St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-20
PIERCE SUGAR PLUMs.
They All Drop Over on the
Missouri Slope to His Fa-
vorite Village,
and the Red River Valley,
With Four-Fiiths Of the
Taxpayers, Gets Left.
a Few Glimpses Into the
Handsome Senator's Rec
ord in Washington.
Absent From 2fO Roll Calls,
But He Gets There Just
the Same.
Snecial to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
FARGO, n. D., Oct. Ex-senator Pierce
Is here. He has just come over INTO the
Red river valley from Bismarck, the
clearinghouse village on the border of
the Bad Lands. and is round NJ up the
boys here ready to run them into his
senatorial corral over OH the Missouri
slope this winter. Closely following
upon his trail comes the Intelligence
from Bismarck that Senator Pierce has
made good record" and to substan-
tate this the Pierce men point 10 some
half-dOZen or more important measures
introduced in congress for which they
claim credit to their idOized state man.
But while they magnanimnusly ''claIm
everything" they are very careful while
over here in the Red river valley not to
say anything about the big plum
which Pierce has just given
to Bismarck. They probably cal
culate among themselves that Bismarck
has already so many fat political pos
sessions that the addition of plum or
two more will not be noticed, and if
they keep mum on the question 10 one
will lie appraised of this last plrthOric
plum which Pierce has just secured and
donated to his favored village-BiS-
marck. Ihe"following paragraph from
a letterof the secretary of War TO Pierce.
referring to the location of the head
quarters of the engineer in charge of the
appropriation at Bismarck. will show
through whom this headquarters was
secured:
Dear Senator: Last Saturday ordered the
engineer who will have charge of The i'm
prOvements of the upper Missouri. under the
provisions If The river and harbor act. 10
make his headquarters at Bismarck. 1t had
been recommended that The Offices should lie
located at ST. Paul. Please give me credit for
wishing to help when / can. Very truly
yours, REDFIELD PROCTOR,
Secretary of ar.
This order, making l3ismar, The
headquarters of this commission. means
god deal. 1t means the disburse-
ment of s300,UG0. 1t means besides this
the support and pay of the officers in
charge AMI their families. TWENTY-FIVE
thousand dollars of this appropriation is
for the
Red River of the North.
Why should not Senator Pierce have
used his influence to locate this head
quarters at Fargo or Grand Forks on the
Red river? Bismarck has nearly all the
fat political possessions in the state.
The Red river valley has nothing. The
Red river valley has twO-thirds of all
the population and f0nr-tifthS of all the
taxable wealth of the state. Yet Pierce
thinks she is entitled to no c0nsidera-
ton whatever, and shows his contempt
for tins section in his every official act.
Yet he is over here now pretending
great love fnr thn VallaU IN ,rat
votes. AS a pretender and shrewd
schemer Pierce is a dazzling sue
cess. He fools not only the
Red river valley. but his own
section - when it suits HIM. In
the matter of the abandonment of Fort
Lincoln over in his own country he is
now, right at this time, playing fast ana
loose with his friends and pulling the
wool over the eyes of his constituents.
He is making them believe that Fort
LINCOLN will not he abandoned. but the
additional appropriation will be secured
and the tort replemiSned, etc. The
fact about the whole business is that
Fort A. Lincoln is now practically
abandoned, and there is no hope what
ever that it will be continued; and Sena-
t0rPierce knows it. The war department
had ordered it abandoned. Pierce went
to the secretary of war and made a
desperate effort to have action su-
spended until after the senatorial cleo
ton this winter. He argued TO the
secretary that if Fort A. Lincoln is
abandoned before that time it would
seriously
Cripple His Chances
for reelection. But the secretary of
war refused to go into deal with
Pierce to boom his senatorial ambition.
and firm in hic al
abandon the useless institution. and
Pierce could not shake him. In his
desperation Pierce then appealed to the
president to request the war department
to deter action, stating to the president
that it was a ease of life and death with
him. and finally prevailed GU the presi-
dent to hang up the abandonment until
after the senatorial election. when Fort
A. Lincoln will be abandoned so surely
as the sun shines. Pierce knows this !:
yet he hootWlnkS his constituents into
dream of fancied security in their pos
session. He is developing an ability
to practice upon his home people, when
present occasion requires, with much
the same cunning as he has used in
hOodoong the Red river valley i'm the
past history OF the state and territory,
But Senator Pierce has his nerve with
him this trip, as usual. and is over here
In the Red river valley putting up
schemes in the uead hours of night in
hotels and Pullman cars, but seldom
shows his cast-irOn cuuntenance i'm
broad daylight. His latest scheme is
composed of a long, pearl-liandled.
sharp-pOlnted, two-edged piece of
treachery carefully sheathed in large
promise. lie appears here in the Red
rlv valley armed for the enemy. He
proposes 10 trade off Senator Caspy's
seat in the United States senate To the
Red river valley for his own reelection.
He wants the boys to 90 i'm now and
give him the members of the Red river
valley in the next legislature to elect
him United States senator. and promises
Ii they viii do that, 10 give his strength
Two Years Hence
for Red river valley man to GUST Sen-
ator Casey. What noble conception
Here's loyalty and friendship and-and
and something elsel BY this deal
river valley gets-gets-a promise
Pierce Is evidently still of the opinion
that Bismarck should have the penlieIl-
tlary. the surveyor general, two United
States land officers, the river and har-
Dor appropriation, the Bad Lands. the
sta capitol and the United States
senator. In fact, there is growing
suspicion mat Pierce would like to get
strings attached TO the various planets
of the solar system and the other
heavenly hudies that he might
fasten them In his button
hole and peddle them out in Bismarck,
even as his his Italian brother sells varl.
colered rubber balloons on circus day.
But what is the actual record which
Senator Fierce has made i'm Washington
Since he was elected? What has he
sctually performed that entities him to
further consideration al the names of
the people Of North Dakota? In a
recent issue OF the Bismarck Tribune.
Senator Pierce's Individual and home
organ. that paper prints what purports
Ia be Senator i'ierce's record in Wash
ineton. aud says that the following are
the bills introduced by enator Pierce
during the session, and which passed
tie senate:
/. To te.abnrse the state of North Daknl,
for exHeufeh incurred In holding 4, cnustittt.