsing meeting, as
the insurgents do not seem to
like the name of convention,
that would be favorable to his
candidacy for the United States
Senate.
However, that meeting has
passed into history and the re-
suits will show at the primar-
les in the proper time.
implicitly the railroads of the
State are charged with deliver
ing transportation to those who
constitute the old gang, s"-call-
ed.
Your correspondent we'll re-
members that this was the
slogan of diseruntled politicians
III the early nineties when the
populists were howling about
Jim Hill and his railroad: s, S,c.>
+ that tl'iit tie pqopie Of tl,;Ss
state have. learned that MIR.
Hill is their friend aid js in:
stant in season and out of sea-
son to better the conditions of
the farmers of this State. No
intelligent man can say TODAY
n ut the influence Of the
ex-presidcnt Of the G.. N rail-
way has not been for the best
interests Of the settlers along
his line of railway
Facts are coming to lis gv4ry
day showing that he has d6nt.
more to restore confidence irl
modern business methods dur
ing our late panic than any
other person in the north west.
1t Mr.. Hill deserves nothing
more at the hands of the people
OF this great state than abuse
and insinuation, conveyed to
the people in short newspaper
that he is irving
to control the political situation
in this state, then are we short
sighted indeed.
The whole insuryent claim
to political preferment is based
On the assumption that we have
great corporations in this state
who are bound to opprees the
people through their legislature
and State officials. In other
words they are trying to draw
parralel between the state of
Wisconsin and the conditions
hat prevail there and our own.
Nothing can be further from
he truth We have no large
manufacturing, or other cor
in this state: and the
prevailing here and
n Wisconsin are as dissimilar
IS we'll may be. ..
VI course we have three
rans-contiental lines of railway
unnlng through the state and
hey have millions of dollars
invested here; and if they are
ooklng to see that no adverse
egislation is. enacted they are
tut trying to do what every
tf1er man engaged in business
trying g to do-protect his
ights:s
/ am not the appologist for
he railroads, or any other cor
oration but I do declare. that
. me it seems that the actions
+ the insurgents, so-called, is
to the best interests
f4every farmer and businesa
1an In the state. Another
hing that [ notice is that those
mo pay the least taxes are the
trongest kickers, at least that
so in the county of Botti-
eau, ~, ~. s
lhe records of this county
~ show that some of those
no are now heading the in
urgent movement here have