The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-09-19
Press Comment

Minot Independent: L. B. Hanna
VIII be North Dakota's next governor.
Paste this statement UP where you
can read 1t the day after election;
MI. Hanna has the strongest personal
following of any of the candidates,
and they will stick to him through
thick and thin. No matter how many
opponents take the field, it will be
hard to divide his political friends.
Milton Globe: The ~so-calIed pro-
gressive convention at Fargo last Fri
day turned out like all the similar
ception Of the bull moose party in this
state, a sorehead attempt against the
republican nominee for governor, L.
3. Hanna. Steps were taken immedi-
ately at the convention to name a third
party candidate for governor; this was
speedily accomplished by naming DR..
c. c. Creegan of the Fargo college to
make the race. A. couple Of days later
was ineligible as a candidate, owing
to the fact that he had not resided in
he state for the required five years.
William Sweet of Fargo was then APP
to max h run We rave nothing
against either Mr.. Creegan or Mr..
Sweet, but we do object against the
continual attempts to down a man
who has been fairly and squarely nomi-
mated by the voters of North Dakota
to make the race for the executive Of
flee. We believe, however, that the
voters of the state are too wise to let
themselves be hoodwinked by this CO.
terie of self-styled progressives, but
will vote for a man who a proven
himself always for the best interests
of the farmer, the laboring man and
the state at large.
Grano Tribune: That bull moose
convention at Fargo Sept. 6 ended in
making a Sweet" mess of the works.
a.. A. ha-~-AHA AnA
for Fargo and the state of North Da-
kota that has ever shown up thus
far in our political career, DR.. Cree
gan of Fargo college had endeared him
self to the people in the few short
years of his residence in the state.
Mayor Sweet had lone likewise, and
his friends are legion, but Hanna
started to be a booster before the other
two mentioned had been heard or and
he has never slipped d cog backward
in his career as a statesman. Hanna
is a big man, and he should be elected
governor of u great ana growing
state without an opposing vote, n
it's a wonder to us that a couple Of
good Fargo citizens and the whole
bull moose herd didn't get canned for
even mentioning a candidate for gov
other tha Hon. L. b, Hanna
Wahpeton Globe-Gazette: The nomi-
nation of a state ticket by the pro-
gressive party organization at Fargo
last FRIDAY makes the political SIT
uation even more complicated than be-
fore. The state ticket was placed In
the field at the order of Theodore
Roosevelt, who says he ts ouiId1ng up
a new party which is to be entirely
independent of both the old parties.
We do not know what information
the colonel had as to the state situa-
ton, but to a man up a tree 1t would
appear that the whole progressive or
g%anization in the state was framed up
to beat L. B. Hanna, republican andl-
date for governor. The progress1yes
nominated a candidate against Han
ma and then endorsed almost the en-"
tire republican state ticket by giving
those candidates the progressive nomi-
nation.
AS we understand the law, the can
didates nominated by the progress
ives will now have to choose Pc
tween the republican party and the
progressive party, as their names can
not appear on the ballot twice,
Tt is not to be presumed that h re-
publican nominees who Were nomi-
mated at a republican primary cleo