Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-04-08
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+. A. Uarle's Washington correspond
ence st. Psul Pioneer Psees: Prudens
candidates for Inc North Dakota sena-
toFships will train O weather s5e on
Oidwey. He Is dangerous. These who
leave him N Of account may lament
their error in sGckcloth. He is q candi-
date MOI to be overlooked or despised-
vigilant, vigorous tesoniceful. He ie
an artist in political combination, and
the secret of political success in the new.
states is likely to be combination. He
is strong, rich, skillfnl, determined.
He will march on North Dakota in q few
days; horse, foot end artillery and sup.
ply train. Look out for him.
Coy. OrdWey has never relinquished
his title to citizenship in Dakota through
ali his five years residence in Washing
ton. He hsa maintained end thrifslly
increased his material interests. landed
and capitalized, in the territory.
Through his relatives and business es-
So cistes in Bismarck, he has Eept touch
with the commercial life and material
development of the city. | suppose
Bismarck is his political residence, and
will be his base OF operations in the
senatorial campaign Gov. Ordwsy's
friends are ~ North and the bulk of nis
enemies in South Dakots, though q
lastly crop OF the latter has sprung up
in his footsteps wherever they were
planted Bntb be was the champion of
Bismarck and the north all through the
tedious capital fi2ht. Division works in
bis interest, cutting off the larger part
OF his enemies and segregating his
friends. He has been bGstily adjusting
his material reiations to the two.stste
condition this winter, selling great
blocks of land in Pierre and else where
in the Sonth. and consolidating his prop
ertIea in the North.
He talks with the utmost frepkness
and with a sort of enthusiasm of bis re-
~lations to the territory. He says he has
been in Washington all Ia. &c years look
ing after the interests of Dakota and the
Dakota people in congress. Now that
the promised land of statehood is in full
vlew he feels that he is released from
ser vice here and at liberty TO return to
the land where his heart has slways
been. The fact that his exile has not
been ,embittered by poverty and priva-
tion ought not to chill his welcome to
the home of his patriotic longing. Ord
way has done very we'll in Washington.
His real estate 0nd stock investments
have prospered. and the Washington
market has bsen o solid buiwsrk between
the wolf and his door. He has O very
comfortable barrel. 1t will not distress
him to pay his botei bills in Bismarck
during the senatorial campaign
So far from making q secret of his
senatorial aspirations, the governor talks
OF them to the northwestern colony here
with o seductive fervor that would win
him sutfrages galore if the contest were
to be decided in Washington. He does
not make light OF his claims, based upon
past services, near and remote, to the
people OF the territory. since division
was q fixed fact he has dRelt much upon
his srduons and at times thankless
isbors in establishing the capital at Bis
mafok, erecting the building in the face
of u calling CROSS fire OF legislative and
judicial artillery brain OF the south, and
IN planting q hoss OF public institutions
all over The Territory. So nearly as csn
be judged from Indications bere The
Value OF thsseservices is fully recoeniz "a
by kuC PooPlC u oiSIAbECh huu ttSlultys
and gratitude for them wall give Ofdwsy
o good deal Of material support in thu
Missouri river country.
1t is nos SO clear about q genera
public recognition of his services IN con
neotlon with the passage of the omnibus
bill. IL will be time enough TO lock To-
gratitude to Ordway from the people o
Dakota on that score when they hav,
forgiven Springer and thanked the demo
cratic house for it's tardy and extortet
gift of statehood. Ofdysy separated
himsel from the Dakota colony, here
aud consulted and worked with Syringe
and the democrats ell winter. He wa
probably sincere IN his belief that thi
was the surest way TO win statehood
but his lett traces OF q Suspicion
shat he was ready to yield more to til
democrats than was absolutely net e,ssr
gain the end desired. know the Da
kota people here. north end south. NOR
fresh from ooDtact with the people c
the territory fought rather shy OF him
and often felt that they were fRhtin
both him and Springer in their Effort I
wrest admission from a democratic COZ
gross on the best possible terms {
themselves.
The question of Ordway's relativ
str myth in the Territory will have TO b
settled ont there. His friends are in
clined to magnify it, They say he
the leading candidate on she Missoul
slope end a good second or th:rd /
every other part of the territory. Tn,
must mean, among the politician
I suppose Pierce is still til
strongest candidate among st
people in spite Of all the brio
skirmIshes into which his ,mprndent IN
pulses have led him. And there is He
tison Allen to be dealt with at Fargo,
he doesn't soutept himself with the go'
ernorship or the place of member OF co,
Rress. Ofdway probably counts upc
3 the multiplicity of candidates at Bil
marck and his own skill in political il
+, trigue, aided by that Of the very iaiente
local politician who is his chief of sta
there, TO give him the support of Il
Missouri slope. What he eounts upc
in the rest of the territory, beyond b
recognized artfuiness In making comb
n nations, it is hard to guess. Pier
ought to beat him easily in the mild
, and north OF the territory, and Allen
q ! the east and south. But he ia an arti
: aud may trade all the rest ont OF the
boots. There ere q good many offices
parcel out in North Dakota, as in 9th
territories this year, and @ good ma,
/ men ready to fill them, each with b
share of irhuence to put into pot
rhe most ingenious oombiner OF para
lei ambitions may get the biggest as b
reward, without regard to general pop
= larity. Therefore look out for Ordwa
They swear like our army In Fla
ders,''
9 may be said of many sufferers fro