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yearnines in this direction, and in the gen.
eral melee may materialize. But this is by
no means likely. Judge Bennett, who nerai-
nally lives at Yankton, where his family re-
side, but whose principal strength comes
from the Hills, is likely to encounter most
serious opposition especially in this section
of the territory. Here he il
weak-decidedly weak. and if the sentiment
here be any index of that elsewhere, his po-
litical goose may be set down as cooked 80
far as second term is concerned.
TIE NEW RICHMOND.
is not true index of that of the territory at
large, and that he may develop much great
or strength than is generally conceded here.
But it is likely that by the time the conven-
ton meets, new Richmond will arise who
will carry off the prize. This may be j. T.
Raymond, the present United States marshal.
He now halls from Yankton, but will remove
to this place in March next. He
is unquestionably destined to prove
leading spirit in the politics of Dakota, and
is without doubt one of the shrewdest Re-
publican politicians in the territory. The
fight may, and it is predicted will narrow
down to a contest between Raymond and
Bennett.
Raymond is about IS years old, of plausi-
BILE, winning address and withal born poll
tician. When mere boy he entered the
army and served in John Logan's regiment,
and at the close of the war was stationed in
Mississippi. There he remained, and for
some eight years published the Pilot at
jackson, and during the carpet-bag rule was
made State printer, which was an Office of
considerable emolumsnt. Upon the
fall of the Amss dynasty he
removed temporarily to Washington
when upon the accession of the Monumental
Fraud now in the White House, he was
given his present position as marshal of
Dakota. He was one of the better class of
Northern carpet-baggers who swooped down
upon the South at the close of the rebellion,
and while there, made many friends. His
leaving there was due TO the fact that batter
chances offered themselves elsewhere, and in
no wise to any inability to get along peace
fully with the people of that State. In fact
his views Of the Southern question are by no
means radical, but in many respects
eminently sound, sensible and
conservative. He had no afilia-
ton with the rapacious horde of
adventures who fooked to the South to TO-
ment trouble and to batten upon the miser-
les of an impoverished and helpless people,
and his departure therefrom is no doubt
sincerely regretted by many good citizens of
that section. Although young, his career
shows him tobe no ordinary mar, and if he does
not make himself felt in territorial politics,
your correspondent will be vastly mistaken
He is already in the field for Congress, and
if he and Bennett are left to fight it out, tho
latter will hardly prove his own successor.
JUDGE CAMPBELL,
pres ent United States district attorney, is
another transportation from Southern soil.
He is past middle age, of commanding pres
enee, a courteous gentleman of the old school,
and of unquestioned ability as lawyer. The
meeting at New Orleans in the fall of 1876
of the villainous returning board. whose very
name brings the blush of shame to all hon.
est cheeks, found Judge Campbell practis-
ing attorney in that city. Accepting re-
tainer from Mad. Wells and his confreres, he
appeared before the board, and, with the aid
of the sanity John Sherman, and the visit
ing statesmen" succeeded in subverting the
will of the people, and fastening upon the
country notoriously fraudulent President.
AS did every other instrumental IN that damn
able and unholy undertaking Except the poor
darkey Casenave) Judge Campbell received
his reward in the shape of a fat Office which
he holds to this day. Possibly accord lug to
the ethical code regulating the actions of at
torneys and which allows them to defend
the vilest criminals, Judge Campbell may
find excuses for what he did yet after all,
that he was accessory to such a manifest
usurpation of the will of the people
is not an heirloom which in after years he
will care to transmit to his posterity. The
scent of the villainy will cling to the Fraud
long after the Fraud is laid at rest, and just
ly too. But let the dead past bury its dead.
The Judge is an urbane gentleman, . thor
oughly competent lawyer, and makes
most efficient officer. Rumor imputes Con-
gressional aspirations to him. but with what
truth is not known. 1t is doubtful, however,
whether he will consent to enter the lists
against such form liable array of competi-
tors from all portions of the territory.
These az before stated, are only . few
of the faithful who would like to don Con-
gressional swaddling clothes.
srHK ESPRIT AND CHEEK"
of Dakota politician, as John Dillon
would say, is something almost past unier-
Standing. There is nothing in the heavens
above or in the earth beneath that he would
not take and carry off, unless perhaps it be
hot stove. 10 him the territory is land
of promise and offers a 'quick passage from
the earth of faded leaves to the heaven of
changeless gold," in the shape and hue of
office. They abound here-are as ''thick as
the dewdrops on David's sandals" BaIzac
complained that there were already more
saints in the calendar than inches to put them
in, and so it is with the politicians of Dakota
in the matter of offices. The disproportion
is evident and hence leads to much jarring
and wrangling.
THE FATE OF wEAK-KNEED DEMOCRATS.
The Territory is intensely Republican
aim st solidly 80. Democrats hereabouts are
like angels visits-"few and far between"
Buried under the avalanche of the heavy
Republican majorities they, at present, can
do nothing more than watch the struggles and
a