St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-20
Over the Polandish Parti-
ton Among the Counties
Round About.
Charged to Be the Work of
Alert Trieksters to Dis
franchise La Moure,
And Deprive 1t Of Any Rep
resentation in the Leg
islatupe.
The Object to Promote the
Elevation of Pierce to the
Senate.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
La INQUIRE, n. D., April 19.-North
Dakota has been districted for the cleo
ton of delegates to the constitutional
convention, and however nicely the
work may have been done in the main,
so far as La Moure county is concerned,
the work is the most outrageous piece
OF gerfymandering dissection that has
ever been perpetrated upon confiding
and honest people. The high positions
and general reputation of the parties
who were in charge of the districting of
the territory, together with the thought
that no set of men could be so egotistc-
al OF their supremacy that the great i'm
portance of their work in laying the
foundations for building a state consti-
tuition could for moment be over
Swallowed by personal feelings or politi-
cal ambitions, led our good people to
remain quietly at home, while many of
the
POLITICAL TRICKSTERS
of the territory were up at Bismarck
saving wood. In looking over the
ghoulish remains of the political
cyclone that swooped down upon our
fair county while we were sleeping the
sweet sleep of innocence and rent it in
twain, it is hard to think that the
three gentlemen who are responsible
for this effectual disfranchiSement of
the citizens of La Moure county in the
most important vote that will ever
take place in the territory, acted of
their own free will and without duress.
The worse thing that can be said of
them in this matter is that they used all
the intelligence which they possess; the
best thing that can be said of them is
that they were only the pliable tools in
hands of a trickster La Moure county
has right
TO BE INDIGNANT
at this ignominious treatment: it is as
SeSSed nearly S3.000,000: her warrants
are at par and she does not owe a dol
lar of bonded Indebtedness, while there
are now due and unpaid on taxes. in
GLIDING the back taxes on Northern Pa
cific railroad bonds about $4,000. She
pays more taxes into the territorial
treasury than any county in the whole
territory according to her population.
The vote of the county lawfully en-
titled her to one and a half delegates
III the convention, but the senatorial as
piratiOnS of WOuld-be autocrat are of
board, or the major part of it, than the
political obliteration CT 5000 people.
We have heard much of the shotgun
policy of diSfranchisement of voters in
the sunny South. but l believe this is
the first rstance in the land where the
Republican party IS supreme, that grand
old party that
CONTAINS ALL THE VIRTUE
that is lying around loose this side of
the pearly gates-or in any other land
where the American flag floats, that
these men, by stroke of the pen, have
DISTINGUISHED both whites and blacks.
the Pharisee and Republican, to
further the political aspirations of a
nonresident of Dakota. We are chart
table enough to the board to believe
they were hoodooed, and not so dull of
apprehension as not to see eX-Gov.
Pierce in their hoodoo. His cunning
hand is the one that manipulated the
pen that dismembered us. and scattered
our strength to the four winds of heaven.
Or. in more pOetical language, he is the
Delilah thas clipped our locks and left
us at the mercy of our manifestations
of the United States, perhaps, but res
identS of Gil
PIERCE'S RESERVATION.