Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1912-03-07
ENDORSE CANDIDACY
OF ]. A. BUCHANAN
MEETING OF sTUTsNIAN CoUN.
TY BUCHANAN PROGRESS.
sIVE CLUB TO ENDORSE
NATIVE SON

SIVE CLUB TO ENDORSE
NATIVE SON
The meeting called at the court
house Thursday evening by the Stuts-
tdlan County Buchanan-Progressive
Club was fairly well attended, there
being number of farmers, residents
of jamestown including several la
dies and also many of the county can
didates. Resolutions heartily endors-
ing James A. Buchanan for govc..1t
nor of North Dakoto .ao11oA'.s
mously adopted ,.ssooS - the
set speeches sew ksfsonal friends
and acquaintances of Mr.. Buchanan
testified as to his character and
qualifications, the principal address
of the evening being by Emerson H.
Smith of Fargo, chairman of the Cass
County Progressive Republican club.
About Is were present.
In the absence of President J. U.
Hemmi of the Stutsman County Bu-
chanan Club, the meeting was called
to order by Atty. J. w. Carr who
stated that the club was organized
for the express purpose of endors-
ing Mr.. Buchanan's candidacy and
that other similar organizations
were being formed in the county
paying fine tribute to Mr.. .Buchan-
an against whose character and re-
putation there was not reproach;
capable honest, upright citizen stand
! ing for clean, representative govern
ment.
The tenor of Emerson H. Smiths
address was plea for the election OF
the LaFollette delegation from North
Dakota as opposed to the Roosevelt
candidates. He gave glowing eulo-
gy on the qualifications on the Wis
consin senator, telling of the origin
of La Follette's candidacy, of his
constructive work in Wisconsin and
read Senator La Follette's telegram
stating that he was in the race to the
end. The report that President
Taft's campaign manager was financ-
ing the La Toilette campaign also, he
branded as the malicious, under
handed, and treacherous statement OF
a "standpatter."
The speaker took up the steel trust
investigation and corporation influ-
ences in politics, as opposed by the
progressive principle of popular rule
that commenced with Abraham Lin
coin, the advocate of equal rights
under the, law. Altho forwarding the
candidacy of Senator La Toilette the
speaker expressed his high admira-
ton for Theodore Roosevelt, who, he
said had stirred up the people and
aroused their moral sentiment more
! than any other man. He stated that
the progressive league platform had
as a plank that should they. be un-
able to nominate La Toilette, support
should go.-to Roosevelt, who was
head and shouldes to the front in
the progressive movement. Senator
sGronna, he said, had first offered
his support for Roosevelt but now
declares for La Toilette. Represen-
tative Helgesen had stated that he
would be for La Toilette as long
as La Follete was q candidate.
Il. Upon the Buchanan-Hanna race
the Fargo speaker spoke but briefly
leaving the endorsement OF Hon. J.
A. Buchanan to his Stutsman coun-.
tySadmirers. Mr. Buchanan and the
speaker had the same Ideas, he said ],
as to Senator La Toilette. Congress-
man Hanna, whom he had known for
2S-years and against whose charac-
ter and personal act nothing could
sbe said, the speaker was opposing on
/ the grounds, that he believed that
Mr.. Hanna represented the special
!, interests.
Z The speaker was heard with atten-
tion and heartily applauded when he
sat down: During a short intermis-
sion. many joiners to the stutsman
County Buchanan Progressive Club
were enrolled.
Mrs. w. e. Boise was next called
upon to tell why the w. G. !. U. OF
North Dakota had endorsed J. a. Bu-t
chanan, saying that while the, wo-
men were not voting as yet. howev-
er, they could influence their hus-
bands and thus further their cause.
She read report from the National
w. C. T. u. organ showing the wealth
and progress of North Dakota under
prohibition rule, and such 9 rule
abe said would be, strictly enforced
by j. A. Buchanan, 9 man Of unspot-
ted character, unsullied reputation In
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