The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1916-12-09
NEW ADMINISTRATION.

Within few weeks an almost en-
tirely new administration will take
up the reins of government. Changes
are often good for the governed. The
clean sweep in North Dakota may
prove beneficial. The Tribune sim
cerely hopes so and proposes to as
sist the incoming administration in
all worthy projects to the best of its
ability.
The welfare of the state is the es-
sential thing. Partisan considerations
should be forgotten and general
concerted effort to improve the state
government take their place.
Governor Lynn Frazier has main
tanned discreet silence since his
election. He is farmer, represent
alive of a big majority of the bread
winners of this state. His selection
to the high Office was almost unan-
1mous and he should enter his term
untrammeled by political trades and
deals. ... 3t.E ~ "a
Bismarck will welcome the new off,
Gals with a cordially that is ira
ditional. Governor Frazier should
find the press and the public of the
Capital City ready to support him
in any measure for the benefit of the
state. ~ Z ?, ~ safsIH z II
Problems of marketing are vital is
sues. II the new, regime can correct
abuses on the boards of trade and
secure better distribution and higher
prices for the products Of the soil,
At will win the gratitude such efforts
deserve.
Revisions in hail insurance laws,
farmers terminal elevators and other
forms to correct current abuses will
be thoroughly threshed out this win
ter. The press Of the state should
support every worthy movement to
ameliorate conditions among the
North Dakota farmers.
AS an agricultural state we have
far too little to say relative to the
marketing conditions under which our
products are sold. If Governor Fra
zier can. through the proper use of
authority vested in him, give the
farmers of the state a fgeer and more
competitive market at terminal
points. he is entitled to the solid sup,
port of the cities, as we'll as the farm
ers.
So far as Governor. elect Frazier il,
concerned, his demeanor has not been.
radical. He impresses one as think
er. and a man of deliberation. The
governor-elect. Is cognizant Of the
farmers needs. and North Dakota is
a farmers state dependent always on
the farmers; responsible ever to the
farmer. " ,y =. ~.
The Tribune bespeaks for the in
coming administration the same con-
sideration and forbearance accorde%
those of the past. Our new officers
may make mistakes-all mortals are
prone to error; they may even
espouse fallacies, but they will rot
be pioneers in this. They are, every
one of them, North Oak sta citizens,
loyal to the best interests of the
state, as they see them
Regardless by whose initiative the
administration has been elected. it is
an administration Of the people of
North Dakota. As public officials, Our
new officers doubtless will serve the
commonwealth as whole.
AS the duly elected representatives
of the state, they are entitled to all
possible support and encouragement.
In the introduction to this editorial
We said that changes were good for
republics. Long continuance in Office,
as we have often learned to our sor-
row, is apt to inculcate in an Office
holder the idea that the chief end is
not so much that he perform the du-
ties. of the Office efficiently, but that
he cling to the Office and return as
often as the statutes will permit.
The ship of state, thanks to the
trainers of our. constitution, sails a
charted sea. The mariner and his
crew may change; the rules of navi-
CATION may alter slightly, but the
guiding. fundamental principles of
government remain the. sAssl. -;