Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-10-16
IN THE FUTURE.
Preparing to Over,urn the Corraptionists
of Dakota.


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of Dakota.
Grand Forks Herald.
When the territory is again called upon
to elect q legislature there will be no lack
Of important matters Of public interest
upon which to decide. The administra-
tion Of Governor Ordway. and the sub.
servient ring by whom he has been able
to give his nefarious acts OF misgovern.
mont the pseudo stamp Of popular ap.
provsl, affords 30 many grounds for the
indictment of the false stewards Of the
people, that one hesitates before select.
ing one reason OF the condemnation Of
the capital ring before another. The
iniquities Of the capital commission; the
shameless greed Of those who enriched
Themselves out Of the plnnder wrenched
from the people; the arbitary and
despotic course pursued by Governor
Ordway. relying upon slavish and
purchased eDdorsation of the traitors
to the interests Of those who elected
them; the arbitrary attempt to etife the
voice Of law a3d justice as expressed by
the bench; the incorporation Of unheard
OF executive encroachments-all points
to the necessity, on the part OF the PEG.
pie, of asserting at the first opportunity
their sovereign power, OF protesting
against cementing the corner stones oi
the foundation of Dakota's future in
fraud. corruption and hypocrisy. But it
is not alone these sutrages upon decen.
cy, upon honor and upon the interests of
the people. which have condemned the
governor and bis supporters in the legls-
lature. In matters Of material leRisla-
tion, they have been either criminslly
negligent, or Lave ignorantly pandered
to the lobbyists who have successfully
endeavored to fasten the letters of mo-
nopoly upon the industry of this country.
No measure was ever devised or better
calculated to work direct and intoler.
able injury to the interests of the peo.
pie, than the railway measure of last
session, which is now the Law Of the ter
ritory. That the people, through false
representatives and dishonest and un-
scrnpulous administration, should be
made to saddle upon themselves the
burden OF improving by their industry
the values of all railway property, while
at the same time these railways 20 free
from all taxation, and have concurrently
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burdens upon traffic to the last cent OF
the ability OF the producer to bear, and
have even shadow left of his legitimate
proff-would seem to be proposition
monstrous, that no Legislators weuld be
deemed capable of intiictine it. But such
isthe measure, which is one OF the legacias
of Ordway and his supporters to the peo.
pie OF this territory. In the election OF a
Lew legislature that will be aside from
the stables of corruption of the capital
ring which have to be cleansed, one OF
the main issues. And the people will
not only demand the punishment of
those who have proved recreant to their
trust, and the reversal of this iniquitous
law, but the passage of legislative enact
ment limiting the power of railways IN
the imposition of freight tolls. The
case is aptly put by the jamestown
Alert, which says: Because the rail.
roads have been blessing in opening
up the country to settlement is no reason
they should be allowed to become 6
curse by robbing the people who have
settled and improved it."