St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-08
TERRITORIAL TIDBITs.
News of all Sorts From Various Parts
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The Yankton Press looks upon the Springer
bill for an enabling act for the admission of
the territory as q whole as the most danger
Gus measure yet preached for those whose
interests are concentrated in the product of
the convention that attempted 10 reasonable
at Sioux Falls this week. 1t is the belief that
if this measure is submitted 20 the voters as
proposed in November, after an opportunity
for full consideration, it will be accepted Of
this result it may well be apprehensive, as the
opposition would figure chiefly in the press
and on the stump. If the people can be
induced to vote down this measure at gen.
eral election, the divisionists would then be
accorded clear field at home, and their sue
cess would not be long deferred. After the
Republicans in congress have persistently for
years refused Dakota any chance for state
hood or division, there can hardly be good
ground of complaint if the Democrats insist
that the people shall first say at the polls
whether they desire to come in as one state or
not. There is no partisan capital for the Re-
publicanS in that position.
The Lisbon Star, one Of the home organs of
Major G. W. Buttz, the eX-copgressman Of
South Carolina and Dakota bonanza farmer,
gathers this information about the Peronto
case, in which he is interested, and which is the
first on the docket for the October term of the
United States supreme court: "Major Buttz's
counsel are among the best in Washington,
and we have seen letters from them in which
they express great confidence in winning the
u.
hundred and sixty acres of land in the heart
Of Fargo, the Headquarters hotel standing
about in the center of it, and is worth, with
buildings and improvements, about q million
and half. When the major comes into
possession of this vast wealth he will be able
to revel in butter scotch all the time and will
probably start mandatory of his own,''
The Yankton Telegram, leading exponent
of Republican sentiment, finds no work for
the Sioux Falls convention to warrant its re-
attempt to put the state government in OPP
Grafton, as urged by some, would be injudi-
cious and unwiSe, and would still further
postpone the day of deliverance. The Repub-
lican party had both houses of congress for
years and years, and though beseechingly APP
pealed to refused to either divide or admit
Dakota, and now that Democratic house
gives them some of their own medicine, it is.
no use to get mad and make fuss about it.
Congress will take action in its own sweet
time, and the disgraceful wrangling of Dakota
factions down at Washington will retard
rather than expedite matters" 1t regards
the state movement restricted to Repu blican
politicians in one part of the territory as q
stupendous blunder, and has met its lcgiti-
mate end in ignomin iouS failure.
The petitions reported as being received so
numerously at Washington from people Of
Dakota urging the passage of division bill,
are the blanks so numerouSly sent out by
Deegate Clifford and others and filed in with
names. HAD Cney Deen opposed 10 DIVISION or
even in favor of Commissioner Sparks no
doubt quite as many names could have been
secured by solicitors, as people sign almost
anything they are asked to in the way of
politics. AS an indication of public senti.
ment they have very little value. 1t is gener-
ally expected that congress will pass such
measures as it sees fit in regard to Dakota,
and the mass of the people will acquiesce with
perhaps few grimaces and squirms.
1t is reported that at the convention at
Sioux Falls this week Gen. Campbell was az
hot as ever for revolutionary measures but
was held in check by the conservative mem
bers like Judge Edgerton. Ole Olson from
Clay county, stated that the Scandinavian
were almost unit for admission as a whole,
They send several members to the legislature
and are powerful element in the South, al
well as North. In their private expressions,
very few OF the weil-lnformed members ex-
pressed confidence that their state would
ever be recognized at Washington, but they
thought that if division could be secured
they would readopt the constitution with lit
tie change.
In about week the territorial officials with
some invited guests are to have q special car
and take jaunt from Bismarck to Fargo,
Grand Forks Devils Lake and other points
in the North, and then take in the leading
towns and attractions in the South, taking
some two weeks for the tour. There is no
special public import to the trip, except to let
the people see what a goCd-looking set of of
| ficals they have. Receptions will be given