Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-23
DAKOTA STATESMEN.
GRAPHIC PEN PICTURE OF THE
TERRITORIAL BRETHREN.
Why the Admission Movement Has Been
Failure-Judged by Their Public Men
Congress Did Not Want to Take in Such
a Gang.
Especial Correspondence of the Globe. !


action On the 4th of next month, have
brought Dakota into prominence before
the eyes of the nation in a manner neither
complimentary nor pleasing to the inhab-
| itants.
1t is a significant fact that the people
of territory larger than New England,
whose broad and fertile prairies
are traversed by the mightiest railways of
the continent, scattered DER it are the
liveliest cities in the west, who light their
streets, stores, and residences with cleo
tricity, talk by telephone, ride in street
cars, and live as as all metropolitan cities
| do; whose children are taught in its own
colleges and universities, and attend as
| fine public schools as any in the country;
whose people are cultured, intellectual.
moral, enterprising, and refined; say
| it is significant, that such a people as
| this, should sue for admission to the sis
| terhoOd of states to which she would be
credit and an honor, and be refused. And
how much more significant, that the man
who sent himself to congress to secure
this end, and failed only because the more
respectable members of congress would
not recognize him, should lead in move
ment, the like of which outlawed Aaron
Burr and destroyed the citizenship of JEFF
| ferson Davis
| Why should Dakota, the fairest subdi-
vision of our glorions country, ask favors
of anyone? Why should she lower her
dignity by pressing for admission, when
she has been denied? Simply because the
political hirelings of a corrupt and de-
| graded clique; the self constituted dema-
| gogues who hold up the unruffied surface
of their own empty noodles as the mirror
in which to reflect the thoughts and opin.
| ions of their tyrant masters, choose to say
| she wants to be.
Who are Pettigrew, Ordway, Raymond
Miller. Walsh, La Moure, and that class of
| Tvs What was Ordway before he came to
| Dakota? He was so vile the "too pure"
| Hayes q Co. administration couldn't stand
| ham there, and so they sent him out to
| Dakota, when Dakota was not the enlight-
ened and refined commonwealth she is to-
| day, in the vain hope that his worthless
scalp would infuse a little energy into
some vagabond Sioux or wandering Sis
seton.
The trap so warily laid would not spring
for the coveted game kept carefully out of
| it, by continuing to open "jack- pots'' and
''raise the limit" in Washington gambling
| bells, and when this grew tame, to seek
the society of hell-born humanity, in worse
i than gambling resorts. There then, is
Pettigrew, a man whom no decent gam
bier would associate with, and a worse
than nonenity in Washington. And the
alleged people sent him to represent them
| in the national councils.
| A man whom gentlemen would not do
the honor of sneering at, appearing on the
| floor of the United States congress as the
champion of Dakota! And then eastern
people wonder why an independent state
movement is necessary. Mr.. Pettigrew is
a man who couldn't make an extempore
| speech to a club house loafer, if he had six
| weeks to prepare it in, and then to expect
that he could do anything with the refined
asses and gentlemanly iacknapes that COM
pose the average American congress is an
absurdity.
Raymond, the present delegate, is a
harmless little individual, who never had
an idea of his own, and wouldn't dare ex-
press it if he had, unless Ordway or Ed
wards said he could. He is not even a
representative citizen of Dakota. He
owns a farm and runs it well; so far as
known he is honest, but he figured rather
unpleasantly in a political trade some
years since, and was somewhat injured
thereby. When the band serenaded him
at the time of his election, he couldn't &C.
knowledge the honor, but had Gil Roberts
do it for him, and when you put terrific
rial delegate in the house of representa-
tives, who hasn't the brains nor ability to
conceive an idea, nor the power to express
it, there isn't much that he can do.
Miller, of Fargo, is nothing in particu-
Ha - of
brotherin- law of Pettigrew, and
a heavy weight partner in
his operations, He is an
| expert lobbyist and consummate politician.
He spent some weeks at Yankton, lobby
and figuring more or less on the inside of
! the removal ring,
Geo. Fl. Walsh, of this city, is another
political outcast of the same type, who
has, in times gone by, swung the political
lariet with more or less severity, and fig
ured prominently in territorial matters,
but the fruits of his labor remain to be
developed.
Jud La Moure is man of neither princi-
pie nor honor, and one whom his friends
distrust and his enemies hate He has
been san old wheel horse in territorial
matters, letting the headers" do the work
while he got the oats.
And such is the picture which would
draw for you, readers, of the political
leaders of the various rings in Dakota.
Look at it, ye who marvel at Dakota's
magical developments, and wonder how
she could thrive at all, with such political
marplots and despicable gamblers at the
helm. De- you wonder that. with such
men to the front, congress shudders at in
Producing Dakota in the drawing room of
states? Do you wonder that it does not
care to father such a lot, and
yet back of them in the throng
| of honest, law abiding citizens,
are men who have come from the highest
circles of honesty and virtue in the east,
to make their homes in this land of No. l
hard and high priced corner lots.
They are men of ability and trustworthi-
ness, whom gentlemen would deem it an
honor and ladies pleasure to meet and
| entertain.
Had Dakota ever had delegate with
| the ability to make even an ordinary
speech, the present independent state or
| ganization movement would have been
suspended by admission long ago.
But the people are not in this move
| mani