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THE WEEKLY ALERT.
J. C. WARNOCK, EDITOK.
CASS county is the eighth wonder in
politics. There are four tickets iu the
field and it would requite a person who
is able to solve a Chinese puzzle to (lis
cover which is which and who is who.
Another very strange feature of the cam­
paign in that county is that on the re
publican ticket for the territorial council
is D. H. Twomey, an avowed prohibition
ist, and for the assembly W. B. Locklin,
wh declares himself in favor of division
(if the county, in favor of clipping, as it
were, the wing feathers of the city of
Fargo and Cass county as a political cen­
ter and stronghold. The latter is also
one of tin bolters of two years ago who
joined in defeating the election of Maj
Edwards who had been regularly nom­
inated at the republican convention for
the legislature. This political BaDel
comes of Major Edwards going "out of
politics" after the Pierre convention,
though te is accused of playing a "cold
deck" on the Bismarck convention at a
somewhat later date
THK reception given .Judge Gilford, re­
publican candidate for delegate to con­
gress, at all points of liis-visit i.i North
Dakota are little less than ovations, and
show a unanimity of feeling among the
people that is remarkable so soon after
the heated contest over the nomination at
Pierre, only a few weeks ago. lie will
lie elected by a majority in magnitude
similar to a democratic majority in Geor
gia. Dakota's recor"for illiteracy is only
3.1 which makes her as reliably republi
can as Georgia is democratic witii her
42.8 per cent of illiteracy. Gov. Pierce
in his speech at the rally in Bismaick said
that "Dakota should give Judge Gilford
79,900 votes, which would leave 100 for
the democratic candidate, enough fo.
compliment anil too much for seed.'
The Alert does not, however, agree with
the governor on this point, llis estimati
would
give
Judge Gilford 78,000 majority,
which we think is a little extravagant
We do not believe,
taking
everything into
consideration, that Judge Gilford will gel
over 77,000 majoritv.
THE Delaware statesman ol democrats
descent, Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, n.ade
a speech in Chicago a few days ago in
which he did not mention the name ol
Cleveland, the democratic candidate foi
president. Bayard figured slightly as
candidate for the imination himself, and
he is supposed to be a little sjtir over the
nomination of Cleveland though not quitt
willing to leave the party that keeps bin.
in the United States senate on account o'
the disappointment- The parly may havt
made a mistake in nominating Cleveland
over, Bayard but Bayard made a fata
mistake wheu he made that Dover speed.
July 9th, 1861, in which he declared "1
believe solemnly that the war inaugura
ltd by Abraham Lincoln and his cabinet
is worse than fruitless," and in the
course
of the same speech further said that hi
earnestcry for peace should not be "stilled
at the bidding of a host of fanatical una
cowardly ditors, aided by an army ol
greedy intractors and public leeches,
stimulating an ignorant mot) to denounce
and attack us as traitors and secession­
ists If Cleveland should make a speed,
lie would probably not mention Bayard'*
name on account of that gentleman's
Dover speech.
ONK of the most important county offi­
cers to be elected in Stutsman county thi
fall is the county attorney, who is tn
legal adviser of the hoard of county com­
missioners and of the county officers,
counsel to defend the county in all actions
brought against it and to prosecute all
cases in which it is aintilT, and ose
ecute ail offenders against the laws of the
territory. He should be a man of gooi
ability as a lawyer, discreet in judgment as
a man and of incorruptible integrity in
personal and professional honor. As such
a man tbe Alert takes pleasure in present­
ing Mr. John S. Watson of this city, a
•nan whose unassumiugdignity, delibera
tivo judgment and sterling integrity of
character have won for him the highest
esteem and entire confidence of the peo­
ple of this city and county of which be is
an old citizen and in which he has been
for several years engaged in the practice
of his profession, and the past two years
has been county attorney and in all of
his business relations, both private and
official,he has made for himself and main­
tained a record for legal] ability and per­
sonal integrity tha'. is unnssailable. As a
counse or, Mr. Watson is reliable and ca­
pable, never swerving through impetu
osity or avarice from the true principles
of justice and law as a prosecutor lie is
fair and honorable, seeking onlv that jus­
tice may be meted out to offenders against
the law, and in thedisctinrue ot that duty
he knows neither friend nor f^c. By the
experience of the past two years lie has
become
conversant with all pending legal
questions in which the county is concern­
ed knows their history and status, has
acquaint'd himself with all the mater al
facts and is better prepared to conduct
them' to final issue than any new man in
the position could pos-ibly do, and we
believe the interests of the county would
be best conserved by his re election.
