Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-04-02

1885.
known Grove TO break the force Of the lie
that was pinned to him. lie must haye a
high opinion Of the intelligence of the
men whom he has without cause
or truth slandcred If lie thinks they can
not see through that gauzy covering
They would have much more respect for
HIM II he had admitted and stuck to it
than for him to adopt such cowardly
manner of crawling out Of II.
Mr.. Eddy knew what he was dong
when he made that statement, and he is a
man whose truth and veracity would not
he questioned for moment by the people
of this city and county. lie not only
gives Burkc's remark but remembers DIS
tinctly the answer he made 10 1t, and
jogs the memory of Burke on that point.
The man Grove gives the same answer
from Mr.. Eddy but says it was in answer
TO Griffin. No one else can possibly know
as we'll % Mr.. Eddy to whom he address
ed his answer, and it Is not likely that he
would address it to one who did not make
the remark which called 1t out. Burke
cannot '.for one moment" sneok out Of 1t
in that way.
The Boilers Smoked out Of their Holes
at Last.
The article in the Capital yesterday
even ng over the name Of Anton Klaus,
ST., was no doubt surprise TO many Of
the people of Jamestown who attended
the public meeting at the court house
Friday evening, March Goth, and witncss-
ed tie part he took III its discussions and
proceedings, and especially in the face Of
bis announcement to the meetiog that he
was "authorized'' to withdraw the name
of MIR. Davidson. If Mr.. Davidson had
not then consented to he candidate, as
Mr.. Klaus says, Why should he authorize
any one to withdraw his name? 1t makes
no manner of difference whether the
words "bcfore that convention" were in
cluded in the announcement or not. The
meeting was called for the purpose of
no nlnating candidate for mayor and
other general officers of the city, as Mr..
Klaus and everybody else present we'll
knew.
That meeting was first suggested by the
Capital which is now the or gan Of the
boltlng faction with which Mr.. Klaus
identi fies himself. Neither Mr.. Flint nor
his friends had any part in calling the
meeting at the court house, but were
rather opposed to it as the source from
which it was suggested, namely, the Cap
ital, was known to be unfrlcndly to HIM ;
and as the editor OF that paper was known
to be chronic kicker anu bolter they
knew he would not abide the decision o1
the convention unless he succeeded in
packing It in favor of his man. The fact
of the "Request of Citizens" being circu-
lated previous to that meeting shows un'
mistakably design to pack the caucus
against Mr.. Flint, as he and his friend:
surmiscd was the intention when Mr.
Burke spddeqly yapd .Se .loqndlv he9an te
The article IN question bears the car
marks of the sanity Burke as its writer,
and it may be that Mr.. Klaus signed it as
a great many signed the "Request Of Cit
izens," without fully knowing Its pur
port. Be this as 1t may, 1t is published
over his signature and he appears before
the public as its author and as making .
personal attack upon the proprietor O.
the Alert whom he was as anxious few
weeks ago TO have sign his petition to b.
postmaster at jamestown as he nov
seems to be to destroy his influence in tn
city election campaign.
Mr.. Klaus may have more personal II
feeling against Mr.. Flint, and more per
sonal interest In the election of mayo
whom he thinks he can control to his ad
vantage, than appears upon the surface
and little daylight let IN upon the stu
alton may be worth the consideration c
the people. Those who have memories
year and half long will rccollect The
Mir. Klaus, who then owned the onl
brick yard within a hundred miles (
jamestown, engineered the ordinanc
Though the council extending tho fiji
limits two blocks south and as mar
north. The buildings then contemplate
in those blocks would have required 8
the brick he then had on hand Or cou
make, at the exorbltant price of sl4 p
thousand. But that brick monopoly al
, spcculating scheme was knocked out
: time by Mayor Flint veto;ng the orr
2 nance. Remembering this 1t is not su
> pr,siug that he should now want the
;. flee of mayor to seek some one else tn
/. Mr.. Flint, but it is little surprising Il
e he should want an sshoncst man.
i mayor.
8 AS Mr.. Klaus is likely to be defends
q as bondsman in the suit to recover C
! taxes on the bond of the city treasur
a which he may want to compromise, a
o has James river and Plpestem bri,
1t enterprise for the city IN view to mere
u the value of his swamp park between
If two streams, the Alert agrees with i
that he might find many other zen v
would suit his purposes better than
Flint
Come Oh. Judge.
q EDITOR ALERT:
l" If Justice Hamilton thinks that