Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-06-09

harsh and rasping. 1t cuts and leaves
gashes along the path. 1t must have
been the cruelest evaporation that
sound could inflict on the obstinate erd
bull.headed house of representatives
that had TO listen to that voice, calmly
declaring that man must vote when he
is present, and refuting the fiction that
he is not present when he is. Reeds
speech was the foil of Fassett's. The
future of the great party could not be
maintained on what had been done, but
the future required greater efforts than
the past and the result would surely be
as glorious. Mr.. Reed described in a
few sentences the warning sentiment that
is filling the reflective minds of the
leaders of the party today-the approach
Of period of transition in national
political life. He declared that wealth
had been created by the people of this
country in an unexampled degree in
history; that 1t had opened and developed
an expanding west, but that while wealth
and prosperity we're grand, the liberties
OF men and women was magnificent. He
made heavy plunge into new political
circle, and demanded greater social and
civil liberty for the people of this country.
Reed is bald, but he is brainey, and the
crowd applauded his words perfunctively,
feeling good and enthusiastic, and acting
largely as if they had every liberty at
present that men and women in an en-
lightened nation ought to have.
There were loud calls for Mckinley
and ingalls,, and some for Foraker. but
after Mr.. Reed had vanished in the rear
of the chairman the perfecting of the
organization continued. 1t is said that
all sides have decided upon Mr.. McKin-
ley's selection as permanent chairman.
The convention adjourned at 2:3O p. m.
until II o'clock tomorrow. The nomin-
alton will not be made before Thursday
or Friday.
In the affairs of the North Dakota
delegation there is much interest, and
the lively contingent from the land of
No. Hard IS making the remainder of
the country know we are here.
The headquarters of the North Dakota
men are on the fifth floor of the West
hotel. There may be met at any time of
the day or night, the leading men of the
state, and the visitors from other states.
This morning the North Dakota men as
sembled behind band. and with pampas
plumes gave Blaine parade. Harrison
men were not in 1.-THE parade. A ban
ner with Blaine's picture upon it, and
another saying North Dakota, the land
of No. hard wheat, is for protection and
reciprocity. The procession contained
several hundred people. Major Hamilton
was marshal. They marched through the
West rotunda shouting and singing for
the magnetic man, and the sound of Col.
Plummer's voice was soon heard, dis
trlbutlng impassioned utterances in be-
half of the Blaine idea, interrupted con-
stantly by frenzied cheers from the
throng. Over and above the din could
be heard the colonel's energetic accents in
which broken sentences containing the
"greatest living American" the idol OF
the nation" RECIPROCITY" and "hearts OF
his countrymen," ran like full banked
stream.
An incident in the procession showed
the temper of the North Dakota boys
when their rights are imposed upon. A
big policeman undertook to prevent one
of the electric globes in the Office from
being struck by the tall pole, carrying
the Blaine picture. The flagstaff carrier
objected to any interference, and the
policeman seized the staff and broke the
end off At once a howl went up. The
officer was taken hold of by fifty nervous,
excited bands and hustled off to the side
of the room in a jiffy. He blew his whistle
for help, but the North Dakota boys we're
only too anxious to show that no inter
ference must be allowed in their parade
and dozen policemen could not have
effected anything. The officer was re.
ported to the mayor, and escaped by a
lucky accident severe cbastisement for
his rashness in attempting to regulate a
North Dakota procession.
Notwithstanding the great "hollering'
there are good many Harrison men
from that state, and the delegation is
squarely divided, Gleason, Marshall and
Pierce, for Harrison, the other three fo,
Blame. No efforts so far have been able
to change this although the pressure
brought to bear on the three friends Of
the president is tremendous.
Senators Casey and Hansbrough and
Representative Johnson. are all here and
all for Blaine.
There is going to be big fight, and nc
one can tell who will win. Blaine's
! resignation has hurt him on the Whole
The Harrison men are no novices ir
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