The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-08-29
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lies pay great attention to Dakota
politics. They are very much inter.
este,l in Dakota in u business way and
they dabble in Dakota politics fol
business reasons.
There is. however, IL reinarka, le
distinction between the tone of these
papers when speaking of their owl,
state politics and those ut Dakota.
One would naturally infer that they
being outsiders, would he to IL certain
extent dcfcrential. that they would be
impartial, that they would have little
interest in factional fights within this
state. that as members OF the national
republican party they would seek to
unite our warning factions and strive
to heal our old sores. but Instead of
that. they take sides, dictate terms
and candidates, criticise the majority,
misrepresent leading men, and carry
on the fight with more bitterness and
a great deal more assumed authority
than do our papers ut home which are
directly interested, and whose political
tone is not supposed to be nearly so
high us IL big city daily.
According to these great dailles,
Dakota politics is continuous circus
to which they act as door Keepers and
ticket sellers, and through whom the
gentle and enlightened Minnesotans
get peep ut the wild anil wnully Da.
kota meiageric, at live cents per peep.
When one of our leading men goes to
the great twin cities. reporter runs
to interview him and then writes him
up much us lie would if sent to inter.
view Fcejee Islander, the wild man
of Borneo. or other dime museum
curiosity. An aggravated case of this
kind was the alleged interviews of
prominent politicians from North Da.
kota who happened to be in st. Paul
last week. These alleged interviews
were made up from very few an.
swers to very general questions and
the balance padded in twin city style,
from the brain of the reporter. The
Object being, first, to incite IL quarrel
between these gentlemen and Senator
Pierce; and second, to give the i'm.
preston that if they didn't quarrel, it
was because he had agreed to some
gigantic scheme of fraud which they
had colcocted, and that in either case
Pierce would be defeated. as he could
not win without their support because
of their influence, and he couldn't win
with their support because of their
bad character. The animus Of this,
of course, is easily seen. the AIinnea.
polls Journal don't like Pierce because
he was once OH the Pioneer Press
force, and proposes to put Senator
Pierce to the dilemma Of quarreling
with the men who it acknowledges
can likely defeat him OF else he must
lose the support of the Journal.
Now we protest against this kind of
political interference. From u fairly
good inside point of view, we think
that North Dakota politics and North
Dakota politicians are about us pure
as i'll several other states of the
Onion. While we were in swaddling
clothes, it was quite the fashion to
smile ut Dakota's baby efforts to walk
in the crooked path Of politics, but
now that we are of age. we can get
along without the supply of skim.
milk SO long doled cut to us bv our
would.be foster mothers that run flour
mills and sell groceries OH the banks
of the Mississippi; and we would warn
our skim-milk grand. dams that some
time. North Dakota may have other
markets for the choosing, and may a
little later be able to grow enough
newspaper wisdom west of the Red
River to keep us even up, at least,
with cities that don't know enough to
count their own noses, and with news.
papers whose mathematical inaccura.
cy is Il matter of national notoriety.