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ainestown rile D::' 1 y, ix infill\\*... '.^niy. tiin.'*' luontli?. VWokly, one v"Tir.... vlYrki v. *i moi, hs. A lei t. T11U IIS DA V, SKIT KM P.KI Ollieial Paper ol' Stutsman County. TERMS: l'he Daily Alert :s ilulivureil in the city by ear ners, HI 50 I'ci.f month. Diiily .:ir ynur $6 HO 8 00 1 50 1 *0 kku.'V Tu.vv'Ki.i.Nt men throughout the country .say that agreat lnanv repub licans who have been loyal to their p:irt. are this year disgusted with In ls'.»ii si McKinley and will not care a rap if llryan is elected. It would take a load oil' their cmsciences and might be. in their view, harbinger of a bel ter and healthier condition ot busi ness and a restoration of the govern ment to the plane of real republi canism such as (".rant and Lincoln I believed in. These they know can not be bad with McKinley. These republicans are the independ cut thinking. lialance wheels and safe guards of the nation. There arc en thusiastic democrats thicker than ever before: there area few gold rlcni ocrats who will vote for .McKinley: but very few republicans, not profes sional politicians, wl.o exnibit any en thusiasm over McKinley and Hanna. Such is said to be the conditions in the middle states and the east. A MISTAKEN YIK 'V. A couitKsroxDKNT in yesterday's Alert, seems to have gained the im pression that a few of the indepen dents and democrats of the county were trying to prevent the nomina tion of a candidate for judge on the democratic ticket and attempting to do so by methods that characterize the republican factions of this county. This view is believed to be wholly wrong. The independents and dem ocrats are men of common sense, and know that for a minority party to win in an election they must first hold their own ranks tirmly together and get votes from republicans by fail methods. The lirst principle of democracy is that the majority rule, and we believe that to be the senti ment of the independents and demo crats of the county.. IN HIS speeches throughout the country l". S. Senator "Wellington of Maryland, the republican senator who is supporting Bryan, gives a rea son for his course that does not accrue to President Mclvi nicy's credit. Wellington says that by his one vote the treaty of peace with Spain was ratified but on the personal pledge to him, by the president, that it was'Mint his purpose to permanently acquire or hold, against the consent of the in habitants. the Philippine islands: that it was his purpose to restore law and order by American arms in the con test then being waged, and to prevent foreign interference in the affairs of the archipelago. If this is true Senator Wellington was fooled by the weakest kind of deception, one that a president of the U. S. should .-corn. FROM reports that follow Roosevelt's visit in the west the same results are heard from his visit in other towns as occurred here. Roosevelt disappointed many who had been led to expect to hear a statesman address them. Jlis speech was mostly about war, about flying the Hag, about the Hough Riders. He did not discuss the real issues nor attempt to answer the argu ments of those who point out. that the McKinley prosperity is mostly a newspaper fake. Roosevelt, is a great gallery player and kseps it up all along the line. His war business could have been worked to a better political advantage a year ago but it is too late to do it now. IF Bryan is elected he may have the appointment of seven members of the U. S. supreme court. Who is there in this country, not connected with the spoils of office, or with a trust, who would prefer to see Mark Hanna, name the supreme court, rather than W. .1. Bryan if Hanna, through Mc Kinley, choses the meniberf. the trusts and the wealthy m"ii of the country would smile. The income tax would not be heard of. If tin consti tution is to be interpreted in the in terests of tin whole people, who does not believe but what the court selected by Bryan would do it rat her than the couri selected by Hanna'/ Tim cartoonist -for the New York Journal. Homer Davenport, is a poor man, but, the Journal say»: Only a few months ago lie was of fered twenty-rive dollars to refrain from making political cartoons tor five months of this year. Mr. Daven port declined the offer. He was aske/l whether a, higher price would temp' him. His reply was: "I am not for sale." No wonder Mark Hanna who has been freely depicted in character of boss bv Davenport, thfiiks that car toonists ought to le in jail. IT IS the favorite and supine plea of the imperialist to say that this coun- try must go on lighting ami waging] a war of conquest. against another) race, because it is our Hum McKinlcv says so. destiny. Mrvan. 1 liam McKinley says so. Mi-y m. like I the man and true believer in republi- I s'.»i Wil-1 0:111 institutions says ot this Iceble e.