Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-12-23
BY NJ. II. j EW ELL.
H DAILY TRIBUNE,

WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
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PICKING THE PLUMs.
From present appearances, it becomes
evident that as soon as the Cleveland
administration is inaugurated into
power, and assumes control of the reins
of government, there will be consider
able trouble in the apportioning Of
federal patronage. From 1860 until
1884, a period of twenty-four years, the
democrats %hungered for power and for
patronage. Twenty four years Of hun
ger is apt to give a fearful zest to the
appetite, and when the democratic adj
ministration of 1884 attempted to deal
out food in the shape of federal Offices
to the hungry, there was not nearly
enough to go around. To make mat
tiers worse, hardly had the edge of
democratic appetite been %sharpened by
a few years of ofice-holding, than the
republican administration of 1888 took
m any of the tender and delicious NOR
sels out of democratic mouths and in
augurated another period Of hunger.
And So, in this year of our Lord, 1892,
the democratic appetite is ravenous and
almost Unsuitable.
This condition is not local, but uni
versal. The scramble for offices is
already begun. Each democrat who is
at all prominent in his own community
is of the opinion that his services should
be rewarded by an evidence of apprecia-
ton in the shape of a federal Office. And
as there are prominent democrats in the
proportion of about one hundred to one
to the number of offices, there will be
many numbered among the disappointed.
Burleigh county can in ne way be con-
sidered as an exception to the general
rule. Hardly have the leaders fixed it up
among themselves, as to where the
Offices shall go, than the democrats
across the river show disposition to num-
Der themselves among the aspirants.
The Mandan Pioneer makes an appeal
il behalf of the Morton county demo-
Gratis as follows:
Notwithstanding the fact that Morton
cast nearly twice as many democratic
votes as Burleigh, our neighbors have the
ineffable gall to want the earth as usual.
They are not satisfied with the emOlu-
ments that come from possession of the
land office, but they want citizens OF their
own town to ill the offices therein, not
giving this county a single one. Not con
tent with having the office of surveyor
general, they val to fill the office with
one of their own citizens. When the
governor comes to appoint a boiler in
spectOr and a member Of the state board
of equalization from this judicial district,
Bismarck will want them. 1t the demo-
Gratis of Morton county are willing to allow
themselves to be walked over in the way
their %neighbOrs desire to walk over them,
then they are moral towards. This coun-
ty has enough good. hard working, COM
potent democrats to fill a few Of these
Offices, without drawing SO much on the
ranks Of the party in Bismarck.
Now the situation, which was IN no
small degree complicated before, be-
comes still more difficult of solution. If
the Burleigh county democracy has to
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bers of the Morton county contingent, it
will not be half SO satisfactory as though
Morton county democrats staid home
and left the democrats in Burleigh to fix
things up. The Pioneer has no idea
has not the remotest conception-of the
number Of "straight' democrats who
exist in Burleigh county. And more
especially since election is their number
remarkable. Those who before election
had slight prohibition or populistic lean
ings have come back to the fold of the
straights with a leap or a bonnd. Dur
ing the twenty-eight years of republican
rule, when republicanism was the order
of the day, many of them we're not SO
violently democratic as they now are.
Their democracy may have waned a lit
tie, their ideas may have grown a little
misty and vague, and macy Of them may
have had slight leanings toward the re-
publicans. but this is all changed now.
They are democrats, straight, pure and
undulterated. They think, each one OF
them, that twenty-eight years Of oblivion
deserves something. 1t is hoped each
one of them will get something. But
the great number of straight demo-
Gratis that are springingup all around ue,
the prospect is dubious.
If, to the esteemed Grand Forks
Horo1d II ir ou;dont Ufbot tho R;opoo rcb
TRIBUNE realizes the fact that in the
discussion brought on by the publica.
ton of Bishop Shanley's remarkable
letter, the opponents of constitutional
and statutory prohibition have been
utterly worsted and the weakness of their
position thoroughly exposed'-then
the Herald has attained a degree of per-
ceptive power fitting it for something