Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-09-19
LOVED M'KINLEY.
Former Governor Devine of
North Dakota, Talks.

Says the Dead President was Warmly
Admired in that State-The State not
Cursed with Anarchy
Wheeling News
Former Governor Jos. Devine, now
state uperintendent of schools In
North Dakota, has just returned to
his native town for a weeks stay with
family and friends. He brought with
him his sister Miss Belle Deyine, a
teacher in the Eighth ward school Of
this city, and his little daughter.
When asked about the sentiment in
North Dakota with regard to the pres
idents death and the attitude toward
his successor, Mr.. Devine said:
We have one advantage in the
west: we have no congested centers,
and consequently there are no anar-
chistic tendencies in our men, and /
doubt If We ever shall have. The
west was particularly appreciative of
President Mckinley, and was in
thorough sympathy with his admins.
tration of affairs. They looked upon
him as the one man who presented 10
his life and his close sympathy with
the masses the essential elements
which have given tn Lincoln the love
and vensration Of the people. 1t is a
remarkable and unfortun3te fact that
the one man who had, above all 9TH
ers, on the stump and in the halls OF
congress devoted all his life to the
cause OF the people, at the very height
of his power and with the echo OF his
last triumph ringing round and about
him, should fall by the hand OF a mis-
guided assassin.
IL MKINLEY's STRUGGLES.
But his beautiful, his magnificent
struggle from comparative poverty, his
successive achievements with no af-
fluent friends or rich relatives to back
him; his heroism on the field of battle
in the greatest civil war the world ever
saw; his leadership in debate ia the
greatest representative body on this
earth; his splendid management of
the war with Spain, and his clear
sighted sagacity and far reaching pen
etration in meeting and successfully
settling the complicated questions
arising therefrom place him in the
esteem of all thinking people along
side of our great moral leaders
Washington and Lincoln.
CONDITIONS IN NORTH DAKOTA.
When asked concerning conditions
generally in North Dakota, MI. De
vine said: .'North Dakota is essen
tally progressive state, from the
fact that it is made UP largely of the
cest young men who come from the
best states In the Union. That it is
a rapidly growing state Is evidenced
from the fact that during the past
four years not less than a hundred
thousand people have come into it
from other states to take advantage
of its rich lands and to make perma-
nent homes. In 1890 the census
showed population of 1872, 600. In
1900 the census showed population
of 319, 600"
How about the schools, and have
you state university"
I'VE have as progressive and up-tO-
date system of public schools perhaps,
as AMI state in the Union, North Da-
kotawas crowned with statehood but
a little over twelve years ago, and yet
today we have thirty five hundred
well equipped, modernly constructed
school houses, and we paid to the
1920 teachers that control and direct
them almost a million dollars last
year.. We have a splendid university
with permanent fund that will
eventually reach $1,000, 600. We
have two normals, deaf and dumb
school and a school of manual train
ing. We have a federal endowment
OF 2, 100000 acres of land which at
the minimum price fixed by law $40
per acre, will bring in permanent
fund of $25, 900, 900.
"For the aggregate value of the
crop this year, including all live stock
there will come to the $40, 1000 people
Of the state about $50, 900, 900. This
in itself will give some idea of the
healthful chunks OF prosperity that
are the easy possession of the people
OF North Dakota"