The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-02-10
Percy Trubshaw Attacks Percy
Hansen; Says jamestown
Man Is BuIl-Headed

One Of the interesting sidelights of
che Jamestown proposal to obtain the
state capital is private word-bat-
tie which has developed between
Percy r. Trubshaw, publisher of the
Valley City Times Record and Percy
M. Hansen, publisher of the James,
town Sun.
Hansen is generally regarded as the
heart and soul of the jamestown
movement. 1t was he who organized
1t and propagandized for it through
his newspaper and he is the official
manager of the jamestown cam
paign.
In his dual capacity as editor and
capital-removal chieftain, Hansen
wrote a long letter to Trubshaw
pleading that the Valley City news
paper support Jamestown. The rea-
sons given were the same as those
which failed SO signally to impress
the members of the legislature here
last winter
Trubshaw printed the complete let
ter and then expressed his views IN
an editorial as follows:
The above is letter received this
morning from the editor Of the
Jamestown Sun. We do not blame
Mr.. Hansen for trying to bolster up
one of the most bull-headed endeav-
ors to move the state capital to
Jamestown. Mr.. Hansen stands prac-
tically alone on the proposition. He
has not leg to stand OH and very
little support in his movement. His
mileage figures are distorted and not
in any way correct. Every member
of the legislature coming from the
west and northwest would have to
pay more mileage to get to Jamestown
should the capital be located there.
All west of the river would have lO5
miles each way more to travel to get
to jamestown as against Bismarck.
They would have to go through Bis
marck and the people of Burleigh
county. Morton, Starke, Golden VAL
ley and so on down the line would
have that much more mileage to
travel. The people from Minot now
reach Bismarck across country IN 12O
miles. Should they go to Jamestown
and come by way of Bismarck they
would have the additional los miles
each way or If they came by way OF
Valley City they would have over 100
miles each way. OF course, Barnes,
Cas-, and Grand Forks counties
and a few of the eastern counties
would not have so far to travel but
when you figure it all down there
Is little saved either way.
Many Nearer Bismarck
"As a matter of fact all members
of the legislature in the counties OF
Divide, Burke, Williams, Mountrail.
Ward, Renville McHenry, Kidder,
Mercer, Oliver. Dunn, Stark, Morton,
Burleigh, Hettinger. Grant, Mclean,
Emmons, Logan, Sheridan. Adams,
Bowman, Wells, Bottineau, Pierce,
Slope Mckenzie, Mcintosh, Golden
Valley, Billings, Sioux, are great
deal nearer to Bismarck than they
are to jamestown and the same Is
true in many Of the other counties
not named Since good roads have
been provided. there is little differ
ence. so the matter of mileage can be
left out of the argument.
I'm personal letter to us Mr..
Hansen says we wrote him letter
IA wear ago stating that most of our
objection to the location of the cap
ital at jamestown was because we
were afraid it would hurt Valley
City. Mr. Hansen is correct-it
would. And the only reason that
Mr.. Hansen is working so hard is
to get it to Jamestown and not be-
cause of any love for the dear peo-
ple.'
"OutSide of our personal interest IN
the location of the capital we are
sincere in the belief that 1t should
remain at Bismarck for the reasons
given in a previous editorial to which
Mr.. Hansen takes exception. 1t is
better located in its present situa-
ton, it has lot of state money in
vested in buildings belonging to the
state and the people of Bismarck
who have invested their money
would lose most of it were the cap
ital changed-and we can see no
need of doing all this to please
Jamestown. It is but short time
ago that the Jamestown people came
down here to get Valley City people
to 60 to st. Paul to fight the North
ern Pacific because the company was
moving some of the division men
from Jamestown. The railroad COM
pany saw where under present condi-
lions and the way it was losing mon
ey it could save by consolidating di-
visions-but Hansen did not send up
a vail like the last sad notes of
dying swan trying to help the rail-
roadS-it would save them a lot of
money-but he is willing to wreck
the city of Bismarck for his own
selfish ends. Mr. Hansen and his
fellow state capital wreckers were per-
fectly willing to have us down here
fight the railway to retain a few
families at jamestown but he is
mighty willing to wreck Bismarck
and waste millions that have been
invested in that city His attitude is
one of bull-headed selfishness and
inconsistency
I'VE do not need any charts or
graphs-all one has to do is to get
q map of North Dakota, look at the
location of the various counties and
see for themselves-that is the most
convincing argument as against
graphs and charts gotten up by
especially selected experts of Mr..
Hansen"
Too Much C0ttonseed
ToLo Coid nou~oro,,c