St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-25
NORTHWESTERN MUTATIONS.

Hon. George Fl. Walsh of Grand Forks
was in the city yesterday. Asked about the
crop outlook in North Dakota he said it was
more promising for acreage than it had been
for years, and judging by the long, hard
winter and the heavy volume of the snowfall
and indications of an early spring and other
favorable conditions for good crop year,
there would be large increase in the yield
over any previous season. All we want, he
added, is good, healthy, foreign war in
which the wheat producing nations shall be
involved. Our farmers, he continued, are
now diversifying their agricultural pursuits
and are becoming more prosperous than they
have been in the past As to Dakota politics
Mr.. Walsh betrayed the reticence of the nom
committal politician who had aspirations he
did not desire to disclose.
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81 am inclined to think there is substan-
tial substratum of truth in the GLOBES spec
ial from Miles City to the effect that Cashier
Knight of the First National bank of Helena
is hard after the territorial governorship,"
remarked prominent Montana politician at
the Merchants yesterday. ''There is a gen.
eral feeling in the territory that Maginnis
has been favored enough by four terms as
delegate, and that it is about time that other
equally able and deserving people had
chance. The time is coming soon when such
men as Samuel Ward of Butte, Samuel
Hoaser of Helena. and other prominent men
OF the Democratic party had been forced to
the front whether they seek political distinc-
ton or not. They are among the represen-
tative men of the territory, represent
ing the great industrial resources and
their development in Montana. When the
territory has been invested with the dignity
OF statehood. then men will be called out.
Their modesty will be recognized and re-
warded by being called from their retire.
ment. Hauser and Ward were selected as
the representative men of the party as dele
gates to the Chicago convention, and con-
ferred honor upon the territory in supporting
the man of destiny; and they will certainly
command much influence in the distribution
of patronage if they should be inclined to ex-
ercise it. 1t is gratifying to see that Joseph
c. Tooe was called as delegate, for he is an
able man and a worthy representative of the
party in the territory. He was elected
delegate at the same time a Republican leg
lslature was selected on local issues. But the
territory is undoubtedly Democratic, and
that issue will be decidedly determined at the
next election; and it will be admitted as a
Democratic state to offset Dakota, whose
claims to the rights of admission to state
hood cannot much longer be denied. The
fact is" the gentleman added with fervor,
these are the greatest territories in the
country, contributing more than any other to
the material resources of the nation, the one
in its agricultural and the other in its min
eral and stock growing resources, and their
claims to statehood are righteous and must
prevail"
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Among the notable figures passing from
day to day in the lobby of the Merchants, the
great Northwestern resort of politicians and
representative men generally of the new
empire, is Lieut.. Gov. Gilman, known to
political fame as the Marplot of the Woods.
His protruding forehead and bushy eyebrows,
his cold gray eye and his bold cast of counte-
nance betraying subtle mind would at
tract attention anywhere. To the interviewer
he is sealed book, but it is understood that
he is here looking after executive appoint
ments with an eye single to securing as
much spols as possible for the North.