Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-01-21

same as you haye-to use my judgment
when alone in the booth casting my
vote. There will again be a set of Off
GERS elected in Nelson county, aud a
set of state officers in the state-1 have
right and duty to vote on those ques-
tions-I have no right to command an
other mans vote on that question:
have no authority to command other
mems votes on that question, have
committed myself as to one man.
A member of this state senate dur
ing the campaign, when we were work.
ing together, told me that if was
elected he would very much like to get
help from me for friend of his at the
next primary election. I asked him who
it was and when he told me who it was
Il wrote letter to this senator, who
is now here, and told him would
vote for his man at the next primary
election. l gave away no rights but my
own in doing so. give permission to
publish that letter in the Tribune to-
morrow if the senator wishes to do SO.
Now, as to appointive Offices, when ]
was member of congress there were
a good many Offices to fill and friend
of mine, Republican and a competent
man, asked me for a recommendation
and I gave it to him; President Harri-
son appointed him to an Office in this
state-a land Office. He has always
been my friend outside: OF politics, and
during this campaign, long before the
primaries, without any solicitation. on
my part, we we're planning and working
together. l said if you want recon-
mendation again and my recommend
will do you any good you are just as
much welcome to it to the next presi-
dent as YOU were to Gen. Harrison.
He thanked me. l am going to keep
these two promises unless these. two
men do something meantime to justify
me in withdrawing my promise. !
You, gentlemen of the legislature,
have given me this great trust-you had
constitutional right to withhold that
vote. ] solicited your votes and wrote
to every one of you to ask you for your
votes-all but two men who failed to get
the letters and these two letters went to
the dead letter Office and came back to
me-and with these two exceptions !
have asked you all for your vote. Yes
terday you gave the same answer to that
solicitation of Our household faith.
I ask you to bear me witness as now
bear witness for you to your constitu-
ents, that none of these members of the
legislature of North Dakota attached
any condition whatever to their prom
Uses to support me and will say, too,
that I made no promises to any of these
men, and that in consideration of their
vote / should be their servant. That
same principle applies to every voter of
this state as it does to you. A@.-r
If I make any mistakes, if I do
wrong and fail to protect the honor and
rights of the people of this state as it
should be, don't excuse me by saying
"he was tied up and could not help
himself" I was not tied up, beyond
the honorable Obligations of party fell
lowship that would appeal to every man
with conscience. .-s.
Among the great rewards that ! treas
ured more than the monthly check that
ever got as public servant, the last
ing, permanent satisfaction of the pub |
lie servant, was to have had the honor
in your cause and by your votes to
have served my country in that company
of influential and, intelligent men, in
Guiding such men as Blaine, Sherman, |
Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, !
William Mckinley, Nelson Ding1ey, |
and a long list of names of those Amer
lean statesmen who have now been CALI
ed to their reward. These men seemed |
when in their working
every day clothes. We consulted to-
gether every day about the welfare Of |
the country in peace and war, as you
are doing from day to day here, and
now as these names are gone into his
tory and given true perspective we
all know they will stand out in glory
and honor and equal to. any of the
great men in the history Of our. coun-
try. a-s T.. ...s. e. 8
That is reward worth striving for.
and the same is true of you, common,
ordinary working statesmen and politi-
clans here today. We are prone 70 |
think that in the day Of Webster, Clay
and Calhoun-they were the :idolized
heads Of the American republic. don't
know who they are now, but your chill
dren and my children are likely to place
Upon that roll the men now. living
such men as Roosevelt, Taft, Dolliverl
Of Iowa, Nelson Of Minnesota and tie
new Senator Root Of New York many
men Of that class having The safe keep
ing OF the honor and happiness Of our
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