Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-14

AAhc OoAA "lO1 q pldtC
in his hand yesterday afternoon and the
rumOr that he had been feeding Nj.
Dauphin spread rapidly throughout the
neighborhood. Is there no way to release
Mr.. Dauphin from the ~kidnappers, who
have SO carefully kept him from the public
gaze?
ATTORNEY-GENERAL GOODWIN went to
Fargo last night to meet his friend, "Dear
Charley" to whom he sent his ''set up
stoves" epistle. The meeting between
these erstwhile bosom friends should be in
building or other combustible material.
The hotel keepers at Fargo have been
warned by the insurance companies not to
allow them to meet in their buildings I'M
I'll after Johnson'S explanation as to how
the letter was made public.
Stepping On Their Own Dynamite.
From Tuesdays Daily.]
See them drop.
One by n the highly moral gentlemen
who have been accusing a majority of the
members Of the legislature with corrup-
ton are stepping on the dynamite of their
own Notwithstanding into traps set by
their own hands, going to see McGinty on
passes which they SO generously issued for
others.
Attorney.general Goodwin, the ambitious
hardware expert, who has agents through
out the state setting up stoves" was un-
covered. His mask as the law officer of
the state being removed, the calcium light
of truth exposed him with blackened hands
and oot-begrimmed face in the act of set
ting up stoves.
Goodwin has been so completely done
that it is plain to the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
he fell upon n of his own stoves and
there is little hope of his recovery from the
burns.
Then comes Dodds and Barlow, two we'll
meaning and agreeable gentlemen. They
little lift on one of the base burners and
were scorched. AS they were near the
outside, they escaped with slight injuries
n nave been partially forgiven by those
whom they intended to roast.
Montgomery is wondering what the de-
tectlyes said, Governor Miller is wondering
how he can dodge between the burning gar
mentS OF his cabinet officers without being
singed, Mccormick Of the house has been
struggling to look pleasant while he
lodges the investigating committee, and
now m Representative Roney, the
fiery, untamed patriot from Steele, sailed
and Drowned for the soup.
rooney ROASTED.
1t was Koney's turn yesterday. 1t seems
that he too, has had ambitions as al letter
writer. His home paper comes with an
article over his name, stating that the
reason he voted against the bill taxing
property in unorganized counties, was be-
cause this would give the people in those
counties the right to vote and "the old
gang" would get the votes.
Well, we'll!
He did not vote against it because it was
unjust; it did not receive his opposition be-
cause it was a corrupt measure; it was not
because the bill was unconstitutional. Not
at all. He says frankly over his own sig
nature to his friend, the editor, that he
voted against it because it would allow the
people OF the u~norganized counties to vote
and ne fears that his faction would not
get the votes.
There's craftsmanship for you!
What q humorous group of statesmen
they are, to be sure.
A horse that would not laugh at such GRO
tesque and ludicrous situations should be
disoWned as feeble minded.
But MI. honey is deserving OF thanks
from the newspaper men and the specta-
tors: Had it not been for the reading of
his letter in open session the day would
have been a very dull one indeed. AS it
was, Representative Stevens stepped jaunt-
lily on the neck of RI. Roney and pro-
ceeded to do as neat an oratorical song. and
dance on that righteous lawmakers iugular
as has been witnessed during the ses-
Sion. He not only gave him a scathing de-
nunclatlOn for the strange and indefens-
IDLE position in which lie had exposed him
self, but after roasting him for having re-
Elected on the house IN his communication,
lnt!mated strongly that unless the letter
writing Roney gave satisfactory proof that
he was not the author OF the communica-
ton, ne (Stevens)would present articles of
impeachment against him.
1t was a great scene. Stevens, pointing
MS trembling index finger at the pale and
motionless Roney. while he poured hot
shot into iii by the broadside.
As for Mr.. Roney he made no reply, but
asked the indulgence of the house so that
reply.
his request was promptly granted on
motion of Stevens, and thus is another in
teresting scene promised for to-day.
And still the wheel goes round and
round and the wal goes merrily on.
AMI WHERE Is THE GOVERNOR?
Where does Governor Miller stand? This
is the question asked since the publication
Of his friend, Mr.. Roney's letter. If Roney
voted against the bill because it would
allow the people in the ~unorganized
counties to vote and he feared his side of
the house would not get the votes, is this
not the motive that actuated the leaders of
that faction? Did Governor Miller veto
a bill which would compel the payment of
taxes by the millionaire non-residents,
whose herds are grazing on the lands in the
unOrganlZed counties, because he feared
he could not control the votes in those
counties?
Would he deprive the impoverished
treasury of thousands of dollars yearly
and d~isfranchise American citizens be-
cause he had a suspicion that they would
vote against him, at an election?
These are pointed questions, but they are
questions heard from ~two-thirds of the citi-
Zens OF North Dakota now In the city.
They are spoken in corridor and lobby;
they are heard In the parlor and the bust.
ness Office, and drop from the lips of all
who have heard Of the Roney letter.
Now then, let the orchestra play some
thing soft and pathetic while the executive
veto and the Roney letter struggle for
reconciliation.
If Governor Miller's veto and Represen-
tatlye Roney's letter will clasp hands in