Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1899-01-19
THE FIRST BALLOT.
1t was Taken Today IN Joint
Session for United States
Senator.
No Choice was Made and the
. Session Adjourned.
Johnson 20.
The House Adjourned at Noon
out of Respect to Represen-
tatiVe MCHarg.

Bismarck, Jan IS Especial to Alert)-
The Joint session met today at noOn and
large crowd Of spectators applauded
the nominating speeches by Ames, Wal
lace, Sargent. Stevens, Lynch, Bacon and
Penke. Al members were present but
Representative McHarg. who Is attend
ing funeral OF sister; Guloch excused.
On first JOINT ballot the following was
the result: Cooper 5, Hanna 6, johnson
%, La Moure s, Marshall II, McCumber
6, Roach IT, Hanna l.
The changes we're: Arnold from John
son to Cooper; Tousley. johnson to
Hanna: Earl, Hama to Marshall; John
son OF Richland from NcCumber to
johnson; Berger from Roach to johnson.
After first ballot joint session dissolved.
On motion OF Laughlin the house
adjourned till Thursday out of respect
for McHarg.
Bismarck, Jan. 1S-The vote in the
LEGISLATURE on senator yesterday after
noon was the same as in caucus. Nc
Harp WAS paired with Walbert. The
fusonjsts voted for Roach excepting
Creel, who voted for Hannafin. In both
houses the total vote WAS: johnson 20;
Marshall II; Cooper /; Hanna 6; La
Moure 8; McCumber 7; Little g.; Roach
10; and Hannafn l. The two houses
meet today 10 joint session, and no
changes.ot moment are expected unit
that session is over.
People are coming in from all over the
state interested IN the election. The
struggle in the house on joint ballot be-
gins this week. Losses.of johnson men
are confidently expect to occur:soon, 90
members are getting tired voting in
caucus for candidates who have not
strength enough to win. It ls claimed
that four or more johnson votes will
leave him today or tomorrow unless he
elbows gsins. % the other hand John.
son men claim they have reserves which
will be called out at the proper time.
The fusionists gave Senator Roach Q
complimentary vote. His term has been
mostly served in the minority ana be
had no patronage to dispense to make
bis acts look patriotic and statesman
like. Roach has voted steadily in the
interests OF his people, not truste, and
has treated every one who came and
went courteously. He has attended to
bis business and commands the respect
Of all men and the regard of those who
are not dazed by the dream OF pomp
conquest and military power which
events Of late have generated in email
class Of the people.
Members from the western part OF the
state are anxious about the wolf bounty
law. 1t is proposed to get the Dakotas
and Montana to enact the same leRls.
lation so that no one will have to pay
more than the other.
The temperance com mission bill seems
to be approved and Lindelie favored fol
the commissioner.
IS. Norgaard, editor Of the Fargo
Posten, is opposed to johnson and says
that johnson raises tue nationality cry
to profit by it. He asserts that Scandi-
navians of the state have honored
johnson enough; that he has drawn
$4,000 tor bis services and $1,000 yeal
for secretary, which he has mostly kept
In his family; that the scandinavia
voters Of the state are under no further
obligations to him.
As one OF his claims for reelection
harmonlzing with cheap wheat, johnson
claims to have been the original colo
standard man in the state and that hi:
farsiRhted dlscernment led him to adopt
that policy while other party leaders
we're struggling with the question o.
expediency. A communication frou
Nelson county published in the Tribune
here ststes that Mr.. Johnson's claim il
like good many others he makes, rather
weak. Sept. Is, 1894, Ut the Nelson
county republican .conve ntion johnson
endorsed the "unlimited coinage o
American silver" in his speech. and tba
he controlled the convention wbicl
adopted The resolution. The article
further states that since the congress
mans advent into politics in 1888. snt
since bic election ss states attorney o
Nelson county, many OF tho leading mt
Of his party have become fusionists ant
the county 10 nov represented by such.
In the vote yesterday for senator