Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-11-14

Alexander McKeDsie was interviewed
in Bismarck the other day BY . CORES.
pondent Of the st. Paul Pioneer Pres..
The correspondent writes that he "over-
heard" q conversation which he repro.
duess, but FOL. all.praotioAl purposes what
tho eAves.dropper gathered is as good
- any bona fide interview. Mr.. McKen-
sie IL made to say:
. When Dakota becomes . ststs pre.
dict that Johnson Nickeus, Of James.
town, will be the drst member of CON.
gress from north Dakota.
predict that r. F. PettiRrew will be
the 6rst Unlted States senator from
south Dakota and some one in the Red
River valley the first from north Dakota.
Fargo will control il, lthe northern
senatorshipI but the frat two senators
must be from the Red and Sioux valleys.
I should name John Haggart as the
probable man from the north.
These predictions are based upon the
favorite Mckenzie theory that Dakota
10 to be admitted % . whole. theory
obnoxious to ninety per cent. OF the
people OF north and south Dakota.
Mr.. Mckenzie disposes OF three
Of the congregational Offices to which De-.
kota would be entitled should it become
. state, as whole, which will not occur
il ali tho other people in Dakota besides
Mr.. KcKenzie have anything to say in
regard to the matter. He leaves one
Office open-that Of congressman to rep.
recent south Dakota 10 the event his
schemes work successfully. He ha.
fixed johnson Nickeus, R F. Pettigrew
and John Haggart in their respective
places and has reserved the south Da.
kota house member for the south Da.
kota, man who believes himself best
deserving the coming legislative session.
The man who behaves best will be the
man who comes nearest the Bismarckian
standard Of political morals. Send in
your bids, gentlemen, to Alexander Nc.
Kenzie. He has Rraciously left one
place open. subject to good behavior
and. according to the scribbling of the
scribe, he who nearest approaches the
Mckenzie ideal Of Q statesman will gel
there. We ell know what q Mckenzie
statesman is, therefore any extended
description 10 entirely unnecessary. But
it may not be ont of place to direct the
attention of the public to the fact that
everything 10 set up and it u
not expected that the men wht
own the soil Of Dakota vii
further intereat themselves. They hav,
. gnardian-a pioneer Dakotaian-,
man whose early svocatlon would Ger
tainly not entitle him to the confidenc.
of the public-a man who has nevel
demonstrated any ability in state affairs
except an ability to conspire in his owl
interest. to carry measures through w,tl
the skill which belongs to an adroi
manipulation. who depends mo-
upon right, not upon justice. mo-
upon law and morality but upo,
bis ability to get there. regard
less Of the methods employed. He 10 th,
chief lsborer in the one state vineyard
and against him is arrayed almost all o
Dakota. He 20 far counts on success
that he has already paroeled out th,
o@oes-all but one, reservinR that one {,
70 TO the man from the south who bes
serves his schemes.
Isit not time that Dakota. with il
half million people. declared its indie
tpendanos Of this man McKenzieP VIII,
4 shoald ito talent, its honesty. ito mind
ifes from guile, il morality. its pur
lstatssmsnship longer cater TO the d.
mands Of ono who u the peer Of lts Per
pie in nothing which tends 70 elevate
| whoee whole stock in trade u hi
capacity 70 trade, and whose oouspirs
cies run into ths dark hoars o. Tie aish
aad seeeh thsir results while trastin
humanity ssssps.
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