Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-24

ole. dilt lAJuIe me. 1 came 10 lldfOld
over n year ago as your friend. tax,
ing but little stock in the stories abroad
concerning you. but / am now forced
to concede that one-hali has not yet
been told. l believe you to be an in
famous villain, a political demagQgue,
and as base and bad a scoundrel as eyer
went unhung. Y )
Your defeat and forced failure in the
scheme lof organizing Hyde county
has so angered you, that you, that you
have nov intruded upon us two sets of
commissioners, which will be apt to
keep Us in revulsion for some time to
come, but Hyde county Mili MAINTAIN
its rights against your detestable usur-
patton. You are not king of Dakota.
You are not in any monarchical sense,
Nehemiah the First. and thank God in
a republican sense you will be Nehe-
miah the last. =. x y y
D, A. w. PERKINS.
The apathy of the people, if it is us
general elsewhere in southern Dakota
as it was in this section, is likely to
have an effect which will be the cause
of much regret to the territory. The
result will likely be accepted at Wash
ington and throughout the territory as
Il confederation of what Ordway de-
clared regarding the movement. This
will certainly be the case if he can
make it appear that there was a strug-
gle on both sides, and that the verdict
was against the movement. Anybody
who had an opportunity to observe af-
fairs knows that this was moi the ease.
The leaders of the opposition were out
and at work, drumming up voters and
doing everything possible to defeat the
constitution. For them it was an old
fashioned election day, with hard work
at ele%ctioneering and all the methods
to be observed when there is a red hot
partisan fight on hand; While with the
friends of the movement it was a mat
ter to which nobody gave anything like
the attention which the case deserved.
IT this feature could be understood.
then the danger of Ordway being able
to make capital out of the result would
be avoided; but the difficulty will be to
impress people at a distance with the
idea that simple, ordinary, cool-blooded
patriotism unexpectedly hopes of any
immediate personal reward, is no match
for personal interest and ambition and
the desire which some people have to
vent their spite and to ruin where they
cannot rule.-SiouX Falls Press.
The light vote in Dakota on the pro-
posed constitution will be disappoint-
ment to the friends of the movement
that eliminated III the Sioux Falls con-
vention. 1t will be a disappointment
to all who believe that justice and rea-
son require the immediate admission
of Dakota to the rights Of statehood.
In view of the failure to secure admis-
sion at the last session of congress, and
the further fact that the petition for
admission this winter must he made to
an u%nfriendly majority in the house of
representatives, the highest motives of
policy required that the people of Da-
kota should give forth no uncertain
sound, and that all collateral, personal
and local considerations should besunk
IN the mnlo cause Of securing the
rights of the territory. If lethargy
and indifference, or local chickering's, or
any cause whatever has neutraliZed the
force OF the verdict, or detracted from
it's emphasis, the democrats in congress
will be only too eager to seize upon
that fact as an excuse for denying to
Dakota that recognition to which. even
without importantly, she is entitled
1t matters little in what way the peo-
pie OF the territory should express their
will, SO it be expressed without ambig-
uity. But even though the result of
the election be only apparently ambig-
uous, and susceptible of explanation
on the basis of a general desire for
statehood, it will, nevertheless, place
the friends Of Dakota in congress at a
disadvantage in the contest which the
democratic party is almost sure to
make against admission. If such shall
be the result Of the election, it will be
a subject for sincere regret to all who
desire to see the just and right thing
done by Dakota, and citizens of that
territory will have no one to blame but
themselves.-SiouN City journal.
The Alpena Journal discusses the
county organization business from a
stand point that is fully indicated by
the following extract:
Let usb a fulltiedged county at once
and dc away with sending all our re-
cording to a foreign country to be