Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-03-12

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Or6way plan for the settlement OF the
Dakota division and admission contro
versles. 1t was sent ont from Washing
ton by telegraph to New York, Chicago
and st. Paul newspapers. The nothing
ness of position and influence to which
this individual has finally been relegated
through mutations of political affairs at
Washington is disfasteful to|
the dark ambition which
is still @ prominent feature in
his nature, and he once more courts the
fokie goddess, fame, through the medium
of one of his stereotyped, patent inter-
views, which exhibits in every word and
phrase the elongated ear marks of the
creature who can never disguise his
style. In this interview the ex.county
seat boomer says:
| would ask the representatives of the
| forty sixth parallel movement, the river
division plan and those desiring admis-
| sion as a whole, to frame an enabling
act for the whole territory which should
contain carefully prepared provision
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tions to be voted upon at the next
November election, at which time dele.
gates representing sll the organized
counties In the territory should be elect
ed to carry out the will of majority of
the legal voters In the territory In regard
to admission as whole or by the for
nation of state and territory; TINT is
to say, if a majority of the voters should
vote in favor of either of the proposed
plans for dividing the territory, then
that plan for creating o state and terri
tory .should be adopted and submitted
to congress by the convention; but II
neither of the plans for the admission of
the territory should receive the number
of votes as before stated, the convention
should proceed to frame constitution
for the whole territory and present it
for the immediate consideration of
congress. Ii there is good sense and
patriotism enough in the leaders of the
various factions in Dakota to harmonic
! their bitter feuds and conflicting inter
ests by some such plan for submission
OF this question to the voters at the
coming November election. / believe
both houses of congress would unitedly
cooperate in immediate steps for giving
Dakota the place she ia entitled TO in
bu6 lauiiy Vi sthtSs.
Mr.. Ordway says this plan has been
quietly adopted by the democrats oi
Dakota. The democrats of Dakota
know very well that they have not only
not adopted it, but that it has not been
submitted to their consideration an6
that their first knowledge of the propo'
sition flows from the tongue of the chiel
scandal mong,sr among those who libe
Dakota and Its people. Because Ord
s way asks that this compromise
Q measure tbe pushed to an issue
will not give it strength or favor among
the people, but will rather condemn tn,
proposition on sight and without con
sideration.
s His desire for bill containing :"
carefully prepared provision" smacks to-
much of the olden time, when ro bill
> went through the Dakota Legislature
unaccompanied by that Ordwayian plati
tude, which meant in its full signi6canc
that it's carefully prepared provisions
were all in the interes
OF the inventor and patante
of the phrase. Dakota asks for no suei
combination measure as the oneiprayet
for by the chief of its ante-reform er
corruptionists, 1t asks for no oppor
tunity to adopt constitution for tn
whole of Dakota. The north and tn
south repeat the unanimous request Q
ten years standing, for division on th
= 46th and the residents of the south hal
for their rights under the constitution