St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-02
DAKOTA'S PATRIOTS,
Says Col. Donan, are Political Buccaneers
TOwn7site Spectators and Assorted
80 Jobbers.
Several Thousand Dollars Worth Of Valu-
able Business Property Reduced to
Ashes at Mandan.
The Sioux Reservatfon Bill Passed b,
the Senate--A Dakota school,
Master Suicides.
Minnesota Dafrymen TO Meet To-day
--Renvflle's County-seat War;
Other News.
Pat Donan,s Latest screed


Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, Feb. I.-"what is going TO be the
outcome of the agitation over the admission
OF Dakotag viii Senator Vest succeed in
keeping il out OF the UnionT'' the GLOBE cor
respondent asked Col. Pat Donan to-day Al
the Hotel Richelieu. 'VeSt!" returned Do
nan. with intense sarcasm and with some ac-
companying explosives. why, If 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. IL IS not
congress, but her own people that are keep
ing Dakota out of the Union It seems
impossible TO make the newspapers OF
d., the country, fountains Of intelligence
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 gTab-Dag. But or
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 il through the
cross-eyed spectacles or political partisanism.
and all miss the facts. Dakota has never
been denied anything to whicn she is entitled.
all her
AxE-To-GRlND HOwLERs
TO the contrary Notwithstanding. She Is en-
titled with her present population 10 adInis-
sion into the Union as state. This she has
never asked, and is not asking now. She IL
not entitled, and never has been, 10 admis-
sion as two states. She has just as much
| right TO demand admission as ten states with
twenty senators, or twenty sta,es with fort
senators, as she has To demand as two states
with four senators, and yet this assinine and
preposterous demand is the one she 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 locaters, 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 and responsibility TO plead
| their knavish and absurd cause is more than
| can comprehend. Their bill should be
tabled. An act to admit the half state of
Dakota is ridiculous, and it will require six
teenth or seventeenth amendment of the con-
| Satution TO do II.
| THE STUPID HULLABALoo
| is doing one thing only. IL is giving the
J Democrats ample ground for keeping Dakota
| out of the Union as one state until after the
next presidential election. That means 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 fell
lows don't know what sou want yourselves.
Until you do, it 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 a single state until after the next
election. The most sensible move would be
| To buy at once a 40.000.0O0 jackass-poweT
kicking machine, get all her horde of politi-
cal flibusterers, bogus senators. congressman
| and general jackanipes 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"