St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-21
DAKOTA NIPS.

DAKOTA NIPS.
III. w. SMITH, the president of the
Farmers alliance of Minnehaha county,
probably reflects the prevalent feeling
among the farmers when he speaks of
the nomination of Mr.. HARDEN as
triumph for the anti-monopoly farmers
element in Dakota.
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1t is perhaps unfortunate that the
reservation commission, in entering
upon their laborS next week, commence
at Standing Rock, the most northerly
agency, as SITTING BULL and most of
the other chiefs there are reputed to be
very hostile to the act, old S. B. wanting
to die before he will sign. There are
many who would cheerfully aid him to
perform the mortuary act and contrib
ute to sufficient funeral expenses. If
these old stagers are obstinate they will
have bad influence on the Indians at
the other agencies and perhaps defeat
the opening under that law. If this
proves to be the case popular feeling
will demand the taking of the lands
without the consent of the Indians,
with no bonuses or top buggies for the
bucks. Tie Bismarck Tribune is the
authority for the statement in regard to
SITTING BULL and the other tawny
mogulS.
T. l.. LoUCKs, president of the Da-
kota Farmers alliance, and also of the
Scandinavian Elevator company, visited
the GLOBE office yesterday, and was
quite free and frank in answer to all
inquiries IN regard to that elevator
company, which the WoLCOTT fiaseo
is generally supposed to have some
what demOraliZed. Mr.. LoUCKs is now
stopping at Minneapolis in charge of
the company. which he says was not
materially affected by the WoLCoTr
failure. not causing the loss of a dollar.
The impression that WOI.CoTT was the
mainStay or an essential factor in the
elevator scheme, Mr.. LoUCKS pro-
nOunceS erroneous. Its foundations are
i'll the Farmers alliance, and that body
seems to have gotten into the habit of
making success of its enterprises.
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If MARK DUNNELL should surprise
his opponents by getting back to con-
gresS from Minnesota, North Dakota
will claim sort of lien upon him, as he
is president of a bank there and has
large interests about New Rockford.
Probably he will not be able to take in
the ozone as much as usual this sum-
mer. unless some of the political mis-
sionaries from Dakota go down to his
district and harasS the public mind for
him.
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The case of Trail county indicates
about how the local option law can be
enforced. Parties We're brought before
Judge MCCONNELL for keeping blind
pigs and found guilty. The sentence
imposed was fine of 800, on the con-
dition that they abandon the business.
They turn it over to a figurehead and
go on for six months more before court
meets again. This amounts to a $500
license, or perhaps $400, as the judge
says he made mistake-the law i'm
poses S200 fine. The Hillsboro Banner,
which favors prohibition, says the pros
ecutions were dismal failures. Judge
MCCONNELL. though not regarded as
teetotaler, said he favored the law,
would vote for it if he could, and should
enforce it rigidly. The results, so far.
certainly are not encouraging to its
friends.
Col. PLUMMER comes out Sluarely for
cutting off local option and spreading
prohibition over the whole territory by
act of the legislature. He predicts this
will be done next winter. But the colo
Bel's predictions, and most of his poiit-
ieal declarations, have mental provisos,
or various constructions, to conform to
the facts as they ranspire.
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The names of PLUMMER and MOODY
have usually been associated as the two
DRoMIoS, SiameSe twins. JONATHAN
and DAVID. ANANIAS and SAPPHIRA. or
any other two fellows of an ilk, who
were to go hand in hand, like PAUL and
VIRGINIA, fitting over the country !:
parading Dakota-twO of her. in fact
as wronged virgins of whose cause they
were the chivalrous knights. But that
panorama seems to be fading out. In
his last paper PLUMMER speaks of Judge
MOODY as ''supercilious and idiotic
old judicial ASA vain, self-conceited.
arbitrary and tyrannical old man, who
never did good turn for any human
being-purely selfish and destitute of
any marked ability" That is the
PLUMMER picture of one of the senators
of the South Dakota state that is indorsed
by the Republican platform, and the re-
suit of the association of week at Chi
cago. 1t would be interesting now if a
companion piece could be had entitled a
picture OF PLUMMER drawn by MOODY.
He ought to have known better than
to shut off PLUMMER'S wind at Chicago.
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But should HARRISON be elected, Col.
PLUMMERewill have the satisfaction of
seeing MOODY official gatekeeper for
Dakota, as he is an early and late per-
sonal and Intimate friend of the man
who had grandfather. He is credited
with an Indian memory, and will not
forget the VituperatiYe colonel when he
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