New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-09


sa' .'.sS,.. Issg. nv ~, Veg York Tribune.
pismarck North Dakota, June !.
,,o,,,,r in A railroad car just after
,eachine Dakota, o stranger, an eiuetIs' sn"ip
fsced sinister-looking person, eoncnta me On .ue
,hoplder and said in tones that sounuea SOni'" ""'
msnaoing: sonny, kin sinch you.
No, feeling sure had correctly heara nun, anu
,,sSsrxtandins what he meant anyhow
,cn,i,d in a way that was iute9aea 70 W eAoseu
ep,A ;nsons and gentle, 81, ah-oeg PARDON
sira"
80 ,as No doub..about It. He said he could
.,nObs me. Wholly at loss Tor anything ueC
o. ,nlv I smiled scothingly and said' YES
s--tSapk you; you're very kind
E~Hey?"
aI,m mach obliged 20 you
.Wot fer?
For Offering to 'sinch' me-
sW.u. then, como on
.r,.,. wss something vicious about the man
....ar.nc. and the word sineh" sounded ugly
vs..;,.,ed resolved first TO parIcy, and, II worst
- "a vorst--weI, would sell my life dearly.
why don't you cone on a' be demanded
Where
aovef here
what forF' ...,.r
siint yea goin' ter playr'
Pig whatr
sSipch"
oh, it was thing you played My spirits rose'
hat still pleaded that didn't know how. Then
be explained, and as ! travelled further l iound
that sinch is the great Northwestern game oil
cards 4 recent invention, aud played everywhere
and by everybody. You can see people playing
sineh In the hotel parOrs in the barrooms, on the
md nhpagpa the
,lang Of the DIV. It is variation OF High, Low,
jack. The counting cards are the high the low
,ha iaok. the ten.spot, or game, each OF which
counts one, and the pedro, five Of trumps,
sh,eh counts Eve. You deal each player six
cards. and one aftsr another they bet; that
is. offer to MAKE SO many points, as many as they
think their bands are capable Of making The
nlaye. who offers the highest bet is entitled TO
name The trump, and the great effort Of every
body else ID to get the sineh on hiu"; that Is,
to prevent him from making as many points as
he bas agreed 10 make. II be fails to make good
his offer. he IL sinched'
The politics Of North Dakota has been one long
ssms OF sinch With South Dakota. II has been
Impossible to induce the two sections Of the Ter
rtory % agree. The Northern people have
claimed that they were paying far more than their
shars Of the taxes without receiving any com
persating benefits IRON the revenue raised. Ihe
Southern PEOPLE, disputing these allegations, pre-
sout Others directly in ooutravention They say
he Northern men 60 into conventions and Legs
tatures with them AID want TO run the entire
show. The real trouble Is that North and South
ere apart IN interest They have no common
cause. They differ from each other in character,
method and purpose. and they cannot see things
in the same hight, The hrst clash led to others
and shers was nothing to bring them together
Thero 10 mot much doubt. fancy, that the North
sSr yrcB generally got the sueh on' ire South.
They axe as crafty lot of politicians as can be
developed under . Territorial system. Being in
the minority, their sole opportunity lay in or
ganirstion. They knew that. = They understood
that they could only accomplish what they want
ed by acting as q unit, by splitting the Southern
men into factions and By joining hands with that
faction which most wanted their support. Their
leader, one Of the most remarkable men in the
Western country, and essentially product Of it.
was and is the Hon. Alexander MeKensie.
They don't say the Honorable" out here 20
anybody Western people vast. no time in super
Huous compliment. Many OF their peculiarities
are resultant IN q measure from their earlier as
ISOLATION with the Indians. Half the people you
meet In Western Dakota and Eastern Montana
wiIl say, In greeting you, simply How q " How
Ia the universal Indian salutatlon, and the only
English word you can induce many of them TO
speak. There are dozens OF young Indians who
have received complete English education az
Carlisle or Hampton, who have gone back 20 their
tribes relapsed into barharism, and who wou!dn {
now for farm say another English word than
How" White people have taken II up. and It's
use illustrates the Western tendency 70 put every.
thing into as few words as possible. ! saw
man 80 into o Montana postofice the other day
Q white nan-nnd give his wrists q queer turn.
The postmaster in reply handed him an envelope
The man wasn't deaf or dumb. He was only using
the Iniun sgn language. 1t was no trouble TO
turn his WRISTS, while valuable time and breath
would have been spent in Sying, Kind SIR, will
you be COED enough 70 give me 2cent STAMPED
envelope or course, not everybody employs
these economical devices but they ore sufficiently
In use to exert moral influence on sill converse.
tion. Mr. McKensis, great as be is land nobody
here is gresterl, Is always addressed us Alsek,"
not wholly because he is popular politician, but
az wei because Aleck' is short and direct
method OF reaching the desired result
Mr. MeKensic's leadership In North Dakota poll
tics, 10 far as he chooses 10 exert 1t, is command
ing. The secret Of that lies, suspect In his
sbiBty TO perceive as wen what he cannot do az
what he can. Pride is the rock on which most
political leaders Of the absolute type are wrecked
To show how very big they are, they attempt the
particular enterprise they cannot succeed In. Mr.
McKspsie has not msde that blunder yet. His
personality is charming He came to Dakota an
Ignorant young Scotohman. without friend in
the world or penny lie peddled pop in the
stseets of Bismarck. lie worked as q section
haaa, shoveiliug dirt on the Northern heiHe Rail
road, and his grst distinctive rise in society was
when he became section boss. lie isn't ashamed
Of that past, and met no one In North Dakota
who was ashamed OF IL for him. But IL is de-
oidedIy a'psst. he is a great big. good insured
booking giant, with clear blue eyes that gaze
straight into whatever they are directed at, and
n particularly strong iaybone That iawbone