Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-06-24
POLITICAL Comment
That Man "Muck."

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That Man "Muck."
Medina Citizen: There is an indi.
vidual named Buck, imported into the
state to look up Congressman Han.
mas record in the legislature, and for
the last ten days the Courier-News
has been filled with his dope. In or.
der to convince ourselves as to what
there was in MS arguments, we in.
vestigated a few of his statements
and herewith present couple of
them for the Information Of our
readers.
We quote from the Courier-News
of June 18th: senate Bill No. 81,
Session 1897. An act to cause the
railroads to take precaution against
starting prairie fires. This bill was
sent to the committee on railroads, OF
which Hanna was a member, and
there it's teeth were carefully ex-
tracted by amendment and then
passed."
"Senate Bill No, 12S, to compel
telephone companies to interchange
connections that subscribers may OBJ
tain better long distance service.
This bill was referred to the commit
tee on railroads, of which Hanna was
a member, and was recommended by
the committee for indefinite postpone.
ment"
This man Buck does not give the
provisions of the bill so the people
may Judge of its merits, and the only
charge made against Hanna in these
instances is that he was one of com.
mittee Of seventeen members, which
composed the railroad committee. 1t
also contained several senators, who
are now progressives Why were
they not equally as responsible as
Hanna? Mr.. Hanna is charged with
being the whole committee. He might
as just we'll be charged with the acts
of the whole senate, as with the acts
of a committee nearly half as large
as the whole bbdy. According to
Euck's theory Hanna was to blame for
everything rotten" that was done in
the legislature and is to receive no
credit for good work done. Such ar.
guments as Bucks are disgusting and
insult the intelligence of the citizens
of our state.
Hankinson News: The News does
not believe the republican voters Of
toe state will make the mistake of
falling to nominate l.. B. Hanna for
governor at next weeks primary cleo
ton. The finances of the state are
in a deplorable condition at present,
and sound business judgment and
thorough knowledge of the situation
are needed by the man who is to as
sumo the responsibility of conducting
the affairs of North Dakota for the
lext two years. That Hanna is quail
fed by experience and business ability
for the governorship no one can seri-
ously question. That he will be tri-
umphantly nominated The News sin.
cerely believes.
Minot Optic: Usually an election
for such an important office as con.
gress causes the press to burst forth
into the fiercest kind of attack or de.
tense of the candidates. Particular.
ly is this true where there are several
papers in one city. For this reason
the endorsement of Alfred Blaisdell's
candidacy for congress by the united
press of Minot is unique in the an.
nails of newspaperdom. The indie
pendent, the Democrat, the Reporter
and the Optic are all supporting Blais
HI
ly must be some good reason for them
doing 50. One of the candidates sug-
gests that Blaisdell has bought all OF
the papers and that is the reason they
are all doing their durndest to help
him into congre.~. Anybody who
knows Blaisdell, knows that this
statement is about as true as other
statements made by the candidate re-
ferred to. Even if Blaisdell had the
money and wanted to, he couldn't buy
the united support of the press in
this city-and the referred to candi-
dates statement to the contrary
Blaisdell wouldn't want to buy the
support of the Minot papers even If
he had the money and could do so.
There is far better reason why the
newspapers are supporting Blaisdell
free of charge, and that reason is
that after the editors. for at least
once in their lives got together, they
decided that Blaisdell was the only
man from Minot who could win-and
that he was the right man to send to
congress to represent this district.
They decided therefore to do all in
their power to get him into congress.
They know that when he gets there
he will serve the people of the Third
district honorably and faithfully. !
DANGEROUSLY ILL.
Edward Baumgarten, aged 62, a
farmer residing near Judson, was
brought to the Bismarck hospital on