Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-06-25
POLITICAL Comment

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Cando Record L. B. Hanna's can
didacy for governor has our endorse
ment because We know he Is fitted and
qualified in every respect to fill the
Office and give the people of this state
the kind of an administration they
need. His record of service in this
state and in the halls of Congress has
proved him to be man OF ability,
devoted to the best interests OF the
people whom he is serving. That rec
ord alone ought to make him govern
or without any argument. He WILL not
be an untried experiment, and the
voters of North Dakota ought not to
be alarmed into the delusion that in
giving Hanna this high Office they are
restoring to power the so-called
''ring." He alone will be governor
and no one else. He will give the peo'
pie a clean, straightforward business
administration. He will not trick
Them with prediction promises that
will never be fulfilled-merely to get
votes.
Bowdon Guardian: We have re-
ceived a series Of press articles edit
ed (by one Buck attempting to at
tack the public record of L. B. Hanna.
After reading them we fail to find
anything which does not reflect great
credit on Mr.. Hanna. Who Is pay
ing for the printing Of these articles
and for Bucks time spent coming to
this state % butt into our own cam:
paign? The fact that he has "butted"
into this fight and in spite of his name
being Buck, causes one to surmlse
that he must be the original nanny"
But what we would like to KNOW IS,
who tell is Buck?
Sentinel Butte Republican: Mr..
Hanna has had fourteen years OF pub
lie experience; he has served in both
branches of the state legislature and
knows the needs Of the state thor
oughly and we'll. He is business
man and a farmer and the state to-
day needs an experienced and capa-
BILE business administration that 1t
may recuperate, financially, from the
methods used by Governor Burke.
Mr.. Hanna has ever had the interests
of the state and the people at heart
and it was largely through his efforts
that the three-year homestead meas
ure was passed.
Monango Journal: Let us not be in.
fluenced by gang strife, or any news.
paper dope originating from Bis
marck and the pen of an imported
floater who is paid out of money
goodness knows how obtained-to do
a class Of lying that even Tucker
couldn't find man in the state so
low down in the scale of journalism
as to undertake. Just keep this clear
ly in mind the authors of the last
minute attacks that are to be made,
are nonresident, non-taxpaying,
crooks, who, for all we know, are ia
| miliar with a number and the lock
step.
Steele Ozone: In the judicial con.
test Judge Winchester seems to bid
fair to be renominated, and the Ozone
heretofore announced it's support OF
his retention. Judge Winchester has
been continuously on the bench since
the first of the state, and is the only
district Judge to so remain In place
for the uninterrupted period of twen-
ty years. He has been opposed strong
ly, and by some able men, but has al
ways had the requisite support to win.
This paper has been on the other side
and Kidder county as whole has
more than once lined up against him.
This was due largely to the state OF
fractional politics which boiled for
many years, and aided in the feeling
that the Judge was greatly favored by
the elements the county was fighting.
Personally, however, the Judge was
Always liked, and as years passed he
overcame the opposition and In the
last two campaigns he had no oppon-
ent. This year attorney Nuessle OF
Washburn is out for the place but we
see no reason for changing our origi-
nal stand, and feel that the expert
ence gained by Judge Winchester Is
worth a great deal to the district.
Former criticism Of the court by those
adverse to him was based largely on
the scarcity of convictions in illicit
liquor cases, but 1t Is about settled
to the minds of all that the courts
claim that juries which would con-
vict were hard to secure, and after
twenty years or more observation we
have come to the conclusion that the
juries and not tho court were the ones
responsible for the detection. Public
opinion having improved, it is seen
now that convictions in Judge Win
chester's court are fully as frequent
as in others, and it is recognized that
that class of INSIDERS has a well
grounded fear Of getting into his jur
isdiction. Any degree Of leniency due
so far as the court Is able to say, II
will be granted only on well taken
grounds.
On all accounts the people of Kid
der county can do no better than tt
give Judge Winchester a hearty en-
dorsement, and they will doubtless re
member that he has been PERSONAL,
popular in all sectio1s to as great al