The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-10-25
Hanna IS a Stall
Wart Of StalWartS
Refused G) the Nomination Of the Pro
gressives Which was Never Of
fered Him
(statement Dorr II. Carroll.) }

statement Dorr H. Carroll.)
The people of the State of North Da-
kota are taking into consideration the
following facts:
First: The primary campaign is not
any election; it is simply g substitute
for an old convention system of putting
candidates in nomination. Theprogres-
sive party has nothing to do with the
nomination Of Mr.. Hanna; quite to the
contrary. The progressive element of
the republican party, and the progress
sive element of the democratic party
have not yet cast their votes for Mr..
Hanna, and we do not expect that they
will do so. Mr.. Hanna received the
minority vote in the republican party.
the vote standing $4,000 for Mr.. Hanna
and $1,000 against him. Practically all
the people before the primaries. who
thought that Mr.. Hanna was not a
proper man for Governor of North Da-
kota. are still of the same opinion.
The fact that great many people do
not believe that Mr.. Gilbreath is the
proper man for Commissioner Of Agri-
culture and Labor, makes it necessary
that the Progressive party place new
man in the field. He is free from the
defects attributed to Mr.. Gilbreath.
I note that number of papers, in
cluding the Fargo Forum, the Valley
City Times Record, and other state pa
pers, who are following their lead, are
finding considerable personal fault with
myself, as though were responsible
for the. nomination of Mayor Sweet of
Fargo for Governor and Nr. jacobson
of Minot for Commissioner Of Agricuit-
ure and Labor. l would have more pa
tience with the editorial writers, who
take this position, if Gid not know of
my own personal knowledge that they,
know better. They know better than
anyone that the progressive party is a
political entry, as separate and distinct
from the democrat or republican par
ties, as the democrat and republican
parties. are from each other. In fact
there is more difference between the
progressive party and the republican
party, as it stands today, than there is
between the two old parties.
That our convention saw fit to en-
dorse some candidates. who were NOM
mated at the republican primaries sim
ply means that our convention regarded
those men at fit exponents of progress
sive policies clean able and fit for Of
fees to which they aspired. There was
no political deal, promise or trade, as
the convention acted wholly upon its
judgement in the matter.
One of the humorous events of the
campaign was the position which Mr..
Hanna was placed in by Chairman Gray
and the Fargo Forum. He appeared,
according to the impression left by the
statement issued recently, to have re-
fused ~ the nomination OF the pro-
gressives. ]: Mr.. Hanna Had never at any
time an opportunity to refuse such a
nomination. The progressives ever
have regarded Mr.. Hanna as stalwart
of stalwarts, representing the stalwart
element in national politics, and if the
people of North Dakata elected him a
progressive, he should be proceeded
against for violation of the pure food
law; in other words he would be mis-
branded.
The only progressive candidate for
governor before the people today is w.
d. Sweet.