St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-13

verdure-clad and picturesque banks of
the murmuring Red anu scares from our
borders all politicians. both great and
small, who have fat misunderstanding
us with only those out of job-who
but grasp at the skirt of the thing they
would be and fall back OH the lap of
false destiny? Whence comes the i'll
wind that blows all the ripe fruit over
the fence into our neigh5ors' yards and
leaves us nothing but leaves? Why
cannot the Red River valley-with two
thirds the population of the entire state
secure some public buildings and an
occasional appropriation to return at
least very small part of the large sums
of money she pays yearly into the
state treaSury-tO be expended in i'm
proving, building up and beau
tifying her own territory? These
are considerations which are beginning
strongly to agitate the thinking buSl-
hess men in this section. If the valley
politicians do not intend to do some
thing the business men will take the
matter III hand and ask what is the
matter. The fact that the Red river
valley has been thus
Shut Out in the Cold
is certainly not because we have not
ders, for here is the home of all those
sturdy and active pioneers who first in
vaded the aboriginal silence of these
prairles, and, Drawing the cold and the
storm and the blizzard, they Subdued
the wild domain of the rowing buffalo,
brought civilization into the territory Of
the Indian, built railroads into the
hauntS of elk and deer and antelope,
and erected cities and towns on the site
where formerly were the villages of
gopher and prairie dog. These pioneer
ruStlerS. who have made the Red river
valley what she iS-the center of wealth
and population in the new state-can
also secure to the Valley those political
birth rights of which she has been
wantonIy robbed, provided only that
they once become aroused to full real
izatlon of the rank injustice which has
been practlced upon us. These sturdy
pioneers of the Valley are not unknown
to fame. Down at Fargo there are not
few. There is Mayor Chaplin, n. K.
Hubbard. Jake Lowell, E. S. Tyler. w.
f. Ball, G. A. Morten, II. F. Miller,
Capt. Dan Maratta and others of the
old guard who have built the city
up and placed her in the
front rank of the cities
of the Northwest. At Grand Forks we
lind phalanX Of those pioneer rustlers,
many of whom penetrated up the Red
river years ago i'll steamboat eXpedi
tons, and, landing at place where two
streams met, they stepped out upon the
shore, like the Pilgrim Fathers of old,
and there founded the young and thrifty
city of Grand Forks. which is spread
ing out upon the plain
Like Modern Babylon.
The names of these Western rustlers
are household property in Dakota, and
so long as bravery, generosity and en-
terprise are admired and respected
people will not forget such men as
Capt. Griggs. George b. Winship, Will
lam Bulge, George Ii. Walsh and Capt.
Mccormack. In Trail county live
and Budd Reeve; in Pembina
we have Jud La Moure, n. E. Nelson
and Charley Cavalier, and with all these
standing shoulder to shoulder in the
fight for proper recognition of the
rights of the Red river valley. the re-
suit cannot for moment be doubted.
All that is necessary is that the boys he
fully aroused as to the position we &C.
cupy, and to the injustice which has
been done us and which is still being
done to us. The fall campaign is now
full upon us, and in the election of
members to the legislature we should
see to it that men are sent to Bismarck
who nave the interest of the Red river
valley at heart. The valley has always
been and still is modest in her demands.
We want the state capitol. We are willing
to concede Bismarck the United States
senator this winter, but we must have
the capitol. 1t is well known that Sen
ator Pierce has the city of Bismarck alb
solutely solid. and that the best citizens
and in fact all the business men of
that place-wouId much prefer to give
up the capitol rather than that her
favOrite son should for one moment Law
down his senatorial ambition. They
cannot reasonably hope longer TO keep
both the capitol and the United States
senator, and if they will give up to us
the former, they will thus secure the
undivided support of the RED river val
lev members of the legislature next
winter for their talented citizen, Senator
Pierce. Alex Mckenzie has always stood
by Bismarck, and it was largely through
his tireless efforts that that city secured
the capitol. the United States senator,
the penitentiary, etc., etc.. and having
had these valuable possessions for so
long, he will now surely see the advan-
tage of giving to the Red river valley
the state capitol, and thus secure to
Bismarck further honors for her es-
teemed son in the United States senate.
We must have the capitol or the sem
ator. We would prefer to have the
capitol, but must have one or the other.
The name of Alexander Mckenzie is
Synonymous with Iiberality. Come,
Alex, divide! Nom ID. PLUME.