1
STANDING on tbe site where the great
statesmen, Lincoln and Douglas once
stood, Blaine at Springfield, 111., had in­
spiration of memories and glories enough
to call out tbe grandest emotions of liis
?oul. As the names of Washington and
Jefferson are to Virginia so are the names
of Lincoln and Douglas to Illinois. Their
memories are alike revered by men of all
parties because they were men whose
greatness was not confined within the
limits of any one party. They were men
whose names and virtues as patrto.s and
statesmen grow brighter and brighter as
the epoch in which thev lived recedes in
the history of tbe country.
IN nearly every county in the territory,
so far as heard from, where attempts
IIHVC been made to run a straight partisan
ticket of either party for county oflicer3
it has proven a failure and shows very
conclusively that the people are not in
sympathy with any such hidebound, CIOPH
communion practice with reference to
these minor and non-political offices. As
well might, the social and business rela­
tions of the people be restricted by party
lines as their preferences and votes for
county and lesser officers, where people
and officers are every day associated to­
gether in business and social relations.
As a result of such attempt to draw the
party lines iu selecting county officers
Cass county has four tickets in the field
and as many mere warring factions over
them Barnes county is a bedlam almost
trora the same cause Burleigh and Mor­
ton have pursued the wiser course of dis­
regarding party lines, as lias also Kidder
and Foster. For county, municipal or
school offic TS the man's litncs3 for the
position Is the only question that should
oc raised in seeking a candidate and it is
the only one raised by the intelligent peo­
ple when they come to cast their votes.
IN figuring on the result of an election
IO take place the doubtful states should
be counted for the opposition, and unless
•i victory can be figured out on that basi%
liere is work to be done. The "solid
outli" must bo conceded to Cleveland
in the forthcoming election. These have
in aggregate of 153 electoral votes. In
liana has never gone back uu Tom Hen
lricks and she has 15 electoral votes
New York, with her 36 electoral votes,
jan be carried by the democrats if tliey
ire as much united as they may be reas­
onably supposed to be. These two states
iggregate51 electoral votes which, to­
gether witti the 153 of the "solid south"
makes a total of 204, three more than
accessary to an election Blaine must
:arrv either one or the other of these
-tales to be elected, and Cleveland must
:arry both to make his election reasona­
bly certain. With the rresumption in
favor of Indiana going democratic, ana
he chances of the parties oeing equal for
New York, that stale becomes the battle
ground and the pivot upon which the
•lcctiou will turn. The time for "b.uff"
HI this campaigu is past and we may as
•veil Jook the matter square in the face.
Neither Blaine or Cleveland will haye a
walk away.
THE "nice laid plan" of the Car»ngton
News for a division of the ninth legisla­
tive district is somewhat ingenious if not
unique in representative govirnment. It
proposes that the district be divided cast
tnd west on the line between townships
144 and 145, the south boundary line of
Foster, Wellsi, Slicrid-m anil McLean
counties to the Missouri liver and thence
continued along the river northwest to
the Montana line. Such a division would
make Fos er county the [folitical hub of
the new district and it is easily seen how
a Foster county mar. would readily fill in
with the idea.
