St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-06
Alex Mckenzie Trying to
Bring Down North Dakota's
Short-Term Senator.
Really a Good Chance for s
Democrat to Pole Down
the Big Plum.
Pierce's Unpopularity Results
From His Duplieity With
His Friends.
The Anti-Pierce Move Said to
Be Growing in Strength
Every Day.
Snenial To the Gloha


publicans are trying to disguise the fact
that the battle of the giants is at hand.
They deny the fact that an internecine
war has commenced in the ranks of the
party that will end in the dangling of
Pierce's scalp at the belt of Alex Nc
Kenzie. However big Alex may want
to disguise his hand it is of no use. His
hand is there, and it is gradually get
ting up towards the back hair of the
present shOrt-term senator from this
state. The Democracy can afford to
stand by and watch the proceedings
with hope, for as this correspondence
stated some weeks ago, there is good
chance of a good Democrat catching the
prize. Bismarck itself is strongly for
Pierce. So strong is il that it is limited
that the Bismarck Tribune, which
has always been with Alexander
Mckenzie in his fights, will be
against him in this. IT. does
not want to have its office looted. 1t
does not want to have the business men
of the city of Bismarck draw all their
patronage from its columns. The Man.
dan Pioneer, too, is for Pierce-directly
against McKenzie-bu this can't be
because the West side metropolis is so
loyal to Pierce. 1t is certainly at outs
with Mckenzie this time. though no
one explains why. Strange to say, the
Fargo Republican is against Pierce, and
is in with the old gang. This is
rather extraordinary move, but ordan
wants to be on the band wagon, and he
b as struck il this time, sure. There are
in Bismarck some old-t timers who have
Withstood the billiards. and the hot
winds OF the best part of quarter of a
century. They have with
Rare Nerve
stood by this city, their hands always in
their pockets to build water works,
erect capitos, construct railroads, cleo
trio light plants and boom the country
generally. Some of these men have lost
their allegiance to Pierce. and because
they don't believe that Pierces election
would benefit the state. and their part
OF lt,there are some of the newer corners
to Bismarck who talk Of boycotting
aud the same sort. There is no sense
In this. Ii they try this, meeting de-
nouncing Pierce would be got up as
counter irritant, and it is safe to say
that there would be more enthusiasm
reported against than for him. Some
of the best and most loyal Old-timers
would be found on the platform of the
antI-Pierce meeting. And, too, these
men would be manv of them Republic
cans, who have at present no desire to
play into the hands of the Democrats.
But they would rather see a good Dem
oerat there than Pierce, and this is
straight. Why this anti-Pierce move
ment? In word or two, because he
does not know how to treat his friends
the men who put him where he is.
When the legislature was going on
when Senator Dodds in the legislature
was calling Mckenzie, Haggart, La
MOure and other old timers, ali the
names he could think ot-stamping
them as cOrruptionists and the like,
Pierce gives the men who had worked
the hardest for his election
Slap i'm the Face,
as intentional and as willful as he could
make it. He made promises before his
election to his friends here and there
to the men who voted and worked for
hlm-that census enumerators should
be appointed in their respective dis
trlcts according to their wishes. They
should be consulted. After his election
he was written to again about the
census enumerators in different coun-
ties, and he said that they would be
appointed as his friends wanted. The
next thing that turns up is that these
appointments were in the hands of the
enemy. The very men who had fought
the old gang the hardest were APP
pointed, when the old gang had
had the promises. The result
is that the old gang has got it's
war paint on as it never had before.
The Pierce men wear an air of the
a rflIn oct 4nI H.
though their favOrite would be nomi-
ated on the first ballot beyond ques-
ton. They say that Morton and Stark
and Bnrleigh and Kidder and Emmons
every county on the slope-is for him.
and that all the counties south of the
Northern Pacific are pledged to him.
But they are counting Oh dozens of men
who will be against him when the vot-
ing time comes. His friends among the
old-time politicians are wonderfully
lukewarm. if they are not absolutely
hostile. They have not forgotten that
Pierce secured the appointment of
Old Man Potter
to the Fargo land Office, after Potter
had fought the very men who were
Pierce's friends, and the fight had been
going ON for years. What If Potter was
getting old and needed to be taken care
of? He had not got old doing good to
the Republican party, but his sole eff
forts since he had been in North Dakota
had been directed toward the breaking
down of the Republican organization.
He had been making Democrats where
ever he left his trail. Men who are in
the confidence of the Stalwarts who are
fighting Pierce give me facts and figures
that convince me beyond question
that there is large and strong anti
Pierce wave sweeping over the country,
and it promises to sink all the chances
that the present senator possesses for a
reelection. Let the Democrats get
ready for an inning, for it is coming.
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL.