The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1909-07-01
LETS IN LIGHT ON
CAMPAIGN TACTICS
Senator Hansbrough Comes
Back at Political Detracters
in Singing Letter.
The Machine Fears a Combin.
alton of Marshall-G -Gronna-
Hansbrough Interests.

8ClO0 OF M8TS0au.ltCO0Ua
Hansbrough Interests.
One of interesting communications to
the history of affairs political in the
state is a letter written by Ex-senator
Hansbrough to a friend in the state
and published in the Fargo Searchlight
of last Saturday. 1tappears that there
had been an attempt on the part of the
old machine to make quarrel between
Hansbrough and Marshall, by the CIV
ing to the press of the east the state
ment supposed to have been made by
Marshall that Hansbrough was 'politi-
cally a dead one" This clumsy trick
was easily done away with when Mr..
Marshall denied eyer having made such
a statement. And Mr.. Hansbrough
shows, in his letter, his understanding
of the impulse and motive of the trick,
and then proceeds to show up the
machine in this state and in Washing
ton in no uncertain manner. Knowing
as much as he does about the inner
workings of that ring, his statements
will be received with unusual attention
and as they are in perfect alignment
with the idea generally formed through
out the state, they will clinch and con-
firm in the popular mind all that has
gone before. This is Mr.. Hansbrough's
letter. as published in the Searchlight:
81 am less disturbed about these
campaign yarns than the good people
of North Dakota appear to be about
certain persons who are now misrep-
resenting them in the senate of the
United States.
The attempt that is being made by
the Washington press bureau of the
North Dakota political machine to dis
parage and discredit me is not likely to
serve the purpose of distracting at
tention from the utter failure of the
machine men here to secure relief from
the tariff exactions of the trusts and
monopolies. l have been surprised,
and have no doubt that the people of
our state have been surprised, to find
our two votes in the senate recorded
along with high tariff votes of those
who are engaged in the work of upward
revision in the face of the pledge of
the party and it's candidates for lower
rates of duty.
I am sure that the people Of North
difference between the attitude of our
South Dakota. Iowa, Nebraska, Wis
consin and other western states. It is
we'll understood here how the railroad
power Of the country has Joined its
forces with those of the manufacturing
interests to perpetuate the high rates
Of duty, and how, through a ludicrous
increase of duties on certain agricul-
tural products that are not affected by
the tariff, the North Dakota farmers
have been forced into partnership with
monopolies that thrive by prohibitive
rates of duty. How is it possible for
any senator who was weak enough to
walk into this kind of trap to consist
emily contend for lower duties on trust
made products?
While wheat remains on the free list
to the miller under the drawback
clause-as it certainly will in the new
tariff law-what benefit does the
wheat raiser derive from an increase
in the duty? Our member of the
finance committee might have made
it $50 per bushel instead of 80 cents,
because the wheat importing miller will
get the duty back anyway. The
farmer who buys his seed in Canada
will now pay 80 cents per bushel in
stead of 25 cents, the rate in the Ding
ley law. Why was this done and
why will the new drawback law be
like the old one? For two reasons
first to justify the new high rates
on manufactures, and second to help
the railroads that will haul wheat from
Canada-two tariff lemons from the
same tree plucked by single hand!
And SO it will be in regard to fed
eral grain inspection. The railroads
and the elevators will have their way,
and the farmer will continue to be re-
galed by the cheap big talk" about it
over bill that, he'd it been drawn by
the elevator companies themselves,
could not have been better suited to
their purposes. This bill is the best
example of the devious method of
chow not to do it" that has been be-
fore the American congress in many
years.
So while the machine bureau here
is engaged in putting me in the
down and out class" l am still able
to sit up and notice q few things
that are going on. My interest in
North Dakota has not ceased by any
means, and I have not entered into
partnership with New York law firm,
as the machine bureau recently re-
ported. I am not a lawyer.
am still resident of North Dakota,
and pride myself that until a portion OF
the people Of the state allowed them.
selves to be deceived and befuddled by
the trust and monopoly interests, ]
accomplished few things in legisla-
tive way that was Of real advantage to
them.
Very truly yours,
H. c. Hansbrough.