Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-08-27

and many of them eeem to be actuated
by the singular belief that such course
would bring about conflict with the
present territorial official force. They
seem also to look upon the move us one
OF defiance to tho constituted authorities
and semi-revolutionary in its nature
Upon this point we cannot but differ
with many of tho advocates Of division
and admission The nomination and
election Of list OF officials for the com.
ing state would be not only entirely
proper, but one of the necessities of the
hour. 1t is held that congress cnunct
deny MS admission after the adoption
and ratification Of state constitution.
AS soon as the order is issued declaring
Dakotaa state the territorial government
| will Cease. We will then need an
executive head aud law making body
to Immediately enter upon the manage
msnt of the new tiedged governmental
organization. Otherwise we shall be
compelled to await the process of Domi-
nation and election, with all our affairs
in q chaotic condition and with schem-
ing governor and his gang of dishonest
strikers as the chief managers of the de-
tails of the election. Through the Sioux
Falls convention nominating conven-
tions can be ordered and all the arrange
ments for an election in November and
canvass of the votes carried into effect.
The persons chosen by the vote of the
people can be clothed with authority
contingent upon the success OF the ad.
mission scheme. If congress fails to ad-
NIT Dakota under the constitution sub.
mitted, they will remain private citizens
of the territory. II congress passes the
act of admission they will by
that act be given authority to exercise
the duties of their respective positions.
This will be one of the occasions when
VIC will need to have our lamps
trimmed and burning. Otherwise we
may be made to suffer by our own
negligence, our own lack of forethought
in preparing for SO important an event
as the achievement of statehood. The
act would involve no radical assumption
OF sovereign authority and would be in
no manner in conflict with the objects
of the present territorial organization.
Tho state organization would not come
into being until the territorial organiza.
tion had ceased to exist. One would
step into the shoes of the other as readily
as the day succeeds the night and there
would be no interim in which hostile
executive could manipulate caucuses
aud conventions and doctor the returns
OF which he would have control. The
fact that the Ordway crowd is making a
lugubrious outcry against the PROPOSE.
tion to elect full ticket this
fall should commend that proposition to
the people. In the movement their
chief observes prospect that he may be
suddenly hurled from power. when it
would please him better to have fight.
ing chance for his diehonored head. It
has been argued that our constitutional
convention should not be made the me-
dium Of struggle for Office But Off
GERS we must have, if we assume the OBJ.
legations Of statehood and We would
much rather intrust the management Of
the business to convention Of the peo.
pie than to an individual who has dem.
onstrated by every act, and word that be
is hostile to our best interests. 1t is the
existing corruption in high places which
has given the statehood movement an
impetus. Let us. then, make clean job
OF it and. be ready, the moment congress
extends the necessary authority, to
slough off the tester which has attached
itself to the body polite.