Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1912-03-14
GOVERNOR ST!lgesBS
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b,lNG PROGRESSIVE FROM
KANSAS TELLS WHY ROOsE-
WELT IS THE MAN

WELT IS THE MAN
The chief executive of Kansas,
one of the nations most prominent
V6gressives, Governor w. R. Stubts,
fhas written an open letter to North
nakotans stating the reasons why
Kansas progressives are supporting
Theodore Roosevelt for the presi-
dency. Kansas, like North Dako-
ia, is thoroughly progressive state.
Gov. Stubbs says:
have been asked by the Roose-
welt committee to tell the people of
North Dakota why Kansas is for
Roosevelt for president. In 1904
Roosevelt carried the state by 1885,
coo majority and the state ticket was
elected by from 10000 to 10000.
Practically every state in the un-
ion that is normally republican had
republican governor, republican
legislature and the national congress
was overwhelmingly republican when
Theodore Roosevelt retired from the
White House. His policies were
progressive and sound, the achieve
ments of his administration if pro-
rerly summarized would read more
like the work of century than his
tory of seven years administration
of the affairs of great nation.
The powerful political organiza-
tion headed in the house by Joseph
! G. Cannon, and in the senate by Mel
Son Aldrich, has failed utterly in
their efforts to prevent the enact
ment of progressive legislation advo-
Gated by the greatest president who
has been in the White House since
Lincoln.
The Dolliver-Hepburn railroad act
was the first step in the direction of
actual and bonafide control of rail-
roads. The national irrigation act
will eventually bring under cultiva-
ton millions of acres Of our public
domain and provide homes for mill
ions of people. The employees liza
bility act, the safety appliance act,
regulation of the hours of labor of
railroad employees and the settle
ment Of the great anthracite coal
strike represent only part of the
important work which he did in the
interest of American labor. The
suits begun against the Standard Oil
Co. and the tobacco trust for the
violation of the antitrust laws. his
fight against railroads giving rebates
to shippers, the establishment Of the
department of commerce and labor
and the Northern Securities decision,
tthe conviction of poatoffice grafters
and public land thieves, together
with the investigation of the sugar
trust customs frauds. the Prosecu-
tions which resulted. all indicate his
tireless efforts in the interests of
giving the people square deal.
The pure food and drug acts and
the federal meat inspection law are
progressive measures invaluable to
the American people.
The settlement of the Russia-Ja-
panese war was by. the treaty OF
Portsmouth. the keeping open of
the door Of China to American COM
merce and the increased tonnage of
the navy, the acquiring Of the canal
zone and organizing work of digging
the big ditch and connecting the At
lantic and Pacific oceans thereby
bringing American commerce sthous-
ands of miles nearer the markets Of
100000, 900 people in the east prove
beyond. doubt the world grasp which
\ the great man has Of commercial and
industrial and financial conditions.
But over and above all these
things the most valuable service that
Theodore Roosevelt has rendered to
the American people was to put pub
licity, daylight and sunshine into
American politics and raise the NOR
al and political standards of our ma
tional life higher than they have ev-
er been. before.
The greatest declaration of hu-
man rights that have been made
/ since the days Of Lincoln is contain
eti IA Roosevelt's address to the con-
! stitutional convention in Columbus,
Ohio. 3 s}aa 's
81 Theodore Roosevelt is the very In
y carnation of the best thought; high
! est ideals and hopes Of the American
people ana for these reasons ne
would receive practically the solid
republican vote in Kansas and: g
very large share Of the independent
Esi ! ia.r,,crafic vote OF this state which