Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1886-11-12
A BAD BREAK.
That is What the Newly Appointed
Attorney General of Dakota
Has Made,
Or Else an Alleged Interview With
Him Telegraphed From Min
neap0lis is False. .,..
Which Is It?

d
Engle, attorney general Of Dakota, is in the
city making arrangements for his removal
from Aberdeen to Bismarck at an early
day. after all the returns are in Clifford
will certainly have majority of 15,OO0,n
| said MIR. Engle, speaking of the recent cleo
ton i'll the territory, "and anything to the
| effect that Day stands the ghost of a.
chance is all nonsense. We have reduced
| the republican majority by nearly 10000
votes, but it is only the natural result of
the party being organized. II we had nom.
mated an anti-tlivisionist at Aberdeen, we
would certainly have elected him. re-
ceived long communication but few
days since from one of the party leaders at
Washington, in which he stated that mas
much as Mr.. Day had departed from the
party policy by espousing division, he
would lose much Of the influence he now
has with the present administration. AS
to admission, think that congress will this
winter pass an enabling act allowing us to
go ahead and frame our constitution, and
that two years hence the territory will be
admitted as whole. Several promi.
nent democrats will 60 to Washington this
winter from the territory to look after
matters there I don't look for the ap-
pointment of q democratic governor untis
after the expiration of Governor Pierce:s
term. During the last presidential cam
paign Governor Pierce, in the capacity of
correspondent of the Chicago News, wrote
numerous articles supporting Mr.. Cleve-
land, and for this the president is, of
course, grateful, and besides this, Governor
Pierce takes no action in regard to terri.
torial matters until he has first received his
cue from the president. know this to be
fact, although the president is anxious ts
make it appear that he is unwilling to CO.
cree the governor in any way, and is very
careful to do no advising by letter or tele-
graph, but the governors frequent pilgrim
ages to Washington does away with any
necessity for correspondence. Dakota's
next legislature, think, will be extremely
conservative and will give nearly its entire
attention to making necessary laws and re-
vising those now existing, and paying but
little, if any, attention to matters political
Any attempt at capital removal will be un-
tremendously smothered early in the ses-
sion.''
[The above comes as regular associated
press dispatch and probably appears in last
evenings Minneapolis Journal. Its genu-
ineness is, however, questionable. That
portion relating to the governor must be
largely the imagination Of curious re-
pOrter's mind, and not the expression of the
new attorney general. Governor Pierce
was in Dakota during the last campaign,
and not the correspondent Of any paper.
1t was during the campaign Of 1880 that
Mr.. Pierce was the Washington CORES
pondent Of. the Chicago News, which then
favored Mr.. Arthur for the presidential
nomination. Mr. Engle must have known
this. 1t is also impossible to believe that
Mr.. Engle said that "the governor receives
his cue in regard to territorial matters from
the president" Theiinterview, in the main.
is either pure fiction or else designed by
somebody to belittle both the president and
Governor Pierce In any event, it is the
most stupid-the most cOlossal-the most
humiliating- most aggravatingly ludi-
crOus-the most nOnsensical damfOOlish-
ness that has appeared in print for some
time.
A Move Of Great Significance.
New YORK, Nov. 9.-The Mail and Ex-
press Saws. The recent transfer of a yal,I-