Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1885-11-13

enough to quote only the closing para
graph of lengthy Press and Dakotaian
article in behalf of Judge Moody and
General Campbell for United States
senators for the state of Dakota and to
cast aside without comment the balance
OF that article. The closing paragraph
referred only incidentally to the fact
that Yankton had thus far asked for
nothing under the statehood organiza-
tion and as it had been leading laborer
in division and state work it felt
|itself entitled to the recogni-
.:on of senatorship. Upon the text
furnished by this single paragraph the
Sioux Falls Press expounds the doc
trine of its own innate selfishness in an
exposition of its individual opposition
to the candidacy of a gentleman who
has done more for south Dakota's ad-
vancement than this combined talent of
the constituency ltrepresents.
There is represented in the Press
family a combination OF clements never
noted for its fealty to south Dakota in
terests, namely, Ordwayism, Pierceism,
Palmerlsm and north Dakotaism.
To these various ingredients Gen.
eral Campbell is openly an
tagonistio and as result of his antago-
nism he secures the personal antipathy
OF ITS component parts. individuality
will assertit itself even in the most polite
utterances of those who endeavor, for
the sake of appearances, to swim in the
current Unpopular sentiment. The chief
editorial writer of the Press
is we'll known protege of the Ord
way whose rascalities Campbell laid
bare. He is also the bosom friend of
Palmer, whose antagonism for Camp.
bell comes in as part of the old Ord
way conflict.
Undersuch influences it is hardly to be
expected that the Press, of Sioux Falls,
will blossom into open championship of
Yankton's candidate for the senate. 1t
sounds the slogan of the so-called Sioux
valley reformers, who imagine they have
call to defy Palmer, an offshoot of
the most corrupt administration ever
inflicted upon territory.
In its antagonistic utterances against
the public character of General Camp
bell, the Press sees fit, by innuendo, to
revert to the worn out fiction which asso-
ciates the name of that gentleman with
the Tilden-Hsyes count in Louisiana.
As General Campbell had nothing what
ever to do with that historical affair, it's
allegations will SOW no seeds of distrust,
excepting in places not accessible to a
denial of the statement. General Camp
bell distinguished public services ID
Louisiana were purely of military
character. As major general in COM
mand of the troops during reconstruc-
tion days, he was ordered to hold the
state house against the armed enemies
of q government installed by the victors
IN contest against rebellion. It is ul-
necessary to state that he obeyed orders.
The state house was held, and peace aud
law and order triumphed over anarch y.
There may be something in this record
distasteful to the Sioux Valley opponent
of Yankton's senatorial candidate. The
iron will of the man WAS manifested up
on that occasion, Us it has been upon
subsequent occasions when right and
justice were hung in the balance against
official corruption and the degradation
Of the people.
The statehood worh OF General Camp
he'll is of character too important to be
| cast aside at the whim of individual enc.
mics. He stood upon the floor Of the
| constitutional convention as an advocate
| of full completion of the work before
that convention. In 1883 south Dakota
adopted aud ratified constitution, and
there the work ended and all the time
and money thrown into the effort was
lost. 1t ended there because, unde,
the constitution and schedule
there was nothing more to do
There WAS no provision fol
the organization OF state government
and the fnal preparations for condi.
tion of statehood. Admenishea by ex
perlence that this WAS not the place tc
stop, General Campbell went into the
last convention with the purpose @
lighting the battle to the end
In this he succeeded. and a.
q result the machinery of state govern
ment is now in working order. In thil