\ cuse: 'Destinv is the subterfuge of the invertebrate, who. lacknm1 liecourage to oppose error, seeks some p.ausiDle. 1 l!)0) sees an increase in the farm mortgage indebtedness of (irand Forks county and with a partial fail ure of crops this year, the demand from farmers for money is greater than ever before in the historv of the The following cablegram to the Chi cago American is excitiny the greatest interest in the northwest where the noted bishop lives: Paris, Sept. ±2.—Upon the most un questionable authority it is announced that Archbishob Ireland, who is now in Paris resting on his laurels, after a triumphant reception at the Vatican, will not support McKinley this year. He finds be has been repaid only with ingratitude for bis stand against Bryan four years ago. McKinley went, out of his way to promise that the Archbishop be sent as a delegate to The Hague peace conference. The promise was not kept. Another instance of the president's shifting promises put the archbishop in an awkward position. McKinley gave Ireland to understand that war with Spain would be prevented and Ireland assured the pope of this, the assurance being based on the presi dent's word. As a result the St. Paul prelate was put in a sorry plight before the Vati can, as an empty pretender. McKinley hoped to soothe the feel ings of the'archbishop by appointing him to deliver tlie oration of presen tation of the statue of LaFayette to France, but the sop failed. When the archbishop leaves for America next week it will not be to help McKinley"s re-election. Popular in Grand Forks. A correspondent in the Minneapolis Journal says: .1. .J. Stainpen of Grand Forks county, whom the fusionists have named for the vacancy of secre tary of state on their ticket, is one of the most popular Scandinavians in that county. He has made some won derful records as a vote getter for county office. Stamped will prove much more, popular than F. WilJ liams. who was nominated by Hie con vention and later resigned. Woman's Weakness A woman's reproductive organs are in tlie most intense and con* tinuous sympathy with her kid neys. The slightest disorder in the kidneys brings about a cor responding disease in the repro ductive organs. Dodd's Kidney Pills, by restoring the kidneys to their perfect condition, prevent and cure those fearful disorders peculiar to women. Pale young girls, worn-out mothers, suffering wives and women entering upon the Change of Life, your best friend is— Dodd's Kidney Pills. that is a misstatement. us 1 view it jn nomination a candidate for judge In the fall of 1 TO DEMOCRATS As a lite Ion sav a wnrd lirou excuse lor support inu it. I ., democrat ic voters and toall the voters jot this county as well, about the ... nominal ion of a candidal for judge. Farmers Views. As yo„ all know a democratic and in Thelirand forks Herald had an (lopiMi'U-iit fin\tMit ion bus been called article on the properit of the fanner a the price of wheat this judicial district, representing was about lie same as now. edits. lie jut rrcsl of eight dilVoreiit couu one hundred bushels ot|(j wheat at (i"i cents, and today I sell a 0S 1 price, and tile money at il pur- like amount for tlie same here is the result of what purchased in 1:m and wl chased tod-)y. when the prosperity and trusts are ha sway, invested in each instance in •*:i.no worth of sugar, and received in ls'tii (it) pounds, and in l'.mo pounds: 1 key of nails in 1s m. in l!oo *4: 1 gang plow in 1s,.h ?.".(.no in i'.ioo. $i iu!0: {oo pounds twine in 1 s'.ui: in 1 lioo. lot) pounds barb wire in 1 i(i. in liini). McK nlcv I find my living, clothing, etc.. costs To bring about this arbitrary me -"i percent more than be ore Me- action am told work is being done in Kinley prosperity struck lis. 1 bewail 'ihecily and throughout the county to to .soliloquize as to where the pros-. prevent democrats having a candidale perity of producers came in-what he '..., and thereby forcing them, has to sell no higher than in l^'ti I if bev vote at all. to vote for a re while if he t-.ells a car of wheat he must pay revenue on it. If be buys a dollars worth of sugar he only yets as much as he did in 1*!m tor ii" cents. During the years l!:i. 4. .*.( and 7 farmers paid off a large percentage of their indebtedness, but when the McKinley trusts got to work, that public oflicelto which he aspires. Hut, was all stopped and in 18!)