There are several formidable, and, we
think, insuperable objections to such a
division. In the first place it totally dis­
regards the very foundation and basis of
apportionment of representation, which
is population. It would give the sparsely
settled
new district the satve representa
lion in Uie legislature as that of the re
mainder of the old district which con­
tains at least ten times as muc'i popula
lion as that of the new district to be set
off from it. In the second plaGe it would
leave the remainder of the district in an
unnatural and inconvenient shape. From
the east boundary of Barnes to the west
boundary of Billings county there are
fifty-one ranges, 306 miles, and from the
extreme southeast the extreme north­
west by the usually traveled routes would
be nearly 400 miles, no advantage in the
way of convenience over the present dis­
trict. A third objection is to the pre­
sumption that the territory comprised in
the present ninth district should all be
comprised in two districts under the redis
trlcting regime, which would be very lit­
tle advantage, if any, over the present
arrangement of double representation
fiom the single district.
The desire of Foster county to cut loose
from Stutsman and Barnes and be a po­
litical center and hub itself is not an un­
natural one even if it is so selfish as to
wholly ignore the correct basis of repre­
sentation and the convenience of other
counties in the present district. The
more natural plan for division would be
north and south, separating the Missouri
ond James river valleys.
1 HE new democratic paper at Valley
City sava the Alert misapprehended the
resolutions adopted by the democratic
legislative convention held in this city the
8th inst., with reference to their appli­
cation to the Missouri slope democracy.
We obtained our idea of their meaning
from the reading of the resolulious and
the speeches that were made at the time
upon the question of lheir adoption. We
think tin circumstances justified the res­
olutions with the construction put upon
them by tbe delegates present as well as
by the Alert, but policy may now require
their modification. A full ticket was
regularly nominated on that occasion,
but the Democrat, which is in the secret
counsels of tbe party, intimates that even
yet the democratic central committee
may make a new ticket by dropping off
some of the regular nominees and sub
stituiing 5ome Burleigh county men for
the council or lower house, and suggests
Capt. Maratta or Alex. McKen/.ic. The
nomination of the latter would be some
thing like a source of uneasiness to the
republican candidates, but as Mr. Mc
Kenzie is a candidate for re-election as
sheriff and has llie Dakota exhibit at the
New Orleans exposition on his hands, his
acceptance of the nomination for cither
house of the legislature is practically out
ol the question. The election is near at
hand but still far enough away to develop
a great many schemes. The republicans
of tie ninth legislative district should
watch as well as pray. The well known
fact that in New York bets are bein^
made that Cleveland will carry the state,
giving odds to Blaine, is more significant
than the demonstrative gatherings of
either party in different parts of the
state.
The Murder at Menokcii.
In relation to the killing of the black­
smith Bessey by Magill at Menoken, fif­
teen miles east of Bismarck, the Bismarck
Tribune says of the inquest on Thursday:
The first witness called was James C. Car­
ter, who was present immediately after
the homicide, lie worked on the farm
knew Bessey and the prisoner had previ­
ous quarrels. Found Bessey lying under
the work bench in a pool of blood, dead,
within three minutes after theshcotinj
found two shells taken from yourr Ma
gill's gun on the floor near Bessey. 8. G.
Smith, sworn. He had known Ma
giliS four years lud known Bes&X two
years Thomas Magill had had Rouble
oefore with Bessey, and told Smitj some
time previous that he (Magill) lia-i asked
Bessey for a team of horses, which Bessey
had charge of, and had been refused, and
that he (Bessey) would keep at him (Ala
gill) until he (Bessey) would get. hurt.
Smith had becu accustomed to going out
witti Magill hunting and had never known
him to load his gun before starting said
Magill had always heretofore been anx­
ious not io have the guns lo ided teiore
starting and had cautioned in this regard
on previous trips. Thus far no witnesses
have been called to corroboiate Magill's
story that a sledge hammer was to be
used on him by Bessey. The only Bledge
hammer found near the scene of the mur­
der was testified to having been coyered
with cinders and dust, showing no signs
of recent use A small hammer lay in
the i»ool of bloo ngar Bessey when
found.
