Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-11-02
PROVEDBY His RECORD.
An Insight into the Political Past
Of Populist Candidate, VIM.
A Bentley.
The Extent to Which He Has Helped
Suck Dry the Jersey Cow of
Revenue.
His Republicanism Was Good So
Long as the Cow Let Down
OVERWHELMINGLY.
Various Tidy Sums, Aggregating in
All About $4,000, Gathered
to Himself.
His Record as a Legislator, at About
the Time He Began to Con-
tract Populism.
Some of the Why's and Wherefores
of His Present Political Com
plexiOn.

pleXiOn.
The Bismarck Settler has published
on two different occasions since the be-
ginning of this campaign that the TR1B-
UNE would have to do something more
than to attempt to poke funat DR.. Bent
ley to defeat him in his candidacy for
member of the house Of representatives
in the coming election. I admit that so
far the TRIBUNE has used no arguments
and given no facts that would Justify
asking any person to vote against the
election of the doctor. Our campaign
has thus far been confined against the
doctor to poking fun at his bombastic
speech made at the Atheneum at the
the time Walter Muir and Lieut.. Gov.
Wallace also spoke. We admit he is
not really the "man in the NOON, as un-
questionably the man in the moon is a
myth, while DR.. Bentley is indeed and
in fact a living reality. We admit our
illusions to his record as an old soldier
will have but little weight or effect in
the coming contest. The war is over
and while we had hoped he would
furnish us his war record, and particu-
larly that part of it on which we under
stand he recently obtained a pension for
disability contracted in the line of duty,
no such record being at hand we have
been unable to publish it, and at this
day, nearly 80 years after the close of
whatever participation he may have
had in the protecting Of the flag Of his
country would have but little effect in
the question of his election. To the
voters of this day, when supporting him
for the position for which he is a candi-
date, it makes little difference whether
he boot legged whiskey on a Mississippi
steam boat or actually carried a gun
with which to shoot those fighting
against his country's flag. The record
by which he is to be tried is such as he
has made since a resident of Bismarck,
and by that record he is or should be
willing to stand or fall. On the 18th
day of Oct. 1883, the Bismarck Settler
said:
The last campaign lie is that the indie
pendents are only working to elect, and
that he will give it the county printing.
The lie originated with DR.. Bentley-the
gentleman who never told one before, and
who is particularly sensitive on the Doodle
question, since the Settler showed up his
little $500 steal from the city board of ed
ucation. 5..@
We do not publish this as a true state
ment, but only as the estimate the Bis
marok Settler held the doctor in on Oct.
18, 1888. Possibly they were doing the
same as the TRIBUNE was when they
were joshing the doctor about being the
s'man in the MOON" DR.. Bentley, in his
speech at the opening Of the campaign,
said, among other things, that he was
still a republican; that he had not de-
serted or gone away from the party; that
the party had gone away from him. He
seems to have forgotten chat the repub-
lican party is a progressive one, and
never stands idly by, waiting for any
man to educate himself up to the ne
cessities of the times. He said the re.
publican party Of Burleigh county had
become so corrupt, and that the national
republican party vas so far controlled
by the money-bags of the east, that it
was impossible for him to.longer tolerate
the crime they had committed in the
name of the party; that the republicans
of Burieigh county had MIXED the Jer-
soy COW of revenue, until there was no
more milk to be obtained, and left the
poor critter in a starving and bel pless
condition. The Bismarck Capital is
booming DR.. Bentley as the next speaker
of the house of representatives. It would
seem to us that the buzz Of that bee in
~thedoctor's bonnet had already caused
him trouble enough, and that he would
be wary of such a statement coming
from Judge Gray, the alleged editor of
the Capital, and more particularly so
when a reference to the files Of the Set.
aer showed that the judge was one of the
%proprietors Of the Settler, when the here
tofore mentioned article from the Set
tier was published. Admitting that the
doctor told the truth when he said that
the poor, old Jersey COW had been MIXED
so dry that there was no more milk to be-
gathered, let us see who has performed.
the milking process. Every mans rec
ord is a subject OF criticism whenever
that record has been made in relation to
apublic matter.
In April, 1881, the Doctor began his
service as secretary of the school board
Of the city OF Bismarck, and received