The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-11-04
HELGESEN TALKS
ON PRES. WILSON
FIRST DISTRICT CONGRESSMAN
PREDICTS WOODROW WILSON
WILL BE GREATEST MAN IN
AMERICAN HISTORY OR THE
MOST uNUTTERABLE FAILURE.

Woodrow Wilson will either be the
greatest man In American history or
he will be the greatest public failure
the country has ever had" was he
parting prediction of Cong. Halvor T.
Helgesen Of the First Congressional
district, as he was leaving for wash
ington last night.
Mr.. Helgesen was at the Gardner
hotel during his stopover in Fargo.
While there last evening he was seen
in company with A. M. Baker n O.
L.. Engen and other bull moose lead
ers in the hotel lobby
"People in the southern part of my
district seem to have gathered the
idea that / am opposed to democratic
measures simply because they are
democratic and opposed to anything
President Wilson has done simply be-
cause he is a democratic president
and have lined me up with the stand
patters," continued Mr.. Helgesen.
This impression is wrong. / was
radically opposed to the passage of
measure is neither protective nor for
free trade. It really represents moth
ing but ~appeasing the political clarnor
in the great Industrial centers where
the democratic party Is striving to
keep it's faith with the larger number
Of voters in reducing the price on edi-
b1es. That is all.
Senator LaFollette has injured
himself materially in the yes of the
public by voting for the Underwood
tariff law in the senate. Senator La
Toilette was q great man, but like all
great men when thsy make mistakes,
their mistakes are just as great as
their other great achievements. Sen
ator LaFollette will now never secure
AhS rAYtshl{no1 1hNofyYofshr foys praef.
dent"
Mr.. Helgesen is of the opinion that
If the people Of Fargo urge Senators
McCumber and Gronna to concentrate
their efforts with him they can C
an appropriation for Fargo's new
p~ostoffice next year. He urges the
people here to hurry and select the
be placed on the waiting list for post
office building appropriations.
Last year," said Mr.. Helgesen, 81
urged Governor Hanna to unite with
Senators McCumber and Gronna and
myself and we would lump all our
petitions n ask for just one appro-
priation for the Fargo site and the
Fargo postoffice building at one time.
| was then securing the Dickinson
postof1ce. I offered to let that re-
quest wait another year. But Mr..
Hanna was unwilling to accept my
proposition, preferring to go ahead
himself and secure the new site for
the Fargo postoff1ce himself through
his own efforts. While the site is pro-
vided for, the appropriation for the
postoffice building is still to come"
When asked if he would be a can
didate for the senate, Mr.. Helgesen
said such a thing a. farthest from
his mind. Also he denied he had held
any particular conference with the
bull moose leaders of the city.
II did not hold any political confer
ence with the bull moose leaders, he
said. "Mr. Engen met me because he
tual friend in Grand Forks. + scarce
ly saw any of the others. H
81 understand the bull moosers will
have 81 whole Independent ticket in
the field next year, congressional as
well as gubernatorial.
1.-THE senatorial situation is. going to
be an interesting one. Should there
be a th~ree-cornered fight between
Senator Gronna, Governor Hanna and
Attorney General Miller, as predicted,
it has been prophesied, and correctly
[ think, that Governor Hanna would
walk away with the nomination Aft
err the nominations then will come one
of the most interesting political bat
ties ever held in the. state, provided
former Governor Burke becomes the
democratic candidate for United
States senator, as so many seem to
think he will be. I doubt if he will be
elected, but it certainly will be a close
race"
Congressman Helgesen left on the
eastbound Northern Pacific train last
night in company with former Sen.
John G.. Gunderson of Aneta, who
Joined him in the hotel lobby. Sena-
tor Gunderson went to Minneapolis on
a business trip and Congressman Hell
gesen will stop off today in the mill
city on business matters, proceeding
to Washington tonight.