Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1894-07-26

ton met at the opera house at 3 o'clock
with Ex-Governor Miller presiding. There
was no fight over the organization. The
stage was draped in front of the speaker
with flags; portraits of Harrison, Wash
iupton and Lincoln we're to be seen on
prominent corners. Over the back of
the stage was an emblematical figure
Lincoln in back ground and female
holding an unfurled American flag IN
front of him, and supplicatlng female
figure entitled, North Dakota Kneeling
in Front of the Flag" and Lincoln ask
ing, "What Shall we do to be Saved?"
The symbolical meaning attached to the
figures was very evident to the conven-
ton, but there was no answer in sight
to the question of the maiden, and zone
of the speakers undertook to provide q
very definite one, from their own lnfor
nation. .
The convention was we'll attended in
point OF numbers. There were fewer
gray boards tan usual, and the proxies
not general, il is said. Judge LaMoure
sat at the head Of the Pembjna delega-
ton, the observed of all observers, but
J the usual smile Of assurance was not as
VISIBLE as formerly On his strong and
characteristic face. The boys during the
day and night had combined on a ticket
and the strength seemed possibly too
Sampson like for even Jud's ability to
pull over.
The weather was very hot and the
temper of delegutes not the pleasantest,
but after the committee on resolutions
had been announced, which included E..
W. Camp Of jamestown. and band had
played, Grand Forks chorus Of ladies
and gentlemen sang two selections, one
Marching Through Georgia. The
stirring old tune was pleasantly reoog-
n'zed, as it is always to be relied On to
get IN a certain amount Of convention
enthusiasm.
Tho usual call for Plummer was heard
soon after, and the genial countenance
Of the North Dakota sage and philoso-
pher was soon seen looking solemnly
down on the audience. He spoke for
twenty minutes, but did not bring out
the bounding spirit OF mirth a2d en-
thusiasm he customarily does. In fact
while the colonel's remarks we're apt and
witty, be had dull subject, with little
IN it IN shape OF good stumper's material.
DE had no collar on his shirt, 40 usual,
and bis customary fluency Of diction and
accommodating run Of thought seemed
also somewhat collared. He said the
pops" were not satisfied with what they
bad done. He laid most OF the blame Of
hard times to democrcts-spoke of the
realization OF the change that people
wanted when they got Cleveland;
accused the democrats Of adopting re-
publican tariff measures and principles
In their mongrel Wilson bill.
Colonel Plummer did not desire to dis
cues the silver question, although he
generally says what he thinks without
fear or favor. He passed it of with the
general reference to one dollar being as
good as another, and able to stand on its
hind legs like job aud say, II know that
my Reedemer iveth." Colonel Plummer
spoke OF white and BLACK slaves held
during the war as property; referred tc'
the freeing of the black man thirty years
ago, but said nothing about the relief Of
what some are saying is white servitude,
at the present time. He referred to the
payment OF the war debt az being chiefly
accomplished and the low per cent that
government bonds are sold at, forgetting
apparently what the people have paid in
interest and principle on the bonds, and
the very large sum they still owe on the
original debt, which 10 getting harder to
pay all the while. Plummer asserted
that tramp now lived better than .
workingmsn in 1860. and conRratu-
lated the tramp. Roasted democracy
for the distress, strikes and idleness in
the country, and advised tho young man
to keep away from the democratic grave