St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-09
THE PEOPLE WITH HIM.
Voters of Dakota Desire a Chance to Be
Heard on the Question Of
Division,
And Will Indorse the Democratic Platform
by Casting Their Ballots for
M. e. Day.
Mr.. Chords Phlegmatfc Disposition
and Optical Defects UNIT Him
for Delegate.
Mr.. Day a Typical Rust1er, Who
Would Make Himself Felt at
the Capital.
The Dakota Campaign.

The Dakota Campaign.
Special to the Globe.
ABERDEEN, Dak., Oct. 8.-Aberdeen
has been made the seat of war, the head
quarters of the Democratic executive com.
mittee of the territory. Cemmodious quar-
tiers have been rer ted, and by the time the
GLOBE reaches its thousands of readers in
all portions Of Dakota and the Northwest
corps of efficient clerks and special tele-
graph operator will be busily engaged Or
ganizing the Democratic forces of Dakota
and marching with resistless force on the
IS, 900 Republican majority of two years
ago. Hon. NJ. 81. Day, the nominee fol-
delegate to congress, is tower of strength,
and the people, regardless of party ties,
who are tired Of being represented in con-
gress by men who cannot make their ability
apparent. aye. who appear to dwindle into
insignifcance among statesmen of even
mediocre ability, are focking to the STAN
dard of NJ. 81. Day, as man for whom it
is greater credit to vote than for the pres
ent representative of half million intelli-
gent people. Not only is Mr.. Day incom-
parably stronger individually than Clifford,
but he better represents the wishes, the
ideas and and the character of the Dakota
people. Day is a tireless worker,
FULL OF VIM AND LIFE.
and intelligence, bright and active, an d,
in short, is a typical representative of the
western colloQuialism, ''rustler." Clifford
is poky, slow, hard of hearing and near
sighted, qualities that 60 to make up emil
nent responsibility as grandpa or justice
of the peace, but operate sadly to the dis
advantage OF people who must depend
upon them tor valuable services in the
United States congress as it is constituted
in this rapid age. Not to say that Clifford
is not good man. but to affirm that he is
out Of place as the representative of the
great territory of Dakota. which is true.
Again, Mr.. Clifford is not the candidate OF
the people of Dakota, but of class which
has assumed the prerogatiye of debating.
By this is meant that the action of the
Yankton convention, which nominated
him. was not representative in its charac-
ter, but was by means of proxies. (the
bane of political conventions) controlled by
the rank divisionsts. the Campbell state
hood element, and the gag law was en-
forced on Central and North Dakota with
promptness and efficiency. Fearful thai
some loophole would be left whereby
NORTH DAKOTA POLITICIANS
would get the start of them, these over
anxious divisionists determined to ''push
the medicine home" and the momentum of
this determination carried them league
too far. For instance, on the question of
division members of the party from North
and Central Dakota desired that this,
purely local matter, be submitted to the
people Of the whole territory for decision
and desired to substitute the plank for di-
vision by plank providing for an express
o.~ nf fIo, IL, 81
ditions under which they desire to be ad-
knocked OUT by the Clifford crowd, who,
counting on the blind allegiance of ma
jority party, had the supreme temerity to
assume the position of Vanderbilt, in that
they thus implied ''the people be id;
we are running the machine" AS may be
inferred, the people generally do not de-
serve to be treated in that way, even by a
Republican convention. Mr.. Days atti-
tude is entirely different. While he frankly
admits that he, individually, believes di-
vision desirable, he has yet travelled over
the territory to know and respect the opfn-
ions of growing class in Central and
North Dakota who desire admission as onn
great and influential state.
MR.. DAY s POSITION.
"There is no doubt" Mr. Day said to your
CORRESPONDENT Yesterday, tHaG UnG TSplQ SeC-
Element of Central Dakota has dene much &c
stimulate q feeling of opposition to division
throughout the North, and the only equitable
way see Of settling the question is to submit
it to vote of all the people to be affected
and let the majority, whichever way it may
decide, be the rule of action for congress,
and,' he continued, II believe congress woulc
act as q majority Of the people of the terri
tory unmistakably indicated their own wishes
in the premises. So far rs l am concerned,
what is good enough for the people of Da-
kota is good enough for me-
The convention that nominated Mr.. Day
was overwhelmingly in favor of submitting
the proposition to the people, because of
the manifest fairness to all sections inher-
emit in right to be heard in a matter affect
ing them and the undoubted prerogative of
the majority to rule. The convention Sc
lected Mr.. Day, knowing that in his repre-
sentative capacity he would be as he has
always been, true to the tenets of his
party; that if elected he would secure the
passage of a law authorizing and providing
the means of an election by the people to
decide which of the various propositions for
statehood they desire.
NOT DIvISIoNIST vICToRR.
His nomination was not in any sense a
victory for the division element and no
sensible, well-informed man can claim it
as such With any reason eXcep6 upon the
unsupported presumption that the majority
of the voters will favor it when they come
to vote on the proposition. Those who
claim Mr.. Days nomination as victory for
division and a preconcerted plan for that
element, fail to recognize the fact that
when Mr.. Day arrived in Aberdeen he was
first, last and all the time in favor of Hon.
NJ. l.. Mccormack, of Grand Forks, for the
nomination and tn the knowladea of over
one hundred delegates he, with several 9TH
ers, labored over three hours with Mr.. Nc
Cormack to induce him to run, and Mr.. Nc
Cormack is not famous fer being very
strong divisionist. Mr.. Mccormack could
have been nominated on the first ballot,
but would not permit his name to be used.
Hence Mr.. Day became the candidate. and
he is going to make pretty torrid cam
paign because the people are with him.
The publication in the GLOBE of Mr.. Hills