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VOL. XXII.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
mTRorrtont.
D. S.Bepreeonrative, B. F. Spalding.
Senators,
1I.C. Han«brough,P. McCuinber
Governor, B. F. Fanchier.
Lieut. Governor, J. M. Do vine. .§
Secretory of State, Fred Fat ley.
BWte Treasurer, D. W. Drtecoll.
State Auditor, A. N. Ca rlblom.
Attorney General, John Cowan.
Judges Supreme Court, N. C. Young, Al
fred Wallin, J. M. Bnrtholomew.
Ball road CommlBdlonere, John Simons,
Henry Erlclwon, L. L. Walton.
Superintendent ot rubllc Instruction, J.
G. Halland.
Commissioner of insurance, G. W. Harri-
Commlssloner ot Agriculture and Labor,
H. U. Thomas.
SENATORS.
First District, Judson LaMoure, Pembina.
Second District, James Fuller, St.Thomas
BKPUKRBNTATIVEB.
First District, W. J. Watt, Hvde Park,
J. D. Wallace, Drayton.
Second District, E. H. Restemayer, Cava
lier, Sohn Thordarson, Kennel.
Jndee of the District Court, Seventh Ju
dicial District, O. E. sautor, Grafton.
Clerk of District Court, A. L. Airth.
COUNTY OBFIOERS.
States Attorney, W. J. Burke.
Sheriff. F. J. Furrow.
Auditor, Ffeul Williams
Treasurer, Robert McBride.
Register of Deeds, 3. M. Chisholm.
Couuty Judge, V. Quackcubusli,
Superintendent of Schools, C. B.
Jackson.
Surveyor, S. O. McGuin.
Ooroner, Dr. u, F. Ersklne.
COUNTY COMMIBSIONKRB.
First District, F. C. Myrick, Pembina.
Second District, S. J. Sigfusson, Mountain
Third District, Geo. Taylor, Bathgate.
Fourth District, J. P. Hicks, Neche.
Fifth District, H. P. Ottem, St. Thomas.
COUNTY JUSTICES
C. Murphy. Neche.
J. K. Joy. Glasston.
E. H. Bergman. Gardar. .-
E. L. Buck, Crystal.
COUNTY CONSTABLES.
Thos. McFadden, Neche.
C. E. Flora, Walhalla.
Marshall Jackeoti, Neclie
A, B. FoUins, Cr *l:il.»
OFFICIAL CITY PAPER.
TExartvCS, $2.00 SSBR .ajsrxnTM
A. Ward well. G. G. Thompson.
WABDWELIi ft THOMPSON.
Entered at the postolfioe at Pembina as second
elass mail matter.
The Pioneer Express.
SPENOERIAN PENMANSHIP.
(FOR STRAIGHT DEMOCRATS.)
Grafton, Oct. 10, 1900,
Dear Sir:—I received the nomination
for district judge by the independent and
democrat party, and as the time before
election is so short, it will be impossible
for me to call and see you, nence this
letter.
It is very important to Walsh county
that the judge be a resident of this coun
ty, and as I have lived in Grafton for
over nineteen years, and my opponent
lives in Pembina rounty, I hope you will
give me your vote for a home man, than
an outsider.
Under the law you can vote the straight
independent and democrat ticket, by
placing an at the head of the ticket in
the proper square, and in case you
should want to vote for anyone oh the
republican ticket, you could do so by
placing an after the name you want to
vote for, in the republican column, but
FIRST. PUT AN AT THE HEAD OF THE
INDEPENDEMT AND DEMOCRAT COLUMN,
in the proper place. Hoping that you
will give me your support and vote
I am yours Uuly,
CHARLES A. M. SPENCER.
(The following card is enclosed with
the above letter.)
For District Judge—Vote for
C. A. M. SPENCER.
Vote for a home man. Walsh County
Should keep the Judge.
(FOR AN NONPARTISAN JUDICIARY.)
Dear Sir:— *. There are a great
many advantages in having the office in
Walsh county, and as my opponent lives
in" Fembina county, they will try to elect
him so as to get the aiffice in that county,
so that in order to keep it here, it will be
necessary that I get a big vote in Walsh
county. Jud LaMoure is Mr. Kneeshaw's
main supporter, and Jud, is the acknow
ledged wire puller for the railroads, and
the man who succeeded in defeating both"
Judge Sauter and D. W. Driscollfor re
nomination for district judge and state
treasurer, and he is now trying to defeat
me in this election, and will succeed if
the jreople of Walsh county do not vote
for me regaidtess of politics. It seems to
me,-that the people of Walsh county
have had about enough of Jud LaMoure
rule, and whilelte may be able to run
things in Pembina county, we do not
want hun to ran our county.
