Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-06-29
Editor Jewell Writes Another Chap
ter of the Incident Between
Mead and Maratta
In Which It Appears That Slippery
Dan Has Not Lost His
characteristics.
A Few Political Pointers, and 6
Little Breezy Gossip AS To
Things That Are.

LII Scclll6 UACbU "uCA Il WAN ASa OTONO
the letter from his wife in California in
which we're several enclosures-among
others one from an alleged Brown en-
closing still another letter alleged to
have been written by Capt. Dan to Mead
something like a year ago offering him a
"job" in Australia as his private secre-
tary-there was one little note that some-
how got lost in the shuttle and did not
come to light for several days. 1t was a
letter dated Melbourne, April Is, 1894,
addressed to a Miss Kerr of Minneapo-
lis and signed by Capt. Daniel. After
expressing the hope that the lady had
returned to America safely and had had
pleasant passage he winds up by saying
"Please drop the enclosed letter in the
Minneapolis ~postoffice." And now Mead
is mad, not SO mad as he is disguised at
what Alex Mckenzie would say was a
every coarse work. On Capt. Dams part.
OF course the lady in question lnno-
Gently enclosed the note to her just to
show her authority for mailing a letter
from Australia to Mead in Minneapolis.
Frank now figures it out about this way:
Maratta never intended to give him the
position and didn't have the courage to
say so. The letter from Brown was a
blind. It and the letter from Dan offer
ing Frank a job and the letter to the
Minneapolis lady were undoubtedly writ.
ten about the same time and by Capt.
Dan, or through his dictation. The
original one to Mead and the n to the
lady are in his own hand writing. OF
course the one from Brown expressing
regret because of the failure to post the
Maratta letter to Mead was in ''some
other hand" but oh, Daniel can it be
true that these things are as Mead sur
misses?
What do I think of the result of the
populist convention? 1t is not a weak
ticket, but it is far from a winner. The
republican majority, or I should say
plurality-for it is evident that. fusion all
around will be impossible this year
will be governed entirely by the sagaclty
displayed in the nomination, not only of
state officers, but the selection of legis-
tive timber. I believe a little depends
on the platform that will be adopted at
the Grand Forks convention, and while I
am aware that some of my republican
friends will not agree with me, l an
firm in the belief that the republicans
cannot afford to ignore the demands of
the business element in the state in
favor of resubmltting the prohibition
question to a vote of the people. Prohi-
bition has been tried, and in the minds
of man-in the minds of nine. tenths of
the practical citizens of the state who
have Investigated the question sufti-
GENTLY to be qualified to judge-it is a
failure. Prohibition has been a failure
in every state where it has been tried,
and in Iowa and other states where the
republicans chung to the prohibition
kite after the good, sober judgment of
the people was against it, the party has
been brought to the verge Of disaster,
and gone over the precipice. The repub-
lican party must be practical, reason
able and just, and there is no reason why
they should not allow tile prohibition
question to be voted upon by the people
of North Dakota. Give the people a
chance to vote directly upon this ques-
tion,free from legislative trading land free
from the influence of Doodle from East
Grand Forks and Moorhead wholesal Q
liquor dealers. The party need not 60
sc far as to declare against prohibition,
but it certainly would be wise to say in
the platform that we do not hesitate to
submit this question to the people for
settlement; that we are not afraid to
trust their Judgment. If again carried,
then let the law be enforced, and the
farce now on the boards done away
with. What the state wants is a thor
oughly practical and business admins
tration, and I think 1t will be generally
admitted that the republicans have the
timber to build much better, very much
stronger than the populists have builded,
and it's wisdom ought to count for some
thing at Grand Forks. But the party
will have to improve on the record of '92.
The kind of republicAnism that elects a
democrat to the United States senate
from q legislative body of thirteen re-
publican majority is not the kind to be
trusted. 1 am opposed to those fellows
all along the lice. They ought to be
dlsregarded, run out of the herd, and
turned loose with the mavericks.
I was just a little bit surprised to
learn of the nomination of Mr.. Newton
for the supreme bench, but when it is
taken into consideration that the real
candidate of the populists is Judge
Templeton, who will doubtless be the
nominee OF the democrats, the "method
of their Madness" so to speak, will be