The Dickinson press., 1893-02-25
ROACH Is SENATOR,
Ths Sixth-frst Ballot Ends the Bat
lie and VIM. N. Roach
Is Elected.
Fifty Members Of the Legislature
Declare Him Their Choice
for the Position.

4AIy InouaueIS VI luo heSlSldtute
Declare Him Their Choice
for the Position.
BISMARCK Feb 2o-[Soecisl T.le
gram. lie u rose ms 4sticsliy GU,
OF lis fathtmless depths this mtrninR
in sill its brilliant sp.en Tor aud cast q
slesm over Csp toll hill Shere q multi
tude had ass. NJ oisi sppsrently in q ;iet
conc!sve to carve Gu. a Ua,.sd States
fer North D .kota Ii wss lst
/. fure the battle. 1he.e was a peculiar
prevalent, snd the stiffness was
only broken by the qaios and heavy
tread Ct the generals as they hurried to
and fro giving orders for tie mighty
charge which was anticipated. The
two political armi.s were we'll 6riliw:
aud when thsy fell in lire and marched
INFO The spacious room where the laur
els were to be won the sosLe rrss ented
y isdeed an interesting oae.
Grea. crowds rushed their way
aio, & tie ce,,;d,rs ard into tie gsl
leries 10 witness the siege. Mer, women
ard Children wat,hed each movenen:
with ereit esgerress and expectancy.
Lieuterans Governor Wall O. pre-
sided, sna occupied q prominent posi-
ton OF the speakers stald His gavel
soun5ed a l.ud tattoo and the warriors
selil. d down in their seats ready for the
charge. Chi Cl.ik Hamilton then
called the roll and all we're present,
With the except N OF Speaker Wai.h.
who had gene off on a scoutir 6 ton,
sne lost the trail. The order was given
to proceed to form into line their pallets
ard the fling began. There were 90
shots fred on the fret, Whion Vas the
bate. as follows:
Miller. ............ e. IS Walsh
Wa'lin ..."..."..:G Lamb....... ....... )
Muir ......."..... l Benton ............ !
ROACH is HosEN
TIE tix.y-arst aud last ballot stood:
Roach ................M Smith ................
Miller ...............l6 Casey ..... .......... 23
On the first o.il ct the Fill those who
voted fer Rosch were:
Messrs. Bldlake. BrynIoltson, Burke.
Engle. Hitler. Hunter Lamb. McCarten.
Mccormack. Patch, Stevens. Caldwell. d ives,
Deans. Eoblghausen. Elliott. Hagen. Han. lIll-
lum, Halvorson. uod Tyson, Holiday. uorga1.
James. johnson of Sargent. johnson OF Grand
Forks, Johnston. Kelly. Lee, Levang, Logan.
McCanna. Mccullocb. Mclean, OKeefe, Plain,
Rlnde. Sanford. Tnexton, Thompson, Towers.
Ueland-42.
Mr.. Cashel changed from Miller to Roach: Mr.
LaAoure changed from Miller to Roach; MIR
SOrlry changed from Wash to Roach; Mr.. COcn-
rane changed from Miller to Roach; Mr.. Haugen
ged from Waliln to Roach; Mr.. Pierce
changed from Hallin to Roach: Nc. Wineman
from Walsh 10 Roach; MIR. Yegeu
from Miller TO Roach. making 70. or
three more than enough to elect.
Those who vos.d for Mr.. Miller On
the first call OF the r.ll wire:
Messrs. Arnold. Cashel, Day. Fuller, Greg.
DRY. Haggart, Ink. johnson, La Moure, Nc.
Gl'livray. Miller, Palmer. rlnkhar, svensrud
Worst. White. Young. Benedict, BENTON, Boyn-
ton. Bu'laid. Burkhardt. Churchill, Cochraue,
Ilavervold, Hurley. Lohnes, Larson, Newman,
oksendahl, Oliver, Ritter, Sstterlund, Simpson,
Southland. Strom, Tufts, Veeder,
and Yegen.
Her. was tne critical point. The vote
stood exactly equal. Halv, rson ard
Davis had voted with the democrats and
populists; five votes would elect either
The ether republicans had VT d:
for Wsll'n. Sorley fer Walsh,
Haugen for Wallin. McArthu, for Wal
lin, Wsllin for Wallin, Wineman 70,
Walsh, Wishek rot voting and Walsh
Ssrlty changed his vote to
iiaugea Charged his vote to
followed by P1ero, and Wire
man. This elected r zach, as W,shek
rad not voted aud Walsh was absent
La Mourc changed to Roach, Yegen
ahsnged to Rosch. Cashel changed to
making Roach's vote GO
THE VIOIORS SPEECH.
"Gehtie Men Of the JOINT Assembly:
For this honor I Thank you II 1 bad
the choice OF the sweetest words with
power to frame them in most p.eaeiDp
and 81 duoti,e %sentenoes I could not Say
more CT mean more, nor would the *
preston come moro directly from tie
heart, than when l say the simple little
phrase, Sincerely and heartily Thank
you
.Oocupyirg as I do on this occasion q
unique and strange position, l cannot be
opposed to soy very much. In the
first place the unexpected has happened;
III the next place, memtet
of the minority party has been
elected by the help OF the votes from q
msjori'y party. To those gentlemen OF
the maj or!ty party aho fought for,
hoped aid wished q different result l
can oaly say that our fight has te. n
manly, open and honest [appluuse.
We lave s imply done what any minority
party would have done under tie
ireurstances- erean'z-d to take cd
Vantae e CT ally mistake of a discrganized
majority.
"Scmethirg has been said during the
contest al. ut the ie cslity from which y
candidate halls. I desire to say, as ial
as l m %corcetutd d, t.. at whilst | hal
from Gra-d Forks county / am proud
TO know and own that as my home, l
I'm proud that her p=op,e ore 10,
reople aud I wish to assure
you that in the discharge OF duties O
this position to which YOU have Jevatec
me, l shall honestly and sincerely en-
deavcf to represent the people Of tht
whole state Of North Dakots. i plause
! am happy to ssy that no bridges Lsv,
been given. and l nm also proud to Soy
that none. have been demanded
lApp luse] But l feel thst l cau say
Standing IN this plsce and occuEipR III,
position to which YOU have elected me
that the frienis who have SUPP ortev u
in Il is contest aud helped to bring thi
res,lt shall receive. as far rs it is in m,
power aid the power of cur party
my grateful and su ,%.tantia
recognition. [Arplsu,e
$50 my i~Hdependent friends VIII
have stood by us 80 nobly in this con
tt st 1 &c ire In tits public mapner t
tina, k 9ou, one and al, heartily OF,
eiEcs rely, in NY own behalf and on til
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