Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-10-05
STRAIGHT TO THE POINT.

Newspaper Which Does not Beat Around
Grand Forks Herald.
Even the Plaindealer drops DR.. Scott
and has nothing to say on his behalf, as
against the Indictment in Yesterdays
Herald, further than that it is "a per
eonal matter in which the Herald is not
interested one way or the other" As for
The doctor, he is as dumb as an oyster,
and we'll he may be. We fear that it
will be beyond the capacity of man to
get it into the Piaindealer's noddle that
the facts" for which it shrieks are IN the
possession of every man, woman and
child in the territory. or all the public
organs in Dakota, save and except those
directly recognized as the hirel1ng organs
OF the corrupt gang who constitute the
capital commission, the Plaindealer is
the only one which refuses to recognize
the notorious facts which have aroused
public attention more than any other
matter since there was settlement in
Dakota. Like the Scotchman and his
Joke, nothing short Of surgical opera
ton will ever get the true inwar1ness of
this business through the massive
crust which envelops the slumbering
tires of the Plxindealef's editorial intel
lect. And yet that oracle reiterates its
knowledge of "the executives villainies,"
which it claims to have done more to
expose than any other paper Of Dakota! !!
What, we may ask. were the executives
villainles ?" Were they not the frauds
and outrages on decency and morality
connected with the location of the terri
torial capital and the county seats? By
what means did Gov. Ordway accom-.
plish these nefarious designs? Was ii
not by the support, cooperation, con.
nivance and conspiracy Of the corrupt
ring known as the capital ring? Who
constituted that corrupt band? Was it
not Messrs. Walsh, Scott, and their
associates?
And yet the Plaindealer howls for
'iacts!
We have accused one of them as repre-.
sentipg the rect, of direct corrupt trans.
actions, in his representative capacity
by means of which the people in this
territory were detrauded-ore
for whom. up to yesterday.
the; Plaindealer was the mouth
plece-and yet that sagacious organ COO
" says that it is a 'personsl matter" in
which it is mot interested" As to the
facts, is the Plaindesler insincere, or is
it witless, in pretending that it does not
know that the people have been robbed
plundered. pilfered, &c" in every single
action by which the governor and his
executive ring have enriched themselves
Let us give our profound contemporary
4 in <ho 1f
or the brazenness Of its effrontery-s
single instance. We will assume that il
Is not, at least, unaware that one of th,
reasons which the commissioners ad
vanced as An excuse for locating the
capital where they had made their hole
on the convenient quarter sections solid
, was that the bid OF Bismarck was tender
ed to the capital commission with ,
, guarantee that one of the quarter section
offered would yield to the territory tn,
sum of S30o,UO0. And yet, after the com
mission, acting like thieves in the night
had accomplished tue most shameless
| transaction that ever has disgraced
body of public men, resolution wa
offered at sitting of the commission
/ "that 90 further action be taken BY thi
commission towards the erection of
{ capitol building, until the citizens o
Bismarck shall enter into q good an,
!, sufficient bond to fulfill and carry on
, their agreement with the territory Q
Dakota as represented to this commits
q sion" This resolution was rejected, an.
!. thus the proof is offered that the guar
q antee was sham, and part of othe
!. frauds by which the selection of Biz
a marck was made, or it vas direct rob
a berry of the territory by the commission
J. of the values involved.
The Plaiodealer can sit it's patrons ur
. on whichever horn of the dilemma it ma
I elect. And yet that organ has tn
4 puerile and disgusting impudence to cry
n 'Show ne where the territory has bee
4 robbed of one cent" Controversy,
4 the face Of these facts, is simply vast
]. of tune.