The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1888-08-03
FRIDAY AUGUST 5, 1855.
For President of the Uuited States,
BENJAMIN HARRISON,
of Indiana.
For Vice President of the United States
LEVI P. MORTON,
IF Now NorL
CLEVELAND AND DAKOTA.

When you see Dakota man wear.
ing Cleveland badge, ask him why
he does it. benjamin Harrison for
years did all in his power to enfran.
chise the people of Dakota, Grover
Cleveland has done everything pos.
sible to deny to Dakota all the privi-
lcgcs embraced in the term American
citizenship. In his sc,lpulous care to
deprive a soldiers widow of Il pension
of IS a month. he has overlooked the
interests of more than half Il million
of people. Dakota has never been
mentioned in Il presidential message.
nor in any paper cmanating from his
pen, except when he promised to fill
all territorial offices by appointing
thereto residents of the territory, !,
promise which he Immediately violat.
cd hy making Church governor. To
keep Dakota out of the union. is
necessary in order to the supremacy of
the democratic party. Had Dakota
been admitted when she of right
ought to have been, Mr.. Cleveland
would never have been president. Tc
help him to reelection, lie and his
party have wickedly conspired tokeel
Dakota out. Through his willing tool
Louis X. Church. he has used the ter.
ritorial democracy to choke down the
aspirations of our people TO statehood
and to falsify their position on the
question of division, and immediate
admission. Disguised ut longer stul.
tifying themselves, his own party has
risen in rebellion and entered theil
most earnest protest against his
shameless policy. Convicted of in.
consistencies most glaring, and de.
serted by his party, lie has used his
carpet bag governor to organize q
handful of federal and territorial
office holders into anew party which
worslips its creator and bends the
knee to Cleveland. Even among
these none had courage enough to ac
cept the nomination for congressional
delegate and presume to face the re
sentiment of an outraged people by
asking for their suifragcs. Among
the entire horde of Church followers
none is willing to stand before the
people us the representative of the
Cleveland policy in Dakota. 1t is moi
crcditable to the unknown Harder
that he smother his honest convictions
and consents to take what nobody
wants, nor indicative of good hard
sense OH his part that lie should
imagine that the farmers of Dakota
are to he so easily played for suckers
When life long democrats are SO dis.
gusted with their party us to get out
of it. our farmers are not to be delud.
ed into taking their places. Demo.
cratic pledges for the future are to be
measured by their performances in
the past, and if they endcavor to ally
themselves with the farmers alliance,
it is to help themselves and not the
farmers. a vote for Harden is al
endorsement of Church and Cleveland,
and the policy of the democratic
house Of representatives in excluding
Dakota from her place in the sister.
hood of states. The Dakota man who
wears Cleveland badge and votes for
Harden. votes to deprive himself OF
the rights of an American citizen.
lie prefers to have Cleveland in and
himself out. Some democrats may
do it; republican farmers will hot
Grand Forks Herald.