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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-07-25

Dakota farm over near Bismarck, which
the papers frequently mention, hiR name
would never be seen in the current prints
Of the present day.
President Arthur applied tke psincipIs
of civil service reform atiil more than
Hayes, and while he receissd q platform
endorsement he received At the same time
delegate rebuke fsr i st The recent ns-
tional convention. The party liked his
administration in this respect very much,
and complimented him very highly for 1t
but they had enough Of it. In nut
shell these planks in the Political plat
forms mean only this and nothing more:
Democrats mean turn republicans cut and
put democrats in; the republican plank
means keep the republicans ,u and bar
the democrats out.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-07-25

We have received John A. Logan's
letter of acceptance which will be pub
llshed simultaneously in all the city pa
pers this morning throughout the United
States. 1t would make about four col
umns in the Alert and to publish 1t would
exclude other matter of more Immediate
interest to the great mass Of our read
ers. As rule people do not attach very
much Importance either to the platforms
of presidential nominating conventions or
to the letters of acceptance by the nomi-
nees. In nothing are words more ingen-
iously and studlsusly used TO conceal
thought than in such platforms and let
tiers. The aim of both is to strike the
public favor and ride to success upon the
public enthusiasm. No matter what the
republican platform says nor what the
letters Of acceptance of the nomination
of Blame and Logan may say the pas.
policy of the republican party is the only
reliable key TO the future. Generally
speaking the administration of Blaine and
Logan will be much the same as all pre- !.
vious republican administrations have
been, SO far as the circumstances of de-
velopment in invention and other impor-
tant changes IN the manner of living and
conducting the business of ihe people and
of the nation will permit. The same with
the democratic party. Their platform
and the letters of acceptance by Cleve-
land and Hendricks when they shall be
made public will be as nothing. The
general character of democratic govern
ment where that party has had the power
will be the criterion to judge by. The
president and vice president are but crea-
lures of party after all, and they dare not
overstep the bounds of party policy. The
man who is elected president by either
party goes into office with ring in his
nUSe
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-07-25

WITH the superstitious Friday Is regard
ed an unlucky day. They will not com"
mence task on Friday which they cah-
not finish before sundown. They will
not move on Friday. They will not make
purchase on Friday unless the other
fellow is getting the worst end of the bar.
gain and they want to teach him that
Friday is an unlucky day. Blame and
Cleveland were both nominated on Fri.
day and Ben. Butler Is going to take ad.
vantage Of that circumstance to carry the
election into the house Of representatives
where he thinks he will get away with
the baggage as he did with the spoons =,
New Orleans. fs
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-07-25

UNDER law passed at the last session
Of the legislature the Fargo Argus says
each county organized for judicial pur-
poses shall elect district attorney who
shall hold his Office for the term of tive
years. The first election of district attor-
neys under this law will be at the general
election this fall and biennially thereaf-
ter. The clerks of the district courts will
still be appointed by the presiding judge
as heretofore. Stutsman county will elect
district attorney this fall IN addition to
ether county officers.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-07-25

THE respective representation Of three
grand divisions OF Dakota in the terrific
rial convention held in Grand Forks two
years ago was as follows: South Dakota
l25, North Dakota SO, Black Hills II.
This wear for the same divisions the re-
spective representation at the territorial
convention to Se held at Pierre Sept. 18th
will be: South Dakota 223, North d.
kota l3s, Black Hills Is. South Dakota
gains 7s per cent, North Dakota 81 pei
cent, and Black Hills Al per cent by the
new app0rtionment. South Dakota ought
to be satisfied with the result and North
Dakota will have to be-.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-07-25
The II WEEKLY L: L ALERT.
5. Z. WARNoCK, EDITOR.

ONE Of the most sensible resolves Of the
farmers'A convention at Aeorhead was
that the farmers, mechanics, laborers and
business men of the Northwest should
exercise the rights and duties Of Ameri.
can citizens by attending the caucuses Of
their respective political parties and Sc
lect delegates to the conventions who
would give them candidates for the vari.
oIs offices that would look after the in
terests of these industries. This is a
much more sensible course than to clamor
for new party which will arouse antag-
onism and be 90 hopelessly IN the mlnori-
ty as TO be powerless. The caucuses are
free to all who are identified with the
parties holding them, and those who re-
main away from apathy or neglect and
let the opportunity for the exercise OF
their influence pass unimproved have no
cause for kicking against either the eau
Gus or the candidate.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-07-25

