Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-07-29
The Beat-Him-at-all- Hazards Crowd
Wades Depairingly Out of
the Soup.
Indications Are That the Country
Districts Will be Repetition of
the City Election.
FireW orks, Music and General Jolli-
fication Indulged in When the
Twilight Fell.
The Primaries.

"When politics is in mans mind, let
other issues stand behind" A quotation
was never so apt as was this one yester-
day. There was nothing else considered;
business of usual nature might as we'll
have been suspended. There was no
business, but politics., and politics
reigned supreme ruler of the day.
Yesterday was the elimination, the
climax, the crisis of struggle which
has been bitterly fought for weeks; it
was the deciding hour of battle, for
which officers have planned and studied
necessarily. It meant the success or
defeat of one party, and from daylight
till the time fixed for the holding of the
caucuses, lieutenants were busily active.
Those of Burleigh county's citizens,
who have been first and foremost in op-
position to Governor Burke, not because
of any official incapacity, not because of
his having failed to remember BurIeigh
county, butlsolely because of personal
grievances and for the furtherance of per-
sonal desires, have been busy with the
circulation of reports as to his weakness
in the county. For the past several
weeks they have confined themselves to
the circulation and spreading of garbled
reports, calculated to injure a popular
executive in the estimation of voters.
kilograms of the political situation end
of the governors weakness in Burleigh
county have been sent out freely.
See the following from the Minneapolis
Tribune of Wednesday, dated at Bis
marck and reading thus:
There is warm canvass for primaries
on Thursday. The Burke men are using
the same tactics and means employed in
Walsh county, but they are weak. lndica-
tions are that the forty five votes of the
Missouri slope will be anli-Burke.
Such, from first to last, have been the
tactics of the anti-Burke faction.
In the city, proper, there were five
primaries: The First, held at Pierce's
carpenter shop, and entitled to four dele
gates; the Second at the court house,
and was entitled five delegates; the
Third at Faunce's shop, and entitled to
three delegates; the Fourth at the
school house across the track, and en-
titled to three delegates, and the last at
the old greenhouse, and entitled to six
delegates, making twenty-one delegates
in the city, proper, and twenty-four in
the country precincts.
In the First ward, the contest was
quite interesting, and exciting.
In the Second ward, the contest was
quite interesting, for a time. Judge:
Boyle took stand as challenger, and Joe
Edgerley, also. took stand for the oppo-
site side. Boyle and Edgerley couldn't
agree over something, and the affair
wound up in the issue of a warrant by
Boyle for Edgerley's arrest. Challenges
after this we're quite numerous for a
short time, but at 6 o'clock, all was quiet
as could be-. 49,
| In the Third was little or no opposi-
ton to the ticket headed by A. Van
Horn, and in the Fourth ward, one
might say, only one ticket was votea.
The contest of the day was in the
greenhouse precinct, and here was the
center of interest. Chairman Harris
nominated J. F. Wallace for judge, and
Gerald Pierce, with bitter sarcasm, pro
posed the name Of Murdoch Mckenzie,
as the selection Of the straight repnbli-
cans Each side then lined ont, and after
much objecting and side fighting, which
i iincluded the pointing ont 81 some demo