Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1893-01-26
Mondays Voting Shows Little
Change in the Senatorial
Situation.
Casey'S Friends Still Confident
and the Opposing Forces
Firm.
Routine Work of the LegiS-
lature on Saturday.
Notes.

Muir Gnd,). 36; Casey 13, Worst 10,
Smith 10, Anderson 9, Kingman z, Bulge
2, Walsh l.
Sorley and Halvorsen voted for Bulge,
Horgan for Anderson, Havrevold for
Walsh. Four democrats absent, others
voted for MUIR.
Nineteenth ballot-Roach (dem.), %;
Casey 13, Smith II, Anderson II, Worst
9. Muir ind.), 8, Klngman 8. LaMoure
2, Winship l, Mccormack (dem.), l.
Walsh l.
Joint session dissolved after this bal
lot, to meet Tuesday noon.
BISMARCK, Jan. 22.-[Speclal. Every
one ia wondering when the republicans
are gong to get together and elect a
senator. The end nov seems no nearer
than last Tuesday, when the balloting
began. Today the solons have gone to
church, or are nsleep. or are spending the
time quietly rejecting on the incidents
Of the week just closed. To the average
republican it is great relief to know
that democrat cannot or will not be
elected. Yet who will be the republican
is question asked often in the lobbies
: and to which no satisfactory reply is
ever obtained. It has been easy to
predict that Casey will not win, and the
weak points in his line are referred to
with confidence az indicating that his
chance IS slight at best. Bnt after all
this talk it ia confessed that he is still
\ the strongest man individually and has
the best workers. Mr.. Casey has made
many friends since coming to Bismarck.
: his uniform good nature. ready courtesy
and gentlemanly accomplishments hav-
ing favorably impressed many who
we're previously nnacqnainted with him.
The opposition to Mr.. Casey is not
! in the democratic ranks 80 much az
among republicans who are Backing their
particular candidates hoping, praying
aud believing that the senatorial electric
bolt will descend from heaven and bit
them. Mr.. Casey has some close friends
among the q democrats, who would pre-.
fer to see him elected to any candidate
in the field.-if a2y republican is to 60.
Among them are memb- re- and workers
from the Jim river valley, and from
other parts of the state as we'll.
The republican adherents of J. r.
Smith are the most stubb.. .rn fighters
against the Casey l3 Mr.. Anderson of
Grand Forks, retains bis 8 or men, who
stick to him like wax. Mr.. Klngmans
I'raill county are apparently as solid
as that county's finances, while Mr..
Worst's strength. although 1t varies
few votes occasionally, is figured at IL
certain and sure ballots. All this oppo-
sition comes from local fights. The
Jordan postofice rumpus at Fargo
is represented here, the Bray
fight at the Forks comes
, again to the surface, as we'll as ths
jamestown postofice controversy. Trail
county men are opposed to the Jim river
section, and the local fight of the slope
men, the capital removal matter, is worked
into the J. H. Worst fight. There is
also opposition to Casey because he has
been friendly to Hansbrough. IE fact
all sorts OF local and unreasonable griev.
ances are being dragged into this con
test, lot of soiled linen is to be aired,
old scores paid off, the disappointed
place hunters grievance appeased or re-.
.yenged. and impOtent and unavalllng
ambitions nourished. 1t is astonishing
how many men think they can he sena-
3or. Residents and non residents are
Alike afflicted with this hallncination. The
horee-play vote is sweet
music to many who cherish and
|nourlsh it in their minds and go around
lamong the members urging that NO eau
Gus be held, that none Of the present
candidates are the proper persons to
make senators, and that confusion worse
Econfoonded be kept up as long "a possi-
Die. How long this state OF affairs will
continue none can tell. Some predict
Mat another week will be required to
BRING order out OF chaos and elect sen.
4tor, yet 1t hardly seems possible that it
NIL require such length Of time for the
factions to agree on tho most available
man.
PROCEEDINGS.
Two important events 10 strictly lexis.
tive affairs occurred yesterday after the
Joint senatorial session had dissolved,