St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-02
CLIFFORD AND DIVISION
will BE the JVar-Cry of the Dakota
Republicans.

Republicans.
Special to the GLOBE.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 1.-The resolution
of the Republican party at the Yankton
convention, reatfirming the stand OF that
marty in favor of the division of the terri
tory. sets the first gun in position and
sounds the bugle- note of the campaign.
The slogan of the Republicans will be Gift
ford and division The Republican party is
determined to follow the lead OF Hugh j.
Campbell. under the standard OF Clifford.
The action of the rampant diYiSienlstS who
made a tlaScO OF their attempted coup d'etat
in the Sioux Falls convention year ago,
have received the Endorsement OF the Re
publican party. That party has not learned
the lesson which the people have tired 10
teach through their representatives. 1hey
are determined to rule or ruin Dakota. In
stead of permitting the grand empire to be-
come the pivot of destiny for the fu-
ture great Northwest, they have set
about to divide and disintegrate
the land, which is the flower OF
the best of all this world of businesses. The
plan will not work. The people may fol-
low like belabOred hounds and kneel at the
behest of the political charlatanS who com
mand them, but il is not likely that they
will 1t is more than probable that the
people of Dakota will record their verdict
against the division of the great territory.
But if there be yet so much of the spirit
of the old capital commission; if there be
so much of the incarnate seltishnesS which
has hitherto dominated affairs there, it is
quite likely that the wisdom of the national
legislation shall be invoked and the terri
tory be allowed to remain in territorial
swaddling clothes until there be greater
number of people there. and vastly greater
amount of fOre-seeng and ar-seeIng WIS
dom within the boundaries OF
THE COMMONWEALTH.
If the suffragists of Dakota shall permit
themselves te be so debaSed as to be
wheedled into giving majority vote III
favor of division, then it would be we'll for
congress to assume the guardianship OF the
interests of the territory, as that body has
long since done for the District Of Coiun-
, bia. There is al eminent domain. 1t is
looked forward to with the anxious eyes OF
all political philosophers, as the coming en-
pire of the West. 1t is not to De permitted
to do itself that wrong. and the nation that
wrong, which would be hidden under an
act for the division of the territory. There
will be those who will say that
it is coertion to compel Dakota to remain
In an ordinary case there could be no ques-
ton of the truth of that statement. But
the statement does not merely consider eX-
pedentS for the present. He looks into
the future far as human eye can see; sees
q vision of the land and all the glory that
shall be; and upon that view of matters he
acts. So it must be for Dakota. Those
who vote for the disintegration Of the terri
tory will vote unthinkingly, and with not
the remoteSt idea of the fact that the land
is not theirs alone. but that it is the home,
the destined home, Of millions yet unborn.
That view must be taken of it; and the
present generation of DakOtans who have
resided there less than half a dosen years,
must not undertake to act, thOughtlessly,
for those who shall live there all Of
their lives III the centuries yet
to come. Therefore, it will
be necessary for the national legislature to
finally decide the case; in the event of the
folly of division being accomplished, so far
as it can be accomplished, by the vote
which will be cast in November. They
who look at the question in this broad and
comprehensive manner will not
VOTE FOR DIVISION.
They who can see that there must be a
careful consideration of future as well as
present Dakota, will not pirate of the soy
ereign will if 1t becomes necessary for con-
gress to interfere and save the people from
themselves. 1t is not, as they have vainly
said, question OF politics, and an increase
of Republican majority in the United
States senate. The Democrat who believes
in the prinSiples of his party, and who be-
Iieves in its future, will never stop to Ques-
ton that temporary political advantage
which the Republicans possess. 1t is not to be
supposed that the Republican majority in
the senate can be maintained four years
more, even with additional aid from Da-
kota. 1t will not be long until both house
and senate will be Democratic, and that
majority will be permanent one. The true
Democrat does not view the question in that
light at all. He simply looks at the future
OF the great empire of Dakota and he de-
mands that the rabid divisionists who
would throttle the North while they have
an evaneScent majority be held in check, if
necessary by congress. Neither does the
Democratic party of Dakota belong to
Bismarck, as has been fooliShly argued. 1t
gc not a question of where the capital of
the state shall be. 1t is sheer impudence
to assert that Brown county or Burleigh
county, or any other county. dominates af-
fairs in the Democratic party. 1t is not a
question of personal or local advantage or
advancement. 1t is simply question of