Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1880-10-05
EnrTORIAL NOTES.
The ward politician smiles on all men

| The ward politician smiles on all men
4 alike.
B. S. Russell, man of experience and
education, if elected, will make good
Superintendent of public schools.
| A. A. Allen, as Justice of the Peace,
will shine. He is young man of good
Judgment, and is thoroughly vcrsed in law.
| Thomas Collins will make a strong run.
A more worthy man could not have been
nominated to occupy the position Of coun.
ty treasurer.
A. McKechnie, nominee for Sheriff, is
man who is worthy of every vote cast
in his favor Mac is whole soued fei-
low. and we are glad he is nominated.
The democrats Of jamestown will hold
convention on the 9th CT the present
north for the purpose of choosing dele
gates to represent Stutsman county in he
district convention, to be held at Bis
marck on the 11th inst.
1t may not be generally understood why
the Elder permitted his man to run for
Sheriff At any rate those who fattered
themselves that the Elder expected or de-
sired to secure the nomination arc very
much mistaken. The scheme will leak
out in time.
The Bismarck correspondent of the Pi.
oneer Press is Of the opinion that -. NJ
Kelleher will get the nomination at the
democratic convention, for the House.
Mr.. Kellcher is we'll thought of by the
people of Stutsman county.
! Politics are warming up, and polti-
clans, both great and small, are on the
warpath. Verify Stutsman county has
more politicians to the square inch than
any other county Of its age in the terri.
tory. 4r
Mr.. r. M W inslow. who has just fin
ished thrashing, gives the following re-
| port. Oats, 80 acres, yield, IS bushels to
the acres. Whea, 80 acres; yield, 20
bushels. Our elevator men say that Mr..
Winslow's wheat is the cleanest yet
brought to their store house. ..,.
The Alert mourns because it cannot
support five or six different candidates
for the same Office at the same time. We
like you, all of you, boys, personally, but
some of you are no more fit tor the Offices
you so much seek than hi is for an ice
house, and you ought to know it.
Now is the time when the hungry as
pirant for off ce grasps the average mule
skinner" and ''bull-whacker" by the hand
and asks him in to "take svthin'." He
takes off his hat to old ladies with gray
hairs tickles squalling infants under the
chin and says kind words to the mothers.
He is, in short, a gentleman of the "very
first water" What pity it is that elec-
tion does not last the whole year.
Our late visit to Bismarck reveals the
fact that the political situation of that en-
terprising city is badly mixed. Neither
the republicans or democrats are united
The leading and intelligent vote Of both
parties appear to be largely controlled by
rings and unprinciplcd political schemers,
who are disposed to conceed nothing that
would in any degree damage their own
selfish interests. This unpleasant state
of affairs greatly damages Bismarck's own
individual interests, aud as near relative
of this we are sorry to see 1t.
About every pa per in the land, from
the ably edited Pioneer Press to the aver
age swadling sheet of the Territory. has
been Singing mud at the Alert during
the past two or three weeks, because it
had the independence to speak its mind
regarding Mr.. Pettigrew prior to his
nomination. Would it not be as we'll for
our neighbors to look after MIR. Petit
CREWS interests in their own localities a
little more closely, and leave the Alert to
manage its end of Mr.. Pettigrew's inter-
ests in the manner deemed most expedi-
ent. We are not opposed to Mr.. Petit
grew, and il the short sighted literary
asses in the south ern portion of the ter
ritory will attend to their own business
we will see that Mr. Pettigrew carries
Stutsman county by big majority in No
vember. We happen to know what We
are about.