VOL. VI-NO. 20 JAMESTOWN. D. T.. THURSDAY, OCT. 30, 1884. 82.00 PER YEAR.
ALTHOUOU the Alerl was opposed to
holding a strictly party convention either
republican or democratic in name, and
had no part nor lot in the recent repub­
lican convention for the nomination of a
county ticket, the convention was actu­
ated by a liberality and concession of par­
tisanship which we most heartily endorse
and which will give strength to the ticket
with all fair and libiral minded people in
the county. We favored there-election
of Mr. Watson to the office of district at­
torney for reasons not necessary now to
rejeat, but as he went into the conyen
tioq|hc as an honorable man will abide
its decision and he is consequently cow
out of the contest for the office. His suc­
cessful rival, Mr. Glaspell, is a man whom
we personally esteem and whose abilities
as an attorney we admire, and our prefer­
ence for Mr. Watson was for the single
reason that he was already in office and
thoroughly acquainted with all its de­
tails, and had the cases been reversed we
would for the same reason have as hearti­
ly supported Mr. Glaspell for re-election.
The rest of the ticket is as satisfactory to
the Alert as if we had had the naming of
the candidates and we most heartily sup­
port the ticket from top to bottom.
We congratulate the people of Stilts
The County Commit lee.
The county republican central commit­
tee ars announced by Geo. W. Vennum,
chairman of the count*- republican con­
vention, Oct. 25th 1884, and in pursuance
of a resolution 'hereof, is as follows:
R. E. WATTACK,
.1. A. FRTE.
L. O. OILMAN,
TIK-S S. COLLINS.
J.J. FLINT
J. H. McDermott and C. D. Smith of
Carrington were in town yesterday, tut
if they were working any dark and deep
laid political scheme we failed to get on
to it.
man coucty upon the harmony that lias
been attained after a rather stormy cam­
paign. Those who have been foes in the
several political conflicts of the past sum­
mer and fall will respect each other the
more for having felt the blows of the
strife for a sinister and unfaithful friend
is always to be more dreaded and des­
pised than art open and avowed foe.
There is now a good feeling in this county
in political matters, and especially in the
ranks ol the republican party, wliiili will
be united in support of the legislative
ticket despite the deflection and bolt of
our contemporary, the Evening Capital.
The only effect of its bolt ol the legisla­
tive ticket which its editor took part in
nominating is to injure our own candi­
date in other counties and cut down his
vote in retalliation for supposed bad faith,
but whmh does not exist outside of our
contemporary, at Mr. Nickeus' own home.
The course of the Capital in opposing the
election of Col. Steele, and its unwarrant­
ed and uncalled for attack upon his per­
sonal character and reputation, is con­
demned by all our people who are ac­
quainted with him and by none more
than Mr. Nickeus who authorizes the
Alert to disclaim for him any sympathy
in this opposition to Mr. Steele or in the
attacks made upon his personal charac­
ter.
THE DEAD JOURNALIST.
The announcement of the death of
Wilbur F. Storey, the great and greatest
of western journalist last night will be
received throughout the continent and
beyond the sea3 with the must profound
sadness though not an unexpected event.
This brilliant sun in the journalistic
world has been in an eclipse for some
years but the knowledge that it has for­
ever set will fall like a pall upon the
members of the profession throughout
the world. Within comparatively a few
years Henry J. Raymond, of the New
York Times, James Gaidon Bennett, of
the Herald, Horace Greeley, of the Tri­
bune, and Wilbur F. Storey, of tbe Chi­
cago Times, all veterans and brilliant
lights in journalism, and the most bril­
liant in America and the peers of any in
the world, have fallen before the grim
monster. Storey was a man no less re­
markable for his enterprise and aggress
iveness than lor his genius and fore­
thought. He set his mark ahead and
worked to it against whatever obstacle
that might oppose. He was a leader in
political sentiment in which he was al­
ways far in advance of the times in which
he promulgated his ideas. During the
war he took a bold stride out of the dem
ocratic party becausc the party would not
keep up with the progress of the age, and
from that time he has never been hemmed
in by party lines. In one sense he has
been a political Ishmaelite striking down
the clogs to progress wherever he found
them, acknowledging allegiance to no
party, sect or dogmatical opinion but
seeming to aspire to be a party to him­
self which all meu and parties should
respect from fiar if not from admiration.
