St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-11
Special 10 the Globe.

SPECIAL 10 the Gjohe.
BISMARCK, n. D., Oct. Ex-senator
Pierce is on the ground looking over
his rapidly d~iSintegrating fences. He
wears a smile upon his face, but the
careful student of compilations can
very readily discern back of that smile
a haggard look. Politicians who are
~here-those who make it a business to
stay here. and those who drop down oc-
caSionally-are amused at the kinder
garten talk which some of the GLoB Els
contemporaries get off about Pierce and
his chances. These kindergartners
interview a gang of politicians from
this state as they are found around the
corridors of the Merchants down at the
Sanity City, and every day or two they
get a suspicion, and publish it, that Nc
KenZie. Haggart and the other men,
bers of the gang, are against Pierce.
Of course they are against Pierce,
and they are in that position to stay.
Some weeks ago even the friends of the
leading men in the old gang hoped that
perhaps Pierce would come around and
see Mckenzie, and ONE down from a
supposed high horse that he had mount
ed. AS a fact, Pierce would be delight
ed enough to grovel in the very dust. if
that would do any good. But it would
not. The fiat has gone forth. Pierce
did not live up to his promises, and a
man who does not live up to the prom
ise that he makes to the old gang &C
quires the name Of Dennis. If he can
get anything after that he must get it
in spite of the oldgang. and not through
their help. If, as II of the Mckenzie
crowd said to mt to-day, eff Pierce
would goback on his promises made to
his friends when he had only one year
to serve, what would he do if he had six
years to serve? Then he would not look
at us. Much less would he live up to
the new promises that he would make
If he only had the chance" l struck a
Mandan man to-day, and asked him how
his delegation would be to the legis-
lature-whether that delegation was
Republican or Democratic. This Man
dan citizen happened to be a Repub-
lican, and, of course, he. claimed that the
Republicans from that county would be
elected but at the same time he was
well posted, and he knows what the
sentiment is IN the west side of the
4hioOOdIt liz olo lClSO 10 COunI-
ing on the Morton county delegation,
but l want to tell you that we have at
heart very little use for him. When
he was elected a year ago. he
told the Morton county members
of the legislature that if they would
only vote for him he would see to it
that Fort A. Lincoln would not be
abandoned. He made the most solemn
pledges regarding it, and the matter
was left in his hands. What did he do?
He displayed the most asinine ability
in looking after u interests. He an
tagoniZed Gen. Ruger first thing. In
stead OF calling OH the general, he went
TO Washington, and, without consulting
the army folks, tried to squeeze into the
appropriation bill a little appropriation
of $4,000 to repaint the buildings at the
fort. In the meantime Ruger, partly,
as we believe, chagrined at the sup
posed slight that Pierce had worked on
him in going over his head, orders
the post abandoned. Pierce then,
after the $4,000 appropriation
had been struck out of the bill,
goes to President Harrison, and gets
him to keep Fort Lincoln where it is,
temporarily, against the orders of the
war department. 1t stands there now,
hanging on by the skin of its teeth,
whereas, as every Mandan man be-
lieves, if Pierce had used ordinary
policy and ordinary sagacity, Ruger
would have ordere d the post to remain,
and $1,000 would have been secured to
put it in repair and construct other nee
esary buildings" The Mandan man
agreed with me that there was a SPLEEN
did chance, if the Democrats don't make
too many mistakes, to get a Democratic
senator from North Dakota in Pierce's
place III the carly part OF the year.