Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-11-09
THE DAKOTA CAMPAIGN.

Judge Brookings Working Hard for the
Delegai eship, with No Show-The Legis-
lative Fight in the Grand Forks District
Cass County Manipulators-The Different
Candidates for Dakota's Legislative AS
sembly, which Has its Biennial Session
Next Winter
FARGO, Oct 25-Politics are now pretty
quiet In Dakota the Republican party holds
the reins of power by such an overwhelming
majority that Democratic oftice-seeker very
seldom shows his nose The nomination of
Capt. John B. Raymond Of this city by the
Republicans in convention assembled at Grand
Forks, has given the best of satisfaction. The
means by which he was nominated are not very
we'll approved, but the nominee himself is
very popular, and about the only man in the
Territory upon whom all factions could agree
Col. Steele of Deadwood, who was nomi-
mated by the Democrats to run against Capt
Raymond, injured the cause of that party by
decllnng-no matter what were his reasons
for doing 60 Had he mode a canvass he
would have made a very creditable fight, as he
has hosts of friends throughout the Territory
who have stood by him irrespective of party
and then good many others would probably
have found an excuse for boiling the Republi-
can nomination, claiming dislike for the man
ner in which Raymond's friends brought him
to the front Judge Brookings who was put
upon the ticket by the Democratic central
committee, has entered into the fight vigor-
cusly, but he is hardly known or ever heard of
in North Dakota, especially as there is no pa
per OF that belief up here to espouse his cause
There were couple Of red-hot Democratic
sheets along the Northern Pacific railroad two
years ago, but they died in early infancy
1t is not expected that full vote of the Re-
publican party will be polled at the ensuing
election, as the delegateship is generally con-
cedeI settled fact In North Dakota Capt
Raymond will receive nine -tenths Of the votes
cast, and advices from the south state that
the people there do not look on Raymond's
nomination as amounting to much unless it
pleased them; but inasmuch as he is we'll liked
there they will proceed to nominate him at the
voting places on the 9TH day of November. Pet
tigrew, the present delegate, is con his carr
about something, though ostensibly working
for Capt Raymond's election. 1t was urged
against Pettigrew that he threw cold water on
the division of Dakota because he counted on
the aid of the northern half to return him to
his seat at Washington, all, Of which he lndig-
nantly denied. And now the statement ia freely
made that Mr.. Pettigrew has confdentialIy
told his friends that Capt Raymond would not
take his seat in congress, as he had the whole
thing lust where he wanted it, and proposed
to secure division of the Territory this win
ter, which would leave Raymond out in the
cold. From this and other assertions made by
Pettigrew, it really begins to look as if be had
been opposed to division.
IN THE LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS
of North Dakota there is no contention what
ever, except in Trail county, which is at
tached to Grand Forks and Walsh for judicial
purposes. The regular ticket there is:
Hon. George H. Walsh Of Grand Forks, for
council; George P. Harvey of Walsh. and
knute Rowland of Trail, for the lower house.
Col. O. NJ. Towner, Democrat of Larimore.
has come out in full force, and is dong all he
can to be elected in place of the latter gentle
man. Caledonia, small village on the Red. is
the county seat of Trail, and movement is
on foot to have the court house moved to a
more central location, for which honor there are
several candidates in the field, among them be-
ing Hillsboro and Mayville. Il seems That Now
land has promised his aid to Hillsboro. and as
consequence, all OF the county west of there
has risen up in opposition to him, and will cast
its vote for Towner. For all of that Mr..
owland will go out of his home county with
about 500 majority; but which way Grand
Forks and Walsh counties will 60 is vet unde-
clded, as Iowner has lots of money and wants
to get there. It is presumed that George
Walsh will do all he can for Rowland, as his
own political future depends somewhat on the
result There is one thing certain however.
and that is that they are having
red-hot time, and good deal of fighting
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outsider it is fine to look on and hear them call
each other liars, thieves, cut Threats, robbers.
and the like.
IN CAss EVERYTHING IS LOVELY.
The conventions are all over, and the lion and
the lamb are friendly and contented. Despite
all this there is small piece of unwrittep in
side history which it might be well to give
here. Hon. W. Fisher, Of Casselton, repre-
scented this district in the legislature last time.
and made very creditable record Very
naturally he wanted to go again, and went TO
work accordingly, putting his confidence in S.
u. Roberts and his friends of Fargo. 1t was
generally supposed at that time that A. W.
Edwards of the Argus was an aspirant for the
same position, and Mr.. Fisher thought so too.
The fact was that S. G. Roberts wanted the
honor and Edwards did not; but Fisher was
kept in ignorance of this and considered Ed
wards his opponent, while Edwards was in ia
vor of giving Fisher a third term,
Matters continued in this position until the
day OF the county convention, when Fisher
discovered that Edwards had majority of
delegates, and could manipulate matters to
suit himself. Delegates to the Legislative con-
vention were also to be chosen, and this would
decide the contest Meantime o bargain was
made between Roberts and Edwards, by which
the former was to be councilman and the latter
representative to the legislative. The Cassel-
ton delegation fought bitterly for what they
termed their rights, and when q vote
was taken they found that Roberts. upon
whom they depended for assistance in nomi-
mating delegates friendly to Fisher, worked
with the Edwards gang. and then it dawned
upon them that they had been sold out Ed
wards and Roberts have heretofore been bitter
enemies, the latter taking large amount of
stock in an opposition paper to try and squelch
Edwards paper, the Argus, but the two are
now as thick as three in q bed, much to the
discomfort of Edwards enemies. All the
counties west of Cass on the Northern Pacific
are embraced in one district, and the legisla-
tive ticket will be elected without any trouble.