Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-05-24
AIDING THE RING.

Analysing and Dissecting q Journalistic |
ApoloEist for Plunderers.
Chamberlain Register.
Now the Sioux City Journal comes
out in editorial saying that the capital
commissioners must locate the capital 80
as to favor division. Those scared Jacks
may follow this advice but it is not in
the original programme. Now the ues.
ton is what will that Journal do if they
do not so locate it. Will it come out on
the side of the people and help us fight
the ring or will it do as it has done
before, cringe at OrdwaY's feet.
And further when it is certain that the
crowd oppose division what will the
Journal do then; and Enc, when 1t turns
out as fifty men already know in Dakota
Ter, that Ordway & Co., oppose admis-
sion and secretly have opposed it at last
Will favor admission as whole. Then
what will you do Mr.. Journal. We have
watched Ordway's course for years. We
have tracked him into h!s secret places
and caught him intriguing against the
interests of the people of Dakota. He
has told members Of the cabinet that
their prayers and petitions ought not to
be respected because they were corrupt,
asserting that they we're composed Of
land rings, Indian rings and political
1ngs. And the worst Of it all is by his
wonderful power and authority as gov
ernor and with the help of such great
newspapers as the Sioux City Journal
he ls now able to make his assertions
good because it seems to be true about
rings. However We note that the rings
that are running Dakota to-day are such
as sell capital to the highest bidder.
They are such as have q father for
governor and son for auditor who can
draw warrants at will and they must be
paid by treasurer who has no discre-
ton.
They are such as make capital COM
mission bill for q territory and then an
attorney general bill for . territory, with
the chairman Of the commission under
one, appointed as attorney general under
the other, who would be placed in the
ridiculous position, if he was in good
faith for the people, trying to test the
legality OF the comm ission bill, he
would at the same time be trying to Law
himself out Of Office.
Its such rings as veto one bill for the
Spearfish normal school introduced by
one man an'appropriatfng only 5000, then
induce another man to introduce an
other bill for the same purpose, appro.
priatlng large sum, he voting for the
capital commission bill, and governor
signing the second bill without q
word. 5@s.7
It is such ring - gives it's hearty
endorsement BY its governor to school
OF mines bill, and then when the man
that introduced the bill, refuses to sup.
port the capital loofnmission bill, the
school of mines bill is promptly vetoed.
1t is the ring that goes out of the ter.
ritory for tools to run the penitentiary,
and such good men as have for ten years
lived in Dakota are quietly informed
that they are not wanted only for roust.
abouts and lackies, as was for years the
sheriff of Clay county.
The territory is great enough and
large enough to demand q penitentuary
and to place $40, 900 in the hands of the
governor to spend, but no man In. the
territory is good enough to be warden
Cof it under the Journals governor
Against him it has never dared to say q
word.
In reply to the Press and Daketiar
the Journal tries to hide behind the
following: ~
The charge Of the Press that the
Journal is 'lsboring to build up publ.
sentiment etc., shoot vide Of the mark
All the Journal aims at is to give what
news may grow out OF the movements O
the capital commission and 6ts oppon
ents. This it will continue to do. anG
the side that is the most active will hsv.
the most notoricty, 20 far ~ those col
umns are concerned. a Il 10 the new,
that the general reader wants. and hl
wants it dished mp to him without feal
! or favor.
1t is not the news We complain of, it il
the way it 10 colored and If You call th,
editorials in your newspaper. saying
"Ordvay 10 q good fighter"
If you call slurs at the men and effort
) who are fighting %hs capital commits