Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-05-10

Seizes Upon the Present OPP
,~porIupity to Advocate a Plan for ni-
DIVISION.
Special correspondence Chicago Inter Ocean
Huron ID. Il, April 24.-The favorable
time IN which Ito propose the division
Of Dakota into two territories, without
the admission OF either section OF the
present territory, seems TO have arrived
born Of the political ~axlgencies of the
hour. 4
The people of Dakota. will take very
kindly to the simple division of north
and south Dakota, SO it 10 claimed by
those who are supposed to be in a posi-
ton to know public sentiment.
TIE current issue of the Monthly Bull
letin OF the commissioner of immiRra-
ton, which is accepted pretty generally,
both within and without the territory. as
an authority in Dakota matters, contains
an article on the subject that NAV be
quoted as a for expression of leading
public opinion IN the territory.
The commissioner of immigration,
Mr.. Lauren Dunlap, would say fo1 the
people OF all Dakota that Mi. Hips mea.
sure to simply divide the territory will
be eminently satisfactory as q COM
promise.
The article is as follows:
The Dakota admission bill as passed
by the senate has not come before the
house for final action.
1t lies in committee, and Dakota
waits, hopeful of her rights.
Meanwhile, two other propositions
among the several which have been
advanced, are being ~convassed at Wash
ipgton aud elsewhere.
One OF these is to pass an enabling
act whereby the people of south Dakota
may be permitted to form a constitution
and erect q state, beginning or perform.
ing their work in that direction over
again.
Such a measure would practically be
an equivalent for the Harrison bill
simply another method of conferrinp
the desired boom.
The other proposition Is to divide
Dakota as it stands into two territories
postponing the admission of either un.
til o later date.
Now if there is q disposition-and il
so appears-on the part OF the house te
do something for Dakota at this session
the majority side of that body ma
rest nssured that the people OF Dakota
are willing to meet them halfway.
The admission of south Dakota il
asked for by her people upon a showing
as to population, area, and
which they believe needs no political
argument to support it.
But the people OF south Dakota re.
cngnize the fact that the main QUESTION
l ynvefyoA fnSk tim Gn--.--~ tIYl~E - Z,
division OF area, preliminary to the state.
hood OF south Dakota, and pointing the
way to the admission in to the union
soon after OF north Dakota.
Indeed, they frankly avow this to be
the vital principle ut stake.
They. in common with ths people OF
north Dakota, will respectfully but
honestly insist upon separate state
hood for each Dakota that alore will
secure to the inhabitants of the present
territory the proper representation in
both branches OF congress-, and prom ote
that domestic peace and tranquility IN
their local affairs so indispensable to the
welfare and good government of each.
Denied OF their rights for as long az
as they have baen, they are still wills.S
to walt, rather than accept admission
on terms which they believe to be rcpug-
nant to the spirit of free institutions.
The people OF south Dakota hunger
Tor the butter and bread OF statehood.
but they would regard simple division
as half o loaf, aad altogether by far the
bigger half OF the loaf, winch during the
past fey months has seemed to be go
ueafls Ei.hin reach.
Division alone. moreover, would be
doing that eyen and exact Justice BY
each Dakota which ought to have been
secured long ago, before either wns
ready for statehood.
1t would restore most fully those
cordial relations between the people Of
north and south Dakota which design.
ing Observation-Disclosures opposed to
the wishes aud interests of both sections
have for purposes of their own andeay.
ore5 to disturb and disrupt.
Approaching the political situation OF
affairs. and realizing that neigher OF the
Two great party organizations is free
from eeasGsa on account OF pursuing the
partisan advantage to an extreme, the
people OF Dakota would gratefully
accept the division of area alone as al
honorable compromise, all things con-
sIdared, OF the questions and issus in
volyed.
Such bill would go down in history,
and to the credit of the democratic
party, IS the Dakota compromises.
ana With respect to this matter it is
safe to say that every officer elect OF the
provisional state of Dakota south OF the
iorty-aixtn parallel would cordially JON
views.
Inc neEsssas v#s mGst fortunate in
the selection OF its first officers, who
mayo earned the confidence of the peo-
pie, n who are richly deserving OF the
Reelection they would IN all probability
obtain Whenever south Dakota, if not
under the Harrison bill, does
ecom a state under a congressional
patent.