THE LEGISLATIVE SITUATION.
The Barnes connty republican committee have
substituted the name of D. W Maratta, of Bis­
marck, for member of the council in place of
Charles Richardson, and J. W.. Goodrich, of
Jamestown, in plaec of W. F. Steele, and C. D.
Smith, of Carrington, in place of Julins Stevens.
The democratic central committee have, at his
own request, withdrawn D. M. Kelleher, substi­
tuting Maratta. and have placed lion. E. A. Wil­
liams upon their ticket. The break in Barnes
countv extends to Griggs and some of the north
era counties.—Bismarck Journal.
The political situation in this legisla­
tive district with reference to the election
of members of the legislature is very pe­
culiar. One must be stone blind who
cannot see that it jeopardizes the election
of one candidate for the council and one
or more of the candidates for the house
on the republican ticket. It is proper to
inquire who is responsible fcr this condi­
tion of things, and it is but simple justice
to the candidates who baye had no haud
in it to place the re-ponsibility where it
belongs.
The beginning of the peculiarities of
the legislative campaign wa3 in the dem­
ocrats of Burleigh county endorsing Hon.
E. A. Williams, the republican candidate
for the legislature, and refusing to send
delegates to or in anyway take part in the
democratic legislative convention held in
this city the Sth inst. The present situa­
tion shows that there was "method in
the madness" of our democratic brethren
and a deep" laid scheme was at the bo»
tom of it which the factional strife and
revolt In the republican ranks in Barnes
county has made it possible for them to
work out perhaps beyond their expecta­
tions
Barnes county sent contesting delega­
tions to the Bismarck convention, the in
evitable result of which would be and was
disappointment and disaffection on the
part of the faction whose delegates were
not admitted. This, however, was in a
air way to be healed when Mr. Kichard
on, who had been honored by the repub­
lican legislative convention with the
nomination to one of the highest places
in its gift, refused to support with his
paper, the Valley City Times, tbe repub­
lican ticket in his own county. This ac­
tion on his part aroused the indignation
of the republican party in his own county
to such a pitch that tue republican cen­
tral committee of that county declared
by resolution that Mr. Ilicliardson bad
orfeited the support of the republican
party and withdrew his name fiom the
ticket, substituting therefor the name of
Dan. W. Maratta, a democrat of Burleigh
county. Not only this, but they went
outside of the record and repudiated Mr.
Steele, of Kluder county, and Mr. Ste­
vens, of Griggs. This all came of Mr.
Richardson's refusal to support tlie re­
publican ticket in his own county, and
unless he can explain his extraord nary
course better than ne has yet done lie can
hope for but little sympathy from tbe re­
publican party in other parts of the dis­
trict.
The democrats were in position to lake
advantage of this situation, and, as might
have been expected, have put up their
strongest man, Capt. Maratta, for the
council to defeat one or the other of the
republican candidates for the council and
they arc not particular which—anything
to "get there." Two years ago, when
only one councilman was to be elect­
ed from this district, the vote was as fol­
lows
COUNTY. MAKATTA. NICKEUS.
505 621
Burleigh 564 300
Dickey 22S
Griggs 461 395
11 HI
Morton 333 251
Ransom 62 580
187 800
2,126 3,325
2,126
Nickeus' majority. 1,199
By act of the last legislature the coun
tics )f Hanson, La Moure and Dickey
were transferred from this district to the
Fargo district, which leaves Mr. Nickeus'
majority in the remaining counties in the
above list 370. In addition to these there
will be several new couuties to vote this
year, and Mr. Nickeus' friends owe it to
him and themselves to see that he does
not suffer loss of votes either on account
of t'ie Barnes county disaffection or that
of the Capital in this city, as he is not in
the remotest degree responsible or to
blame for either.