!) and as state. Verily, if McKinley prosperity done, and that he will in return get should continue for tour years longer. the producers will be in a worse con dition than ever before, and as the fanners suffer, so must the western business man who lives tf his pros perity. Farmer. Goes Back on McKinley. And Independents of Jamestown and citizens to take the judgship out of Stutsman County. politics. Hut when the contrary is the case, it is the duty of any party to give the voters a right to choose be Kditor Alert tween candidates, and tret the best man for the place. The judgeship is not a mere party ollice but one in democrat. I wish to the press to the ('arrington ctober »rd l!)oo to put .V county convention has been railed for Mondav night next 11 the Union ('liilt Kooins to select, delegates to the judicial convention. I am greatly surprised to hear in this city and elsewhere that a few democrats and independents—-some of whom are candidates for our votes ibis fall have taken it upon them selves to say that no candidate for I judge should be selected on the demo cratic and independent ticket. This is the same as an endorsement of the republican candidate and insures his election. pubiican candidate, who is well known not to be tlie choice of many. Now, 1. as one voter, do not c'aim the right to prevent any independent or any democrat from voting for a republican candidate if he honestly thinks such candidate is the best man for the a democrat. 1 do object to being denied the right, to vote for a demo cratic candidate for the same otlice. am informed that the reasons why we should not nominate a democratic candidate for judge are that the re publican candidate does not want it republican votes for some of our local democratic and independent candi dates: ilso that a prominent republi can. Ex-Senator Fuller, is working against the republican county ticket and that lie will stop doing so if we nominate a judicial'candidate. Past, and recent republican county politics are familiar to all. We know that the republicans are divided into hos tile factions each struggling after the spoils of otlicc and when defeated some "f these candidates are actuated by mot ives of a personal kind to seek the defeat of their successful oppon ents. They do not care for democrats or democratic principles otherwise. The wo factions in the republican party here have been warring for years for the personal benelit of a few leaders and have been more or less successful in getting democrats to take a hand to help out one side or the other. The most arbitrary methods have prevailed, voters have been corrupted, and the most objec tionable and criminal practices em ployed. In my opinion it is suicidal for us as democrats, to begin to imitate these methods and. if we expect to gain the respect and votes of all good citizens who sincerely want to reform our rot ten county politics, we must put up some capable candidates for every im portant office on the ticket, loyally support, them, and ask for the sup port of others. We have in our local and state tickets a tine list of candidates and confidently expect that they will be elected. As we all know, republican gang methods in this county stop at noth ing to secure the ottices and our coun ty has become a rotten borough poli tically, and known so throughout the state. Do we as democrats want to follow in tiie same rut? Can we by aiding to keep in office one or the other of the present corrupt republi can yanys. expect to gain anything? And when we do so are we any better as a party than the republican gang sters we denounce and assist? For a few of our party therefore to choke oil" the democrats and inde pendents of the entire district from having a candidate for one of the mosl important offices in the state is, to my mind, as much of a gtny trick as any ever practised by the republi can factions of Stutsuian County. It is un-deinocratic. unwise. unfair and in my opinion, will, if accomplished, arouse such a feeling of indignation, when the matter is fully understood by all voters thai it, will cause the loss of more votes for our local ticket than our candidates can gain by ratllcking wit li either fact ion of the republican party. 11 is well known that there is iand has been much dis-satisfaction with the republican candidate for 'judge, not only in this county but throughout the district, It is reason able to expect that if we put in the tield an acceptable candidate for the 'office we will get enough republican votes toelect him, if we as democrats support our candidate. When a judge is generally regarded as accept able and has no party opposition to show other- wise. 1 believe it is a wise tiling for all which clients of every party have in terests at stake, and the best, man for that office above all others should be cli( isen. I fully sympathize with the anxiety jot'our friends to gain votes: but to succeed, they must, lirst have a united party support before they can go tisl 1 iiig in the troubled and doubtful waters of republican county politics: land they must use open und honorable means at. all imes and not at tempi to I push to the front any republican fac tion I hat has been discarded by the republican party of 1 he county. 