The Dickinson press., 1892-03-26
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Are They Trying to Make
Political Capital?
CIT FALLS FLAT" CERTAINLY

CIT FALLS FLAT" CERTAINLY.
Below is a dispatch which
came out last week in the Pioneer
Press, the Tribune of Minneapolis
and the Fargo Argus, all dated at
Dickinson. The Press repro
duces in full that our readers may
be able to see and judge for them
selves:
Considerable excitement was
caused here today when it became
known that the railroad commits
sioners are trying to change the
name of Lehigh, a station four
miles east of this city, where the
celebrated Lehigh coal mines are
located. The commissioners give
as their reason the fact that some
where on the Great Northern rail-
road there is a town by the same
name, although not shown on the
map, and it is stated here that it
is a gravel pit.
Senator McGillivray stated to
your correspondent today that the
real cause for this action is the
hatred which the railroad commits
sioners bear toward the Lehigh
Coal Mining company, of which
Mr.. McGillivray is manager. He
said the commissioners have
fought them all along, and now
that the eggette process promises
to be a success they propose to
change the name of the mine, and
thus rob them of the reputation
Lehigh coal has gained.
1t is also reported that the COM
missioners will attempt to name
the town Lawrence" after N. C.
Lawrence, a bitter political OPP
ponent of McGillivray and whom
McGilivray defeated for the SEN
ate last winter.
Lawrence is a friend of Com
missioner Harmon and Har-
mon is against McG illivray on ac-
count of some political difference
in the past. 1t would be a hard
blow to the Lehigh coal mine, and
there is no doubt the highest
court will be appealed to before
the company would submit to
having the name of their mine
changed, and even then it would
not be named Lawrence.
The Recorder in giving credit
to this dispatch lets it go as the
Fargo Argus expose" and never
says that these reports were dated
at and sent out from Dickinson.
Another singular thing, too, is
that all the newspaper comment
through the state on this question
can have its source of information
traced directly back to Dickinson,
and here it stops. Why have
they not cited an instance where
some Northern Pacific official has
been approached on the subject
or the railroad commissioners
making some stir7 Or would this
be carrying a political scheme too
far? 1t looks thin, and the PRESS
hasn't a reasonable doubt that the
whole thing was concocted in
Dickinson, and the aim of its in
stigators was to drive a wedge
which should widen and hold a
breach in the ranks of the republi-
can party of Stark county. The
Recorder editorally makes a great
hullaboo this week, and made il
appear that Geo. Harmon and N
c. Lawrence have put up a great
deal, whereby the latter agrees te
give the former a solid Starl
county delegation to assist the
former in getting a denomination
on the state ticket; but the PRES:
notices that no direct charge il
made. Why not prefer charge:
and show these men up if the,
are into a deal of this kind? OF
no! the Recorder says it ha
nothing to divulge at this time
If MI. Lawrence has sold a Star
county delegation, as they woul'
have the people believe, the PRES
wants the act shown up, for W
don't believe in that kind of
deal. So produce your evidence
Minneapolis Tribune; Raj
road Commissioner Walsh, 9
North Dakota, was at the Me-
chants, St. Paul, yesterday, and j
an interview denied the state
ment wired from Dickinson, N. D
to the Tribune of yesterday. t
the effect that the North Dako,
railroad and warehouse commi
sion was about to change tt
name of Lehigh, a mining town
miles cast of Dickinson. M
Walsh stated that the cominissio
had not the power to make ii
change, nor had it any intentic
of doing so. was that power YES
ed in it.
So much for the chairman 1
the railroad commission. II
PRESS will not undertake to So
what Geo. Harmon's position
though it is unreasonable to SUI
Dose for a minnie that he has IA