Bismarck weekly tribune., 1884-12-26

Mr.. F. A. LEAvENwoRTH writes from
Roscoe Conkling's district in New York
as follows: "Dakota has, by it's large
republican majority in the recent cleo.
ton, attracted no little attention from the
country. It seems to these eastern jour-
nails remarkable and even suspicious that
the territory should have cast such a
majority in so small a poll. I cut the
following article from the Rochester
Union, rank democratic organ. It will
show The state of feeling in some quarters
of the east as represented by certain
element which is hostile to the admission
of the territory:
The territory of Dakota. which had only a
borne the republican banner highest in the late
election, considering its population: Ihe hg-
ures are not yet entirely official, but it Is cacu-
jorty of about S. 600 in total vote OF less than
S5,OO0 In other words he has about 70, ,000 votes
to 5000 for his opponent. The vote lndlcates
increase of nearly 1874 600 iii the last two years,
which is certainly a remarkable eadvance.-lNeW
York Times.
Remarkable, certainly. All returns, whether
of elections or census, from Territories whuse
people are ambitious to have them admitted as
states for political as well as other purposes,
will bear watching. The admission Of Dakota
is a republican scheme of long standing, and
her population and vote have been to that end
frequently magni6ed on paper. As would seem
from the above figures. however, the work was
rather overdone by the manipu.ators this time,
under the republican territorial government
whose chief is appointed by the administration
III Al~4 4knkS~ oF fk1n
Dakotan managers had been realized, and
Blaine and republican house Of representatives
had been chosen, no doubt Dakota would figure
in the electoral college four years
hence in aid of the republican can
didates. Indeed, the scheme at one time was
to divide Dakota into two territories, and then
make two republican "rotten borough" states
out of it for presidential and other purposes, as
such states were made of Nevada, Colorado and
other territories.
The greatest necessity for the increase of
states exists ia the southwest rather tian in the
northwest The former republic which has
constituted the state of Texas for the past forty
years has an immense territory, two hundred
and ten times as great as one OF the republican
states of the east and ak times as great as the
empire state of New York; while her population
is fifty times as great as that of any one of sew
eral Of the republican "rotten borough" states
at the time of their admission. The division
of Texas into six states, each the size of New
York, and their admission into the Union
should precs de any further admission of terri
Observation-Disclosures Union.
This may be cited as good democratic
doctrine on this subject,as it is enunciated
since election. The division of Texas
has been prominent party measure for
years, and has only been kept in the
back ground because of the lack of power
to make it effectual. All efforts to ad-
NIT Dakota during the present admins
tration will undoubtedly have the united
opposition of the democrats, unless by
so doing they can tie up in the same bill
the fate of one or two democratic states.
The scheme for division of the terri
tory, as has long been agitated, seems
more than hopeless now that there is a
democratic majority in the lower house
and democratic president at the other
end of the avenue. We must therefore
be satisfied, I suppose, with what we can
get and wait patiently for better things
and,the good times coming. The settle
ment of the country, better railroad facil-
tiles and the development of all her
varied industries must be the real work
of Dakota for the mex, four years. These
are really the essential matters after all,
and whether the administration of Da-
kota shall be under governor appointed
by the president, or one elected by the
people, is an affair of only minor i'm
portance.