St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-17
Voice froI,, Dakota.

10 the Editor OF the GLOBE.
BISMARCK, Oak, Nov. ia Washington
correspondent of Republican papers in st.
Paul, Chicago, ETC., in his dispatches of last
week repeats his former assertion that Presi-
dent Cleveland is disinclined to appoint Hon.
F. NJ. Ziebach of Scotland to be governor of
Dakota-not because Mr.. Ziebach is unfit for
the place; not because he is an uncodth and
typical representative of the Semi-barbariSm
of the far West; nor because he is a drunk
ard and barroom gambler; for these misrepre-
sensations of the man by the ready liars who
are at work for the desperate rings of the
territory are disproved by the evidence of his
ueighbors and others who have known him
for many years. Not this, but the saga s)Is ccG.
respondent referred to has other and stronger
reasons why the president will not appoint
Mr.. Ziebach. They are, fOrsooth, that 10000
people of the territory have petitioned for his
appointment! That 400 men have written
personal letters urging his appointment! and
that some scores of others have used the tel
egraph to convey to the president Or secretary
of the interior their wish that Mr.. Ziebach
should be our governor The correspondent
has discovered that this extraordinary home
support of Mr.. Ziebach's candidacy appears
to the president to be the result of peculiar.
questionable and offensive methods of stimu-
lating and Stimulating public opinion. l
know that this correspondent at Washington
does not know what the president thinks
about Ziebach's candidacy and Endorsements.
know that when his own imagination fails
him. regarding Dakota affairs, his deficiency
is made up by men in Washington who repre-
sent there the corrupt political rings of Da-
kota the great land thieves of the territory
and the robbers who have possession of the
privileges and grants which the government
and people have too generously bestowed for
promotion of railway building. know, there
fore, that the correspondence am comment
ing upon comes from those who are not in
the confidence of the president or his friends
Bnt the long and unexplained delay of the
administration in giving to Dakota the Demo-
cratic government to which she was entitled
by the decision of the states to make Grover
Cleveland president is discouraging to the
true Democrats of the territory. They have
read of the misrepresentation which have
been made at Washington and fear that these
have made it difficult for the president to
choose the right course. Yet they regard the
Office of governor of the territory as polit-
ical officers much so as is the Office of pres
ident-and in Importance only second to a
part Of the cabinet offices. They believe that
the president and his official advisers should
not need to be informed that while every ele-
ment of discord and every combination of
public plunderers can be strongly represented
near them. there are very few of those who
go up to Washington who have any right to
speak for the steadfast Democrats of Dakota,
or any fellowship with them. TIE president
and Secretary Lamar have before them the
best and truest representation of their party
in this territory, and also a fair popular eX-
preston from both parties in the petitions
and letters which ask for the appointment of
Mr.. Zebach.
Three months ago there was hopeful pros
pect of harmonious organization of the
Democratic party in Dakota-that it would
be able to bring about a speedy and Just set
tlement of the questions pertaining to divis-
ion and admission. But then we expected
help from the president-that the appoint
ment Of Mr.. Ziebach would unite the real
Democrats of the two sections, and that
thereafter the hirelings and attorneys Of the
'bosses' of our territory would have no place
between the national administration and its
friends in Dakota. Party and territorial inter-
ests have alike suffered from the delay. Yet it
is not too late, even now, to help both. Let Mr..
Cleveland, however, if he wishes US well, act
soon. If he thinks we at home who are only
represented before him by our petitions do
not know best what is best for US. let him
choose. But we are entitled to have a Dem
ocratic governor. ECKHARDT.