Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-11-02
Contemporary
Opinion

Grand Forks Times: Why should
the farmer vote for l.. B. Hanna for
governor? 1t must be admitted that
the farmer is the bone and sinew of
North Dakota prosperity. Let the
agricultural industry be removed
from the state and it returns to the
conditions in which the pioneers of
the 70s and SOS found it. Seventy
five per cent of the states wealth is
directly or indirectly dependent upon
the farms. 1t is evident, then, that
an administration of state affairs that
will be beneficial to the farmers will
be beneficial to the whole state.
But the farmers themselves should
be the beneficiaries directly If they
vote for Hanna for governor for rea.
sons Of prosperity. No one believes
that the election of Mr.. Hanna will
enable the state, through it's officials,
to distribute vouchers on the state
treasury for money. Some democrats
believed the national government
would do that when President Cleve.
land was elected the first time. Tie
benefits to the farmers will come
from the money expended for them.
We are willing to become surety that
il Mr.. Hanna is elected governor he
Will not cut the appropriation for
farmers institutes while he makes a
trip across the continent on a special
train for the purpose OF Matching a
notoriety boom for vice president.
Farmers' institutes is merely one
way in which the farmers derive hen
eft from the state. 1t is a recognized
fact that the improved conditions In
farming, and the consequent increase
in the value CT farm lands, are direct
ly due to the instruction received by
the farmers in Institutes. This being
true, a governor who understands the
needs of the farmers from some 9TH
er angle than selling them farm ma.
chinery at trust prices, can serve
them better than n not 50 situated.
The protection of live stock from
outside epidemics, the glandered
horse law and scores of other laws
on the statute books-designed to pro.
tect the property of the farmer-can
be rendered worthless by the COVER
nor's veto power over the appro-
priations for them. 1t would be as
easy to cut off these as it was to cut
out the farmers institutes.
Mr.. Hanna has always been a pub.
lie servant rather than a politician.
When "a man for years in public life
has followed a marked policy, it is
a pretty safe assurance that if again
elected he will do the same thing.
Mr.. Hanna in all his past public life
has looked to the interests of the peo-
pie before his political ambitions. II
that be SO, is it not reasonable that
if elected governor he will look after
the interests of the farmers because
tbir prosperity means the prosperity
OF the state? Those are some Of the
reasons why the interests of the farm
J ers will be better served by his cleo
tion than by tn election OF any one
else. 41
II q selfish motive dominated him,
he would still be the best man for
governor from both the farmers and
the business mems standpoint. He has
large farming and business interests
in the tate, and any thing that would
add to etthsn would add equally tc the
same interests % every man l.. tbs
s-ate we tits po.icy., Wis selfish.
fVou!a le i1sttel IL Jle y5opl.e taal
one Which, was Ae.aly the building up
OF a louEca. ambition.