Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1886-08-19

THE Nelson County News seems to be
entirely misinformed about the SO called
desire of Stutsman county to dictate as
regards the legislative ticket for the twen-
ty.second legislative district. Such a
false and unreasonable notion has been
assiduously cultivated by minute coterie
of democratic politicians IN jamestown
through their organ, the Capital. These
aspirants have no standing with their
own party or any other in this vicinity,
and are trying besides to impose them
selves upon the farmers of the county as
persons who are urseltishly lsborlng as
the "farmers' friends" and for the good
of the country at large. The papers
throughout this district will see in time
their false pretenses, and that they have
attracted notice only through continued
round of mlsstatements, repeated dill
gently from day to day. The Alert does
not belieye that the republicans in the
district will be divided, dispersed or de.
ceived by any such blatant and untruth-
full statements about this county's posi-
ton, as have been circulated so carefully
by few dlscontented candidates, aided
by these democratic aspirants and alleged
"farmers' friends" When the time comes
this will be demonstrated clearly enough,
10 the delegates at the convention and
to the republican voters of the district.
In summing up the situation in Nelson
county, the News says:
1t seems to be generally conceded that
Nelson can name the councilman If she
chooses. This assumption Is undoubtedly
correct, provided that Nelson does not get
split up herself, and just that is, what our
aspirsnts for legislative honors, whoever
they may be, have to fear. There are at
present two republican central commit
tees in this county, elected by conventions
both of which sent delegates to the dis
trict convention two years ago. Both sets
Of delegates were admitted at the district
convention, consequently both have equal
rights on that score to claim to be the
only SIMON pure none warranted unless
our.name- ls- blown. IN the. bottle.
In what We will call committee No. l.
there is again split, some members Of it
lit is difficult to tell just how many. hav-
ing called county convention to meet at
Mspes on September 9th, while the chair
man OF the committee claius that the
majority OF the committee will back him
up In his assertion.
Committee No. 2, have as yet done
nothing towards calling q convention
awaiting We understand to see with what
degree of fairness the other committee
will act in app"rtionlng the county. As
will be seen, things are not entirely har-
monious in Nelson county, and although
1t Is probable that things will be 80 ar
ranged that there will be no split In the
republican ranks the thing Is not by any
manner Of means certain Is yet. As the
matter however, seems to rest in the
hands Of few men, all Of whom are d.
rectly interested in party harmony, We
presume the matter will be finally sd.
justed on some equitable basis.
As regards candidates, there seems tc
be fright lively" sprinkllng of them
good, bad and indifferent, prominent
among whom We have heard mentioned
d. J. Tallsnt, d. y. Dodds, T. j. Bairt
and J. H. Mclaughlin with several darl
horses trailing along behind, one o
whom at least ls likely to develop consid
erable strength before the thing is ended