Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-01-13
.ORDWA AZ TOGALLINGBR
He Wires a Prompt Answer to the
New Hampshire Senator's
Roast.
Counter Charges of Dishonesty and
Perfidy Against the Old-Time
Enemy of Chandler.
Governor Ordway in Chicago En-
Route to Bismarck to Take a
Hand in the Fight.

Hand in the Fight.
Gallinger Va. Ordway.
Mondays Pioneer Press contained the
following Washington special:
WASHINGTON, Jan. S-"We have had a
great many political calamities in this
country Of late, but l hope there will not
be such a II as the election of N. &
Ordway to the United States senate
SO spoke Senator Gallinger to the Pioneer
Press correspondent to. day. The junior
senator from New Hampshire seems to
think he knows Ordway pretty we'll. He
was president of the New Hampshire state
senate when Ordway made his last appear.
ance in New Hampshire politics, and his
remark was OccasiOned while discussing
Ordway's candidacy for the senate from
North Dakota. Speaking further of Ord
way. Senator Gallinger said:
After Ordway came back to New Hamp-
shire from Washington he was a candidate
defeated. He ran again in a democratic
district and by the use of money was
elected. In 1870 he was elected tothc state
senate by means which did not meet public
approval. The methods practiced were
notorious, and the people of the state had
no further use for Ordway. The senate
that term consisted of twelve members.
During the session we had numerous votes
upon public questions, and the record was
the opposite i'll nearly every instance.
When he went to Dakota Territory it was
understood that he desired to ecoup the
losses he had sustained in his political
speculations. Senator Gallinger also had
something to say about Ordway posing as q
friend of the people, and when informed
that Ordway had stated his position in the
North Dakota contest was to secure pure
political methods, said it a the same old
hypOcritical can't used and worn out in
New Hampshire more than twelve years
ago.
This telegram caught the eye of Gov.
ernor Ordway, who was at the :Audito-
rum hotel, Chicago, yesterday, and as
soon as the wires could convey the mes.
sage, the following vindication was re-
ceived for publication:
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Jan. Ill have
just read the Pioneer Press Wash.
ington dispatches purporting to give
attacks upon myself by Senator Gallinger
which are very untruthful and undoubt-
eddy grow out of the bitter personal feud
existing between the two New Hampshire
senators, Gallinger and Chandler, with the
latter of whom I was on intimate personal
relations before removing to Dakota. In
answer to the charge of misuse of money
on my part in New Hampshire elections
everyone there knows that such charges
are ridiculous, especially as coming from
Senator Gallinger, whom Senator Chandler
has publicly charged for a long time al
most daily, over his own signature, in the
leading republican papers in New Hamp
shire with the use of
METHODS TO OBTAIN HIS SEAT
in the United States senate which would
almost overtop what has been common re.
port in regard to the manner in which
Senator Casey obtained his seat from
North Dakota three years ago at Bis.
marck. The statement that l ran for F;
seat in the lower house for my native tow1
OF Warner and was beaten. is wholly false
l was elected three times to the lower
house, also to a constitutional convention
and the state senate successfully witt
the three railroads which Chandle,
charges have put Senator Gallinger into
the United States senate against me
simply because as a member of an equaliz.
ing tax commission l had compelled those
roads and other corporations owned b,
foreign capital to pay a share of their lust
proportion Of the state taxes, thus tighten.
ing the
UNJUST BURDEN OF TIE FARMERS
Ana small property holders. It is true
that under the unjust and unequal p
tIonment of members of the New Hamp,
Shire state senate, which is based upon
taxable property instead Of upon population
or votes, that the railroads and mammoth
cotton corporations did pack the last little
Jug handle senate with a large majority OF
their employees. l shall always be proud
OF my own vote and my single-handed figh1
in the last packed senate in 70 in the in
terests of the people of that state. / onl,
resigned my two years. term in the New
Hampshire senate when it was hal
through to accept the Office of governor OF
Dakota. which was rendered me by tn,
president and his cabinet, all of whom haG
known me personally in public life, ant
was UNANIMOUSLY confirmed by the senate
when it contained a democratic majority
l am not responsible for any persona
attacks made upon anyone and simply
asked to be heard in the same proper man
ner IN which l make the request in justic,
and fairness without prejudice or malice
N. G. ORDwAY.
Auditorium Hotel.
The Supreme Court.
Fargo Forum, 18th: The regular jam
airy term OF the state supreme court penef
this morning in the court house. Chic,