Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-03-16
\. D. [STABROOK
ANSWERS ALL
FARGO CHARGES
Talks on National Issues Before
Crowd of 1000 at the
Auditorium.
RENDERED BANQUET BY
BURLEIGH COUNTY BAR
Preparedness Is Theme of Flo.
quent New York At
torney.

torney.
Charges made by the Fargo Courier
News that certain corporations were
back Of his candidacy were answered
last evening by Henry D. Estabrook
presidential candidate, in his address
last evening at the Auditorium which
was attended by 1000 voters. He
held his audience to the end. Mr.
Estabrook is finished speaker and
an attorney of national reputation. He
came out vigorously for preparedness
scoring the negative policies Of the
Wilson administration. AS preface
to his address he made the following
answers to charges circulated by the
LaFollette forces:
Answers Charges.
Before going into the subject-mat
ter OF my speech tonight, there is a
ly to refer. In the Fargo Daily Cour
ier-NeWs, of this morning, Wednes
day, March 18th. there is an editorial
which reads as follows: IS ;"
This editorial, you observe, men
tions several questions propounded
10 me by the same editor in his Sun
days issue, and which, as he says,
entirely ignored II followed my
own inclnations should continue to
ignore them, but am advised by
those having my interests at heart
that they should be publicly answer
ed. lest by silence might seem to ad.
nit the truth OF the facts insinuated
Taking them in order:
First. ! am sorry that there should
he rnmOrs, ugly or otherwise. concern.
ing my connection with the American
Telephone and Telegraph company
for such rumors haze no o1lan fopnda
tion than the ugly imagination OF the
editor himself. Be it known that I
have no connection at present; that
/ have never had any connection in
the past; and do not expect to have
any connection in the future, with
the american Telephone and Tele-
graph company Nor is there any
other corporation Of any description
interested in any way in my candi-
dacy for the presidency of the United
States.
Second. My position on the ques-
tiOn Of conservation was announced
in my letter to the EstabrOok League
of Nebraska in December of last year,
on file a. the office Of the secretary of
state in Lincoln, Nebraska, where l
said: 4 believe in the conservation of
national resources, if by that phrase
is meant-not the absolute withdraw
al of our natural resources from pres.
ent use for the sole benefit of genera
tions unborn, but their economical
use by those now living. For example,
l would protect the lumber interests
by tariff, provided that tree is
planted for every tree destroyed. To
withdraw Water-power from use or
shackle its use with financial restric-
tions is obviously false economy, for
it cripples the living with no possible
advantage to their posterity. In strict
est truth it is beyond mans compe-
tency utterly to destroy anything. All
he can do is to change one form of
energy into another, and with the alb.
solute need will come his knowledge
of course in favor of whatever restric-
tiOns may be necessary to insure hon
esty and fairness in all dealings with
the natural resources of our country.
when l saw in Minneapolis pa
per that circular letter had been
sent out by the Retail Liquor Dealers
association asking members of the as
sociation to vote against Mr.. Cum
Minis and: in favor Of President Will
son and myself, it was my first init
nation that any such action had been
taken or contemplated by that asso-
citation. Neither myself nor any one
in my behalf had anything to do with
this action, or inspired it in any way.
And, on the face of it, the letter plain
ly indicates that the members of that
organization were solicited to vote
against Mr. Cummins not because
they loved Wilson and Estabrook
more, but Cummins less.
The whole mystery that the editor
in question has piled up around me
will vanish, I hope, when l tell you
that ! entered the presidential race as
the result of solicitations on the part
of number of warm personal friends
who, because of their belief in me
and the principles which had been
advocating for more than thirty years,
said they would stand by me and do
all in their power to help me in my
canvass, if l would consent to enter
the race. And have been doing my
best ever since to prove worthy of
their friendship and their confidence.
Fourth. AS for not defining my po-
sition on the question of national pre-
paredness, it is enough to say that l
did that as early as September of
1915 in speech at Seattle before the
American Bankers association. 1t
was the subject l discussed at James
town in my first speech in North Da-
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