Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1879-09-19
DAKOTA'S POLlTlClL..PLANT
SOWING SEED FOR a LIVELY
TIME NEXT FALL., 2,

Spencer's ---Raymond's
Winning Ways--Austin's ST. 4
lence--Kidder, Moody, Shan
non and the Bosses.
,i,.~fs THE POLITICIANS. sfa5f.
Special Correspondence ofthe Pioneer-Press.
B1sMARck. d. r.. Sept. 1O.-While Dakota is
developing Unreasonable wheat fslds and ex-
haustless gold mines, the thing Of ins]ienable
rights, eternal vigilance and scrambled terrors
is increasing like the Arizona cactus. The pol
itician is not Indigenous, but everylnew carpet
bag brings one This week will arrive in Fargo
Mr.. Spencer. who was United States senator
without State representa- i've without CON
stituency-in the language of Judge Bennett,
our delegate in congress. Spence. Is nominally
retired publicist, but what patriot can silently
watch the affairs of his adopted Territory going
to the bad and not raise his hand ia warning?
He can't in the nature Of man see Judge Ben
nett, 'sthe pharisee and fraud" put up for a
denomination and re-election without firing the
alarm gun. Bennett :blicly charges Spencer
with an attempt to bribe him while be was on
the supreme bench of Dakota. Spencer hieses
back ''pharibee and fraud.'' They don't rec0g-
nize each other or lold any intercourse private
or official. The Dakota campaign of 1850, based
upon such friendships, ought to be eyentfnl.
...ys-a 2, et.. SPENCER .,a.5 tsaF a,E
is still man on the sunny side offory- -f1ve with
the prestige of twelve years in the United States
senate. When first elected he was the youngest
member of that body. His record was that of
consistent stalwart, with Roscoe Conkling as his
powerful ally and friend. He ended as chair
man of the committee on military affairs, and
was credited with the passage of the bill Great
ing the military telegraph system west of the
Missouri. His newspaper organ at Fargo also.
claimed that he injected into the river and har-
Dor bill the appropriation of $4,000 for the i'm
provement of the Red River of the North. It is
newspaper talk that he owns an addition of 100
acres to Fargo but his enemies deny it. While
popularity identified with the coming granary of
the new world, Mr.. Spencer has not ignored his
interests in tie Black Hills. He is there part
ner with ex- Congressman Platt, of New ork,
and Brown Thum, bankers, in paying gold
mine. There is revival In his business affairs
and corresponding relief of mind and body
Anticipating Mr.. Spencer's arrival as u 5perma-
nent resident, Major Edwards, the founder of
the Protection Life Insurance company of Chi
oogo, and J. b. Hall, saz
EX-sECRETARY OF STATE ~4&
of Maine, established the Fargo Repu6licQn. The
Republican, doesn't take to local politics, but is
husbanding it's resources; neither is it ready for
a division Of the Territory. It shrawdly awaits
a more convenient season when it's friends viii
be older in their residence in Dakota and deeper
in the affections Of the people. The Republican
will then advocate division of the Territory on
the 4tth parallel and the erection of dependen-
cy that will be charged to Spencer ct al. Acting
in sympathy with this ogramme, r. o. Adams
has purchased the Pioneer, of Deadwood. the
erly seer tary to Senator Hitchcock, of Nebras-
ka, and then postmaster at Deadwood He was
retired in favor of Mr.: Starr, a'leading merchant
and friend OF Judge bennett: t. Adamsdied game;
champion his friends. r. O. is q graduate of the
Nebraska school of politics, ere Jay Gould is
the principal: He is u?5, beth cunning and bold.
ex-suryeyor general of Nebraska and one Of the
owners Of the rich Roderick Dhu; Claggett. the
silver-tongued orator from Montana, and the un-
of the army of the Tennessee. These men ali
recognize their individual fitness for Judge Ben
nettEs place: They viii fight init" the Pioneer
the spols. Then the war of the
KILKENNY CATS WILL PALE. 3Es
In Bismarck, Edwards, of the Fargo Republi.
and after eight months Stanley figured himself
out. Edwards again tried to capture The TR1-
BuNE for Rollins, of the Chicago Insurance Ar
The Major back to Fargo
Louusberry, the postmaster and founder Of TIE
TRIBUNE, became its proprietor, and THE TR1-
BuNE is now Lounsberry's organ and not Spen-
GERS. A dozen years ago Lounsberry was clerk
of Gov. Austin's court in Minnesota, and i'll
was guessing, as Jim Blaine would say, would
put the Col. up as friend Of the register Of the
Fargo land Office. s.F rs
GOV. AUSTIN ~ f4s-
will prove an interesting figure in Akota poll
tics. @ pi He is now the silent man. When North
ern Dakota becomes territory, and later
State, honest Horace. who shook the Mime
sofa railroads over owe ~, " will loom up as 9 dan.
he was twice governor of Minnesot 4, and would
have been named third time for hat ofice had
he not dallied with the wishes OF the people.
The armv of Mtnnesotians that ave biyOaaked
on the plains Of Dakota will have tender
gard for their old friend and c0mr ade.! Few pub
Tic men have cleaner record, nd any forecast
a a detective horoscope. Comi,ag to Fargo this
fall is John B. RAYMOND, the q. 8. nassAal of
Dakota. He has lived In Yam kton since his ap-
1ie base to the seat Of the aatchlsas valley. 1T
is safe speculation that h.. foresees the coming
political empire in the Moth.
RAYM 0ND
is young and compare lively rich. He was
through the war as q boy, and then politician
Years, ss A As Chairman Of the State central com
mittee and publisher ',f two papers, both daily,
Raymond was the mo st influential political man
ager of Mississippi. His friends had no trouble
in securing for him the Office Of Rarshal of Da-
kota. he 1s man Of the A. B. Cornell stamp.
His habits are enlphatically correct, and his
pleasant ways very winning In bis frequent
o1icial circuit of the Territory he asmade more
friends than. any man mentioned in this letter.
BE is advancing $4,000 II his own msney to
keep the machinery Of the United States courts
Of Dakots lubficated. His knowledge Of the
South makes him stalwart Republican. In
Dakota politics he will pl0hably await his turn.
He has mot yet antsgpniaea any Of the growing
factions. 8 sgs5 slslE
RABNgs AND K1DDER. .55.
In Fargo there q snnther esntlem4n, Who has
not fOfSS Sften thAf kes SA1 o1ee politician In
Wlscossin aud tiSiep& sef. .aepator Carpentss-
Judge a. b. BaSne6 he hAa IN honorable placs
on tie snpremS flHeh pf the Territory, mt, Ike
judge KiadsE; ;ess1ia:se nfetn M.shi,ssos z. e.