St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-10
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KEEP AN EYE ON THEM.

That there are wounds and heartacheS
resulting from the late senatorial tight
in North Dakota is fairly evident from
the way a leading Dakota politician
talked to BUDD REEVE the other day.
And it is natural that there should be.
With all the scandals that have been at
tached to senatorial elections within re-
cent years there has nowhere been
grosser exhibition of peridy, combined
with Skullduggery, than was displayed
in the North Dakota senatorial election.
That high sense of personal honor
which is nowhere so essential as in pol
titles was utterly lacking. a political
combination is IN the nature of con-
tract formed solely upon honor, for in
demnity bonds cannot be gwen or
taken, nor is there any method of re-
dress in case of a forfeiture of the con-
tract. That peculiar sense of honor
which is supposed to prevail even
among thieves is the sole seeur-
itY of the politician who enters
q combine. Hence it is looked upon
in political circles as the basest
perfidy for man to betray the conf
associates. It is singular fact that in
the election of North Dakota senators
this element of political integrity was
wholly eliminated Taking the state
ment of Gov. ORDwAY's friends rs the
basis of our remarks, and they surely
know the facts, we find that there was
q combination between PIERCE and
ORDwAY. by which the latter was TO
help the former to knock the tallest
perSimmOn; then, in return for such
service, the former was 70 help the lat
ter to the second seat of honor. ORD
WAY performed his part of the contract
to the letter, and then the combine
seemed to have exhausted Itself. When
PIERCE got safely housed in the sena-
torial fold he apparently forgot that
ORDTAY was still on the outside, and
gave his attention SO exclusively to the
enjoyment of his newborn dignity he
rendered himself unconscious of the hull
labaloO that was being raised cut of doors
10y his failure to observe the conditions
of the original contract by which he had
proited. ORDwAY having fallen vic
tim TO misplaced confidence. young Mr..
JOHNSON was about to walk OFF with the
contested prize when he suddenly found
himself yictimiZed more Outrageously
than 0RDwAY had been. He was not
the victim of one mans treachery alone,
but was robbed OF his victory by the
most perfidious job that was ever put up
IN a party caucus. The man who was
on the swearing train with BUDD
REEVE the other day told all about how
il was done, and the story was printed
ID yesterdays GLOBE. Buthis narrative
did not stop there. He revealed an
other plot that was being Matched by
these constituencies c0IispiratOrs to steal
the school lands of North Dakota from
the poor children of the young state.
And it is to that more than to the other
part of his narrative that we wish to di-
rect the attention of the people of North
Dakota, because 1t is a contemplated
outrage, that they can provide against
and defeat if they once realize the i'm
portance of determined action. 1t has
been the experience with all new states
that the school lands proved the most
tempting mOrsel for the sharks who are
Tor "jObS.' That the spectators have
considerable interest in the North Da-
koia legislature is pretty well demon
strated by the result of the late sena-
t0rial elections. Putting the two facts
together, that the land sharks are on the
ground in numbers. and that the school
lands are to be disposed of, we can
readily believe that there is a Job i'm
contemplation and the sooner the tax
payers of the new state awaken to the
danger which menaees them, the better
it will be for them. At all events, there
is enough in the situation to justify the
keeping of close watch on the move
mentS of these fellows, to see that there
is no underhand legislation adopted. 1t
doesn't hurt an honest man to watch
INN. and rogue needs it.