I presume Jud LaMoure felt happy
when he defeated Driscoll for nomina
tion for state treasurer, because Driscoll
was in favor of raising the railroad as
sessment *o that the companies should
pay tibtir. just portion of taxes, and he
will led equally happy if h6 can elect Mr.
Ktteeshaw and defeat me, and' it is for
the votere of Walsh county to say by
their votes whether he will be allowed to
do this.-
In conclusion I desire only to ray, that
while it is necessary under the law, in
order to get on the ticket that a person
be nominated by some party, STILL THE
OFFICE OF JUDGE IS AND SHOULD BE
NONPARTISAN. And I hope you will so
regard itand give me your vote, by plac
ing ah AFTER MY NAME.
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Would that mine enemy would write
book" or words to that effect were
«^ten many y^sais since in the script
,^_tttf«BS. Messrs. Spencer and Alexander
dflii'tfnrite books,'but as letter writers
In another place we note
^^.Hrhat 'Hr. Alexander don't say. Above'
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We hardly need call the intelligent
reader's attention to the illiteracy, the
sophism, the deceitfulness and the down
right falsehoods of many of the state
ments therein. Mr. Spencer not only
drops all dignity, but he fairly grovels in
the lowest and most transparent dema
goguery known to politics.
First note the different styles in which
he appeals to voters. In one letter he
wants the recipient to be sure and mark
the head of the ticket with an X. That
is for the democratic voter, who might
want to vote for Kneeshaw, and pur
posely makes a bungling explanation of
how the voter might in the republican
column.
Then'anotlier letter intended for re
publicans, appeals to the voter to take
the judiciary out of politics, and "vote
for Spencer."
There is still another letter not printed
here, but written in the Scandinavian
language,, which appeals to Scandinavians
for their votes because he has been a
friend to them for nineteen years and has
"syslet med lovaflaerer" for twenty odd
years. Of which the nearest, possible,
literal, English translation is that Mr.
Spencer has "monkeyed with the law"
for that time.
Mr. Spencer also gets off some exquis
ite gems ol English, such as would nat
urally expect from a learned attorney
who desires to ornament the district
bench. For example "I hope .you will
give me your vote for a home man, than
an outsider."
These letters, and we have a half dozen
of them, all came from people who had
received .them in Walsh county. It is
evident they were intended for home
consumption only. People of this and
and Cavalier counties are getting a dif
ferent style of letter. It will be observed
that Mr. Spencer in all these letters, tries
to make the Walsh county voter think
that there would be some great advant
age to that county for "Walsh county to
keep the judge." If that were true, then
by the same rule every voter in Pembina
and Cavalier counties should vote against
the Walsh county man, for any advant
age that Walsh county might have,
would necessarily be to the disadvantage
of the other two
As a matter of fact, Mr. Spencer either
does not know that the law fixes the
chambers of the judge permanently and
continually at Grafton except when hold
ing court at Pembina and Langdon, or
else he is deliberately attempting to de
ceive.
As to the charges that Mr. LaMoure
was and is Mr.. Kneeshaw's principal
supporter with the insinuation that Mr.
Kneeshaw is simply a puppet in Mr. La'
Moure's hands, etc. is equally false, ridi
culous and unjust to both these gentle
men. Mr. Spencer knows exactly the
political relations of these men to each
other, and therefore he knows he is falsi
fying when he makes such insinuations.
Mr. LaMoure is supporting Mr. Knee
shawjust as much as other Pembina
county republicans are doing, but it is
because Mr. Kneeshaw is the republican
candidate. Personally and directly Mr.
LaMoure had no more to do with Mr.
Kneeshaw's nomination than a large
number of other friends, and in fact he
had no need to because Mr. Kneeshaw
was .the .spontaneous and unanimous
choice of his home county.
Incidentally, Mr. Spencer either gives
Mr. LaMoure the highest kind of ciompli
mentor else gives the people of Pembina
county the basest of insults. If Mr. La
Moure has the ascendancy over the peo
ple here that Mr. Spencer says he has
then one of two things follows. If the
people here are as intelligent as say in
Walsh county, then Mr. LaMoure could
only have the power ascribed to him by
Mr. S. through a superlative amount of
brains ancj genius. On the other hand,
-if he is onjy boss of a gang of ignorant
boors and. slaves, that doesn|t speak well
of the crowd. •.'
