The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-04-05

Bathgate Pink Paper: we are in
receipt of a letter from Commissioner
OF Agriculture Gilbreath, who is also
nail insurance commissioners, in which
he calls attention to the insurance of
crops against loss by hail by the state.
He asks the question, Don't yous think
1t would be a good thing for the farm
ers of your county? ?" The hail insur-
ance law is a new one and contem-
plates the payment of a maximum loss
of So per acre. Adjustments are to be
made by the county commissioner re-
siding nearest but not within the dis
tr1ct, aided by a competent resident of
the district, arbitration adjustment to
be permitted if first adjustment is not
satisfactory. Expenses Of the hail i'm
trance department to be taken from
the fund arising from a premium fee
OF 20 cents per acre. All monies are to
be deposited with the state treasurer
and pro rata payment made If funds
are insufficient to meet losses in full
The assessors act as aents in making
out applications. 1t is evident that the
more acres insured til, less the per-
centage Of cost will be. 1t might be
NS AN SOoA vi AAlc1AlldlAt1lS Lll6 OIIlCG
would absorb all of the premiums, but
such is not apt to be the case. Wheth-
er 20 cents an acre is sufficient to
cover losses or not is perhaps doubt
full. This and other features of the
law can be amended from time to time
as necessity suggests. The intent Of
the aw is to give to the farmers, hail
insurance at cost.
Ryder Journal: Rumors continue
to accumulate O.. A. johnson will again
seek the goyernorship, his aspirations
borne from the hope MI. Hanna lost
perstige in the late primary and that
neither Buchanan nor Hanna are Nor
wegians. This kind of political reason
ing is generally spoken Of u rosa
soft, soft pedal-but we defy anyone
to advance any other reason why
Johnson imagines he might win. The
trouble with johnson is he is a poor
student of psychology, else he would
ere this arrived at the conclusion his
personality doesn't appeal to his COM
patriots. To be accorded by them the
prestige and reputation of a good"
man carries weight, but the reverse
is disastrous. His name alone secur-
ed a considerable number of votes tits
true, but let it be said to the ever
lasting credit of the Norwegians gem
orally they turned him down-hard.
We don't pretend to knowledge OF his
true character beyond hearsay
pressions in a Norwegian stronghold.
Ryder Journal: LaFollette won in
North Dakota primarily due to a three
years campaign in his behalf by a
splendid organization that advanced
his cause, persistently and loudly, but
for all that looking backward it is
easy to distinguish a number of UNI
derlying causes that alieniated the
5000 or 5000 votes necessary to carry
the state for Roosevelt. Chief and
foremost was the espousal of Mr..
Ro~osevelt's candidacy by the so-called
stalwarts, who hardly displayed the
acumen they have in the past been ac-
credited with. Their presence in the
Grand Forks convention was a mis-
take lending force and color to the con-
tention it had been engineered by
them, when as a matter of fact it or
iginated and was arranged by progress.
sives and the stalwarts "butted in"
With the abandonment of Mr.. Taft
they had to choose between LaFollette