Bismarck daily tribune., 1912-05-08
political Advertisement.)
CANDIDATE For CONGRESS

AS the various presidential prim'
aries are mostly thing of the past,
We naturally now consider who shall
be our coming state and county oftic-
ials. Among other things this new
Second Congressional District must
name in June and elect in November
a representative to our national Con-
gress. To that end l announce N.Y.
self candidate to that high office
subject to your approval or disap-
proval June 26th next.
My time will be practically all at
your disposal as l am not now en-
gagel in any active business and l
bring to you the experience of neary
an ordinary life time devoted to vari'
GUS business enterprises, after hav'
ing grown to mans estate on farm,
to be at your and my command in
judging what measures may or may
not be beneficial for our state and
ourselves.
believe that the fundamental prin.
ciple of our government should be
the greatest good to the greatest
number and my motto if elected
or not-shall be For all the people
all the time. The interests of the
people must be paramount. am
against special privileges. know OF
no class entitled to legislation in their
favor, unless-if any there be-is
the farmer-the only class that never
has organized trust-the class that
has been putting up their money for
fifty years to protect the American
workman as against foreign goods
and yet having to market their own
products at the price of the free trade
markets and getting no advantages of
protection for themselves until the
past three years.
The principles of the republican
party have been essentially three
the abollshing Of slavery-the gold
standard-and a protective duty to
foster home manufactures and pro-
tect our workmen. We had thought
the party had all this accomplished,
but somehow there has crept into
our body polite way of unduly
enriching the employee OF labor at
the expense of us, the consumers.
1t is now highly necessary to get this
righted. The Payne-AIdrich tariff
bill is not good-it needs to be right
ed-a tariff is a necessity. How high
it is on silks and diamonds and other
luxuries consumed by the rich, we
care not, but on goods manufactured
in this country it should be just suf
ficient to pay the workman good
wages, a fair compensation to the
employee and to keep foreign made
out. We farmers have signified by
large majorities for years our willing
ness to pay such price for Ameri.
can manufactured goods as shall sup
port such price and tariff regula-
tion and all we ask in return is that
these same workmen whom we have
been protecting shall pay US such a
price for our wheat that they con-
sumo in the shape of flour and bread
that shall protect US without bring
ing in grain and other farm produce
raised in other countries free Of duty.
My life has been as near as pos
sible an open book and propose to
stand in the open fearless for the
right. l am a candidate as a repub-
lican representing the republican par
ty-a party which was originated in
progression and always has been a
progressive party, and now is and
must continue to be. I cannot take
the space here to discuss all the is-
sues raised by politicians and candi-
dates and want to say to the voters
of this district that I will from time
to time and as the occasion merits,
discuss vital issueS=hut regardleas