The base demagoguery of Mr. Spencer
in trying to connect Mr. Kneeshaw
through Mr. LaMoure to the railroads is
the more apparentfrom the fact that only
a few yeairs ago Mr. Spencer by the gratce
of Mr. LaMoure and other prominent
republicans occupied the office of attor
ney general of this state. Mr. Spender
was then as'friendly to Mr. LaMoure as
is Mr. Kneeshaw now. Do the insinua
tions with which Mr. Speiicer now
asperses Mr. Kneeshaw also apply to the
man who then occupied but did not fill
the office of attorney general?
A further ^act to show Mr. Spencer's
deceit is that Ml. Driscoll has published
a statement that Mr. LaMoiire did not
say. a word to him in reference to the
assessment of railroads, and the actual
reason for
1^, LaMoure's diskgreement
with Mr. Driscolt Was that the latter re
fused to do Justicc/ in equalizing the as
sessment oftbe^m^chants of fembinfc
county.
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Drayton, N, D., Oct. 29, 1900.
Learning that reports were being cir
culated over the county reflecting on the
moral character of Prof. W. J. Alexander,
the undersigned who were members of
the school board of Drayton schools
and who took pains to look up the facts
in regard to the matter, in the interest of
justice, wish to make the following state
ment of facts. Two years ago when
Prof. Alexander was first employed as
principal of the Drayton High School,
his former wife who resides in Kirksville,
Mo., wrote to the clerk of our school
board, making charges, which if true,
were of sucii a nature that the board
would not for a moment consider his_.be
ing retained in our schools. The charges
were that the professor had shamefully
neglected his family having agreed to
support the children until they were
eighteen ears of age, that he had doue
nothing for tliem for more than a year
that she, his former wife, being left in
destitute circumstances, was depending
on this support and found it very hard to
support herself and family without it. On
investigation we found that instead of
this being correct, the children had not
only received the amounts agreed upon
up to that time, but were paid six months
in advance. That instead of being in
straitened circumstances, the professor
had turned over to her all his real estate
valued at ten thousand dollars, together
with all his personal property, reserving
nothing for himself. He also secured a
legal separation from her, to which he
was justly entitled, she putting in no
objection or defense.
(The balance of the letter is simply an
eulogy of Mr. Alexander as an educator,
Christian, etc., and is omitted for want of
space.—ED.)
Respectfully,
J. M. WYLIE.
R. B. RICHARDSON.
R. HORROCKS.
The above letter is printed without
money and without price. Ordinarily
certificates of character and political
eulogies of this kind are not published in
opposition papers, and generally not
even in papers of the candidate's own
party without being paid for as advertise
ments, which they in all respects are. If
Mr. Alexander had been attacked in the
newspapers he would and should be en
titled to space for reply. We do not
know this to be the case. All republi
can editors of the county were more or
less cognizant of the fact of Mr. Alex
ander having two wives and two families
—to support, but except in one brief and
indefinite paragraph we have seen no
reference to the matter in the county
papers. Hence Mr. Alexander and his
friends will have to bear the responsi
bility of making this matter a subject of
newspaper comment.
THE PIONEER EXPRESS has heard
very different statements as to the status
of affairs in the divorce proceedings and
in the payment of alimony, but as we get
this letter so late it is impossible at this
time to get these facts duly verified. But
if we grant everything as actdally true as
stated in the above letter, there are sev
eral very important facts omitted which
are really the gist,
the right or the wrong,,
of the case.
Mr. Alexander is admittedly a divorced
man. That is not necessarily his fault.
What the people would like to know,
and have a right to know, before they
trust him to guide their children in the
paths of morality and virtue, is whether
the divorce was caused by immorality on
his part or not. Two years of good be
havior in Drayton or the recommenda
tion of-Messrs. W^ylie and others don't
answer the question and condones no
lapse of virtue.
The fact that .the court makes Mr.
Alexander pa£ alimony is prima fade
evidence that he was in the wrong what
ever that wrong was, and practically con
tradicts the statement of the letter that
Mr. Alexander brought the suit and that
there was "no defense" by Mrs. Alex
ander, because if Mrs. Alexander had
been unchaste, then the court would not
have allowed alimony and would un
doubtedly given the four children to Mr.
Alexander to care for.
We regret that Mr. Alexander allowed
himself to be a candidate. As a private
citizen such matters are not ior public
discussion. As a candidate they are
legitimate matters for inquiry. The
questions have been asked in private and
(he answer is given above in public. As
we said it is not an answer, because it
pmits that which the voters most desire
to know, yfas immorality on. the part of
Mr. Alexander the cause,
of the diyotfce?