1 am not. advocating the candidacy of any man. but simply that someone I lie chosen and that lie be the most c:i|)able and acceptable man who can he found. There are a number of acceptable candidates from the demo era tic attorneys of the (list ricl. any one of whom would enforce the laws of the state without fear, favor or malice, and give every man his just rights in our ceurt of justice. For these reasons therefore I, as a democrat, trust that our democratic friends, who have the party organiza tion in charge, will not become so in fected with the poison of republican bossism that they will refuse the voters of the party the right to vote fur a democratic candidate for any ollice. Particularly for such an im portant. office as judge. NATIONAL 1K.MOCK.VTIO TICKKT. For Tri'sMi-nt, WILLIAM .1. IIKYAN. of Xfhi-Hskii. For Vic'e 1're.stiliMit, A 1)1, AI li. STEVENSON', of Illinois. JUDICIAL. NON-I'AIMISAN. .Judfjeot' the Supreme Court, 1). K. M'JKt! AN, of Kanisey. STATU TICKET. I N'DEl'KN DKN'T-1 IK-MOCK AT1C. I'resiilentkil Klecturs M. F. WILLIAMS, ass. CHAS. AITLEQUISI', Dickey. W. L. IIAt'IT, Kaiisom. Member of Congress— M. A. IllLDliKTlI,Cass. Governor— M. A. Wl I'l'KUM AX, Hicliland. Lieutenant i.overuoi \V. Mel.LAN, Ca\alier. Secretary ol State— JOHN J. STA.Ml'K.X, (inuul Forks. Auditor— S. K. MetilNNIS, Stutsman. Treasurer— .J. I\ Ill ltl)E li, Walsh. Stute Superintendent LA L' It A .1. KISKNlll Til. Foster. Commissioner of Insurance— W. N. CAMl'BKLL, Harnes. Attorney General— JOHN CAlt.MOl)V, Traill. Commissioner of Agriculture anil Lal)of SAMUKL TOKGEKSOX, Traill. Itaitroad Commissioners .JULIITS WI UK US, Walsh. L. I,. LKWIS, Stark. JOS. MOKKISON. Pembina. COUNTY TICKET. For Senator— M. I). WILLIAMS. For Representative— JOHN SYVBKT80N, A., I. (JUAI)E. For Sheriff— ANDREW BI.KWKIT. For Auditor— L. B. NIKMEVKK. For Treasurer— J. H. CRI'.M. For Itegister of Deeds— .rolIN 1). FKIED. For Clerk of Court H. K. TUTHILL. For County Judge— NO. T. EAGER. For Superintendent of Schools GEO. CONN. For States Attorney— MAItlON CONKLIN. For Coroner— DR. A. w. MCDONALD. For County fcurveyor— WM. L. HALL. For Commissioner .'ml District— 0. D. WESTON. For Assessors— I'HOSI'KR NAZE, .11! .1st DM. THOMAS PEN DRAV, 2nd Dist. For Justice of Peace— J. K. CRI'.M. II. G. Dl'NLAP, K. OLSON A. OILMAN. For Constables— SAM SYVEKTSON, .1 T. NOW LIN. F. NEVA. C. A. ZIMMERMAN. Another Bad Storm. Reports concerning Monday's storm in the north part of the stat•* indicate that it wa.s pretty general throughout the northwest, and the fall of rain un usually heavy in the northern part of this state. The rain fell in torrents and grain in .shocks was so thoroughly soaked as to render it practically worthless. The extent of the loss to farmers caused by the rain cannot be estimated, hut it is very great A good deal of llax had been cut and this is practically destroyed. In fact, farmers say that (lax already cut will not be worth threshing, and some or them express a belief that the portion of the crop left standing will he of lit tle value. IMUiS® AVegdablc Preparation Tor As si nulatinr ihcFood arid Rc uia tir-i Hie Stomachs r.tv! Bowels of Promotes DigesliorXhsci r.ess snd Rest.C-ontalns ncidier Opuuii.Morphine nor IVOT 'N at: I c, /.:I ',T« 0'J TRSSLMUEL PITCIIELT R'TLZ J, UT:'PFUT AKK.SM'.* /.. •/. SSI'S /.* j'... '"NIFTI /.V riot:i£ ''i A Democrat. S'jtli -S'JFFJ ill THT MT RHR -fY/X\ /J'TL A'/e/t vf. I!! Ajvctibci Jicmcdy for ConsHpa licn. 3ov.r Stomach,Diarrhoea, Worms,Convulsions, Fevcrish nnd I/CSS OF SLEEP. 7ac Sin.ile Signature of NEW YORK. EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. ,.MHI Reasons For the Change. Ac.-ording to a special telegram to tiie New York Journal dated Paris, Sept. '2- Macgrane Coxe, a New York lawyer and a close friend of Cleveland, who is now in Paris says: '•The re-election of McKinley is by no means assured, and it is a much more difficult matter than in 18SH5. Bryan has grown more popular in confidence ill the past four years and his address of acceptance is the most admirable statement. It won him many friends. Tiie indorsement of Hryan by Olnev. Edward Shepard, Wilson of Virginia and other demo caats like them who are of the high est, standing and who in 1800 aided the rvuhlican candidate is very import ant. i'iie position everywhere taken by the administration that any criti cism of its policies is treasonable is as alarming as it is disgusting. '•The republican policy is adding millions upon millions annually to taxation with no benelit to the peo ple. It. necessitates a large standing army, which the American people look upon as a menace to their free dom. 11. is a policy of centralization, where we democrats believe in the principle of local self-government. There rests the strength of our in stitutions. The people' are heartily weary of the extravagantly high sched ules of the Jiingley taritf, which thwart efforts at the development of our foreign trade and tend to build up enormous trusts and monopolies. To such oppression of the people the coal strikes in Pennsylvania are a logical consequence. Donl Hesitate. There