1T were better for the honesty Of both
parties if the clyil service reform planks
of their platforms were wholly elm
mated. 1t is with both sounding brass
and tinkling cymbal. Neither practi-
cally mean anything, or if anyi meaning
NAV be attached to these virtuous IS 'ev-
erations the meaning is Numerically the
opposite Of what they say. While in the
senate of the United States senator Geo.
H. Pendleton, of Ohio, bright and shin
ing light in the democratic party, honest
ly and snergeticslly espoused the cause
of civil service reform which the demo-
cratic platforms of the nation and Of his
state clamored for and the result was
when his term expired the democracy of
his state placed HIM on the political re-
tired list and over his political grave the
epitaph "Ex- Senator" The party at
every convention from ward caucus
to a national conclave, now cries out for
reform in the civil service IN the face of
the fate of one Of its great lights who
made the grave and fatal mistake of be-
lieving and acting upon the belief that
the democratic platform makers meant
what they SAID on this subject. Pcndle-
ton is himself an honest man and acted
upon his convictions. Being hol est him.
self he with childlike simplicity believed
that the leaders of his party who make
the platforms and nominate the csndl-
dates were also honest, but 1t was the
great mistake OF his life.
On the other side Hayes was elected by
the republican party on civil service re-
form platform and with the exception of
paying OF those who counted him in with
federal offices and commissions to raid
the public treasury every month for sala-
ry, he applied the civil service rules rea-
sonably well, 50 well that the republican
party had no further use for him after the
end of his term, and if 1t were not for his
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-07-25

THE Black Hills Journal in discussing
the delegate question, suggests that it
would be highly proper for that division
of the territory to present . candidate at
the Pierre convention and present q
solid front for their man. The Journal
thinks that section of the territory has
been ignored by the statesmen east Of the
river about long enough. The Journal
does not name any person in that section
for tn } position, but urges the people to
confer together and agree upon some one
and stand by him with their twenty five
votes in the territorial convention.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-07-25

IT. published that both Blaine and
Cleveland furnished substitutes during
the war of the rebellion, and it is stand
of between them on that score, but some
Of the papers are raising the question as
to which of the substitutes did the best
fighting and one or the other of the can
dates may suffer from the comparison.
The number Of one-legged and no. armed
men that will be exhibited as the substi-
tutes of each of these statesmen will
brighten the people up on notation and
Enumeration. a.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-07-25
JAMESTOWN. D. T.. FRIDAY, JULY % 1854

The Bismarck Tribune says that Col
W. q. Plummer has received a call from
the republican central committee OF
Maine to stump that state during the
presidential canvass, and that he will &C.
cept the call. While the Alert regrets to
lose Col. Piummer from Dakota we con-
gratulate the republican committee in
securing one of the most eloquent and
effective public speakers In the north.
west. He will raise breeze among the
pine trees and an enthusiasm for Blaine
and Logan that will not subside until af.
er the November election, aud when the
returns come in they will show that
Plummer has been there.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-07-25

WHEN Bob Ingersoll dies he will be
'the deadest man that ever lived" He
is like meteor flashing through the
heavens. dazzling the gaze for moment
and leaving darkness and nothingness be-
hind. He utters not q sentiment in his
inldel lectures that one cares to remem-
Der, or that has an elevating influence
upon mankind, except when he digresses
from his subject and pictures divine in
stitution-a home He lives alone in the
present and his name and fame will go
down to the grave with his body to be to-
gether forgotten. 1t is Ingersoll and not
what he says that attracts the public.
Let any one attempt to read Ingersoll's
lecture before an audience and he will
find it falls fiat upon listless ears. People
60 to hear Ingersoll for the same reason
they will pass profound lecture on
scientific subject Togo and hear the sur
face jokes Of clown. 1t is not because
he has anything new TO say upon the SUBJ
ject but because he has new way OF say
ing 1t. He assumes premises and erects
upon them fabric Of ridicule so glaring
and dazzling that it blinds his hearers to
its foundation of sand. He magnifies the
superstitions Of a past age and paints
with bloody hand the prosecutions OF
heretics, but ignores the Christian teach
ers and apostolic fathers who died upon
the cross, at the stake, in the boiling
cauldron, at the hands of pagan idolaters
and heather infidels because of their faith
in the same God and same Savior that
lngersoll now denies and spurns with a
blasphemy which makes the blood run
cold IN the veins Of the most hardened.
When stripped of their sophistry and
rhetorical grandiloquence his arguments
are found to be ''as baseless as the fabric
of vision" His sentiments bring moth.
ing but additional pain and hopeless
gloom when we consign our loved ones
to the grave; nothing but the rsyless
darkness of dawnless night when we
contemplate death which must sooner or
later overtake us all; nothing but heart
less dashing to pieces Of the cup Of JOY in
every family circle as the days and years
increase the ties Of affection and lead on
to rathless extermination in the grave.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-07-25

