Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-07-10

popular official into the candidacy and
him nearer to the house of repre-
s%entatives than any Of his opponents i'm
agine. Captain Dan will be the man
whom Judge Clifford will have to meet
the political battle field.
Several friends have asked me recent
ly, and a number of them have asked
the past winter, why I have so
little to say about Judge Clifford. The
reason is simply this Judge Clifford
can speak for himself when he wants to
say anything. AS I said q few weeks
ago, I have lost the combination Of my
political puff machine and am not say
ing anything in favor of any man mere
ly for the fun of it. lam independently
representing the best papers in Dakota.
I am merely q photographer Of events in
the national capital. You can bet your
old farm, though, that if there was any
thing to say against Clifford, for anything
he has done, 1 would say it and say it in
my loudest way.
Mayor Mcclure, of Pierre, is still in
hot water about the Sioux bill. He still
hos hopes and they + growing. Hav-
ing taken the knights of Labor into his
camp he feels that he can now be some-
body and do something for his people.
He is very proud of the recent letter Of
the knights committee men to the
speaker and two other members of the
house, in which they called attention to
the Sioux bill and asked for its consid-
Grafton. He believes that there are still
chances, yet he also believes in that able
statesman from Texas, Hon. DIN Well
born, the chairman of the Indian COM
mittee, who has persistently refused to
have the Sioux bill presented to the
house. A man who believes in Well
born and in the possible passage of the
Sioux bill at this session, would almost
believe that he had hopes of heaven.
Such faith 1000 years ago used to heal
the sick, make wine out of water and
teach the lame how to dance Irish reels.
But ever such faith nowadays cannot
secure the opening of the reservation,
1 believe that nothing but money will
make the congressional mare go. 1t is
just like other thoroughbreds.
As you read these letters from the seat
of government, you must get interested
in the writer and you must know oil
about his "den." My Office is within
one square of the famous Pennsylvania
avenue. 1t is in the heart of the city
You wouldn't mind walking ten times
as far from Pennsylvania venue to see
it, but the people here are lazy and Wis
itors soon get equally Indifferent
Everything centers on the avenue
People don't like to walk even 8
few steps off the avenue. 1t takes
just IL minute to walk from
the avenue to my Office. In order tc
make the Dakota News Bureau as pop
ular and hlgh.toned as any other sane
tum, l am going down on the avenue
1t will cost $25 a month to get a small
room there and it will cost about $500 {
year to get a good-sized room. I an
going into a large, handsome, commo
dious room. 1t is customary for some
men to share "desk room" with Others
on the avenue. l will do nothing of the
kind. Ny room shall be mine alone
and no one shall share it with me. Thus
you e the journalistic enterprise of Da
kota, which is already well.known is tax
ing n great stride. The best papers ir
the territory have combined and by
forming a syndicate each of them hav,
regular correspondence from the ma
ton capital. The great New York, Chi
cago and other metropolitan dailies have
no better representation than your owl
home paper. During the sessions o
congress you will get the exact new
which most concerns Dakota, and dur
ing the recess of the great national leg
islature you will have pictures of mel
and measures which most shall interes
the citizens of the great empire of tn
northwest. When you come to the cap
ital of the nation, or when any of you
friends come here, they will meet at tn
Dakota News Bureau a friend.
King Nehemiah the First, commonl,
known al Ordway IN. c., is making
big Doodle ort of the sale of lands whicI
have been selected for the site of til
national library. The old ~congressions
library has become a thing of dust an
rust and must in the catacombs of tn
capitol. Provision had to be made fo
a new building for the numberless tor
of lore, and King Nehemiah was wiz
enough in his generation to find tn
: most eligible site for the new buildin
: and then to influence congress TO buy j
3 But first, he bought the land himself fe
!. q cong, and now the United States go,
eminent will have to pay him a royalt