Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-07-29
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| paper, here, noting the fact that Da-
kota girl had been on the floor OF the
house. not only wrote the sauib for
the morning paper, but also incorporated
it in my Dakota letter. Hansborough,
of the Devils Lake Inter Ocean,
forwards me copy of it, as an extract
from one of the letters of the Washing.
ton patent attorney who has been writ
ing for his paper. 1t simply proves what
have 80 strongly put to you before,
namely: that these patent attorneys who
go around on their uppers, begging ad-
vertisements for their business for cheap
correspondence, do not write their own
letters, but steal thsm bodily from the
Washington papers. Their news amounts
to nothing, and fits Dakota, California
and Florida. equally we'll. Reputable
papers ought not to place the names of
such .shysters before their readers.
Patent attorneys who cannot pay for
their legitimate advertising, are mostly
impecunious frauds whom the people
would do well to beware OF.
A prominent Dakotaian asks me why
| jumped onto M. Ell. Day, last week. /
didn't do anything of the sort. I only
mentioned his name in connection with
his visit to the Hills in the interest of
the Irish orator. / have nothing against
Day. L haven't mentioned his name in
my correspondence since he left here. 1t
would be hard for anyone to convince
Mr.. Day that | SAID anything against
him. / have been his friend for some
time; and it is pretty we'll known that /
have done more for him in the past year
than anyone else has done. Moreover,
L have served him without money and
without price.
Tho resignation of judgs Church
makes vacancy which will be filed al
most immediately. Unless tho New
Yorker whose name is mentioned, de-
clines, the ludgeship might go to Judge
Pratt, of Grand Forks.
The president has decided upon the
appointment of governor for Dakota.
he is waiting for congress to adjourn;
that is ALL
have been visited by Charlie Frost,
OF Huron, and he has been in the verita-
BILE den of the Dakota news bureau
He Will probably describe our Dakota
headquarters in one of his racy letters
from this city.
Complaint reaches me from upwards
of twenty papers that :ny letters are too
long. Well. III try to condense, here
after, end give you all the news in less
space.
Major Burke, OF Ipswich, stopped at
New Harmony, indiana, to visit his
family and friends. He is now due in
Aberdeen to take charge of that office.
Judge Pratt, of Grand Forks, will re-
tnrn to this city on his way to New York
and Boston. about the first of August.
1t is not true that M. L. Mccormack
ls paying anyone to work his boom for
him. am creditably informed that he
cents per week thereby.
The manager of this bureau has been
threatened WIZ the displeasnre of Ger.
tain parties Of influence. Let 'em come
on. This Is not q baby institution, now,
but q sef-supporting machine. It will
be found to be bad business to down
ue. Better keep our vinegar and our gall
and wormwood quieted down, by
ne "a iob "
stand any amount of fight.
BY the time this letter reaches You,
this besstly congress ;gill have adjourn
ed. The majority of the representatives
have been no more nor less than 80 many
walking gas bags. They have squander-
ed the peoples money, and have done
nothing. Leading democratic members
such as Cobb, of Indiana, and LeFevre
OF Ohio, decline denomination. That
looks ominous,
Through it all, Judge Clifford has been
silent and moaest, as was becoming in o
new member. But he has learned oil OF
the ropes, and made many friends who
will be useful to the territory, in the fa-
tora. if the Judge is reelected, Howev-
er, he will soon be among the people, and
speak for himself, I would like to tell
you some reasons why I pelieye that the
Judge should be re.nominnted, but my
space is limited, and can only say that
/ believe in giving honor to whom honor
is due, and that it is not fulsome praise
to speak well of one who has done we'll,
as j believe Clifford has.
The adjournment of congress will be
followed by the appointments of Frost
and Brown, as / stated before. Those
who are inclined to carry ont the savage
custom OF Dakotaians, namely, stabbipg
the successful ones, may as we'll leave
Frost alone. He has nude plenty OF
enemies during the past year. because
he was young enough to enter into o
championship of his friend. with too
much vIgor. But he is to be selected
for the Fargo district, and no amount
OF kicking can harm him.
Dakotaians here all think that Whee-
lock, of the Mitchell Republican, has
sized up the delegate fight in careful
aud correct manner. as the field against
Clifford, with the chances in favor of
Clifford,
Judge Pratt says that tho democrats
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