Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-10-12
Firing Of Denny's First Gun Sweeps
the Deck and Explodes the
Bubble of Fusion
res
On Course Pursued by Democrats
and Pretenses INDUCED in by
Populists
STATED
In the Squatter Governors Own Way
of the Issues of the Cam
paign.

Dennis Hannafn has received an ap-
pointment, from Budd Reeve as major
general, in command of the Missouri
slope and in accepting the appointment
has sent his chief, the following reply:
DEPT. OF THE MISSOURI SLOPE,
HEADQTRS. IN THE SADDLE.
General Budd Reeve, Commander in
Chief of the Army of "Straight
Democracy" Buxton, North Dakota.
Official order No. l, under your
hand and dated October 3, 1894,
ordering a general muster OF what
is left in this department of the
army of Jefferson and Jackson, reached
me by to-day's mail, and before making
any comment on the condition of affairs
since the disgraceful and cowardly sur
render of our band of "gurrilla" chiefs
at Grand Forks, last July. I desire to
express my thanks for the trust and con-
idence reposed in me, as evidence by my
appointment as major general COM
handing this department. I would
rather be a rear rank private in Coxey's
army than to be a full fedged general in
either army of political prostitutes or
p~ap.sucking hoodlums nov disturbing
the peace of the American people every
Spring and fall.
I have noted carefully what you say
with reference to rounding up all the
"straight democratic voters for election
day. and I am proud to be able to remind
you that "straight democrats" need nc
rounding up Every "bluf' finds that
kind of men with ian ace in the hole and
three in sight, but as to the conversion
of populists," l IN afraid you will have
to leave that burden to some one who
has played in the game with them and
is familiar with their system. Christ,
himself, came on earth nearly nineteen
hundred years ago to convert populists
and they are here yet-thelr number
neither diminished by death nor in
creased by birth or conversion. There
is but one case of populist conversion on
record, and that was the fellow who got
thirty pieces of silver for tipping Christ's
hand. But, if I understand you right,
you have barred that system in this
game, when you said that you would not
allow the use of zone cent for corrup-
tion," and that "this is to be strictly a
campaign of honesty"
The Balshazzar feast at which the pops
of this state have been gorging them
selves during the past two years, sue
ceeding, as it did, a lifetime famine of
bones and feathers, has SO demoralized
the politicians of that faith that they
have lost all idea Of the meaning of the
word honesty" and they seem to be
unwilling to do anything unless there is
a "tip' at hand or. one in sight. There
cannot buy, and the other will stay
bought. Pops belong to neither of these.
The people of this country have been
going against the "brace" 50 long, that
somehow they feel a kind of relationship
to you, and they are growing desperately
anxious to hear you explain the kind of
"hold-out" you ran against at Grand
Forks.
We have no band here, of any kind,
except a "Lung Orchestra" about a mile
north of the Sheridan house, and two
years of turkey" has raised their price
above my pile; but, if you will pay US a
visit, we will accommodate you with a
hall and three square meals a day, and
will see that your spurs are we'll sharp
ened if your ride through two hundred
miles of incurables makes them unser-
viceable. It will be impossible, however,
to furnish front seats and buttonhole
b%o9uets for all the worshippers of the
man at Buzzard Roost.
The people of Mandan have assured
me that if your broncho gives out on
the journey here, they will furnish you a
Hambletonian to enable you to visit
towns in the western part of the state,so
that the people in those town may have
the opportunity of learning the meaning
of 'true democracy" as she is writ.
If you will notify me when I may ex-
pect you the Suicide club will meet you
upon your arrival, and every member
will "stand pat until the polls close.
Hoping you success, I remain,
Awaiting your further orders,
DENNIS HANAF1N,
Major General, Commanding Missouri
Slope Department, and a Soldier of
the People.
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