The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1884-12-18


to beck to the behest Of a party boasting
a majority in national legislation? If SO
they have mummy they may worship
and God they may unrestrainingly do
homage to, in the person of Vest Of Mis-
souri,. And if any respect whatever is to
be paid an acknowledged follower of
supercilious, arrogancy they may well abb
sorb the abcessive excresencies Of the other
blatant bourbon from Missouri, Cockrell.
These gentlemen have not only made
themselves prominent as notorious liars
and hatulent promulgators of ring rule
blindness-an era of radical partisanship
unequalled by the descendants of Adam
but have established precedent in the
United States senate decidedly favoring
disintegration. By the grace of their re-
spective state they are allotted a seat in
the national congress, and by their action
that great commonwealth is placed under
a banner of falsity and inequality that
would shame the 1ing-leaders of the foul
est scheme ever inaugurated. Standing
in the full glare Of supposed purity and
equality in national legislation they bra
zenly issue assertions that on the face and
interior bear the indubitable boomerang
of ignorance and falsity, assertions that no
political speaker dare. make or individual
opposition forward Square in the teeth
of the evidence of $4,000 votes being cast
at the last general election in Dakota, this
national liar, Vest, arises in his might
and brazenly claims the territory has in
sufficient population to entitle her to ad-
mission. Blank in the face of the indub-
table evidence that Dakota has at least
425, 900 inhabitants, this political wart tells
the United States senate that South Da-
.kota has not the necessary population of
10000. while to. day there is not posted
lnhabitant in South Dakota but knows we
have over $50 900 south ofthc torty sixth
parallel. And Oh top OF this tyrannical
and villianous stab at Dakota, after the un-
doubted lie had been crammcd down his
throat Cockrell arises and states that if
Dakota had four times the population, he
would not favor the BILL Cockrell is from
Missouri. -Four times the population Of
Dakota if just equal to that of Missouri,
which has sixteen representatives in the
national congress. Dakota has none
When these senators make such state
ments they tell us that if Dakota, repub-
lican, had sirteen and t,co-third times the
voting strength of Bayard's democratic
state, Delaware, they would not admit U.s.
Or on another basis, were Dakota to be
kept out, Delaware citizen would have
four thousand, eight hundred aud forty
nine and one ninth per cent superiority
oyer Dakota voter, having nothing; a
Delaware citizen would be nearly FIVE
thousand per cent. better than Dakota
citizen. Under the rule that the demo-
Gratis in the senate have laid down, an av-
erage computation discloses the fact that
each voter in the state of Delaware is a
citizen of the United States overpowering
in strength forty y-eight Dakota citizens who
have no representation. This is equality
with vengeance.
Argument seems useless, and statistics
| are bllndly cast aside. In the senate Mr..
Harris proved to the satisfaction of all, the
absolute necessity of action on Dakota 8
rights, and presented undeniable evidence
Of the present cumbersome and over-pop-
ulous condition of Dakota as territory.
He demonstrated the injustice of this
throttling, the development of the great
northwest, and clearly showed the imme-
diate necessity Of the movement to secure
decent government and provide proper
means for the continuation of the ascend.
ant era in the west. The fact of INSULT.
cient facilities for conducting courts, legis.
lative sessions and general state necessi
ties was brought out, the whole speech be-
ing substantiated by facts, figures and res
olutions from the platforms of both tht
republican and democratic party Of Dako
to. In the face of the action now being
taken by the ex-rebel brigadiers at Wash
ington, this is a government by, for ane
of-what? Not the people, bat twenty
four democrats in the United States sen
ate and l65 democrats in the house o
representatives, along with those who up
hold them. Along with one Of their ar
dent sympathizcrs, Vanderbilt, they hav,
issued the edict, damn the people. :
Dakota will continue to prosper, even a
a territory, and the monumental liars from
Missouri will find that Dakota. thougl
crushed, cannot be killed. Dakota is no
a healthy place for such contincnta
cess pools as Vest and Cockril, and the
will be wise to keep safe distance.
John 3. Alden's Literary Revo luton
though possibly, not making SO large
noise in the world as thr' or four year
ago when its remarkable work was new t
the public, is really making more substan
], tial progress than ever before. A notice
able. item is the improved quality of tn
!, books issued, These are but represents