Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1880-09-14
CLINCHED.
HOW THE HUNGRY BISMARCK CORRESPOND
ENT TO THE PIONEER PRESS
EATS CROW
HE TELLS A FEW TRUTHS THAT WILL TALL
LY ON PErTlGREw's SIDE.

! Lf ON PETINHEW SIDE.
TIE Bismarck correspondent to the
Pioneer Press has heard of the result of
| the Vermillion convention and in his
usual style hashes up the following:
''The Pickerel district wins. The ill.,
shaped legal splitter of Sioux Fails comes
to the front. Tie enemy Of the Yank-
ton ring Is on the crest of the wave: The
self-made Dakotian is ahead The posi-
tive element of our territorial politics is
recognized. And yet there is more fun
to come. Frank Pettigrew has friends;
and like Grant he stands by them. III
bad to remark ina single sentence the
wherefore Of his success I would answer
as. before written. He entered the canvass
with positive strength, the Sioux Valley,
at his back, aud he never under estimat-
| cd it. He said last June at the Fargo
convention that he would have fi4ty-one
votes solid as starter He had fifty-five,
and every one Of them was for Pettigrew.
With such power he could not fail to die
tate the nomination. The Red river val
ley delegation, instructed for Raymond,
was controlled and represented in the
convention by H. F. Miller OF Fargo and
Geo. Fl. Walsh of Grand Forks, both
more friendly to Pettigrew than to Ray
mond. Tue supporters of Bennett and
Raymond were neither so numerous nor
90 unanimous as those of Pettigrew. Pet
tigrew has long been in the Territory;
besides making silver hay while the sun
shone, he laid up political sheaves in the
political heaven that opened upon Yer
million on Wednesday. For instance, in
the legislature he was the leader of the
council and the uncompromising explorer
ofthe COW paths in and about Yankton. He
went for the Yankton Press and Dakotian
and exposed its printing job, and tramp
led with the weight of a quadruped upon
official corns of Geo. 81. Hand the secre-
tary Of Dakota, and aspirant for Governor
when the whole-souled Ordway was ap-
pointed. Pettigrcw in his preliminary
canvass, when most politicians would have
weakned, was bold and clean-cut in his
comments upon the Yanktcn fellows. He
wouldn't have their support. He was in
the right and he was fighting them on
that line if the delegates Office went to
the devil. That kind of man makes
friends. His aggrsssiveness made him the
nominee and will elect him. The Press
and Dakotian will
or eat the worst dish of crow ever pre-
sented to newspaper. It has abused
Pettigrew as unfit for personal contact,
and pictured him as social hyena. To
support him now would prove the con-
ductors too willing entirely. It would be
qualification typifed. 1t is said that
they will keep on, and play quits with
the Republican candidate in this canvass.
Pettigrew will probably open his canvass
in Yankton and advise them to bolt if
they are men. He will also hold up his
Yankton enemies and give them lecture
that will be capital readin, for the Pho.
neer Press. No paper is more cordially
hated in Yankton, than this same Pio-
neer Press, because it has printed the news
in days gone by. They read it all the
same and if Pettigrew speech gets to
them in printed form, it must be through
the Pioneer Press. Pettigrew does
not make wholesale attack upon the
people Of Yankton. He di5criminates.
He picks out the bad ones and then shows
that they misrepresent the people. Yank-
ton people, including such men as Mayor
Wyman, are all right, but the old ring,
what scathing review they will get! It
will be the event of the CANVASS"