Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-07-04

The long agony is over, the governor
of Dakota IS appointed and his name is
Pierce, not Piercel, as the telegraph per-
sisted in calling him. When the news
came that Gilbert A. Plercel, OF Illinois,
had been appointed governor our impress
SION was that he was some cross roads
postmaster down in that section Of the
state called egypt" and upon that pre-
sumption we were disposed to kick
against it. The Alert has favored the
appointment Of Col. Lounsberry for rea.
sons repeatedly given and which we do
not now IN the least modify or waive,
whom we none the less honor and esteem
because Of his failure 10 receive the ap-
polntment. If he had been less scrupu-
lous In the means Of pressing his claims
he might have succeeded, but in doing so
he would have sacrificed life record for
personal integrity and honor which be
values more and his friends esteem far
above any political appointment IN the
gift Of the president.
Either president Arthur did not read
the Alert on the subject of the guberna-
torial appointment or he differed with us
IN opinion in the matter, and we are now
disposed to give him the benefit Of the
doubt by presuming the former to have
been the case. We also concede that he
may not have read the platform Of the
recent national convention of the repub-
lican party held in Chicago on the sub
ject of the appointment ot territorial off,
GERS. The result of that convention was
not such as would make the report of its
proceedings or its platform Of principles
as interesting reading to him as an essay
on trout fishing.
But after all Gov. Pierce does not sound
bad. We once had very clever demo-
cratic president by the naEe of Pierce,
the last term but one before the party
went into the hands of a receiver. Gov.
Pierce beng newspaper man removes
one Of the principal points of objection
10 him as an outsider, for "foxes have
holes and the birds of the air have nests"
but newspaper man has not where to
lay his head. The newspaper mans
home Is the world-he is cosmopollte,
"And when asked what state he halls from,
Our sole reply shall be,
He halls from everywhere,
Where lunch counters are free,
The cosmopolitan citizenship of Mr..
Pierce makes him . citizen of Dakota.
Beng citizen of the whole country he
il citizen of any Of Its subdivisions on
the principle Of the geometrical theorcm
that "the whole is greater than any of Its
parts I" The fact of his being newspa-
per man is guaranty in advance of the
purity of his administration. We might
elaborate this point but the proverblal
modesty of the craft restralns more than
mere mention OF it.
From the Bismarck Tribune We gather
the following points in the history OF our
new governor: He is AZ years old and
was born in Valparaiso, Ind. His youth
was spent as farmer, during which he
educated himself mainly from such books
as he could obtain. At an early age he
studied law, was admitted to the bar,
opened law office in q newspaper office
OF which he soon afterwards became own
er and engaged in journalism. When
the war of the rebellion broke out he en-
listed as private and was mustered out
at the close Of the war as q colonel of his
regiment. Returning to Valparaiso he
again engaged in journalism and was
soon Afterwards elected to the state sen
ate. After serving his term in the state
senate he went to Chicago, bought an lu-
terest in the Inter- Ocean and become its
editor, from which he retired to take an