is just one thing to use if your stomach is "out of order" and that "one thing" is Dr. Pierce'* Golden Medical Discovery. The supposition is that you want a prompt cure and a lasting cure. That is whv the Discovery is recommended as the one thing for your condition. It cures promptly, perfectly and per manently, diseases of the stomach and organs of digestion and nutrition. It's sure to help. It's almost sure to cure. It has completely cured ninety-eight per cent, of all os a given it a fair and faithful trial. About ten years afro I began to have trouble with in stomacli writes Mr. Win. Con nolly, of 535 Walnut St., Lorain, Ohio. "It got so bad that I liacl to lay off quite often two and three days in a week, my stomach would bloat, and I would belch up pas, and was in awful distress at such times. I have been treated by the best doctors in this city but help whatever. Some said I had cancer got no of the stomach, others lysicpsitv I have bought and tried everything I saw advertised for ays pepsia and stomach trouble, but continued to jfet worse all the time. At.JUt twelve months ago I was in such a conditiufl hat my friends had some fear about my recovery, it was then I wrote to you for advice. You told me that by my symptoms you thotijjlit I had liver complaint and advised the use of your Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Pellets' in connection. These medicines 1 have taken as directed, and am very happy to state tliat I commenced to get better from the start and have not lost a day tnis summer on account of my stomach. I feel Up-top, and better than I have for ten years." Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cleanse tiie bowels and stimulate the liver. .Vor Infants and vhildrer^ The Kind 1 en Have Always Bought JR1 Sion In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA VHC CKNTAUf) COMPANY. NCWVOMK CITY. "•yhe formation of huge trusts and monopolies is made possible and fos tered by the extravagent republican tariffs. When the laborer sees prop erties for which lie works put into a combination or trust and capitalized for an excess over tiie actual value when he sees dividends paid on this enormous, fictitious valuation, and finds himself called upon by increased labors to produce these dividends, it is not to be wondered at that ho de mands an increase of wages for hjs increased labor." Prohibition Candidates. Hon. John G. Woolley candidate for the presidency 011 the prohibition ticket nncf his running mate Henry li. Metcalf of Boston were in Fargo Tues day. lioth made addresses. The speakers were met at the train by a large crowd of women and children but few men. Hon. Volney Gushing of Bangor, Me., who accompanied the party also made an address. Wool ley does not abuse the old par ties, but his sarcasm is vented on the christian voters who want to appear us christians and prohibitionists and still stick to their old parties. He said the votes of Theo. Crigler and Bob Fitzsimmons were on a par that one voted the same as the other. lie did not blame the prize fighters and saloonists for wanting to get in the company of bishops, elders, etc. Henry B. Metcalf, the vice pres idential candidate spoke of the can teen. He said that McKinley's action in the canteen matter was the worst ever offered to christian citizenship of the country when he ordered that the canteen must stand. It assumed that our soldier boys who are out in the service of the country were drunkards and libertines and must "oe provided for. Last evening Y. B. Cushing of Maine spoke on the duty of organiza tion of good citizens to make their votes count. He illustrated it by saying that Sullivan could never have knocked out his man by shaking him with the ends of his outstretched fin gers, but when he organized his lin gers into a closed list he did the busi ness. Increased Freight Business. The business of the Northern l'acitic in Washington. Oregon and Idaho is so great that the earnings more than make up for the falling oil in Min nesota, Dakota and Montana, caused by the shrinkage in the crops. All classes of freight in the Pacific coast states are moving in treinendousquan tities. Fruit, lumber, coal, grain, cattle, sheep, mineral ores, in fact everything marketable isbeinghauled as fast as cars can be supplied. On the eastern division there is a differ ent story to tell. The falling olf aver ages 2o0 car loads dailv. Land Sales. The annual report of the Northern Pacilie will show that the road during the past year disposed or :f,1)41,000 acres of land in the company's several grants. The sales were the largest in the history of the company by a large amount. The sales to actual settlers along the route as well as to private parties were very large, but the dry weather of the early summer gave them a setback, but. the coming year's is expected to be large. The North ern Pacific has 23,000,000 acres left.