St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-10
Snncial IN tho Globe.


Col. DOMAIN.
Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, April 81 was in St Louis a
few days ago to take look at the big
strike. Hearing that Col. Pat Donan OF
Dakota was in the city. called upon him
at the residence of lhis brother-in-law, DR..
Thomas L. Holland, one of the United
States pension examiners. found him
confined TO his room somewhat out of
health, but ready as ever TO talk when DA-
kota was mentioned. In response TO one Of
my questions he said:
"How is Dakota? Oh, as well as could
be expected under the circumstances. Ma
terially she has suffered from the general
depression of the times. the arrangement Of
business throughout the country, the falling
off of immigration and outside investments
and, more than all else, the low price OF her
great staple-wheat. Politically, she has
been the victim of folly and knavery at
home, and partisan bigotry and rascallty
abroad. But in spite of all these draw
backs; she is growing in population, wealth
and productive power. Many new farms
will be put In cultivation this year, much
larger area will be titled, the stock-raising
industry of the territory is steadily increas-
ing. and many rich deposits OF mineral
notably tin and silver-are being discovered
| in the Black Hills section. Farming, min
ing and stock-growing all promise well.
and, while our great boom Of three or four
years ago has subsidized. the business out
| look is good. Things have got down to a
hard-pan basis and every advance now is a
solid one"
"What about your prospects Of state
hood?"
1.-THE Devil himself. the father and boss
of nine-tenths of all our politics and politi-
clans, couldn't answer that. Between oul
fools and knaves at home, and the partisan
ignoramuses, bigots and jobbers in con-
gress, we have hard time of it. Our pres
ent territorial government Is the most fla
grant form of carpet-bag rule. We have
about 425. 900 peOple-more than twice as
many as are necessary, under any construc-
ton of law or precedent, TO entitle us TO adj
mission as a state; more than three times a:
many as were ever before kept in
TERRITORIAL vAssALAGE
since the union was founded. We have fal
more population, wealth and intelligence
than many of the states-more than any
three of the other territories. Every princi
right and justice. of Americanism, is VIC
lated daily and hourly in our case. We arr
taxed without representation; we are ruleC
by carpet-baggers, appointed aliens; We
have no vote or voice in our own affairs
we are virtually DISTINGUISHED, reduced {,
the level of felOns, because we live in Da
kota. And every effort 10 right thesl
wrongs, TO redress these grievances, ha
ANONYMOUSLY failed. has died adjoining.
what has been the difficulty? VIVA
has been in your way?"
"JackaSsery at home, rapscallionism II
Washington. Our people are as honest ant
intelligent as those Of any state or territor,
in the Union, but they have been led by a
ignorant and unprincipled gang of politica
pot-hunters as ever cursed any region Of
the continent They have made our terri
torial politics a stencil in the nostrils o
every decent man, woman and child in on
borders. Whenever a Dakota convention
or legislature begins TO assemble skip on
to the Atlantic coast or Gulf of Mexico an
, pray the Lord TO let the wind blow tn
other way. a fellow never knows what
he may catch from such crowd. Thes
, freeboOteTs have for years been working
make two states of the territory in order
give themselves twice as many offices an
stealage opportunities as one state woul
, afford. have told them from the sta
! that the job never could be accomplished
J but the people have been gulled into TO
: lowing the lead Of the would-be duplicat
senators. governors and other official pal
, jandrums, and this idiocy has given the
2 PARTISAN JoBBERS
\ and hucksters at Washington ample pr
text for ignoring our claims altogether. "
: have a right, as everybody admits, to a,
mission as a state, but this our territOri
q bosses have never asked and are not askiT
now. We have no earthly right to admi
sion as two states and this is just what the
are clamoring for, because it gives the
four senators instead of two. two governo
c instead OF one, and so on, doubling ofic
: and grabbage chances and dividing the a
: sets with which TO meet the costs. {
). course any ordinarily intelligent ass Dug
d to know that, as long as the Democra
e control either house of congress they W
= never consent TO any such scheme for pu
n ting two extra Republicans In the sena
n and the next electoral college; and as lOl
le as our knavish fools and foolish knav,
n keep up their howl for this preposteTO
4 impossibility. they give our compression
hi enemies abundant reason for shutting
a out altogether. That means. as things
IF now, a loss of six Republican electoI
J. votes in the next presidential campaign"
N THE blame of which would seem, fro
e. your showing. TO rest wholly upon Dakot;
"a own political blind guides?"
Of Yes. they certainly furnish the prete
g. or ground for IL; but what must one thi
10 of the wretched libels on craftsmanship
ly Washington who are ready to seize such
Ut fiimsy excuse for continuing an ineXcusat
outrage upon nearly half a million Anne
can citizens? What a vile lot of peddlI
and traffickers the United States senate a
house of representatives have becon
They pander TO incendiary strikers a
rioters; they tosdy to cut-throat mOnopol
and piratical monoI olists, and they tram
upon every right of hundreds Of thousar
of
AMERICAN FREESTEN
for pitiful party advantage 10 aid tn
in electing some mig in hole to
presidency he may disgrace when he g
il. In all this territorial admission squi
bic not one statesmanlike or patriotic il
has ever been uttered in either branch
our national huckster shop. Republics
favor bringing Dakota in as two states
cause il means increased Republic
strength in senate and electoral cole
Democrats oppose il for the same reas
ha and are glad of any preteXt howe
fiimsy, for keeping her out altogether III
mel after the next election. Dan Voorhees,,
Use order TO carpet-bag his son Charlie into