The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-10-31

or by the democratic state committee,
Inspired as they are by the desire to
capture this important Office of gov
ernor and possibly, as they may be,
led into means and methods which
they might upon sober reflection, re-
greet and fail to find justification for.
Fortunately, the republican state
central committee is not in position,
through any act or word of Mr.. Han
ma, to be called upon for debate, ex-
PLANTATION or discussion. The sole is
sue in this campaign is the compara-
tive qualification Of the several cam
didateS for the office of governor. That
is a matter which neither the words
OF the democratic candidate for gov
ernor Q any other candidate for
office can In n way effect. 1t is
written in the records of the men who
are candidates, and as so written will
De read by the people of the state. Mr..
Hanna and the republican state COM
mlttee are entirely willing to abide by
this result.
You state in your letter that the rec
ord of the democratic candidate for
governor as warden of the penitentiary
has been falsely, maliciously and
grossly attacked by "Mr. Hanna's sun
porters and the republican press"
Doubtless the democratic candidate is
entirely capable of proving before the
people of the state the fact of any
MISREPRESENTATION, if such has been
made. Mr.. Hanna is not and has not
been party to, or counselor of, nor
has he had any knowledge of any
false and malicious attack upon the
democratic candidate for governor in
any way or particular, in this cam
paign. He has deemed the issues be-
fore the people of the state too clear
and too important to befog them with
any reference to the democratic can
didate, and he is not disposed, nor has
he ever been to personal attacks upon
candidates for office, believing that the
sober judgment of the people is safer
when not heated by the personalities
that sometimes arise in party cam
paigns.
In this connection it may not be
amiss to state that the republican
state committee has had for some
weeks in its possession a letter signed
by Joseph e. Remington, a prisoner in
the state ~penitentiary under a life SEN
tence for murder, Don to be liberated
by the action of the state board of par
dons. This letter is a solicitation by
Mr.. Remington of a friend in this state
to vote for the democratic candidate for
governor, because of the fact that Mr..
Remington says the democratic can
didate for governor has been in the
largest degree responsible for his
forthcoming restoration to liberty. The
republican state committee has taken
notice through the public prints of a
denial of the fact that the democratic
candidate for governor was in any way
responsible for the granting of this
communication of sentence. This de-
NAL so the republican state central
committee was advised, informed and
believes, was publicly made by the
democratic governor of this state and
the democratic candidate for governor
was the beneficiary of this denial, if
the activity of the democratic can
didate for governor in the Communication
of the sentence of Joseph e. Reming-
ton was such an action as needs de-
NAL and explanation. And if this de-
NAL was a MISREPRESENTATION of the
record of the democratic candidate for
governor, then certainly the republican
state central committee is not re-
sponsible, nor is Mr.. Hanna.
If it is not true that the democratic
candidates for governor was chiefly
active in obtaining the Communication
of sentences for Joseph e. Remington
then the views of Remington, express