Brother lurke Bolls Again.
Only a few weck3 ago the Capital was
clamoring for a republican county con­
vention to nominate a county ticket. The
convention was held and a county ticket
has been nominated, and our high moral
brother who won the stakes in a game of
"progressive euchre" a short time ago
and occupied a half column of his "valu­
able space" in telling the people of it, is
shocked at the nominations made, and
bolts the ticket. The renomiuation of
Sheriff McKechnie is the red rag before
this bull of Baslian and he paws up the
ground and tries to stand on his bead in
the street to stem the tide of popular opin­
ion and appreciation for a man who has
faithfully performed the duties of the of­
fice ever since the organization of the
county, and is known by good citizens
and dreaded by housebreakers, thieve
and desperadoes as "the best sheriff in
North Dakota. That he, a democrat,
should reccive 27 out of 34 votes in a re­
publican convention, against such a man
a3 E. S. Miller, whom everybody honors
and esteems a9 a man and a citizen, is a
compliment that cannot be offset by the
disappointed rage and silly rhodomontade
of a crank. The insinuated charge that
27 of the 34 members of that convention
were bought up by sheriff McKechnie and
gave their votes for him agreeably to the
''bargain and sale," and the assertion that
their nomination "is au insult to the de­
cent people of this county" is so utterly
devoid of truth and honesty that a reply
would be superfluous.
Somebody througu mistake or other­
wise carried away a bundle of flags from
thy camp fire entertainment Saturday
mcbtand Commander Miller requests the
Alert to request the person who made the
mistake to return them.
Owing to a horizontal and continu
ous movement of the atmosphere Sunday
the usual promenades on the streets were
dispensed with and the attendance at the
various church services was somew.iat
limited. The weather was a cross be
tween autumn and winter, and few people
had provided themselves with raiment
suited to that peculiar condition they
remained in doors and read the Sunday
Alert.
Key. S. N. Griffith, pastor of the M. E.
church, discourstd upon politics and the
pulpit Sunday evening, maintaining that
it was tne privilege and taeduty of min­
isters to take part so iai as principles of
right and wrong were involved, ,'eaving
to the judgment of the man to select
from among the candidates the man who
would best serve the interests of morality
and good government.
It is a little peculiar of Brother Burke
that he does not make a fight against a
candidate until after he is nominated.
The time for him to have made war on
McKechnie was before the convention.
After the nomination he always discovers
a "damnable conspiracy" of some kind.
Bro Burke must have been born in the
"old of the moon," when the sign was in
the heel.
Mr. Bowman, of the firm of Bowman
& Lvon, received a visit over Sunn ay from
bis brother-in-law, E. G. Ford, of Pitts­
burg, Pa.
D.
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Blaine's Secret Marriage.
The Hon. John V. LeMoyne, of this
city, was one of the witnesses to the mar­
riage uf James G. Blaine, at Pittsburg,
in March 1651. The deposition of Mr.
LeMoyne was taken this morning before
S. W. Burnham, deputy cl?rk of the Uni­
ted States court, to be used against the
Indianapolis Sentinel in Blaine's libel
suit against that papers In answer to
W. C. Goudy, the attorney representing
the Sentinel, Mr. LeMoyne said he was a
classmate of Blaine's at Washington, Pa.
that in March 1851, Blaine caine into his
office and asked him if he would witness
a secret marriage between himself and a
lady. Deponent said he would. Blaine
said the lady's friends were opposed to
the marriage, and it would have to be
secret. The lady was Introduced by Mr.
Blaine, as Miss Harriet Slanwood.
