Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-12-21
GOVERNORS TRIP
Was GREAT SUCCESS
EASTERN PEOPLE WARMED UP
QUICKLY TO OCCASION OF
VISIT,
Only Best OF Feeling Now Prevail.
Between the Two Extreme Sec
tons Of the Nation.

J., Governor John Burke, who returned
home yesterday with party from an
extensive trip of invasion through the
eastern states during the past three
weeks, was at his Office this morn
ing, and laid aside the mass Of cor
respondence that had accumulated
during his absence long enough to
tell newspaper reporters something
of his visit to practically all of the
commercial centers of this country.
The governor stated that while the
visit of the western governors was
taken somewhat coolly upon their
first arrival it only required an ap.
portunity for the governors of the
west to make few addresses when
the people back in the old states
warmed up to the occasion and
learned that they needed the people
Of the west fully as much as we need
ed the people of the east. Eastern
papers had taken the opportunity to
warn their people not to be lured by
the glowing tales that might be
poured out to them relative to this
great western country, but the people
soon learned that it was to their ad-
vantage to learn something of this
section of the country.
Governor Burke did not antagonize
whatever ideas they had of the west,
but at every opportunity he had to
talk he urged cooperation between
the east and the west, and it did not
take the people there long to learn
that the west afforded great oppor-
tunities for wide market, and that
we could be of great assistance in
supplying food products for the great
ly congested manufacturing centers
of the east.
The people soon discovered that
the visit of the western governors in
their territory meant mutual benefit,
and the resentment was soon dis
PEELED, and everywhere the western.
ers went they were welcomely re.
ceived and royalty entertained.
Nothing during the entire trip &C.
cured in the way Of mishaps. there
was no friction of any kind, and the
best of feeling existed throughout,
and as a result all of the governors
making up the train became warm
friends. Politics were not |
touched upon, and only at Baltimore
was the subject approached and then
by some of the governors of the |
south. Good weather prevailed and
the temperature was most pleasant !
1t had not frozen up back east and |
most places work was still being per- |
formed in the fields of the farms. |
The only storm encountered was at
Buffalo, and that was only furry !
of snow. At Indianapolis the govern
ors made it a point to visit James |
Whitcomb Riley, and they paid their !
respects to the universal humorist |
who is now suffering with paralysis.
While at Washington they succeeded !
in arranging with Secretary of the
Interior Fisher who came west to |
meet them at St. Paul and confer
with them on matters relating to con-
servation.
The governor stated as a result of
the visit east only the best of feel
ing now exists between the east and
the west, and this country here is
bound to reap a great benefit, be-
cause the east now fully realizes
what an advantageous opportunity is
afforded within, our borders and an
endless number of people will sooner
or later come here seeking homes.
Governor Burke, while he has been |
through the east on many previous |
occasions, says this last one was a
great revelation to him and all of the |
party who made up the special train,
and while he enjoyed It thoroughly |
he was more than pleased to get back !
home among his own people.