The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-10-27
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d democrats have centered their fire o.
t Hon. l.. B. Hanna, and it is believed
they will make an effort to induce re.
publicans to do vote trading at the No.
vember election in the interest Of Col.
onel Hildreth OF Fargo We think the,
) viii lind that the republicans are not
3 In the trading business. They will
ind 1t difficult to convince the people
OF North Dakota that it would be wist
70 elect a new man in the place d
Congressman Hanna who has done SC
much for the people of the state.
Hon. L. b. Hanna has introduced a
great many very important bills IN
congress-many of which have become
/ laws.
All requests have been taken care OF
promptly by him and not letter has
been allowed to remain unanswered,
and he received more than $4,000 OF
them in fifteen months and most Of
them while congress was in session.
He has helped settlers in 297 land
cases where proofs have been held UP.
He has looked after great many
patent matters, pension cases and i'm
migrant cases.
he has sent out by request thou
sands of government bulletins, soil
maps, year books, cattle and horse
books, and no request has ever been
made Of him by anyone that he has
not taken care of promptly.
| If he is re- elected he has promised
a continuation of these services. and
his acquaintance and experience in
Washington during his first term in
congress, places him in position to be
able to do more for the people in the
state than is possible to do as a new
member
committee and committee on Indian
committee and committee on milan
affairs. Before the committee on agri-
culture, come all bills relating to plant
disease, soil survey experiments in
making paper from wheat and flax
straw, good roads bills, animal indus
try, forestry, gambling in grain, many
of the pure food laws, creamery but
ter against oleomargarine, and every
kind of legislation of a similar nature.
He is the only representative in con-
gress from North Dakota who has ever
been member of this, the most i'm
portant committee for an agricultural
state.
There is no better man in the state
for this position than Hon. L. b. Han
ma. Vote for him on Nov. s.
Cooperstown Courier: when I was
elected to the office there were two
hundred and sixty convicts in the state
penitentiary. Today there are only
two hundred and sixteen, and / am
sure that you will agree with me that
the best way to prevent crime is to en-
force the law"
So spoke Governor Burke in one of
his recent addresses. Sounds good to
you farmers, doesn't it? 1t is only an
other misleading subterfuge to try and
get your vote away from the repub-
lican nominee, G. A. Johnson. A re-
publican legislature has passed a pa
role law which gives judges the power
to pass what lis called intermediate
sentences and under this law pris-
oners. can be paroled from the state
prison pending their good behavior.
This law is under control of a state
board of which the governor is a mem
Der. Forty prisoners were discharged
from the state penitentiary at one time
by this state board on parole and the
governor voted to let them go so that
1t will readily be seen that ii was not
lowing to the good management of the |
governor or the warden of the peni-
Tertiary that there are less inmates i'm |
the state prison, but is directly due to |
the new parole law The governor knew |
but wasn't honest enough to say So |
This state board was created by a re- |
publican legislature and if any credit |
at all is due it is to that body who |
gave the pardoning board the power |
to let some of these unfortunates go |
on good behavior But the point the
governor tried to make was that under
his administration criminality in this
state had been lessened but such is
not the fact. Take in the governors
own county of Ramsey, short time |
ago man was murdered by the blind |
pig element and the life of one of the
fearless editors threatened and an as l.
tault made on this editor for his call
ing on the people and authorities to
rise up and suppress crime and blind
plggism in Devils Lake-the home of |,
this law enforcing governor. Why |,
wasn't the law enforced in Ramsey
county if the governor and his official
attorney general have been so good at Il
1t? Since all this happened the attor-
ney general spurred on by the awak-
ening of the people of Devils Lake, has
gone up there and Is doing his duty 4
Why didn't the governor send him h
there before all these crimes hap II
pened? There is jut as much blind pig h
ging done in some parts of the state
under Burke as under any of our prev ,
ious governors, Why is Griggs county I
SO free from. blind pigging and crime /