The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1882-02-16
II Appears He Has.

It Appears He Has.
The editor of the News asks the ques-
ton in the last issue Has Governor
Orlway slandered Dakota, and in en-
deavoring to establish negative answer,
he commences with the assertion that
as no particulars were given by Mr..
Pettigrew in his charge that the Governor
had committed that offense, all candid
men would conclude there was no cause
of action, particularly when it was known
Mr.. Pettigrew had no official business in
Washington until the first Monday in
December, and until that time had no
duties or functions that could be as
sumed by anybody For these reasons,
to-wit because no particulars were given
and because the delegate elect had no
official business no duties or functions
that could be assumed by anybody" All
candid men are to conclude there was ''no
cause of action In other words, these
things being So Ordway has not tslandered
Dakota and the editor asks us to so con-
clude.
Patent logic surel y-for candid men to
be called upon to deduce the premises or
fact that Delegate Pettigrew has stated
falsely. We cannot SO see it from the
News stand point but it may be we are
not one of the candid spoken of
Further in the effort to deny the charge
of s1aader on the part of the Governor,
citations are made of certain charges made
against him last winter wherein it was
said he tried to block the wheels of prog
ress, by vetoing certain measures or bills
passed by the Legislature, such as one to
Increase Judge, Moody's salary also one
relative to the erection of a court house
and Jail in Pembina county one for
Moody county, and one for the erection
OF a Jail in Lincoln county. (By the way
1t fell to the writer's personal knowledge
and observation at Yankton last winter
that the News editor interested himself |
earnestly for the passage of the latter bill, |
and asks ''if any sane man dare to say
that IN these matters the Governor went
against the wishes OF the people ?" Well,
what of it? Admit for the purpose of
this article that he was justified in all he
done relative to the charges made against
him last winter-does that dnsver the
charge made by Mr.. Pettigrew and echoed
by the pape s y
A further all,lsion is made to the
Governors commendable efforts in ex-
hibiting Dakotas products over the east
and to his labors toward obtaining relief
for the food sufferers. Admit this-was
he doing any more than his duty-or was
it a trying and unpleasant burden to bear,
and further, does his answer the charge
the News is trying to make false?
Following, the News in answer to the
assertion of Mr. Pettigrew that the Gov
ernor wrote the President that the fnan-
cal condition of the territory was alarming,
frankly admits that he does not know
what the Governor has written to the
President, but presumes he did write
relative to the Indebtedness of Bon
Homme, Yankton, Charles Mix, and
Lawrence counties, as indicated by a
Washington dispatch (which dispatch was
said to be given upon the Governor
suggestion) and concludes that paragraph
with the assertion that the Governor does
right in calling attention to this matter.
Well, suppose these counties are laboring
under heavy indebtedness, even to the
amount of figures given, do they include
the whole territory with its $31, ,963, $40. 80
assessed valuation of property? Must
the whole territory, whose property is
increasing at the rate of millions yearly,
be pronounced as being in alarming
condition? And does this refute the
charge Of slander?
The closing portion of the article claims
to make some choice selections from late
report of the Governor, SUCH as "intelli-
gent, of a superior class, the
generality of the ae,o settlers to be the
most excellent" How about the old
settlers?) This report we have not had
the honor or privilege of seeing, but
conclude that there must be some report
in which some other inference has been
drawn as to Governor affection for Da-
kota, when no longer ago than Monday
last 70 of the delegates at Washington,
who were chosen at the Sioux Falls con-
vention to represent southern Dakota,
called upon President Arthur and present
ed the following resolutions as reported by
Sundays dispatches to the Pioneer Press:
Whereas, 1t is the earnest desire Of the
people Of the Territory of Dakota residing
south Of the forty sixth parallel that such
part of said Territory should be formed
into State and admitted into the Union;
and whereas, N. G. Ordway, the present
governor, has at sundry times and in
divers ways, through self-saught press
interviews, his annual report to the Sec
retary Of the Interior and his letter to the
President of the United States, represent
ed the people thereof as irresponsible and
the Legislature as mercinary, and that an
alarming financial and political condition
exists therein and whereas, by such rep
resentations the said Ordway has grossly
DETAINED the people of the said Territory,
and has greatly damaged the material
interests Of the same, has left his post of
duty at the capitol of the Territory to give
his entire time and attention to opposing
admission while pretending to favor it:
therefore be it
Resolved, That we, the delegates ap-
poiatcd by the convention of 500 memb-
ers, representing all of the old counties
comprising the proposed new State of
Dakota, most urgently and respectfully
recommend his immediate removal; and
be it further
Resolved, That this delegation go as
body to the President of the United States
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