Mr- Blaine called on the deponent cither
the day following or the day subsequent
to this, and requested Mr. LeMoyne not
to say anything about the tnairiage until
the period of six months had passed he
also asked the deponent to make the same
request of Mr. Bell, the other witness to
the ceremony.—Chicago Mail.
Congressional Majorities.
COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 22- Following are'
the majorities in the congressional dis­
tricts in Ohio at the late election:
No. DIST. NAME AND POLITICS. MAJ.
1—Benj. Butterworth, rep. 1,465
2—Chas. Brown, rep. 2,098
3—James E. Campbell, dem. 412
4—C. Manderson. dem. 3,510
5—Ben. LeFevre, dem 5,122
6—W.
Hill, dem. 3,531
7—Geo. E. Seney, dem. 4,006
8—John Little, rep. *7,548
9—W. C. Calper, rep. 1,880
10—Jacob Romis, rep. 229
11—W. W. Ellsberry, dem. 410
12—A. C. Thompson, rep. 2,354
13—J. H. Outhwart, dem. 4,829
14—C. H. Grosvenor, rep. 5,614
15—B. Wilkins, dem. 1,338
16—Geo. W. Geddes, dem. 724
17—A. J. Warner, dem. 217
18—J. H. Taylor, rep. 6,151
19—E. B. Taylor, rep. 1 13,997
20—Win. Kinley, rep. 2,031
21—M. O. Foran, dem. 2,170
6r^|^|ft^idicnlon8"
1'twilisn.
^^fl^^^^^^^^bolter a veiy''
his bolt tbe
legislative conrcntion last evening
which he makes himself more udiculous
than ever. He was one of the secretaries
of the court house caucus that appointed
delegates to the county convention Sept.
3d to appoint delegates to the territorial
convention at Pierre Sept. 17th, and to
the legislative convention at Bismarck
Oct. 15th. He was appointed by that
county convention one of the delegates to
the Pierre convention, and accepted the
appointment at the hands of the county
convention and went to Pierre as such
delegate. He recognized the legislative
convention as legitimate by securing the
proxy of G. E. Fink, of Rolette county,
and taking part in the convention by vir­
tue of that prox3*. He did not withdraw
from the convention nor in any manner
whatever absolve or attempt to absolve
himself from his obligation to *tand by
the result and support its candidates.
Now Mr. Burke has the gall to ask the
people in the name of honesty to justify
him in bolting the ticket and attempting
to defeat the election of Mr. Steele, one of
tlie nominees of that convention, and one
who was most heartily endorsed and sup­
ported by Col. Lounsberry and other men
of unimpeachable personal and political
record, and was nominated without a dis­
senting voice so far as appears from the
report of the convention. He attempt*
to justify this act of bad faith by refer­
ring to accusations made against Col.
Steele, and hurls in tbe face of the dele­
gates from this county and every other
county the insinuation that they have
nominated a man whom "no man with
ordinary self-respect would ask an honest
man to vote for." The effect of this ac­
tion on the part of our contemporary
which has pretended te be the Strang
friend of Mr. Nickeus, will be to create a
feeling against him and cut his vote
among the warm friends of Col Steele all
over the district, although we are quite
sure Mr. Steele would countenance noUt«
ing of the kind. There is not a candidate
on the ticket that has stronger friends
or that will poll a larger vote in the dis­
trict than Col. Steee.
John S. Watson's handsome new res­
idence on Fourth avenue is approaching
completion.
O. C. Green, of St. Paul, superintend­
ent of telegraph lines along the Northern
Pacific railroad i» in tbe city.
Our distinguished visitors who came to
attend the G. A. R. camp fire took their
departure for their hemes Sunday.
E. J. Blossom, cashier of the Jaatea
River National bank entertained his oM
friend James Strout-, of St. Louis, over
Sunday.
The ladios of the M. E. Church con
gregation will meet at the residence of
Mrs. Elliott this afternoon at half 1
two o'clock.