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OUR CANDIDATES.
Mr. H. C. Vick, the republican candi
date for elector from this county, is doing
splendid service, for the ticket Read
thea tre intend-1 Hensel correspondence.
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ed, though there is matter for columns,
The letters on their face are really suffi
cient not only to disgust every voter in
Cavalier and Pembina counties, but
ought and will produce a fueling of re
vulsion and shame from every honest
Walsh county man, that a candidate for
so high an office would stoop so low and
appeal to so base motives for support.
ONE FACT LACKING.
MOSES & WVLIE,
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Paul Williams came in this week and
reports a roseate hue for the republican
ticket all along the line. Mr. Williams
has kept the auditor's office in splendid
shape, and will deserve his reelection,
which is one of the certainties of Nov
ember 6th.
J- W. Harvey, the republican candi
date for treasurer, is by natural and ac
quired attainments well worthy of elec
tion. He will get his home locality prac
tically solid, which is the best endorse
ment a candidate can have. They will
vote for him because they know what
kind of a man he is.
To say the least George]Martin is all
respects, educationally, morally and in
ability equal to his opponent for the
office of superintendent of schools.
Then why should any republican vote
for any other person for that office, and
if all republicans vote for Mr. Martin he
will have over 500 majority.
Well, Jud is certainly much belter than
nothing—isn't he? So don't forget to
say so with your "X" mark you dtm.
ocratic fellow that just X's the head of
the ticket. You won't vote against your
ticket if you mark another opposite
the name of Judson LaMoure for senator
fro.m this district. He never went^back
on Pembina county yet. So don't go
back on him. He deserves this compli
ment from every democrat.
Don't make any mistake. There's
politics in the state legislature. Dem
ocrats get only the crumbs that fall from
the republican table. If a democrat is
elected from either the first or second
districts to the legislature, no matter how
good a man he may be. he will get only
crumbs. That is the rule in all legisla
tures of every state whether democratic
or 'republican. If you want Pembina
county to have anything or wield an in
fluence at Bismarck this winter, vote for
Chevalier and Watts or for Restemayer
and Thordarson according to your resi
dence. They are all worthy men—and
three of them have had legislative ex
perience. None of the democratic can
didates have such experience, and would
also belong to a hopeless minority,
Marshall Jackson of Neche has made
an enviable record as a peace officer
while acting as constable and marshal of
Neche village. He is a teetotaler, does
not drink or smoke, and is one of the
most active men we know of. He will
make a good record as sheriff.
You know J. D. Wallace. You have
at best but short acquaintance with the
other man. We have heard that Prof.
Beighle is a good singer. We don't
think Mr. Wallace can sing. But as
county judge—we are not looking for
musical qualifications particularly.
We have not said much of anything
about States Attorney Burke succeeding
himself, .mostly because it was hardly
worth t^ie discussion. His reelection is
conceded by everyone. He has made a
clean, able, honest record in his office,
and everybody knows him personally to
be one of our brightest and most promise
ing young lawyers. His opponent is a
nice young fellow, who has considerable
talent for talk, but was too lately a school
boy to be thought of as taking charge of
the legal interests of a gregt county like
this. His nomination will do much to
bring him before the people and will thus
serve to advertise him in the profession
he has started in, but W. J. Burke is the
man for states attorney.
Anyone that has had occasion to have
business in the courts or at the clerk of
court's office during the last two yer rs
will readily understand why Alex. L.
Airth is so great a favorite with those
who know him. His quiet, gentlemanly
demeanor with an obliging disposition
win hinn friencfs with all who have busi
ness or personal relations with him, while
every attorney knows thiat the records of
his office' ace kept, in strict order and
promptly up tp date. Mr* Airth deserves
and will get reelected for the second
term.
J. P. Hicks, who has so satisfactorily
served as commissioner from the 4th
district, will be almost unanimously re
elected, notwithstanding his opponent is
a Very decent man. The constituents of
Mr. Hicks will vote for him more than
they wi|l against Mr. Morin, and Mr.
Morin will so understand the vote.
The friends of Mr. Sigfusson who is
now serving as county commissioner
from the sejcond district, sincerely regret
his erroneous course at and since the
republican convention that nominated
Mr. Sigurd Sigurdsson as his successor.
At this distance we cannot see into all
the causes,' bii{ we friow that Mr. Sig
fusson was |Mriy beaten in the repub-f
Ucan convention and that he has, iince
deferred ana is now* flemMcratic candi
date, and therefore no K^ger entitled tQ
eputlicaa qpjRpo#. H* jSigurcfesqti, Ml
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