St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-02
DAKOTA'S PATRIOTS,
Says Col. Donan, are Political Buccaneers,
Town-site Spectators and Assorted
Jobbers.
Several Thousand Dollars Worth Of Valu.
able Business Property Reduced to
Ashes at Mandan.
The Sioux Reservation Bill Passed by
the Scnate--A Dakota School
Master Suicides.
Minnesota Dairymen 10 Meet To-day
--Renvtlle's County-seat War;
Other News.
Pat Domains Latest Screed.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, Feb. I.-"what is going TO be the
outcome of the agitation over the admission
or DakotaI Will Senator Vest succeed In
keeping il out OF the UnionY' the GLOBE cor
respondent asked Col. Pat Donan to-day al
the Hotel Richeleu. Vest" returned Do
nan. with intense sarcasm and with some ac-
complaining explosives. why, IL there was
nothing in the way bat Vest IL would not be
thirty days before Dakota would DO in her
proper place among the states. II Is not
congress, but her own people that are keep
ing Dakota out of the Union. IL seems
impossible TO make the newspapers Of
, the country, fountains of intelli gence
as they usually are, understand this Dakota
squaDOle. OF course, nobody expects the
average congressman or United States sena-
Tor TO understand il, or any other question
that arises above the mere how TO get his
hand deeper into the public grab-bag. But OF
the great Journals OF the land we do expect
better things. and in this matter are con-
stantly disappointed. City papers and coun-
try papers, Republican, Democratic and
Mugwump, they all look at it through the
cross-eyed spectacles OF political partisanism,
and all miss the facts. Dakota has never
been denied anything TO whica she is entitled,
all her
AxE-To-GRIND HOwLERs
TO the contrary notwithstanding. She is en-
titled with her present population TO admis-
q
never asked, aud is not asking now. She j.
not entitled, and never has been, TO admis-
sion as two states. She has Just as much
right TO demand admission a. ten states with
twenty senators, or twenty sta,es with fort
senators, as she has To demand as two states
with four senator's and yet this assinine aud
prepOsterous demand is the one shc has been
put in The attitude Of making every winter
for years past. No question of Dakota >
right is involved; no question OF her
rights is before congress. Two of
the wrangling and hostile gangs of
political buccaneers, capital lOcateTs, town.
site SPECTATORS, aud miscellaneous and as
orted jobbers in sham patriotism. are in
Washington now, as they have been every
winter for four or five years, rearing around
in bar-rooms and Hobbies and metaphorically
tearing their hair over the wrongs of Dakota.
They do not even pretend TO represent but
one-half of Dakota, and the vote their pro-
ject received shows that they do not represent
one-half of that half. How they have ever
succeeded in getting man of Senator Harri-
sons mild ability ana responsibility to plead
their knavish AMI absurd cause is more than
can comprehend. Their bill should be
tabled. An act TO admit the half state of
Dakota is ridiculous, and il will require a six
teenth or seventeenth amendment of the con-
Satution to do II.
THE STUPID HULLABALOo
is doing one thing only. Ii is giving the
out OF the Union as one state until after the
next pres dental election. That means u loss
of five or SIX electors for John A. Logan, or
whoever may be the Republican nominee for
Grover Cleveland's place. The Democrats in
congress are fully justified in saying while
this hlackguard war of Dakota spoilsmen for
and against division is going on:-'.You fel-
lows don't know what you want yourselves.
Until you do, IL is useless to appeal to US.
Division of your territory is impossible and
prepostelOus, yet that is what some of you
demand as absolutely necessary. Admission
as one state is your undoubted right
yet you have never asked IL. We
can do nothing for you until you
decide TO accept what is both right and rea-
sonable' As the thing stands now Dakota
will never be divided, and she will not be ad-
mitted as Il single state until after the next
election. The most sensible move would be
to buy at once a 40.O00.OO0 jackass-power
kicking machine, get all her horde of politi-
cal fiiibusterers, bogus senators. congressman
and general jacSanipes of craftsmanship
into one gigantic trouser seat perch them on
the tallest peak of the goid-ribbed Black
Hills and kick the whole caboodle clear over
the top of the Rocky mountains and Sand
witch islands into the deepest middle of the
Pacific ocean. She would be a state in thirty
days and no questions asked"