Bismarck tri-weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1881, 1878-04-06
WHAT ARGUS SEES.

WHAT ARGUS SEES.
The Yaakton Herald Bismarck
Correspondent on Men and TIL il gs
at the Metropo1is-Idis Pers ona l
AIlusions--Thc Tribune, the POST
master and City Council.
BISMARCK, D. T., March %, 1875.
To the Editors of the Dakota Herald: .....
Remembering my promise to write
you letter occasionally, l herewith
send you few lines about matters in
northern Dakota that may prove Of IN
terest to your readers. l find that your
journal circulates among tn: business
men here generally, and is considered
the best newspaper printed in Dakota.
The Democrats here have no organ, and
OF course will have to depend on the
Herald to represent them until they
can have = paper Of their own. =, .5=-
The Bismarck TRIBUNE has been .
Republican paper since it was subsidiz-
ed by the appointment Of Col Louna
berry as postmaster. It was made still
more solid in its Republ,canism by res.
ceiving land grant Of twelve valuable
lots of the Bismarck townsite from the
Bismarck corporate authorities. a4 ass
This latter sugar plum is considered
by the people Of Bismarck to have been
gwen in consideration of the TB1BuNE's
Silence in regard to the questionable
manner in which the corporate author
tiles executed the trust reposed in them
in disposing of the lots awarded to the
CITY for the benefit of the inhabitants, ,
as community, under the town-site
law of Congress governing the location
of town sites on the public domsin
The laws regulating the disposition OF
the residue of the lots Of any town-s,te
not awarded to individual occupants,
prescribed that such lots should be solo
at public sale to the highest bidder fo'
cash, the proceeds to 60 to the city
treasury for the benefit of the city
Now those lots given to Col Lounsberry
were a part of that residue, and were
not sold to the highest bidder, nor for
cash, but to purchase silence. In this
way the Immaculate ~ editor Of the
TRIBUNE guards the rights and interests
If the dear people of suffering Bismarck,
whom he would like to represent IS del
egate in Congress. The Bismarck TIL
BUNE is owned and published by stock
company, and those twelve lots should
have been decided to that company, AZ
the consideration therefor WAS The
silence of that newspaper. In! this
manner tho gallant Colonel grows fat
" reason of bis position as managing
Q !itor of that moral newspaper. a1 70
The TRIBUNE in recent issue express
es its indignation that the people ol
Yank ton were about to send : delega-
ton to W Washington to"oppose the pas
sage of the bill creating the Territory
of Lincoln, which scheme Lounsberry
claims as bis big woodchuck, and de
clsres it to be an insult to Delegate
Kidder, who the TRIBUNE believes is
influential enough to accomplish all
that can be done in opposition to the
measure. -.....fi ..a,.,.. .-......,. 49,.
Now, this is upkind to Kidder on the
part Of Lsunsberry, for the latter has
published in every issue Of his paper
lately that Kiddsr was the hardest
worked man in Congress. Any move.
ment that would tighten Kidder's labors
should be supported by the Colonel, as
he sympathizes 50 much with him.
Now, tho shy fox does not want any
delegate to 90 to Washington from
southern Dakots, to work sgainst the
Lincoln scheme, for should it hsppen
to pass the entire responsibility would
be on Kiddsr's shoulders, and he would
be' correspohdingly blamed in southern
Dakota. This would increase Louns
berry's chances for the nomination "a
Delegate to Congress from Dakota
next fall. ,.rY - anl1a &~is... .,';:.s.r ..
j. W. Raymond will also bs caudi:
date for the nomination Of Delegate to
Congress from Dakots this fall on the
Republican ticket. His candidacy is
not yet as prominent IS Lounsbsrry's
but he is ambitious, and in . quiet
manner will engineer through his
friends for the nomination. The Re
publicsns might pnl up a worse man
The Democrats OF. n"rthern Dakota
will make . gallant fight this fall to
elect Delegate to Congrs.s. Ths ranks
of tho Democracy in Bismarck have
lately been recruited by = large number
Of Republicans who are dissatisfied
with President (?) Hayes by reason Of
his not appointing Dakot.ians to federal
Offices in the Territory. One prominent
Republican and energetic worker and
manager Of elections, who applied for
the office of U. S. Attorney made vacant
by the death of Col. Pound, but whose
application was rejected, and the office
given to the reputed author of the bill
creating the Louisiana returning board,
which accomplished so much in placing
Hayes in the Presidential chair, has
sourcd on Republicanism and will be
a red-hot candidate for the office OF d!s-
trict attorney for the third judicial dis.
t,ict next fall, and he is only one Of
many who will vote " ith the Democrats
Thus far only one gentleman. in Bis