Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1884-07-04
NELSON On gaE.ENpTloNs.
DAKorA's NEW GOVERNOR.

CANDIDATES FOR THE GOVERNOR
SHIP By APPOINTING A PERSONAL
FRIEND WHO HAD NOT BEEN RECK-
ONED IN THE RACE.
A Washington special telegram to the
Pioneer Press says: Numerous protests
are being received by congressman
against the passage Of the house bill to
repeal the pre-emption and timber cul-
ture laws. Mr.. Nelson said that he had
received great many remonstrances
from the people in his district, who claim
that the bill, if passed, will work great
hardship to actual settlers. He says the
bill is looked upon by great many as a
movement in the interest of railroad
companies, as it would prevent people
from getting lands under the pre-emp-
tion and timber culture laws and COM
pei them to buy lands from railroad COM
panies and SPECTATORS.
"a great many poor people who have
had their hOmesteads and have lost their
rights" Mr.. Nelson said, ''cannot get
lands because they have exhausted their
homesteads. They must therefore buy
of these monopolists. The bill is regard
ed as a great land-jobbing scheme. 1t
will hardly pass the senate.''
A Washington dispatch says Col. Gil
bert A. Pierce, Of the Chicago Daily
News, has been appointed governor of
Dakota. There have been a great many
applicants for the Office, most Of them
being supported by one faction or anotli-
er within the territory. There were also
several candidates from the outside, but
more or less opposition to all of them.
The president finally concluded to take
the matter in his own hands, and sent
for Delegate Raymond and asked him if
the appointment of Col. Pierce would be
acceptable. Raymond said it would be
entirely 80, and the president instructed
that the nomination be made out. The
announcement will be surprise to Col.
Pierce. for he has not been a candidate
for any Office, and was not aware that
his name was under consideration for
one. 1t is the presidents own personal
selection, and an expression of his conf
dence in Col. Pierce. No faction in the
country can claim credit for his selec-
ton, but he will be entirely independent
of them all. It is not known whether
Col. Pierce will accept, but the appoint
ment is a fiattering one.
Col. Pierce has been we'll known in
western journalism, politics and litera-
ture for the last ten years. He entered
the army at the outbreak of the war as
lieutenant of the Ninth Indiana infantry,
and was soon made quartermaster of
that regiment. He was then promoted
to be captain, and made brigadier quar-
termaster. For his services he was
again promoted to be lieutenant colonel
and quartermaster general of Gordon
Granger's corps. In 1863 lie was made
colonel and quartermaster general of the
Department of the Gulf. He was made
financial clerk of the United States SEN
ate in 1867, and served until 1872, when
he took position on the staff of the
Inter Ocean, being managing editor of
that paper from 1876 to 1850, when he
became chief editorial writer on the
Chicago News. Col. Pierce is theauthor
of several novels, plays and magazine
essays, and the chickens Dictionary y
which had very large sale. In politics
he has been stalwart, supporting Grant
in 1880 and Arthur in 1884. His person
is tall and commanding, and his face
rather handsome, with regular features
and brown hair, mustache and imperial.
He is between As and 50 years old.
The Old Story.