St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-24

it may be proved against him that he is
sspolicy'' man, vet it cannot be sue
eessfully denied that he is not popular;
for he is. His genial ways take with
everybody, and the hearty and good
natured captain is not only popular
and successful Democrat. but no kicker,
and for these reasons the Pioneer Press
Interview seems to be base mlSrepre-
sentation. This
TALK ABOUT THE SPLIT
in the Democratic party, though, by the
way, is the mereSt nonsense. L made a
mistake in treating it as seriously and
thoroughly, as | did last week-except
upon one ground, and that is that the
Pioneer Press undoubtedly is the repre-
sentative of the Republican party IN the
territory, and if we can prove that liar
then we can prove the whole party
liar. That there have been many per-
Sonal differences among the members OF
the Democratic paaty, it would not do
TO deny, but that there has been any
serious split, any Democrat, who pre-
tends to know anything, knows better
than this. There are many reasons why
This is not the case. In the first place
5he party cannot afford it; we are TOO
weak now and must bend every energy
IN order to carry the next election ana
elect our delegate to congress, and
again, as Capt. Maratta says. we
are Democrats and whatever IS
Democratic, right and just, that
we will stand for; and that
does not mean any splits in the party
oy any means. When our convention
rolls around in the course of month or
two now. these words will be found to
De as true as gospel. find that my
write-up of the Pioneer Press candidate
for congress, Caldwell, was the most
extensive that has yet appeared. The
press of the territory even does not
seem to "catch on" to the scheme very
readily; and this is strange, too, in view
Of the fact that the press nowadays IS
disposed to be very generous and lavish
with its compliments. In fact 1t is dlftl-
cult for them to be too much so to cap
ture the public taste. For these rea-
sons, it is my honest opinion that
Gals" candidacy for congress
amounts to a good deal more
than some have thought, and there
are would-be aspirants for the
place, who will do well TO look out for
him. But even with "Cal," it is eX-
remely doubtful now if Dakota will go
y >
is tremendous change going on; there
are great questions at issue and great
interests at stake, that the thinking men
Of Dakota are not going to pass I'M
noticed this year and vote for
ANY TICKET BLINDLY.
They will require of every candidate
for office, of every party, ''a reason for
The faith that's in them.' There will be
more solid political thinking done this
year in the territory of Dakota than has
ever been done before in all her history
put together. At Aberdeen the other
lay | had long talk with c. A. Solder
Berg, the secretary of the Territorial
Farmers alliance. Among the many
good things that he said were the fol-
lowing: Eyes, the tariff is going to be
an issue with us. There are some
things that we hold dearer than our
own party allegiance, and this tariff is
one of them. 1t is doubtful whether
we will get much relief yet awhile, but
it is cOming-the tendency is that way.
How do we like Growers message?
That is all right. President Cleveland
has come out square and fair and we
can support him. He has been plain
and there is no chance for any doubt in
regard to his position. Of course we
will rally to his support. 1t is the duty
of every good citizen to do so. 1t is a
sign of reform that we indorse, and
THE FARMERS ALLIANCE,
can indorse President Cleveland's adj
as a whole in the territory,
too. He has given us some honest and
conscientious officials, who have inaug-
urated some reforms already that are
in their efforts and for
which we are profoundly thankful. l
know of good many counties that will
go Democratic this fall on the one issue
of Auditor Wards order to assessors,
that the railroads must be taxed and
governed equally with us. That's what
we want; that's practical; that's the
kind of reform that we can appreciate;
it's tangible, you know. Ii anybody
thinks that the ideas of the Farmers
alliance are not going to cut figure in
the coming election, then, whoever it is,
is very much mistaken. The people are
going
TO TAKE A CHANGE
in their tactics, they are going in for re-
form in government as well as in them
selves. They have had a monopoly on
the latter for some time. They now
propose to produce a little variety"
Such words as these are manfully SDo-
ken and cannot help but have good eff
feet. Dakota is naturally Democratic,
and it will only take little above Senti-
ment, properly destinated, to accom-
pliSh this result. Look out, it is now in
the process of destination, and, as no
man can tell which way the wind blows,
so it will be equally as hard to tell what
the result of the coming election in Da
kota will be.
AUDITOR WARD
returned from Washington last week,
and | had the pleasure of meeting him
on his way to Bismarck. He was feel
ing hopeful in the extreme. After
spending two or three weeks in the East
butfeting with the cold weather and
storms, he was glad to get back home
Il place of which he had heard so much
during his absence, and never before
had he had realized how important a
part of the globe Dakota was anyway.
Mr.. Ward reported political matters at
the national capital as very quiet and
quite made up already. 1t was his
opinion that Mr.. Cleveland's admins
tration cannot be unlike that of Presi-
dent MonrOe's, it is practically in
dorsed by everybody. 1t seems
Illdl GON. SuuTcIl Has WdIHl pcISOldl
friend in President Cleveland. No
commentator of him to Mr.. Ward
could be too hearty or full of praise.
Gov. Church he had known for years,
and he was warm personal friend of
his; he trusted him and knew him to
be, not only as honest, as faithful to his
duty, but to have the ability to stand up
for and carry through any reform that
he thought right and needful. Of this
fact, there seems to be little doubt in
the minds of anybody, who has taken
the pains to inquire into this matter.
Auditor Ward announced the opening
of the
8 SIOUX RESERVATION
as quite sure thing in, say, about six
months time. The work of opening this
reservation is to be credited to Senator
Dawes, who has labored for it long and
Senator Dawes has had
the friendship and confidence of num-
Der of Dakota's best men, and there can
he but little doubt but that this bill is
wise and fair to all parties concerned.