Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-12-28

but the insurance companies do not care
enough for the business to test it.
THE editor of the jamestown Alert processes to
believe that congress in disposing of the Dakota
division question will act without reference to
party considerations. But if he really thinks so
he has studied human nature to little purpose.
Colorado was admitted when it was known she
was not entitled to admission because through her
vote the democrats expected to gain the presi
dency. The eigh. to seven commission was con-
sented to by both parties because each believed
they would gain an advantage through doing SO.
The democrats were SO confident that the result
would be in their favor that they were only too
glad of an opportunity to show their patriotism.
as they were pleased to call ii. They went into
sure thing and game and got beat at It, and lost
the presidency fairly won at the polls through the
shrewdness of republican managers, and although
the result was mockcry upon justice and an out
rage upon every American citizen not q republl-
can in prominent position in the entire land dared
denounce it, because to have done so would have
gu bjected him to the charge of trcachery to his
party. 1t was republican policy to maintain the
supremacy Of the party. and they did it. 1t is
democratic policy to weaken the republicans in
every way they can and they will do it by with
holding representation from them whenever 1t is
possible for them to doso. They will do just
what politicians of all ages have done and for
all time will do-decide political questions on
political principlesand it is needless to add that
that will be in their own interests. Bismarck
Tribune.
While we have not given the article from
which the above is taken in full we have
not garbled 1t with any intention of maxi
ing 1t appear inconsistent, nor do we say
that it is so however much we may dlsa-
gree with some of its statements anu
sentiments. We do not believe that con-
gress will act wholly without reference to
party considerations upon the question
of the division of Dakota territory. 1t
was the idea that congress would be gov
erned wholly by party considerations upon
that question we combatted IN the article
from which the Tribune makes inferen-
tial reference in the first paragraph Of
the above extract. We repeat now that
to assume that the accredited representa-
tives of the masses of the people of this
great nation will do so is to assume that
they are set of unprincipled dema.
gogues unworthy of the place they oc-
cupy; and8ur observation of human ma
ture will not justify such conclu-
sion nor do we think the case of the ad-
mission of Colorado, nor of the "s to Z"
commission, nor even of the Dakota cap
ital commission will justify it.
Colorado was admitted Aug. l, 1873,
with population of 100000. She had
elected republican delegate to congress
the two preceding terms, and by an over
whelmlng majority the delegate at that
time representing the territory in congress;
and since that time her representation
has been continually republican in both
houses of congress. The democrats had
nothing to expect from the admission of
Colorado but three electoral votes against
them IN the pending presidential contest,
but be it said to their honor as represen-
tatives of the masses of the people, and
not as narrow contracted partisaus, they
did not allow that fact to influence them
| to defeat its admission, though the moss
backs of the party insisted upon it and
severely censured them for not doing SO.
Instead of the Colorado case beng pre- :
SUMPTION against fair dealing with Dakota
now 1t is rather III faver of 1t.
AS to the "high joint to 7 commis-
! sion'' to settle the Hayes. Tllden contest,
the democrats went into 1t because they
had nothing to lose by it for 1t was .
foregone conclusion that the usual con
stitutional authority to decide upon the
contested returns would decide as the
commission eventually did, but we are a
little surprised to see the Tribune at this
late day denounclng "the result as a
mockery upon justice and an outrage
upon the right of every American citl-
zen." The democrats thought so at the
time and that was their reason for fleeing
from the ills that confronted them in the
iolns session of both houses of congress
to others they knew not of in the "high
Joint commission" The editor of the
Tribune is generally correct in his bis
tory, but the Alert cannot agree with him
in applying his conclusions to the Dakots
! division question.
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4 THE Bismarck Tribune TANKS that i
the territory should be divided "James