Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-09-12
Washburn in more ways than one. The

WaShburn in more ways than one The
Hotel de Snuggery" built last season by
the Bingum Bros, near the healing waters
of the far famed mineral spring, for the
benefit of eastern invalids, has done a
rustllng business and needs but little adj
vertising to enable it to knock Pierce's
world dispensary of Buffalo into a last
years straw stack.
The crops around Conkling are fair to
choice-some fields perhaps even better
than that, and the political fences, which
are being built more or less strongly all
over the county, remind us that this is
election year, and the legislative timber
should soon be in demand.
We say should be, from the fact that it
won't be, as there is timber enough on the
ground to put up Mclean county's por-
ton of that august body of men.
| will just mention while on this subject
that there is a good deal of kicking in re-
gard to some of the laws passed last win
ter: Some men even say that they do not
believe our law makers understood them
at the time they passed.
This, however. is immaterial. If every
body could understand the law it would
kill a class of professional men called
"lawyers"-and l believe some of them
really are lawyers.
Be that as it may, We have the timber
and we intend to work it into something
or spoil a corner.
The fact that we failed to do either last
fall is no criterion for our friends across
the way to go by. We are coming in this
fall hOuld we even have to swallow the
lottery and a $4,000 prize.
l started out to show the North Dakota
editors that the t~wenty-foot veins of coal
claimed and which, without doubt, exists
III the different localities mentioned, would
not be lee high to the immense deposits
of Ignite Dicketed out on the range north
of town.
At the first political fence | came to l
certainly made a wrong turn, and the
Conkling coal will await a boom until a
more convenient season.
LION JACK.
Conkling, N. d., Sept. 5, 1890.
Vox Populi to Jim Crax.
To Jim CKAX::" You have been spout
ing a good deal lately in the columns of
the TRIBUNE and giving away the "slate'
of the independents and saying mean
things about certain citizens, but what
does it all amount to? We are going on
just the same with our programme and if
you don't like it, all right. We can't help
it. We propose to have the citizens of this
county meet in their sovereignty and nom
mate a complete legislative and county
ticket, or rather endorse the one we have
fixed up. This party cry is all bosh. The
people don't stand by the nominees on
either ticket. The rank and file of the
people don't know what they want any
how and there is no use consulting with
them. These delegate conventions are a
farce. The good old way is the best. A
half dozen men can fix up a ticket that
will be more satisfactory than to allow the
rabble and Franks from all over the county
to participate. The farmers and half the
citizens don't know what is best for them
anyhow. You ask why notice of All indie
pendent mass convention hasn't been
given. 1t has been given to such persons
as are desired to be present. We don't
want everybody in it-just friends
of the proposed candidates, that's all. OF
course there will be some kicking but
what OF it? The people are bound
to kick anyhow. We have sent out
messengers to tell certain people in the
country to come in. We didn't publish it
in the papers last week because we knew
pitch into it, and it might result in so
many coming in that our "slate' would be
broken. But we are all right
now. We have got a whole
lot of republicans into it and the bulk of
the democrats, for if the latter don't go
lHtO Il move Vi IHlS XIII tlltN can naruly
expect to get anything. Our convention is
called for the same time as the republican
primaries. Anybody can come and par
ticipate. There will be no delegates and
it may be added no committee on creden-
tials and you'll find there will be no trou-
BILE in nominating just whom we wish to
go to the legislature and fill the county
offices. What kicking there may be will
be taken care of later. Lots OF time be-
tween now and election. We would ad-
wise you, Jim, to read our call and come in
out of the wet OIL our band wagon.
EON POpULI.