St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-19
BY the North Dakota Repre-
sentative Who Has Been
at the Capital
Taking Notes and Educating
the Statesmen as to the
Great Needs.
The Democrats Should Take
the Republican Pills and
Force the Makers
To Take Them as the Best
That Can Be Done With
Clifford There.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-Mr. Bierly,
North Dakota'S representative, has re-
turned to his post and found a large
mail awaiting him from Dakota constit-
uents. Among it was a request for
school land legislation, to protect the
school lands from undne use. This was
lodged with Mr.. Holman's committee
on public lands, with suggestion that
when the public land bill comes up it
bt, so amended as to remedy the pres
ent law, which has utterly failed in eX-
ecution. 1t is believed that it the terri
torial legislatures were given power to
provide fer police regulation-either
some rental or fines would come from
the trespasser. The coarse and imagin-
airy correspondence to the Minneapolis
Tribune, relative to Mr.. Bierly, was
called to his attention. He said the
only thing necessary to notice was the
allegation that the
GRAND FORKS BRIDGE BILL
would not become a law, because it was
not in charge of any one in the house.
So far from this being true, Judge Will
son, of Minnesota. agreed +" take charge
of it in the house, and il is in excellent
hands, as he is leading i..~.Aber of the
committee on commerce to which the
bill was referred. 1t will come out ali
right and pass in due form, and the
Grand Forks people can go ahead with
their bridge now just as fast as posi-
BILE. Mr.. Briefly says he is not acquaint-
ed in the peculiarly measly circles in
which the Tribune correspondent
moves, hence he is unable to describe
the
sPONGY ADVENTURES
of his assailant in the artistic manner
which the subject doubtless merits.
After spending the holidays in Penn
sylvana among old friends, Mr.. B.
went to Philadelphia and New York Oh
business relative to the establishment
of a live Democratic daily at Grand
Forks, OAK, where there appears to be
an opening. His conference with influ-
entail Democrats in both cities satisfies
him that the Democratic party is in a
healthier condition to-day than at any
time during the last three years. 1t is
unified by defeat, and the columns will
be closed for great victory in 1892.
The popular heart of New York beats
for Hill and the response comes up
from Pennsylvania to the same music.
The masses of his own party
ARE WITH HILL
and also large percentage of the work
ing classes who are Republicans, will
rally about Hill, whose shrewdnesS as
leader is matchless. The city govern
ment in New York is in harmony now
with the state government and the
MugWumpS are completely buried. No
party will own them. The tact of Hill,
he says. was admirably displayed in the
appointment of young George B. Nc
Clellan on his staff There are still
many thousands of old soldiers who
worship the dead hero of Antietam, and
this stroke of policy, in honoring the
son of the veteran is balm to the dis
appointment which many bitterly cher
ished when President Cleveland failed
to appoint the first Democratic soldier
of the age, his secretary of war. The
old soldiers who cheered and Wept al
ternately when they greeted
THEIR OLD COMMANDER
in the walks of peace, will not vote
against the man who honored their
chief in his son. Probably Mr.. Bierly
is an enthusiast on this subject, but his
heart is evidently in the right place,
and it may well for Democratic leaders
TO make note of the conspicuous part
that sentiment often plays in the gray
est affairs of mankind.
When asked what he thought of Gift
ford's amendment providing for new
election in South Dakota, he said Gift
ford had just aWaked If Clifford had
been awake before the HOLIDAYS, he
would have discovered that the trend
of Democratic sentiment in the house
was to pass the senate bill admitting
South Dakota. with as few amendments
as possible and tack on Montana, by
way of anticipating the senate and eX-
pediting the admission of these two
states.
He would have seen how he might
bridge the difficulty in regard to Great
ing South Dakota as a state with Off
GERS, some Of whose terms have expired
under the construction. AS congress,
by its delay, has simply postponed the
rights of the state of South Dakota, and
not destroyed them, the simplest mode
would have occurred to live politician
i'll this course: Amend the senate bill
so as to
RECOGNIZE THE OFFICERS
chosen as the de fact0 officers of the
state until the people themselves can
elect. According to the state theory Of
Campbell and others, which is the
logical
DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE
congress can give the state of South Da-
kota no rights or powers which it does
not possess already. Hence Chords
amendment is purely defuncta verba.
The people of South Dakota may see fit
to insist upon having the officers already
chosen. though so tar as Congressman
Clifford himself is concerned. he has for
feited their allegiance by sleeping OH
his rights and then waking up and offer
ing to throw them away. Perhaps Sen
atOrs Moody and Edgarton and Gov.
Mellette can hold him down. The true
position for the Democrats to take now
is to meet the Republicans on their
chosen ground and not permit them to
hedge, as they are trying to do. The
senate bill is distinctively Republican
1t was
INCUBATED BY HARRISON
with the aid of his South Dakota chicks.
all its crudity and NORWOOD. North
Dakota can afford to take clean, indie
pendent start under the Macdonald bin
or any bill containing similar virile
features. The Republicans have, for
the past three years, hoWled about the
Democrats not dividing and letting Da-
kota in, notwithstanding the fact that
Dakota's admission was defeated in 1882
by Republicans. as it promises now to
be defeated again by similar tactics, I'M
less the Democrats resoutely insist on
giving the malcontentS their own medi-
cine. If any evil or unexpected conSe-
quenceS result from passing the senate
bill as nearly as it can possibly be pre-
served III its original want of conference,