Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-12-04

AesAs W oSe" SANSos
The action of the autocratic commits
sioners OF this district has so angered
the people that they held an indignation
meeting last Saturday night which was
largely attended. The ~lieutenants of the
police force who have been dismissed
and reduced were the recipients of
sympathy and the authors Of their dis
grace and trouble were properly de-
nounced. A committee was appointed
to carry the expression Of popular opin-
ion direct to the president and ask his
Intervention in the matter. 1t is quiet
ly said that the president desired that
this popular meeting be held in order
that he might the more readily turn
the police scandal without any seeming
0lficiousness. The opinion is confident
ly expressed that the commissioners will
have 10 ~ and that the Off GERS will lie
re-appointed.
Mrs. Cleveland and her mother have
spent three nights at their summer home
and have been visited there by ladies Of
social standing. The ladies in the fam
lilies of the cabinet officers have all been
out to Oak View, and the drive out there
is becoming the popular social thing
to do.
The city is infested with professional
burglars again, who have probably come.
as usual, to remain during the session of
congress. They use dynamite for break
ing safes and have already demolished
four this week.
All Of the reelected members of con
gress are here and ready for work. There
is a score or more Of absentees. but they
are the members who were elected to
stay ut home this year. The hotels and
department lobbies are filled with the
Democratic representatives who seek
the tleshpots of Egypt. They all have
opinions concerning what struck them
early in the month.
Hon. NJ. II. Day is on the ground look
ing after the appointment of his friend
Ziebach to he governor of Dakota. Fail:
ing in that, he is here to see that a GER
tain other gentleman does not get it.
Rather than have a man whom the pe0-
pie do not want appointed, Day will be a
candidate himself. In that event he will
receive the Endorsement of the almost
unanimous voice Of his party. Since the
last Democratic convention Day has
been the recognized Democratic leader.
The mon who fought him a q ago are
now his best friends and supporters
Ordway Johnson, the most abused man
in his party, and one who always comes
up smiling after every knock-down, is
still here and is doing splendid wsrk for
Day and his friends. Boynton and In
man and Sheafe and all the others who
have opposed Day are now filing written
Endorsements OF him in the interior de-
partment asking that he be made goy-
ernor. Yet, all the while Day keeps ask
ing for Ziebach to be appointed.
Charlie Frost, of Huron, is still in the
city. He is II of Days best friends.
He is working like a beaver for the APP
pointment Of Day to the governorship,
and denies Days right 70 stand for lie
bach any longer, inasmuch that it has
been settled long ago that Ziebach can
not be appointed.
Capt. Nave, of Woonsocket, one of the
nos gallant and bravest men of the
south who bore arms during tho war, is
here in the interest of Day. He IS popu-
lar with all of the southerH senators and
members, and is also personally ac-
quainted with the president. He wants
Day appointed, but at Days request he
went to the president and asked that lie
bach be appointed.
The whole situation may be summed
up briefly. The president has promised
Judge Church that he will appoint him.
Church is Il personal friend. But it now
is brought to the presidents attention
that he made u mistake in promising
that Office to Judge Church, and that he
ought not to.ignore Day and his stout
supporters in that manner If Day would
come ont as a candidate he would hayo a
good show for the appointment, notwith-
standing what the president has said to
Church. 1t has been very plain to him
that he made a mistake in giving the
promise and it will not take him long to
change it he concludes to do so.
Applicants for postotices in Dakota
are not so numerous since the blizzard.
They have probably been driven into
their tepees by tho weather and will hi
bernate until the spring, when they will
again come forth more hungry for Office
than ever.
Commissioner Sparks still believes that
| he is tho author and the tinisher of the
Democratic faith of the northwest. He
believes that his decisions and admins.
tration Of his Office tended largely tc
make the Democratic gains in the north.
west. When q fellow gets mashed on
himself it is hard to bring him off his
high horse.
Jeffersonian simplicity has been dashed.
Three Democrats met in a parlor saloon
] one evening after the opera last week