Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-11-04
FRIENDS
GREETED hanna
Farmers at New England
Out in Large Numbers to
Hear Him Talk
Delivered Interesting Ad-
dress There on Present Is
sues Of the State

NEW ENGLAND, n. d., Nov, A.
The city hall was crowded when Hon.
l.. b. Hanna, republican nominee for
governor, delivered an address on
state issues The fine weather for
%threshing and hauling grain kept many
farmers too busy Tor politics but the
small hall was filed with a representa-
tive crowd Of Hettinger county voters,
some of them coming a distance OF
twenty miles to listen to the remarks
Of the next governor OF our state.
J. J. Murphy acted as chairman and
first introduced Rev. A. n. Remission
of Hettinger, who has been a resident
of this state for five years, IS a fine
speaker, knows more, and can tell
more about North Dakota than the
average man who has been in the
state for a dozen years. He has kept
in close touch with the politics on the
state and knows to whom the credit in
the state and nation is due. Rev. Ken
iston tod Sof the many good measures
that Congressman Hanna secured for
the state by his persistent and efici'
ent work.
The three year homestead law was
enc of the measures that Mr.. Hanna
succeeded in getting on the statute
books and every homesteader in this
state praises his congressman for the
new law. Rev. Remission stated that
he did not believe there a a mar in
the state who would. work for more
things that would be a benefit to all
the people, or could if elected govern.
or, accomplish more for the whole
state of North Dakota than Hon. l.. B.
Hanna.
Mr.. Hanna vas then introduced and
for an hour held the close attention
Of the large audience, while he spoke
OF his early li9e as g hOmesteader,
and his career since that time. He
dealt at length upon his work in con
gress for the benefit of the people of
the state, and tod of difficulties en-
countered in getting the three-year
law upon the statutes of the nation.
Mr.. Hanna told of a measure to Sc
cure an appropriation for experimental
work on flax straw, which should be
a valuable raw product in the manu-
facture CT paper. The experimental
work is now going on at the N. D. ag-
ricultural college under the direction
Of federal experts. This experimental
work is of great Importance to every
farmer in the state for, if it turns out
as successful as is hoped, the fax
straw, that is now of no value, will
be worth from five to ten, dollars per
ton. Mr.. Hanna said that If, elected
governor he would do his best to have
the legislature appropriate money for
experimental work in the state, to be
carried on in connection with the work
CT the federal experts.
Mr.. Hanna is not an orator but just
a plain man of the people, and his ad-
dress had all the more weight from
that fact. He closed by stating a num-
Der of good things he hopes to accom-.
plish for the people If he is elected
governor, and pledging himself to act
in the interests of all the people, and
to give an economical, business add
ministration of the affairs Of the state.
His address was more in the nature
OF a heart to heart talk than a political
speech, and undoubtedly made friends
and votes for him here, en-. .tsH ..,,,,