THE next legislature of this territory
will be composed of twenty four members
of the council and forty-eight of the
house, seventy-two in all, just double the
number of the last legislature. The bill
passed by congress at the recent session
giving this increase provides that two
members of the council and four of the
house shall be elected in each legislative
district. At the next session of the legis-
lature the territory will be re-distrlcted
50 as to double the number of legislative
districts. Politically the territory is 50
one sided that there will be no occasion
for gerrymsudering for party purposes
but it is not unlikely that other interests
will present themselves and induce a
scheme of this kind IN some parts of the
territory Gerrymanderiog Is plan of
sub division practlced by both parties In
all the state legislatures, Notwithstanding
it is unfair and designed 10 give the MI
norlty OF the people a majority in the
body representing them. BY this means
states which have a popular majority for
one party, frequently elect legislatures Of
the opposing party aud these legislatures
elect United States senators thus carrying
the result to the highest legislative body
of the nation. States are distracted tor
cong ressiOnsl purposes the same way.
There does not now appear upon the sur
face any question or interest that would
be likely to seek or obtain ADVANTAGE from
this plan OF re-districting the territory by
the next legislature but it IS not imp0ssi-
| bic that such interests or questions will
come to the front. 1t is therefore lmpor-
tant that men Of known personal iutegri.
ty Us we'll as representative ability os Sc
lected as candidates for members Of either
house. The legislature is too often made
"board Of trade" in the literal meaning
OF .he words where the rights and inter
ests of the people are traded aud bartered
as traffic in commerce for the aggraudizs-
ment of individual members. can hon
est man is the noblest work of Cod" and
an honest legislator is likewise the no
blest work OF the people who elect him,
but he must be the frst before he can be
can be the second; he must be an honest
man before he can be an honest leglsls-
tor.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-07-25

The farce ana travesty u2on justice
with which the Ward murder cases at
Grand Forks terminated is just snch an
one as invites mob authority to step in
and mete out justice where the law OF the
land is trampled under foot by the mex
cusable stupidity or criminal venality OF
a jury. 1t is just such a condition of
things as produced the recent riots in
Cincinnati, and some years ago in Cali
foruia substituted the star chamber fiat
Of the vigilantes for the futile efforts OF
the courts to punish crime. The defend
ants were entitled to every legal defense
aud neither they nor their attorneys are
to blame for avsiling themselves of 1t.
District attorn y Ball did bis whole duty
% prosecutor, and he did 1t with both
energy and ability. Judge Hudson was
powerless because the law placed between
him and the administration of the penal
ty OF the Ia " jury which has the power
10 override both the law and the judg.
ment of the court. We are glad TO see
by the dispatches that the good citizens
of Grsud Forks disavow responsibility fol
the outrageous verdict of the jury and
consequent dismissal of the cases because
Of the utter hspelessness Of maintaining q
prosecutloa with such jury. THIS trav.
,esty upon justice will be held up by the
eastern press as an example Of Dakots
jurt,ce aud the whole territory will have
to bear the odium, and every newspaper
10 the territory, outside of the locality o.
the crime, owes it TO the good citizens O.
its immediate vicinity to denounce ths
farce IL uumeasured and unm,stakabl,
terms. Ii levity were permissible in such
- case % the one IN question We woulC
suggest that the dignity OF the law nigh
be sustained by trying these parties fel
disturbing the peace.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-07-25

|. THE conference of the independent
party Of disgruntled dudes held in New
York Tuesday night Of this week gave to
the world some Of their ideas and feelings
on the political situation, which in the
main are very good in sentiment and the
ory, as are great many.other sentiments
and theories that have no place in active
and practical politics. They declare thaf
the ''psramountlssne Of the present cam
pslgn ls'moral rather than POLITICAL .
which is good sentiment but very OBJ
scure fact. They justify the term "polit-
ical phArisees" applied to them BY their
''holler than thou'' pretenslsns in setting
themselves up as model representatives
Of the moral side Of the campaign. The
only man among them distinguished for
plety is Henry Ward Beechsr, and even
he has had more neteriety - bull Of
Bashan than as teacher in Israel.
Two of the number, BENJAMIN II. Bris-
tow, secretary Of the treasury in Grants
second administration, and Carl 6chulz.s
secretary Of the interior in Hayes admin
istratlon, never discovered until their re-
tlrement from official position that the
tendencies Of the republican party are to
"brlbe the people with ofhces,'' nor did
any of these apostles Of new political
revelation see Threatening national
leril' or ''insidlous political corruption
in the manipulation Of the electoral votes
OF Louisiana in 1876. This new political
revelation. above the brightness of the
sun, which seems to have removed the
scales from their eyes, came upon them
all Of sudden after the national republi::
can convention IN which many OF them
tosk part and all were represented.
They are endeavoring to make the
campaign . personal one. They are sat-
isfied with the republican platform bot
object TO the candidate. They do not OF
course endorse tie de.aoersesc platform
but do endorse the candidate Of that par
ty. They present the anomaly in Amer
ican politics of. running the democratic
candidate on the republican platform.
They endorse the man but denounce his
Political principles, which shows that
they are not contending for any prlnci-
pies of governmental policy.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-07-25

