Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-11-13

hAlu WILL w WlJttV llO VHu III tllO pCDpl0
there during the coming short session
of congress. 1t is not unlikely that he
will 60 to Dakota to live after this term
of congress closes. He is a Democrat,
but one of the whitest men in that party.
God intended him to he q Republican,
but somehow he was changed III the
making.
The recent publication of q list of pres
idential postoffces has brought down
hosts of hungry AMI thirsty applicants
for the positions. The clerks In the
posto6ice department are busy hand.
ling the increased correspondence and
damning the correspondent who put up
the job on them. Well, the people have
a tight to know what offices are ripe to
be plucked. There are p%ostofices in
Dakota which the boys may as we'll let
alone. The patriots who want to fill
them are numerous, but they can't get
there for some time yet.
The election returns received here at
this date are not complete enough to in
form us how great a majority Clifford
has this time. One thing is ascertained
and that Is that he is elected. For my
part. I couldn't see. the difference be-
tween electing Day or Clifford. They
both believe the same things, talk the
same things and work for the same ends.
The election of either would have been
good enough for Dakota.
The Washington readers of the Fargo
Argus have been playing blind mans
buff with the paper during the campaign.
That is to say, they have blindfolded
each other and spent whole hours guess
ing whether the Argus was a Republi-
can paper or a Democratic organ. 1t
was finally decided that the dashes
which 60 so largely to make up the Ar
gus form were used to represent Demo-
cratic cuss words and that the
paper was really a Day .!organ,
with decidedly strong Clifford ten.
denotes in the mammarial region. There
were conceded to be diaphragmatic and
mira oesophagal evidences of a~sterial
exhileration in the diluted editorial
phrena, but 1t was finally diagnosed as
above. The major was probably taking
a great deal of vinegar as an anti-lymph.
Hon. George s. Gorham, for many
years secretary of the senate, since then
editor of the National Republican and
contributor to the columns of various
newspapers and magazines, is mi of the
most cordial haters Of James G. Blaine.
lie has always given Blaine credit for
his own political disasters. He was a
friend of Mr.. Arthur and did much for
the fortunes of that gentleman until '83,
when Mr.. Arthur treated him with rank
ingratitude, as he did his creator, Conk-
ling. Since then Gorham has been his
dearest enemy. He assisted in the nom
ination of Blaine at Chicago in Older to
lay out Arthur. Then he worked in
New York for the defeat of Blaine. He
succeeded in ''getting event. with both
of those gentlemen. 1t is broadly hint
ed that Gorham wrote and revised the
celebrated Burchard speech which so in
jured Blaine. Since the election Mr..
Gorham, who resides here, is greatly
dissatisfied. He is pleased with the
great Republican gains, but the George
movement is what agitates him. In it
he sees not only prospective Republican
success, but Blaine's triumph. He is a
%sagacious politician. He believes that
Blaine could now be elected. He fears
that he will again be nominated in 1883
and that his election will certainly follow,
1t is Il be regretted that such able men
should be antagopistic to the popular
champion of Republicanism, but public
life brings enmi les, as the sparks fly
/ upward. Yet it is significant that the
bittrrest foes of that statesman now see
his success foreshadowed by the recent
expression of the will of the people.
You and l may not be ardent admirers
of James G. Blaine, and we may. But
we are glad to note the return of the Re.
publican party to power, no matter who
may be the nominee, is plainly shown
by the handwriting on the wall.
Senator Butler, of South Carolina, is
IN the city. Ever since the senator pre-
sided ut the massacre of black Republi.
cans at Hamburg, he has been greatly
pleased with the advancement of the
Democratic party. He expresses graft
t%icatlon at the result of the election in
his state by which Smalls, the colored
member of the house of representatives,
has been counted out. 1t looks to him
as though the Democratic party were in
the ascendent for the century to come.
Like the fanatics and tools who fired on
Fort Sumter, he does not look beyond
the boundaries of his own little common
wealth. He does not see and realize
that the teeming hills of the north and
west will reach that period when pa.
thence will cease to be a virtue. He
does not understand that the time is
coming when the honest toilers of the
north will cease to consent to having
their ballots rendered useless by the sup:
preston of popular will in the south
But that time is coming.
Ex-Postmaster General Tyner says
II was offered a denomination by nv
old district in Indiana, but could not &C,
cept it. The Democrats had re-district
ed the state so rs to give the Democrats
not less than 200 majority. Yet the
Republican nominee carried the district
by 700 majority. 1 do not regret m,
determination to remain in private life
but mention this case to show what 6
change there is IN political sentiment ir
Indiana. The Democrats had also ar
ranged the state so that they would hav,
a majority of not less than forty on Join,
ballot in the legislature, but, after all
their maj ority is only two. Even thil
majority may not hold water, be
cause of frauds practiced in the south
ern counties. Indiana has been revolu
tlonized. I regard it as a settler for thu
free traders. If the next Democratic
convention places a free trade platform
before the people, Indiana will be strong
ly Republican" When asked as to tn,
concomitant causes of the change in hi
state, Gen. Tyner said "It must no
be forgotten that the Democrats in Ken
tnckv ueedod all their otors ond nop,