Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-01

VIC 'o'oie VI Iue country 40 not as a
rule, exercise the right to vote until
after a spirited public canvass is had, in
which the qualifications Of candidates,
legal, constitutional and otherwise, are
thoroughly discussed aud sifted. The
result is that it very rarely happens that
a candidate for office who is legally or
constitutionally disqualified to hold the
same is elected by the voters. The gem
eral rule is manifestly that the candi.
date elected is not legally disqualified.
Upon such election (and where a candi-
late receives an official certificate of
election, which is based upon an official
canvass OF the votes, and subsequently
qualities in manner and forms as the
statute provides) a very strong pre-
sumption arises that he is legally quail
fed to hold the Office, and one suffi-
GENTLY strong, we think, to entitle him
to be admitted to Office as against an in
cumbent who has no other claim than
the statutory right to hold the office
until his successor is elected and quail
fed"
Pollock on kesubmission.
Hon. @. A. Pollock addressed about
400 at the Methodist church Sunday
evening on the subject of "Resubmis-
slon." He was preceded by Miss Pres
ton, who spoke briefly on the subject,
appealing to her hearers on moral and
political grounds. She is an unusually
earnest and interesting speaker.
MI. Pollock said it had been pub
lished that be would speak in favor of
resubmission, thus placing him in an M
barrassing position. He would favor re.
submission on two conditions; first, that
the law should be enforced strictly one
year, in order that it's advantages-if it
presents Anyway be fairly tested; Sec
ond, the liquor interest, controlling
nearly two billions of capital, must keep
hands off and let the people vote I'M
biased by the financial considerations
they might offer. There was little inhu-
ence brought to bear on the subject one
way or the other when the constitution
was adopted, and he believed the vote
On that subject expressed the honest
convictions of the people of the state.
He believed no state offered better con-
ditions for a thorough trial of prohibi-
ton than North Dakota.
He did not regard such statistics as
can o be presented bearing on the
liquor traffic, of especial value, in the
absence of that care necessary to accu-
racy and yet he quoted from the records
of Cass county which showed a decrease
in court expenses in Cass county under
prohibition and an increase Of one-half
in Clay county, Minnesota, during the
same period. In Cass county there was
an increase in values; in Clay there was
not. He called attention to the wonder.
full increase in expenses of the city of
Moorhead, but admitted that Cass county
has also reachest the high water mark of
expense during the past year, but al
legged that this was in part on account of
the fire; in part on account of the sewers
and other improvements, but more es-
peclally on account of the schools which
they are pushing to a high degree of de-
velopment. But held and backed his
statement by the best attainable statis-
tics tbatfrom the pure Shylockian stand
point it was a money-making transac-
ton by reason of reduced expenses to
prohibit the sale of Intoxicating liquors.
He admitted that the law was not being
enforced; admitted, that in some local..
ties there is no attempt to enforce it and
that in some enforcement is impossible
and yet there is no good reason why the
law should not be maintained.
He regarded the crime of liquor SELL
ing as one that should be classed among
the infamous crimes, and protested
against temperance people admitting
that liquor selling is a crime only be-
cause SO declared by the statutes.
Governor Ain and a large number of
members of the legislature we're present
at the meeting.
Might COn.ider 1t,
Now that a juvenile Jesse James gang
has been unearthed in that city, the
Grand Forks Herald suggests that it
would not be out of order for some of
our lawmakers to introduce a bill in the
present legislature prohibiting the sale
in this state of dime novels of the sort
that make heroes of the James type and
other literature of a like sort. The
reading of such trashy stuff, says the