Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-11-25
WEEKLY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, NOV. IS 1892
PRoH18IzIos WORTH DAKorA.

PROHIBITION NORTH DAKOTA.
How the Populists and Democrats Cele-
brated Their Victory in Valley CITY.
Valley City Times Record: After the
speech making the invited guests as.
sembled in the Armory to partake of
the banquet. Tickets had been issued
to see that none but the faithful got
into the sanctum sanctorum, and the
only ones present who were. not demo-
Gratis were the mayor, the captain of
the militia company whose armory they
were using, the press and members
of the band. Hold on, the ladies Of the
W. r. G. were there and furnished the
supper. 1t was evident to anyone that
the hands which prepared the vianda
set before that crowd OF democrats,
hungry for food and Office, were not
those of novices. The tables were
literally loaded with the good things OF
this world and compliments were heard
IN all sides. 3."a
OF course you can't have a democratic
banquet without something to- drink,
and the committee attended to that
part. They opened up with claret punch
during the supper. Then they had
champagne and speech making and
more champagne, etc, ETC., ETC., until
nearly everyone had been called upon
and delivered his mite toward the gen.
eral enjoyment. The band was set upon
the top of the lockers like a row of swal-
lows on a telegraph wire and discoursed
sweet music during the evening.
Col. Benton was compelled to leave
the gathering in order to take the mid
night train, and as the champagne had
been consumed the crowd was going to
pull the band off of their perch and
escort HIM over, but Ed Vallandigham
mounted a chair and announced in loud
tones that their were two barrels of
bottled beer which had not yet been
destroyed, and the crowd would never
leave that beer-it was against demo-
cratic principles~so they came back.
After a couple of rounds of beer a Ger
man gentleman from Jimtown thought
it wa his turn to speak. He rose up
and in a rich German dialect announced
that he had been a democrat in Dakota
for ten years. The crowd .cheered. The
German gentleman from Jimtown talked
louder; the crowd cheered louder and
the old gentleman waved his hands,
worked his mouth until he was red in
the face and sat down. No one heard
what he said, but he was evidently dead
in earnest. =, ..
Then they had a few songs by men,
bers of the Jamestown Flambeau club,
and after the beer had been consumed
they repaired to the outside, where it, is
said they put some prohibition whisky
upon the miscellaneous assortment of
mixed liquor which they already carried.
A huge pile of boxes and barrels had
been placed in the old circus ring near
the Kindred in the afternoon with the
intention of having a bonfire early in the
evening, but owing to the high wind it
was not lighted. But democratic en-
thusiasm touched 1t off about 2:3O in
the morning and it was immense. Three
attempts were made to burn. the city
calaboose, but Burt wouldn't have it.
The Jamestown faithful went home
on the early morning train, leaving their
Valley City brethren full Of enthusiasm
and mixed liquor.
The affair was n of the pleasantest
ever held in Valley City. Nothing hap
pened to mar the occasion, and the
utmost good feeling prevailed. A demo-
cratic blowout without q fight lis q
rarity, but this may be set down as n