Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1878-10-30
THE CRYOF THE;CARPET- DAGGER:
BENNETT BLOWS HIS BAZOO ~
THE BISMARCK ROYS.

THE BISMARCK ROYS.
The Radical Candidate for Delegate
Rerptnx FOR Democratic Votes--He
Stnitftes Himself in Boomerang"
ssneech and Leaves without a Sym
nathfxer..Bennet Relations with
spencer.
A BAD BREAK.
There could be no more pitiful spectacle
than that presented by Judge Bennett at
the Opera House Monday night. The an
nouncement that he was to speak attracted
a large assemblage of Democrats, who
wanted to hear what the Republican can
didate had to say, and that they, and what
few Republicans attended, were thorough
ly disappointed was testified in the scant
applause and the glances of pity that were
shot at the speaker. Instead of coming
out manfully and manifesting that degree
of self.respect which a man in disposition
is supposed to possess, he appeared merely
as suppliant for votes, begging for them
rs starving man might beg for bread, not
offering solitary valid reason why any
man should cast his ballot for him.
He opened by admitting warm person
al interest in the election, and throughout
his speech it was apparent that that inter
est was paramount to all other considera-
tions. Mr.. George P. Flannery had intro
duced him as one too well known to need
any encomium, but the Judge seemed to
assume that no one had ever heard Of him
before, and his diatribe was description
of himself, and a prayer that ...
THE HERO OF HIS NARRATIVE
might be chosen, as favor to himself, to
the office of Delegate to Congress.
After alluding to MIR. Tripp as his per-
sonal friend, he announced that Tripp had
wholly failed to show why Democrat
should be elected. He claimed that I'ripp
had promised nothing in the way of inter.
nal improvements and that he CTHpp) had
wholly failed to pledge himself to the ex-
tension of the Union Pacific Railroad.
These were the only charges he had to
make against his opponent. In order to
strengthen these, the Judge went on to pay
the orthodox stump compliment to the
party he represents, drifting helplessly
through the mass of generalitles that the
average Republican thinks necessary to
trayed the glories which that party has
saddled upon the country and, mounting
to the zenith of oratorical pyrotechnics,
endeavored to prove by mere assertion that
the Almi ighty frowns upon every act not
sanctioned by the Republican party.
But it was when he got away from this
line and tackled every day affairs that he
came down like stick Said he, 1T is
claimed by Mr.. Tripp that the Delegate to
Congress should be in sympathy with the
party in power, and that the party in pow
er will be Democratic. He claims that a
Democratic house .s ss. ;-.. l..
WILL, NOT ADMIT DAKOTA s.,. ..
:as state unless her delegate be Demo
,crat. What charge against the Demo
.cracy! .He.is claiming that the party is dis
honest, which LIDO not believe, and think
more of the party than Mr.. Tr1pp does
when he degRades it,by such statelnent."
A little, further .an he remarked: "The
business of the territories is done through
,the departments. Gen. Williamson. the
land commissioner, is my personal friend.
Is it not reasonable to suppose that can
do more for, Dakota, Republican as am
with the Republican departments than
Democrat can ?" ..sa s-a z-a-s
And the crowd sat and looked at him
bewildered. The spectacle Of a man de-
nouncing in one breath the very platform
that floated on the next, was a new thing
to the people of Bismarck and they looked
with disnlay upon the speaker who calmly
affirmed that he could and would compel
his party to do what he had just condemn
ed as degrading and dishonest in his op-
ponents.
Taking up the charge that he is a car
pet bagger, he denied it, and said he had
come here four years ago with Federal
commission in his clothes and had deter
mined to make Dakota his home. Yet his
whole speech was that of a
COUNTY POLITICIAN
in the states and in not a single sentence
edid.he show that he knew the wants OF the
,territories or understood the people TO
whomlhis commission haM introduced him.
1T is said you want tosbe admitted as a
state!" he exclaimed, "Ifsall the people
in the territory want it, will work tor 1t.
1t is said that the people of Northern Da
kota desire division of the Territory. It
all the people IN the Territory want the di-
vision, will strive for that" GAIL the
people in the Territory" Then the peo-
pie of Northern Dakota haNs@no rights in
this learned gentleman ilgment, and
Northern Dakotaians will do we'll to pom
der over this avowed intention to disre-
gard their preferences when they come to
cast the votes this sectional representative
clamors for SO loudly.
y Cody and calmly Judge Bennett an
nounced that he would not wave the bloody
shirt. and then he plunged into what the
war and the Republican party had effect
ed. Fifty did he use the term
"BOOMERANG,'
for his every sentence flew back in his
teeth until he stood stultifed in every
proposition he advanced, an object to com
nand the pity of God and man.
Coming down to his poverty he made a
strong play for the support Of the working
men by claiming that he belonged to the