Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-10-18
| NORTH DAkoTAN OUT
STRONG FOR WILSON
Former Senator Says |ndepen.
ent Repub|ican|sm VIII
Reflect President.

Casselton. N. D., Oct. 13-Opening a
speechmaking campaign in support OF
President Wilson, Former United States
Senator H. c. Hansbrough, who repre-
sented North Dakota in the senate for
many years as Republican. addressed
a large audience here last night. Sen
ator Hansbroush said, In part;
dent Wilson as the most important
thing that any American citizen could
fns Zeal in 81 for voters }Se oe sS%a
him there would be no doubt about the
result. In this age Of supreme selfish
gedIess w" dollar o' is taken to be an eviS
dence Of insanity. it is difficult for the
clear-sighted man with no strings on
phere of politics to know what politics
really means. Having had that oppor-
that the presidential contest of 1916 -
one between democracy on the one hand
and autocracy on the other
when I speak Of democracy I do not
have in mind that broader, more ex-
tensive democracy which is the, life
That other democracy having African
slavery for it's Foundation has passed
cratic about it: In truth, it was the
truth truth it's mantle has fallen upon the
f Republican u party, for hey are the au-
slavery they would have white slavery;
I feel fee myself Obliged to make this
statement. And yet it is completely
borne out by the facts In the case
railway corporation, to a single fnan-
cial concern that is not hopeful of the
election of Mr.: HUGHES: Name me any
prefer the success of Mr.. Wilson.
''WiI the farmers of the great West
vote for a candidate whose campaign Is
1ester trSst the eannat q believe
Neither, can 1 believe that they will in:
the % The saSt fSr it is
consideration for them 1t embraces
the digging Of a WSrthless canal ana; thu
on of the
machinery, all in TIE interest Of the CO
/ horts of associated greed: o,on
Wilson. Unlike the clustering and bel
!igerent Roosevelt, President Wilson So!
ment of the blessings of peace in tn
midst of world-war. The American
people are beginning to- 6eal 2eefe VIVA
policy Of tranquility and repose to ON
Of bloody strife:
II have already spoken of the benefi
cent effects of the national reserve law
which is complete panacea for finan
Il cial panics, such as the Steel corpora
| ton got up in 1907. Add to this tn
II rural credits act, which compels loV
II lrate of interest on farm security. VIVA
II would not the farmers have given TO
this law during the Morgan squeeze
that year, when money could not be ha
II at any price?
II Under Woodrow Wilson no 1onge
II shall invisible government dominee
the affairs of this nation.
IF you ask me how this is to b
brought about, my reply is that the in
Il dependent republicanism of the countr
| is going to rise above narrow part
| lines and join in shifting monopoly an
special privilege in their Wall Stree
! lair. The heavy yoke is to be throw
| off, The burden which greed has bee
piling onto the shoulders of honest en-
terprise is to be lifted. You and ar
| going to help.
"If you have stood with the Reput
! lican party when it was not encumbe,
ed with it's present accumulation OF dis
orders, we are going to assert our free
] dom now and put them aside. Becaus
our fathers sustained Lincoln and MI
] Kinley is no reason why we should Civ
4 our votes to return Roosevelt, Root an
4 Perkins to power. In this brief sum
l ming up lie the vital issues in this can
4 Inc ion