The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-05-24
M'HARG MAKES
ANNOUNCEMENT
OF CANDIDACY
jamestown Man Formally States
He Is in Race For United
States Senator
STATES HIS PLATFORM
Emphasizes His Opposition ia
Senator McCumber in
Making Announcement

Definite announcement was made
in jamestown of the entrance into the
race for the republican nomination for
United States Senator of Ormsby Nc.
Harg, Of Jamestown. Mr.. McHarg's
announcement sent out from James
town, was accompanied by a state
ment Of his platform. &
Petitions have been circulated for
Mr.. McHarg in jamestown and In Bis
marck by e. A. Hughes. Mr.. MoHarg
at one time was private secretary to
|Senator McCumber. Later he fig
ured in the Taft and Roosevelt ad-
ministrations and in the scrap for
delegates at the 1921 Republican con.
vention, bitter charges being made
against him. He later practiced law
in New York but returned to James
town some months ago. He Is head
of the Jamestown electric utility.
States His Views.
McHarg announced his opposition to
Senator McCumber in the campaign.
Stating his views on national issues
Mr.. lMcHarg says:
Il firmly believe that the time has
arrived when the farmers of the ma
ton should demand and receive as
much consideration as the we'll or
ganized manufacturing and carrying
interests. If an agricultural bloc is
necessary to accomplish this purpose,
then l am in favor of such congress
sional division or group.
"The appalling extravaganza of the
national government is the model for
public and private extravaganza, and
is responsible for the heavy taxes
which show in the high prices OF
manufactured goods and excessive
freight rates. 1t is especially i'm
portant to the agricultural interests
of the country that this orgy of waste
should cease, as the farmer, a pro.
ducer of raw materials, is Compelled
to sell at low market and buy in a
high market. National expenditures
should be speedily reduced.
"On the associated subject of peace
and the care of those who have fought
our wars, the words of Lincoln's last
inaugural are most appropriate:
with malice towards none, with
charity for all, with firmness in the
right as God gives US to see the
right. let us strive on to finish the
work we are in, to bind up the ma
tion's wounds, to care for him = no
shall have borne the battle and9kor
his widow and orphan, to do all which
may achieve and cherish just and
lasting peace among ourselves and
with all nations"
Il favor the enforcement of the
eighteenth, or pnof5,bition amend.
ment of the Constitution of the Unit
cd States, as part of the supeme law
of the land, and the prohibition law Gi
this state and denounce any and al
efforts to nullify them other than by
the process clearly defined In the con
stitution itself.
Favors Prohibition
Mr.. McHarg says he favors the pro
hibition amendment and concludes:
"This nation and state must MOI
lose sight of, nor faith in. tn, plain
easily understood requirements Of {
government Of the people, by the peo
pie and for the people. The sover
eign power in this nation and state Il
the people. This power is exercised
by the ballot The peoples liberty il
maintained only by themselves. Etern
al vigilance is its price" ...
He endorses the Nestos state ad
; ministratiOn.