Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-24
THAT TALL FORM.
ordway Before the Public Eye on The
Crest of the Wave of Popular
Indignation.
New York Times.

ordway Before the Public Eye on The
Crest of the Wave of Popular
Indignation.
New York Times.
The tall form of Gov. n G. OruWay
once more comes before the public eye,
borne upon the crest of Il tidal wave of
popular Indignation in that far-olf ter
ritory over which he has reigned since
ne laid aside the mace of the sergeant
alarms in the house of representatives
ut Washington. When we last heard OF
Gov. Ordway he had emerged from the
ilcods which We're laying waste his
principality, and was appealing to the
country in behalf Of his suffering peo-
pie from spot of dry land which he
had fortunately found in the district of
Columbia. Now he has returned to
Dakota, and is engaged, according to
his own account, in indicating his
action, and that of the legislature
against rings without number On the
other hand we are panied by the dis
covcry that many of the residents of
Dakota who are unable to appreciate
the tall governors sterling worth have
been led in their blindness to declare
that he is Il schemcr and ajobber, and
that he is trying to provide for his old
age in very respectable way.
1t is a goodly land over which the
upright Ordway rules, and for the last-
ing benefit he labors night and day.
assisted by some of his relatives and
friends from New Hampshire. -Four
hundred and fifty miles long and three
hundred and fifty miles wide, its area
is nearly one hundred million acres,
sparsely inhabited by Indians, miners
and sturdy farmers, and full of glorious
possibilities. Thousands of thrifty
families are coming in to stir up the
fertile soil and develop the finest wheat
fields on the continent. Great railways
| aIe stretching across the breezy prai-
ries, the population is increasing mar
velously, the territory knocks at the
door of the capitol for admission to the
circle of states, and territorial politics
promise to become q profitable and eX-
citing industry. Fired by enthusiasm
and desire to serve his country, TIC
worthy governor was unwilling to be a
laggard in the march of progress. He
conceived the idea of building Il new
capitol and Of concentrating the hopes
and actual greatness Of Dakota in !;
new city whose walls should rise from
the virgin sod lie called to mind the
history of Nebraska, and forgetting
that evil-minded men had dared tt
criticise the methods of the commits
sioncrs who created capital at Lin
coin, he drew bill for similar com
mission of nine men. So great was his
haste, and that Of his friends, that tht
bill was passed in the upper house
without having been printed or ever
read. 1t soon became law. The.'
nine patriotic men have absolute powe
to locate a new capital, and they mus
select the site before July Ist. NJ tow
can compete for the prize which doe
not give to the state twenty acres o
land and a bonus of 100000, Will
which the capitol building is to be i'm
mediately erected. The commissioner
are forbidden by the law to buy an,
land in the town which they select TN
til twelve months after the selection
has been made, but those who frame,
the law apparently had more implici
trust in the relatives of the commits
sioners than in the commissioners them
selves, for relatives and friends are no
included in the prohibition.
How often are the motives of goo
men misunderstood! How SHARP
sometimes, is the ingratitude of thos
whom good 1nen labor to serve!" Eve
in Dakota, where one would suppos
that boundless prairies and irresistibl
Billiards and untamed nature woul
loosen the bands of prejudice and Civ
the settler wide views of his felloN
men, selfish and wicked persons ar
!, found who are dissatisfied with tn
governor and his capital commission
These Slanderers declare that the con
mission is controlled by a Syndicate
or ring Of spectators who have made
pool of $1,00O,0OO, with which they ir
!. tend to buy 10000 acres of land aroun
the site of the new capital building
Not content with this wicked StOr,
they say the sum of $4,000 has bee
given out of the pool to each of til
J commissioners, and add the browning
SANDER that the upright Governor Orc
way is the chief of the ring of speculs
tors. The syndicate, it is said by thes
persons, who did not veneratc thei
} ruler, will force the commission t
choose some quiet spot which man ha
not invaded, so that they cali buy u
corner lots, and all other lots, in at
vance. Even the newspapers of tn
territory are assailing the governor
They put his large and genial feature
before the people in coarse wood cut.
and ande1 them they print the words
"Thou art the man" They ransacl
the hedictionaries to find epithcts for him
and words with which to emphatican
express thei. opinions OF what the,
call in their misguided way, a giganti
job. Erudite clergymen launch thrm
der-oolts from the pulpit at his grst