For some unacc0untable reason Butler
does not show up in the prohibition con-
vent,on now in session at Pittsburg.
There is no reason known to the public
why the flexible Massachusetts statesman
could not "concur" IN the platform that
Will be adopted by the convention. Mel
ther is there any obvious reason why the
pr0hiblti0nists could not take Butler into
their arms, SO far as his personal habits
are concerned, for he has never been &C.
cused Of being incorporate in his bever-
ages
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-07-25

In another column we publish letter
written to the Valley City Times on the
subject Of division Of the territory and
making legislative provisions for the in
itistory steps for the admission of the
southern part into the union as state.
There 10 now perhaps . more unanimous
sentiment in fsvorlot division than ever
before, and North Dakota can certainly
have no objection to the admission of
South Dakota as state. That end in
view seems to be the easiest way of reach
ing division. One Of the objections urged
in congress against the division of the
territory and admission of the southern
part last winter was that there had been
no expression OF the people direct or
through their legislature on the subject,
and this was made plausible pretext for
refusing action upon the subject. 1t was
unfortunate and impolitic tor Bismarck
10 oppose division after the capital had
been located there for it provoked the
legal proceedings that were instituted by
Yankton parties contesting the removal
OF the capital and thereby brought cloud
upon the title of Bismarck to the seat Of
government which not only put flnan-
cial damper upon the means provided by
law for raising money through the sale OF
lots but involved it in an expensive legal
contest which Is not yet ended. But Bis
marck has come to see its mistake and is
now again in line for division IN common
with all North Dakota
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-07-25

THE national encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic which is being
held at Minneapolis this week will be the
greatest demonstration of any kind ever
held in that enterprising city. Many OF
the distinguished generals OF the war OF
the rebellion are there and thousands OF
the rank and file who were with General
Sherman IN his famous "March to the
Sea" will have an opportunity to look
upon their great military chleftain again.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-07-25

The usually conservative ana benlg-
nant Canton Advocate works itself up
into an altltudinous temperature IN dis
cussing the political situation in the ter
ritory and especially the political relations
of South and North Dakota. In refer
ence to the recent meeting of the central
committee the Advocate says: "The
mantle of defeat has fallen on the North
Dakota rustlers in the first act Of the
csmlng great battle between sslidihed
northern array and partially disunited
southern element, and all that Is required
in these coming scenes of hostility is .
unity of action on the part Of our south
,ern statesmen and the north can be sub
iected to more thorough overthrow than
has ever fallen to tue lot of their southern
neighbors." We do not belieye there is
any of the 'solid north" spirit in North
Dakota; that Is, among the prominent
men in the republican party. Our people
are too honest and too sharp to engage in
any such suicidal course. They know
that like produces like and that a solid
north would produce solid south, in
which case the north would be IN hope
less minority. Our southern brethren
sometimes get int an uncompromising
wrsngle among themselves ant then
North Dakota steps in as peacemaker as
was the case in 1882 when Mr.. Raymond
vas nominated because he was more sat
istsctory to the southern people as
whole than any one Of their own candi-
dates. We do not know that North Da-
kota will present any candidate this year,
though If South Dakota should be unable
to sgree upon q man aud the north should
be appealed to sor Moses to lead them
out of the wilderness We might be able to
furnish him on short notice. There is
n lone other than the most fraternal feel
ing towards the southern portion Of the
territory by the people of North Dakota.
We are toe much occupied with business
and our No. hard wheat % scheme in
politics.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-07-25
A Valuable Here That Nlght Have
Died.

Mr.. Albert Gee, who reeides On Cur
tln's second addition, having unhitched
one Of his teams yesterday afternoon
shortly after O'Clock and while leading
them to his barn which is in clese prox-
unity to newly dug well now fifteen feet
deep, one of his horses, . fine bay about
six years old, happened to back away
from him and fell backwards down the
we'll. Mr.. Gee was in qusndsry what TO
do and almost gave up ever being able to
extricate the animal from his sod plight.
He finally secured the services of Nessn.
NJ. Fox and NJ. H. Wall who ut once -
cured q sufficient amount Of blocks.
tackle and other necessary articles OF
timber for braces, and after csnsiderabls
engineering managed to raise the snfor-
tunate quadruped from his subterranean
position. The animal slthe0gh havlng
fallen tue depth of fifteen feet and re-
naming In sitting position down the
well for four hours was pulled cut with
nc other apparent hurt than bru,se on
one Of his hind legs. Mr.. Gee extends
thanks to the gentlemen who aided him
SO materially in his dilemma.