Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1916-03-30
NESTOS FOR UNITED
STATES SENATE
Well Known Minot Republican
Outlines His Platform.

r. A. Nestos of Minot, wcll-known
republican lawyer and legislator and
county, enters the senatorial race.
He becomes the opponent OF both
Governor Hanna and Senator p. j.
McCumber, who has held the office
about seventeen years. Mr.. Nestos
will have the hearty support of those
republicans who believe in the
theory and the practice of rotation
in office and who hold that if such is
good plan for North Dakota crops
it is also good in politics.
Nestos' candidacy will solve a per-
picking problem for many republi-
cans who might otherwise have to
choose between Governor Hanna and
Senator McCumber or vote for a
democratic candidate, which they
would very much dislike to do this
year, when vital national and party
issues are at stake.
MIR. Nestos' Announcement.
1 am candidate for the republican
nomination for United States SEN
ator.
1 believe that the people of our
state desire to be represented in the
United States senate by a man who
believes in the principles of the Re-
publican party and whose political
and economic thinking is in harmony
with the ideals of the people of the
state and who would reflect such
ideals in his work in the senate.
To meet the needs of rapidly de-
veloping country, in which the con-
hicts between personal rights and
property rights is becoming more bit
ter, there is needed progressive po-
litical thought and economic action
and the embodiment OF this progress
sive thought in laws that will insure
larger measure of social and eco
nomic Justice.
! The functions of the postal saw
ings banks should be extended and
there should be enacred rural credits
Legislation, designed to meet the
needs of the borrowers and especially
adapted to the requirements OF our
agricultural communities.
Congress should also enact laws
to provide for the national inspection
and grading of grains and should
provide storing facilities for agricul-
tural products of the great termin-
ais, to the end that the farmers of
our country may secure an equitable
share in the product of their labors.
The wonderful resources and rapid
growth of our country have greatly
Increased our national wealth. Crude
LEGISLATION and an industrial organ
ization actuated by greed rather
than a spirit of service has tended to
concentrate this wealth in the hands
of a few. Great inequalities and So
cial injustice have resulted. Real
national prosperity can be secured
only by SO modifying our industrial
organization as to secure justice for
those who labor. To insure the wis
est possible solution of this problem,
effective non-partisan trade commits
sions should be created and the
ablest minds in the industrial Held
invited to aid in the solution. Upon
such a basis patriotic and progress
sive congress could then enact legis-
lation that would grant real relief.
The present tariff law is unjust in
it's operation and is especially unfair
to the farming interests of our coun-
try. A permanent non-partisan tarih
commission with effective powers
should be created; and the tariff law
revised to correct the present injus-
tice, to meet the needs and new prob
lens resulting from the war and to
secure such protection for our people
as would equalize the cost of produc-
ton at home and abroad.
That in the great struggle for So
cial industrial and political justice
we need not only make our industrial
organization more humane and our
tariff more equitable, but we should
grant to our people the right of equal
suffrage and the protection of ma
tional prohibition.
So much of the agitation for war is
found to have it's source in the greed
of those who receive large dividends
from the manufacture of armor plate
and munitions of war, that it would
be a wise economic policy to provide
for the government manufacture of
these articles. Then, only, can the
question of preparedness be consid-
cred calmly by q patriotic people