National Republican., 1885-11-28
VOICE or rnr wrEIkLY rnnss.
Selections from the Issues of Members
of "Our Weekly prcss system."

Selections from the Issues of Members
of "our Weekly Press systom."
Commissioner Sparks Is reported as say
ing that four-fft Of the homesteads In |
Dakota are fraudulent. The other fifth |
have been pushing things "rlght lively,n |
MS they say down In Sparks district, to |
have raised 25,000,000 bushels of wheat in |
northern Dakota this year. Mr.. Sparks |
should study the census. Statistlcian Dodge, |
Of the bureau OF agriculture Mt Wnshlntou, |
is astonished at Dakota census figures, and |
In recently issued report says II will he |
a surprise TO many that the number Of |
forms in Dakota In 1885 Is greater than
was the number In Nebraska in 1880. IL |
exceeds the number in Maine, and, OF |
course, that of every other New England
state. 1t surpasses the aggregate Of CALI
fornia at that date, and of Maryland and
Delaware. IL is greater than the combined |
number of Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
and Connecticut and more than all the
farms Of Oregon, Nevada aud Colorado in
the west, and Rhode Island, Delaware, aud
Florida In the east, the six states taken
together nor are these farms all skeleton
hOmesteads. There are five times as many
people in the territory MS there are farms,
and production looms grandly. In the
estimates Of this department of more than
500, 600 bushels OF wheat last year, Da-
kota took position as the eleventh IN rank
In wheat production. No state east Of the
Alleghanies 'or south Of the Ohio stood
before IL, aud even Wisconsin held lower
place."-IDevil's Lake (Dak.) Inter Ocean
Who Of our readers has not heard Of the
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,, published at WASH
ington, ID. c., and which is not only "na-
tional'' In name, but national In its scope,
diction, aims, and influence, in fact the
truest aud purest exponent now published
at the national capital Of the grand old
Republican party, which has been guided
and inspired through quarter of n cen
tury OF government control by such men
as Lincoln, Garfield, Chase, Grant,
Giddings, Wade, Seward, Sumner and
hosts OF other Republican statesmen.
Every reading American has heard of
It, every reading Dakotian should read It,
as 1t will bring to your homes weekly re-
sumo Of congressional work, so ytally
interesting to all who are now living In the
territory, since Dakota, this winter In Con
gTess, must come to the crucial test before
her soon-to-be-sister states Every move
made In Congress, every speech made In
Congress, every vote taken in Congress-
every law passed by Congress this winter Is
fraught with deepest import to every Dako-
tian. To get complete and truthful ac-
count Of all this you must take and read
the NATIONAL. REPuBLIoAN.--lState Jour
nal, st. Lawrence, Dakota.l
As Gov. Pierce admirably expressed IL In
his report for 1884, and It is good and ap-
propriate and may be reviewed now, "Da-
kota is the great granary of the continent
Her product not alone of wheat, but of all
the important cereals is enormous Her
people are not raw and unused to self gov
ernment, but citizens who have served an
apprenticeship In the older states and are
not only fitted by character and experience
for the duties of citizenship, but fairly en-
titled to its privileges by all the principles
and traditions OF the government In the
spirit of the words of Patrick Henry, we
say. give us division, or give us admission
bismarck Tribune.
If you study the characters appointed to
diplomatic and consular positions by the
present administration you will find them
much the same In one particular. They
are disappointed or worn out politicians.
In nine cases out Of ten they have held pub
lie office, and their popularity with their
constituents has waned, or they have been
unsuccessful of1ceseekers. Most Of them
are disheartened fellows. A record of the
private and public career Of every man In
the service has been kept at the State De-
partment, and the service might approprl
ately be called the haven for blasted homes.
-[Grand Lake (Col.) Prospector.l
Coy. Hughes has appointed delegates TO
the Farmers National Congress to be held
at indianapolis. The vice president for
Arkansas is Mr.. II. L. Fletcher First dis
trict, John j. Horner, of Helena, and Ma
than Gregory, OF Augusta; second district,
j.. 7. Eagle, Of Lonoke, aud William Muir
rell, Of Austin: third district, b. NJ. Garrett
son, of Warren, Bradley county, and w. +.
Wright, Of Fulton; fourth district, VIM.
Young, Of Galloway, and G. ii. Gregory,
of Altus; fifth district, Lafayette Gregg, of
Fayetteville, and 2. b. Weaver, OF Boone
county, West Fork (Ark.) Republican,
Whenever n relative of any Republican
senator or representative was appointed to
an Office by a Republican President Sena-
tor Thomas f. Bayard got on his ear about
nepotism, but circumstances alter the case
very materially. Now, President Cleveland
can give his relations good positions, and,
horror Of horrors, on Saturday last james
| A. Bayard, a son Of the venerable Secretary
| Of State, was appointed secretary Of the
| territory of Arizona, VIII the Hon.
| Thomas +. ask the Senate to relYct him?
Perish the thought. (Chilllcothe,
Ohio. Gazette.l
Mr.. Kitchen, who so violently assails the
| President was one of his electors-at-large
in North Carolina. Poor Kitchen sold his
soul to the devil to get Democracy into
power, and now feels that he has cheated
himself, and vents his spite on President
| Cleveland, who refuses to yield to his price.
| We have no stock In this administration,
| yet we had rather have u President that will
not lie to please such spoilsmen as swarm
in the Democratic family. Heaven only
knows whether the President will stand
firm. Perhaps a few more thunders like
this will confirm him. North State,
Greensboro, N. C.l
The repeal Of the coinage of silver act is
already being agitated by some congress-
men, but it is believed, or at least hoped,
that Congress at its coming session will not
| take this step. No greater disaster could
befall Colorado than the stoppage of the
coinage Of silver. Not only would 1t throw
an immense number Of men out of employ
ment by the shutting down Of the mines,
but the farming and every other industry
depending ON the mining community for
market would be paraly2cd, and the dcvcl-
ment Of the State be brought to u standstill.
-LDelta (Col.) Chief.l
We notice with pleasure that ex-Repre.
sentative Stockelager and House Postmaster
| Dalton are about to induce the government
to use Indiana stone In the government
building at Pittsburg, Pa. Intelligent peo.
| pie will observe that If Mr. Stockslager had
distinguished himself as the one honest
man IN Congress and had kept up the
| "eteInal dimnition grindh of objection to
every measure that appeared before Con
| gress he would have very little capacity to
do service TO his state In material aud
substantial directions. - Weekly Press,
Lawrenceburg, Ind.]
President Smith, Of the Maryland Agrl-
cultural College, is making vigorous efforts
to bring the merits and the needs OF that
institution prominently before the public.
| That the college is not performing the ssr-
| vice for which 1t was established Is not the
fault Of the management, but grows out OF
an unaccountable Indifference on the part
Of the people toward that institution. This
college is q state institution, entitled to
state aid and could be made useful and
creditable to the state If propcramount of
public cooperation could be secured.-[Bel
| L., \