Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-08-06
JUMBO JUICE.
The mutterings and sputterinss Of .
Lost Soul.
Shrieks and Lamentations of
Disappointed Ragc-Ordway
on his Royal Ear.
Sioux City journal.

sioux City Journal.
Gov. Ordway of Dakota was in the
city yesterday on his return from Yer
million, where he attended the meeting
of the regents Of the university on Thurs
day evening. He stated that the regents
had adopted plans for the new Central
university building and prepared notices
for proposals from builders. The pro.
posals are to be received and opened by
the regents on the 23d inst. Arrange.
ments were also made for furnishing the
south wing. which is now completed. and
for employment of one principal pro.
fessor and two other professors. The fall
term will be opened early IN September
tor both the academic and normal depart.
ments. Rev. DIR. Eppstein will remain
as professor of languages, and oreaniz.
ing the students for the coming fall
term.
The governor stated that he was on
his way to north Dakota, by wav OF
Mitchell and Huron, and wonld be in the
city until midnight Tie Journal rep.
resentative saw his advantage, and, as
the governor seemed IN colloouia]
mood, determined to ascertain the senti.
ment of his excellency concerning some
OF the questions which are now ptomi.
nently before the people of the territory
After referring to the great prosperity
which Is now beaming upon Dakota, the
question was asked:
DO you regard the vote for delegates
to the Sioux Falls convention as repre.
senting the deep-seated sentiment of the
people, or expressing the desires OF per.
sons inaugurating the movement the
convention is intended to be part OFF,
The governor thought a minute, and
then very deliberately replied:
"Ihe extremely light vote reported in
most OF the counties would indicate that
not one in ten of the voters and tar.
payers had taken interest enough in the
movement to even tend election. There
ls undoubtedly general desire among
the republicans to secure. in legal and
respectful way, authority from congress
to divide the territory and admit a Dor.
tion of it as state. The wild and dis.
loyal utterances, however, of would.be
leaders who bava been shelved under the
territorial government, have doubtless
disgusted large numbers of reputable
citizens who have refrained from taking
any part in the revolutionary programme
secretly hatched at Sioux Falls and
lankton and cunningly put forth at Hu
ron.
"The inevitable issuance of an enor
nous amount of illegal certificates of in.
debtedness by self-constituted commit
tee, to be validated by the next territorial
legislature or loaded upon the new state
has also made the farmers and tax. PAYERS
who know that in the end they will have
to pay these bills, distrustful of tb.
movement and the men who are actiyel,
pushing it. The Burroughs enabling act
which was prepared with great care nm
der the direction of the territorial com
mlttee OF the last house of representa-
tlves, embraces nearly every safeguard
and restriction which any considerabl,
number of the people of the territor,
would regard as necessary, with the ex
ception, perhaps, of prohibition claus,
which tew OF the clergymen who hav,
allowed their names to be used as dele
gates to the Sioux Falls convention hay,
promised their trusting parishioner,
they could secure, but which, if report i,
to be relied upon, the political clergy
men themselves have had to abandon
and repudiate in order to secure til,
saloon influence to get their names upor
the ticket. In word, the committees O,
territories in both houses of congress,
placed in the enabling act, which will b,
re.introduced when congress assem-
bles, at my suggestion ampl,
provisions for the protection of tn,
school lands, the university and apricnl
tural lands, and also provisions for ,
large and legally constituted constitu
tlonal convention, an increased member
ship in the legislative assembly, limita
ton upon county and municipal indebt
edness, and nearly every wise provision
which ls found in the most comprehen
sive and we'll digested constitutions O
the new and prosperous states in til,
northwest"
The emphatic references of the roy
ernor to the Sioux Falls convention re
called to the mind of the reporter an in
terview with ex.Delegatc Frank Petit
grew by Byron Andrews. the Washing
ton correspondent of the Chicago Inter
Ocean. who is now spending vacation
at DeSmet, d. L. The interview was O
considerable length and was publishs,
in the 1nter-Ocean first, from which pa
per 1t was copied quite extensively. I
represented the ex.delegatc as unfoldin,
plan by which southern Dakota was I,
become state III spite of the fedora
government. aud oust the present fed
eral officers. Accordingly the governo
was asked if he had seen the interyiey
in question.
yes" he replied vigorously, "I reat
It IN that delectable sheet. the Press an,
Dakotaian, where it was printed unde
large head lines of emphatic endorse
ment OF its revolutionary contents, moi
OF that paper is straining himself +
reach the Yankton postotlice and becom
hireling of the government, Nhic
PettiRrew so vigorously denaunces.
am convinced OF the genuineness of til
interview, knowing the reliable charat
ter OF the newspaper man who reporte
it to the Inter Ocean. Notwithstsndin
the interview contains score Of th
! haldest kind Of falschoods- instanc