Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-20
IS NOT WESTERN NORTH DAKo.
IA ENTITLED TO REPRE-.
SENTATION?

The attitude of the Fargo Forum IN
coming out last evening for j. II.
Worst of Fargo for United States sen
ator is in line with the position that
the Red River valley politicians have
taken since statehood of ignoring the
interests of the western part of the
state. The election of either Worst
or GrOnna would NEAR that the two
United States senatorships from
North Dakota would be held within a
comparatively small area in the east
ern part of the state, and the entire
central and western section with it's
m~ultitudinous problems of immigra'
ton and development would be en-
tirely without representation.
How long are the voters OF this
rapidly developing empire of Western
North Dakota going to allow the Red
River valley politicians to deny this
section the representation that it is
entitled to? Just so long as the vot-
ers of this section allow it.
History repeats itself. Every step
that western North Dakota has taken
has been taken in spite Of the de-
termined opposition of the Red river
valley. Every state institution pro-
posed for the western part of the
state, no matter how badly needed
to accommodate a rapidly growing
population, has met the same obsta.
Gle, the desire to gobLle up all the ap'
preparations for the Red River valley.
1t Is only through the superior
strength of numbers and in many in.
stances when that strength has been
expressed at the polls, that the east
has relinquished anything to central
and western North Dakota.
The Red River valley country has
been we'll advertised for thirty years
as a prosperous country, while the
western district has been called a COW
country and the land of buffalo bones.
1t is this persistent Misrepresentation
of western North dakota that has re-
tarded it's development, but even in
spite of this, it has made tremendous
strides and bids fair to outstrip east
ern North Dakota in population and
productivity. On account of being in
the development stage, however, this
country needs the strongest repre-.
sentation at the national capital.
Under the circumstances, there is
only n position for the people of
this district to take, and that is to
support Andrew Miller for United
States senator. Miller is a resident
of the slope; he is intimately &C.
quainted with its problems; he has
helped fight many of it's battles; he
knows what assistance it needs, and
If sent to Washington, he will see
that it is put on the map.
Furthermore, his record as attorney
general, to which position he has
been elected for three successive
terms, shows that he. has the ability
to accomplish what this western en-
pire needs. AS attorney general, he
has enforced the law fearlessly
against the railroads and the power.
full corporations, as we'll as against
other offenders. He instituted the
famous coal rate cases against the
500, the Great Northern and the
Pacific, which were decided
by the state supreme court in favor
of the people, thereby saving the PEG.
pie immense sums each year in
freight rates on coal. This is only
one Of many illustrations of his sue
cessful battles for the people.
If the people of western North Da-
kota believe that they are entitled to
representation at Washington, they
should vote to a mar for Miller for
United States senator.-vptic-Report
er.