Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-01
OUR NORTHWESTERN NEIGHBOURS.
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Paul Globe.
II is said that one OF the leading dele
gates to the late convention az Sioax Falls
estimates the opposition to the division
movement and constitution framed st one-
fifth of the voters OF S )uth Dakota II
the press OF that section is taken rs a
criterion the adverse elemen5 must be
vastly larger. 1t is surprising to note the
number of prominent and apparently in
Auential journals in that section that are
actively hostile to the separate movement
The fact is noted simply as a matter of
information to readers, who may suppose
there is substantial unanimity on the sub
ject. This opposition is specially active
west of the Missouri river and in
the more nertherly and central
counties, but is by no means confined to
these sections. Even in Sioux Falls,
where the convention was held, the Argus,
an able and vigorous sheet, which claims
to be the exponent of strong public
sentiment, sums up the result of the con-
ner:
The claim has been made by the division ad-
vocates that the people were at the back of the
movement and that the men who had come to
the front and were carrying it on, were in
spired by pure patriotism, aud that they were
all honorable gentlemen working without
hope of reward to relieve the people of the
crushing weight of despotic and tyrannical
government. To be sure it did
not require division of our
grand domain into two states to do
this and to account for the division feature of
the scheme, our North Dakota neighbors were
called all sorts of naughty names AID the scare
crow of the Northern Pacific railroad as great
monopoly was dressed out in horrible and fan
tastic garb to frighten the people The divi-
sion convdntion met, having been elected by
about a one-tenth vote and proceeded to draft
a so-called constitution. For several days
everything went on smoothly and tremendously,
but last Saturday the cloven foot was shown
and over the question of the spoils such discord
and contention aroea that for & time it seemed
almost certain that the convention would
break up the row. If any evidence was needed
to show that the whole scheme on the part OF
its leader at least, was what the argus had
maintained, it was furnished By this wrangling
about the offices. The prohibition debate was
mild and spiritless compared with the heat and
The members intoxicated by their lust for Office
threw off the mask and the truth which had been
covered by their declarations of patiotism dd-
aauseun,, came out that office after all was low
ed above all, the great and only vital question in
the whole business. Thus was the old adage
verified that drunken men tell the truth.
As an impartial observer it is of inter
est to note the probable effect of yigor-
GUS and conspicuous antagonism to the
state scheme as formulated at Sioux Falls
found among the people included in the
limits of the proposed state. AS matter
of policy the democratic party is unfriend-
ly to the admission of republican states,
and the fact that the determination of the
character of the representation of the pro-
posed state in the two Houses of congress
issleft till the question of admission Is
settled, dissipates all tangible value to the
theory that the Democrats are to have an
equal share in that representation. The
fact that nine-tenths of the press of that
section is Republican will be taken as sufi-
cient evidence of the political COM
plexion of the state and its
local antagonism will afford sufficient pre-
text to the Democratic party to deny the
applicant admission. It will be support
ed to large extent in this by the jealousy
of thu eastern aud manufacturing states
of the growing strength of the agricultural
states of the west. The grounds of this
jealousy it is not needfuI to consider. The
fact is sufficient. It follows then, that
while one or more states must and will be
framed and admitted in the not remote
future, out of Dakota territory, now will
secure admission without the concurrence
with the substantial unanimity of
the people of all sections of the terri
tory and it may be presumed the initiatory
consent of congress. If the time for state
hood is reached it would seem the part of
craftsmanship and policy first TO Secure
the harmonious cooperation of the peo-
pie in all parts of the territory. Repre-
sentatives from each of the leading sec
tions should amicably confer together.a and
unite upon the means that will insure the
desired ends. This is chiefly matter of
comfy with the sections that are Indifferent
to or not prepared for the assumption Of
the larger powers and more anxious exact
ions of statehood, but for those who sup
pose their interests require movement in
that direction it would seem to be mat
ter of serious moment.