Jamestown Weekly Alert, 1885-10-22, p.6

Jamestown Weekly Alert, Jamestown, 1885-10-22, p.6

Summary

An editorial brief in the Jamestown (Dakota Territory) Weekly Alert quoting the London Times to the effect that the government of Ireland "has passed or is rapidly passing out of the hands of her majesty's ministers." A small but telling marker of Irish Home Rule sympathy circulating in the Dakota frontier press in 1885 — the political weather the Dakota Irish (the milieu the Murphys passed through) were reading.

In its time

Narrative

Marshall McClure's column in Jamestown quotes the London Times on the collapse of British control in Ireland: that the government of Ireland has passed or is passing out of the hands of her majesty's ministers. [transcription partial — an adjacent brief on Gen. Hazen is not transcribed]

“It is impossible to disguise or palter with the fact that the government of Ireland has passed or is rapidly passing out of the hands of her majesty's ministers”

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Places

Jamestown, North Dakota (origin)
Dakota Territory / North Dakota (origin)
Ireland (subject)

Themes

Story threads

Famine to emigration

Source type

editorial

Transcription

transcription: complete · confidence high

# The Alert. ### By Marshall McClure. — Jamestown, Dakota. *Jamestown Weekly Alert, Thursday, October 22, 1885, p. 6 (date and page from the Newspapers.com caption; the clipping shows the editorial column head but no folio).* The London Times senses the situation when it says: "It is impossible to disguise or palter with the fact that the government of Ireland has passed or is rapidly passing out of the hands of her majesty's ministers. --- [Editor's note: the item is complete; the paper prints no closing quotation mark. It is the first brief under the editorial column head; the next brief begins "Gen. Hazen has just published 'A" and is cut off by the foot of the clipping. The archive holds no full page for this issue.] *[Text checked against the clipping image (the archive has no page scan for this issue) at 1.6x, 21 Oct 2026; it agrees with the Claude-vision reading of 4 Oct 2026.]*