Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1910-09-29
c. s. HACER DENIES
GOV. BURKE'S CHARGE
OF THE WALSH COUNTY
RECORD DENIES HE WILFUL.
LY MIsREPREsENTED
GOV. BURKE

Bismarck, N. D., Sept. 20, 1910.
To the Honorable John Burke, Gov
;; ernor of North Dakota.
The Fargo Daily News of Septem-
Der 21st quotes you with having made
the following statement in your
speech at Tower City, Cass county,
September Goth:
.'The state home for the feeble
minded is located at Grafton, and
after reading some of the editorials
in the Grafton Record have arrived
at the conclusion that it is a good
thing that the editor is located handy
to, this institution. He has WILFUL-
LY MISREPRESENTED me in regard
to the appropriation for the Grafton
home for feeble minded and Is trying
to create feeling against me in that
section by such methods.
ssHe must have WILFULLY MIS-
REPRESENTED ME-, because if he
had read enough of the bill to gain
the information he printed he must
have read enough to know that he
omitted the greater part Of it in his
paper"
Inasmuch as the Fargo Daily News
is a democratic paper and is support
ing your candidacy in this campaign
I assume you have not been misquot-
ed.
The institution of Feeble Minded is
humane institution made necessary
by the misfortune of the mental de-
fectives II our state. The object and
purpose of this institution is in har-
mony with modern ideas of humanity
and charity. The citizens of Grafton
are pleased that it Is located there
and take pride in contributing In
whatever degree they can to the COM
fort and care of these unfortunate
wards of our commonwealth. Under
these circumstances feel that I can
without any sacrifice of pride or digni-
ty pass over the gratuitous slur you
offered both to this worthy institution
and a resident of Grafton when you
congratulated your hearers that my
residence is in the same city in which
this institution is located.
To your assertion that I 'WILFUL-
LY MIsREPRESENTED" in regard
to the appropriations for the In
stitution for Feeble Minded, I wish
to state that you are entirely wrong.
I not only read through carefully the
bill under discussion before writing
my editorial, but as president of the
board of trustees of the Institution
for Feeble Minded assisted in max
ing up the items that went into the
bill and was perfectly familiar with
its provisions.
If you had read even hurriedly but
understandingly J my editorial you
must have seen that was not dis
cussing the general itemsNof the ap-
preparation bill, such as maintenance,
salaries, etc., but was only discuss
ing the items for "NECESSARY I'M
[PROvEMENTs." The Introductory
sentence of the paragraph which crit
icised your veto Of items of this bill
reads as follows: 'The Institution
for Feeble Minded located at Grafton.
was granted the following sums for
...NECEssARYs IMPROVEMENTS .: !
Then the Items amounting to- $25,-
600 were enumerated and also the
amount vetoed. So you must see.
since have called it to your attention
that / did not "WILFULLY MIsREP-
RESENT, you, but on the contrary,
you have misrepresented me. !
know you will do me this justice to
tell the people Of Tower City. through.
the colums OF their local paper, the
Topics, that you were led into error
By failure to read carefully my edi-:
toria1 before you discussed it In your
address, or that you made your state
ment that / "WILFULLY MIsREP-
RESENTED you upon unfounded
rumor Of unreliable information.
since you have dignihed my edi-
torial by attempting to explain away
q part OF this criticism OF your of
|ficial act, will you kindly tell the peo-'
Die, ,of the State Of North Dakota why
You vetoed opriations for many 11l' 2