Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-12-21

| Or COttOIl PEI IuudOildil Aoo oloo pSo'i
increasing, or else we have allowed
ourselves to be misled by the export
trade of years when bad harvest
season spoiled the average.
Col. Joe Bloom of the Devils Lake
Journal appears to have a grievance
against CONGRESSMAN Hanna and he
takes some space in the Devils Lake
! Journal to show that Mr.. Hanna got
very light vote at the recent cleo
tiou, Bloom notes that with the ex-
r..ption of Hclgeson. who was also a
candidate for congress. Hanna got a
lower total vote than any OF the Re
publican state candidates who were
elected All of this is deceptive rea-
soning. Bloom knows that no cam
paigu was made by the Democrats
except for governor and congressman.
For state offices, the democrats did
not campaign at all. So all of the
democratic orators combined their eft
forts on these three places. and 1t IS
natural that. considering the tariff
agitation fostered by the democrats
and some Of the insurgent repub-
lirans. and the combined efforts OF all
the democratic speakers. the candi-
dates for state office on the repub-
lican ticket who were practically I'M
opposed should have received heav-
Ter total vote than the candidates for
congress. And considering all the
noise and fuss that was made regard
ing the tariff and the cost of living,
We think the republican candidates
for congress did mighty well. Bloom
makes another misleading statement
when he says that the stalwarts of
the state cut Helgeson's vote. Stall
warts have been pretty loyal repub-
licans when it comes to supporting
republican candidates, and they voted
Loyalty for Mr.. Helgeson as party
nominee. And if they had been dis
posed to cut any of their nominees
for congress. in whose favor would !
they have done tin favor of NJ. A.
F1ildrcth, the wild and untamed vocal
list of the Cass county prairies. or To-
bias Casey, whose ,]effersonian dem
ocracy will go untarnished and I'M
smirched down the corridors of time?
Bloom is a mean commentator when
he gets a grievance aboard and his
mcanness shows in his comments on :
t he Hanna vote.
We note with interest the number !
OF great and near great public men
who go about at banquets and meet
ings and talk long and loud Of the !,
of the soil and our national
farm waste, the necessity for conserv. ,
alton Of farm wealth and the millions !
upon millions of dollars we are losing !
because we do not conserve
he fertility of the soil All of these
are being made with the /,
air of first discovery and the great
and near great public men are lauded
as statesmen of large proportions We
note this with interest because we
distinctly how Mr.. James J.
Hill of the Great Northern road used
to be considered as the main devil of
the agricultural world, with the wick
eldest horns and the most dangerous
ways, and how in those days he be-
gan telling the farmers and the people
Of the country generally that We were
wasting our heritage and that we
needed conservation of our farm
wealth more than anything else. Mr..
Hill was one of the real discoveries
Of the need of conservation in this
He talked it at cross roads
and farmers meetings and at gather
ngs of fnanciers when some of our
statesmen and our near statesmen
we're wondering what line of talk
would get the most votes at the next
Election. Mr.. Hill is business man,
l real prophet, a statesman and an I
Some very small men {
AVE been getting notoriety by read
ng over Mr.. Hills old speeches and
ringing them out as "discoveries."
In passing over our exchanges we :
tote with pleasure the improved tone
If the Earrn News which after 111any