Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-02-14
mesa man of YanktonI county
or city to hesitate about choosing the

Dese Way-and the only way loft-Out OF
n serious predicament. Thenew bond
means renewed prosperity and . new
growth and development, whereas the de-
feat Of the bill wonld mean darker per-
haps than any previous chapter in the
history of an affair which has been the
one obstacle the friends OF Yankton
county and OF Dakotn havo found ins,lr.
mOuntable.
1t is, therefore, q source Of great and
general coDgratulation to feel that MI
Dewey's bill will in all probability re-
ceive the hearty and spont Mucous in.
dorsement of this people at tbe polls. It
may indeed be urged, on the one, hand,
that in view Of the action Of the citizens
meeting last fall, tho rate Of interest
should have been fixed at'4L per cent
for the entire period; and, on the other
hand, that such rute, in view OF the opin-
ion of certain congressman. should have
not exceeded per cent for the last twen-
ty years the bonds are to run il not paid
after ten years; but there can be NO ques-
ton, under the circumstances, but that
public sentiment will very generally ap-
prove of the bill as it is, on the sensible
ground that 1t is. perhaps, es near even
justice as it seemed possible to arrive at
in the matter.
II Dakota shonld be neither divided
nor admitted this winter, it is barely
possible, to put it mildly, that republic
cans will lose more than the three electo.
ral votes of one new state in 1884. A
democratic congress con hardly fail to
pay some attention to popular clamor,
aud Dakota. il kept out longer, promises
to become very troublesome territory.
With something to be done as mat
ter Of policy, democratic managers may
be shrewd enough to see an opportunity,
under the guise of doing the fair thing
by m enemy for the sake of the dear
people, of dealing that same enemy q
stunning blow between the eyes.
Democrats may be forced to the ne
cessity of admitting one republican
state, but they will not create, or see
created, q second Dakota if they can
help it.
They would very likely postpone the
admission of the first state as long as
possible, in the hope of making its ena.
bling act imperative until after the
presidential election, and they might de.
wise at the same time scheme whereby
second state would be long time in
coming forward. Suppose that the
democrats were to divide Dakota to suit
themselves? Their carving knife, il
may be taken for granted, would be ap,
piled in manner that republicans, as
party men, and the people of Dakota
would hardly fancy. They might take
it into their heads to continue the Mis-
souri, river as political boundary, anG
proceed to define all that part of Dakota
lying east Of the Missouri to be the
state of that name, and to attach tn,
northern section of that portion of tn
present territory lying west of the Mis-
souri, to the territory of Montana, ant
the southern section, including th
Black Hills country, to Wyoming terri
tory. Thus, while yielding to publ
opinion 80 far as to admit state of Da
kota, the willy democrats could nip in it
bud the promised bloom of secont
state to follow, and fail to provide re
publican president with another territor,
with its offices for tie faithful.
It may be said that Dakotians woul
protest against such dismembermen
Of their territory, and make yigorou
fight for the two states. to which the.
entitled. True but it must be remem
bered that "hope deferred maketh th
heart sick" and that if all chance of rel
ting into the union at all before 1885, {
for several years to come, should depen
upon democratic charity, there is fair
possibility of just such contingenc
arising as might secure support on thi
soil for device SO cunningly conceive
as this coup d'etat of the democracy.
Why have republicans been so dllator.
when in the protection OF their own il
terests they would be sustained by IL
country2 It should not be forgotte
moreover. that the division of Dakota .
desired by o majority of her people, az
the immediate admission of the fir
state, involve other and higher tbs
partisan considerations Of any sort ar
on either side. PALNuD.