Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-08-07

and johnson only received two votes of
the Burleigh county delegation. Sud-
denly the thing switched and johnson
got more aid from Burleigh. Both hams
brough and johnson men were kicking
on what they called unwarranted inter.
ference and eome of Hansbrough's
strongest supporters say they will take
legislature from their districts will be
.'agin' the senator next winter. As Mr
Hansbrough says of himself-"patro
age will kill any man."
Three times the adherents of "Honest"
John Miller tried to get together enough
delegates to make respectable caucus,
to insist on his nomination for governor
Every effort was fiat failure. There
was no Miller sentiment in the conven.
tion and the Miller shouters were very
backward about making any noise. The
lottery campaign of dissimulation and
pretense had evidently failed to pan out
for Miller. The convention sigaifi-
cantly referred, in the resolutions, to the
belief that his name would go down to
history rs Honest John Miller, aud
thereby settled the states debt of graft
tude for keeping us safe in the hour OF
peril, etc.
Tie Farmers alliance influence was
felt strongly in the convention in the
nomination OF congressman Mr.. Hans
brough's protection policy was evidently
keyed to higher pitch than suited the
alliance. They favored johnson and
warned the cor vention to make no mis-
take and the warning was effective. Out
side OF that and the temporary organi-
zation the alliance, or ut least the Miller
Wlnship portion of it, had little influence
in the convention. The younger element
carried the day. Col. Plummer sized it
up pithily in his statewe ent that the old
gang was dead, and the new gang had
never been born-or was still born.
Supt. Devine, of LaMoure, was nomi-
mated by handsome majority for super
intendent Of instruction, but before the
announcement of the vote AZ votes Of
the Hansbrough faction from Ramsey
county, treacherously changed to another
candidate. This started general change
and when it was finally settled another
man had the nomination. MIR. Devine
took his medicine like a man. He made
a stroug fight and should have had the
place on personal merits.
The folly OF counties having three or
four votes trying to get places on the
state ticket by refusing to combine solid
with other counties was plainly seen.
Eddy county got left, Kidder was done
for, LaMoure scooped-all in the same
way. What kind of strength a county like
Foster expects to show when her three
delegates vote one each for different can
didates and one not voting, is hard to de-
termine. United we stand, divided we
fall"
Chairman Fuller was soon set down as
haying a lar$e grip on the key to the
situation. 10 was appealed to by the
Hansbrough men early and often and
offered every inducement to go with
them. Mr.. Fuller got in his usual clever
work and kept friends with both factions
yet remained true to the cause he had
enlisted in. At no time was there any
doubt in the delegation as to the wisdom
of the policy they adopted.
There was no more popular nomina-
ton made than that of Hon. George Har-
mon, of Morton county, as railroad COM
missioner. He got there on the first bal
lot, away ahead Of all competitors This
was double honor, as his delegation
had been seated in the convention. Mr..
Harmon Is we'll liked for his many
admirable qualities and steadfast policy
in adhering TO principle.
One of the strongest speeches in the
convention was that of Attorney Jacob
son of Grand Forks, who seconded Mr..
Johnson's nomination in behalf of four
out OF the o of the Grand Forks dele
gates, but in the name Of IS per cent Of
the population of the county.
Hon. Jud LaMoure was elected dele
gate to the convention by making can
vas ON antl-lottery prohibition tickets.
The good people of Pembina see nothing
curious about that His delegation was II
solid for Jud. Like Col. Plummer, the sage
of Petnbina has reformed.
When Fred Clark polled and deposited
Stutsman county's ballots, the convention
knew that every pledge that had been
made was being lived up to, if good faith
had been kept on the other side.
In the parade at Fargo there was di-
m1nutive two.wheel cart, with the end
knocked out, and on the whip piece of
Grape. The rig was placarded Good
wins Band wagon"
A. W. Kelley met an old friend IN East
Grand Forks he had not seen in twenty
years and was surprised to find him the
father of several grown up girls and boys.
The wool resolutions created long and
loud applause. .
Lloyds' New Quarters.
The improvements which have been
under way for several months at Lloyd's
banking place are now completed and the
bank is again doing business in the front