The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-02-19
Dakota Affairs at the Capital.
John Smith in Milbank Rcview.)

| tain clerk in the interior department
told me to-day that it has been source
of innocent merriment to him for some
time to have certain Dakotain come
to him on pretentions of public busi-
ness. He dawdles and hens and haws
and shuffies and mumbles and trembles,
and acts the general ass SO perfectly,
that the clerk is amused. lean tell you
straight that the clerks in the depart
ments are better able to handle the pub
lie business than many of the congress
men; and there isn't one OF them who
hasn't thousand times the ability and
knowledge of affairs that the fatty pos
sesses. My friend says that when Hon.
M. II. Day comes to his desk he comes
like any other business man ought to
come, and transacts his business and
goes off about his business. Fatty"
goes there and sits down to make vis-
it and stays all the morning. He brings
his knittin'," and leaves only when he
is away. The clerks get tired. He
makes them weary. He knows no more
about public business than my dog
"Fidget, and isn't half as smart. My
dog is full-blooded and has splendid an
cestry. He is undoubtedly smart and
quick as flash. III he had been nnder
the tutelage of Ordway as long as Fatty"
has he would be able to run the govern
ment to-day. Bear in mind, however,
that my dog is full-blooded.
Charley Mccoy is the latest and best
arrival from the territory. There is no
better or nobler friend in the world than
the man from Brown county. He is
honest, brainy, straight as string,
and as loyal to his friends as the needle
to the pole.
The big-bellied obstructionists are
now trying to defeat the confirmation of
Dan. W. Maratta, to be u. S. Marshal
for Dakota, but they will fail again.
Maratta will be confirmed. I'll have
something to. say on that point myself.
"Will Tyner be allowed to hang on
until the end of his term?" That is the
conundrum which has been propounded
to me recently, several times. don't
know much about it, 1t is hard to tell
But you know that Hon NJ H. Day and
NJ L. Mccormick are the men who
make and unmake the politics of Dako-
ia, in the matter of the offices. / have
interviewed those gentlemen from time
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have the shaping of affairs; and my
opinion, founded on facts and reason, is
that not only Tyner, bnt every other ex-
union soldier who is in the service now,
under the postmaster general, may feel
easy in his place as long as he attends
to his duty. Iyner was shot all to-
pieces, during the war. He might say,
as did St. Paul, II die daily" so great
are his sufferings.
Commissioner Sparks has now laid
his paw on the Devils Lake, Turtle
Mountain and Mouse River regions.
He has found a mares nest. 1t is to the
effect that there are 20, 900 people settled
upon about 1O,0O0.0O0 acres of splendid
land, and the land is not yet open to
settlement, despite the order of the
secretary of the interior, in October, 'S4.
Maybe the commissioner is right. 1t
has been so long since run that part
of the government that can't dispute
with him, but it seems to me that if he
keeps on he will find that the whole of
Dakota belongs to the Sioux, and he
he will give Minnesota to the Winnie
bagos and Chippewas.
There is big bellied, double breasted
rascal here from Brown county. / am
informed that he was chairman of the
republican county committee. and
worked for the nomination of Clifford.
If that is so It's strange. The fellow
from Brown county is training now
with the democrats. He is always with
the half-witted member of the third
house from Lincoln county. They
make a pretty and graceful pair as they
waddle through the streets.
! Clifford has an alleged republican
with him, in the position Of private sec
rotary. AS professed republican and
editor Of an alleged republican paper
in the territory, he came here and fur
nished documents to Abe Boynton, with
which to make fight upon a republi-
can postmaster and republican clerk,
i He charged the postmaster and clerk
with being ''offensiye partisans,p He
did this and yet processes to be re-
publican. I'm not ready to give his
name just yet, but have all the facts
in my possession. I'll shave him when
the water gets hot I'll shave him SO
deep he'll never see his epidermis again
He is lantern-jawed, skinny faced
with head running up to q point like
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