St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-02

has not been an hour during the daily
sessions for week past that one of
them, generally member, always, of
course. some one who has the privilege
of the floor, cannot be seen gliding from
desk to desk singing his piaintlve, per-
suaslve song to the Legislators in low,
sweet tone. They seem to think rep
resentative" and councilman" from
such and such a district writ
ten after an unknown name
will exert some potent charm on the
powers soon to be at Washington. The
members especially ought to know how
utterly worthless these numeroasiy-
signed petitions are. To this legisla-
ture alone there must have been pre-
scented enough of these ancient chest
nuts to reach from Bismarck to the cap
ital of South Dakota-wherever 1t is 10
Gated. The only bill supported by these.
h-We-shall-eyer-prayS that has
become a law is
THE SOLDIERS HOME
measure and no one familiar with the
facts in the case believes, for minute,
that these gunny sacks full of sigma
lures had the slightest beneficial effects
upon the passage of the bill. 1t has
gotten so now that a member is almost
ashamed to present one, ''by request"
being made to father the undesirable,
worthless things. 1t is unnecessary to
state that these seekers after legislative
autographs are ON the trail for office.
They all think the scent is red
hot, and if following it closely and
persistently would insure success
Dakota would have to be divided into
dozen states in order to supply the de-
mand for official positions. | see that a
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correspondent in Washington few
manent disagreement among citizens of
the territory as to who should be the
last appointed governor, that this
phenomenal unity has been superin-
duced by the intense desire to get rid of
Gov. Church at as early day as posi-
BILE, and great deal more equally fan
taStic political representations. This
squabble for place is not confined to
offices of the third and fourth magnitude
that Iely upon petitions for appoint
ment, but extends to those of the first,
yes even to that of governor, The Wash
lngton contingent seem to think that
Mellette will be the man finally decided
upon for everybody to urge for this
it will not be through the aid of any of
the North Dakota candidates. There is
strong feeling discernible here at
this temporary t0untain-heado of political
information that
A NORTH DAKOTA NAN g: 81;
should occupy the gubernatorial chair
during the few remaining months of
territorial government and this opinion
is shared in by the Northern Paific rail-
road, which if anyone thinks is going to
have no influence in the matter he is
sadly mistaken. The fight is on, and
neither ex-Gov. Pierce, United States
Marshal Allen, nor plain Citizen Dickey
is going to leave the ring until the mill
is over and they are knocked out. No
hippodrome will it be, either, and the
make-believe governor from the South
had best not calculate on a, walll-over
And the reason for this stubborn con-
test is as evident as it is convincing. 1t
is founded on nothing more nor less
than the distribution of patronage as
trading material for the Republican
nomination when the states are adj
mitted. The politicians of the North
know that if Mellette is appointed it
will be equivalent to an executive pro-
clamatiOn that no resident north of the
Seventh standard need apply for a ter
litOrial office, and few short weeks
will reveal the fact that this is more
patent motive power than ''getting rid
OF the carpet-bag governor" This state
ment, applied to the two sections. re-
versed, is equally true and the gentle
man of conciliatory tendencies aud
Violent partisan mania is going to be
rendered one of the most, violent sur
prise parties thatever this antagonistic
territory witnessed. AS to the North.
ern candidates, they will neither offer
nor accept a compromise, Until re-
Gently, Pierce's friends were the most
active in his support. but one: evening.
not week ago, a caucus, yelled and
hemmed in with impenetrable secrecy,
was held for the purpose of deVislng
ways and means to drop that excellent
gentleman in the soup, at which time a
much stronger opposition to the ex-gov-,
ernor than was hoped for, crystallized.
Now, just who this Shrewd move was
but it offers field for some Interesting
speculation. .>.... ..;--
PERSONAL MENTION. ~!
Assistant Chief Clerk Ruggles, of the
house, received telegram aday or two
since announcing that he was the father
of boy baby of standard weight. nat.
urally allowing the fathers fond fancies
to paint just how much above the stand
ard he was in all other respects. He.
wired back to name him Moody, after the
Black Hills statesman, who he says is
just as sure to be one of South DakOta's
senators as the boy is to be the pride of
the paternal heart. -. ~;.
John Waugh, stenographer of the
council, announces himself, on the quiet
to few of his numerous friends, as a
candidate for the position of secretary
of the territory. The public in general
would feel easy if it knew pos lively