Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1896-03-26
A BRIEF HISTORY.
Mr.. Fuller'S Claim to Being a
Republican Examined
The Record.
Is His Claim on Republican
Voters Justified by This
Past Record?
Some ReCOlleCtiOnS AS to How
Non-Residents Have Voted
and Who For.

In order to hold voters Of Jamestown
in line, Mr.. Fuller has been urging re-
publicsns to vote for him for mayor in
this city election on the grounds that be
is republican and that this is q repub-
lican year. Let US see il Mr.. Fuller's
record will justify this claim IN regard
to bis republicanism.
It has long been we'll known that Mr..
Fuller while residing in Vermont, and
before coming to the territory Of Da-
kota, was democrat and was elected
to the state legislature of Vermont to
represent democratic district; and that
during the palmy days of green backism
he was known as greenbacker also.
At the beginning of Mr.. Fuller's
political career in Stutsman county in
1889 many remember that he had agreed
with certain democrats to become their
candidate for state senator and to accept
the nomination at their hands for that
office. At the last moment the deal was
switched and Mr.. Fuller became a candl-
date before the republican county con-
vention and, failing to secure the noml-
nation, bolted that convention and ran
indep pendently.
At this time Mr.. Fuller was mayor of
the city, and report of the primaries
held to select delegates to the repub-
lican county convention states that Mr..
Fuller got delegates in the city to that
convention, and asks how did he get
them? The following statement was
published in The Alert at chat time:
"Any citizen who was here Saturday
can tell. No one can dispute the fact
that the delegates elected in the third
and fourth wards were elected y vote
OF non residents run IN the interests of
B. w. Fuller-voted for nim-and SO
packed the voting places as 30 hinder
the voting of bonafide residents Of the
wards, who left the polls in disgust after
fruitless effort to cast their votes
Do the people want to elect as mayor
this year any man, who, from any
motive, would permit repetition of
such proceeding? Is it not time we
cast off entirely the political methods of
territorial days?
At that time the democrats were in
the minority-the republicans We're con-
sidered in this comfy The stronger
hence the reason, as assigned by many.
for Mr.. Fuller's political choice OF
parties.
IN the election of 1890 a great many
will remember that Mr.. Fuller, after re-
ceiving the republican nomination in
the convention, joined with the demo-
Gratis in putting up mongrel county
ticket, which succeeded in defeating
several of the most important nominees
on the republican ticket. The consider
alton for Mr.. Fuller's support OF certain
persons on the democratic ticket was
currently reported to be that no candi-
date in opposition to him for state sena-
tor would be put IN nomination by the
democrats. This agreement was carried
out, at least Mr.. Fuller had no opposl-
tion, and was triumphantly elected.
In 1892, it is also we'll known, that
large number of illegal voters we're run
into the city, and it was at that time
generally believed that considerable
number OF these men voted in at least
three of the city wards. One man who
was engaged in the work has stated
since that. to his knowledge, twenty
illegal votes we're run through three
city wards. Many citizens remember
the crowds on the street early that elec-
ton day-ot mon who went from place to
place looking up at the signs to get ac-
quainted with the town. where they
had never been before. Mr.. Fuller was
also elected 10 this election to the state
senate.
From these statements and brief his
tory of past politics in Stutsman county,
it is plain to all persons that Mr.. Fuller
is the last man who should lay claim to
republican votes on the grounds of his
being republican.
This city election is not party fight,
although some of Mr. Fuller's friends
are trying to make it appear so. 1t is
no more of party fight this year than
last, when Mr.. Eager was elected
mayor.