Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-12-04

against Yankton for her piucky fipht
against Bismarck and against the ad.
mission OF Dakota as whole.
1t is because Yankton opposed the capi-
tai commission fraud from it's inception
to its passage, and afterwards exposed
the rotten methods of the manipulstors
who placed Dakota's seat of govern
ment out on the edge of settlement. that
Bismarck hugs the phantom of revenge
to it's heart and strives
to punish those whom it can.
not coerce into subiection. TAX
ing advantage Of this feeling of
hostility, Mitchell, two years ago, formed
combination with the Bismarckian
forces to secure the United States court
at Yankton, not because public conven.
ienoe would be subserved by change,
but because Mitchell wanted the court
for the dollars and cents its sessions
contain, and hecense Bismarck wanted
to get even with an enemy. 1t was a
combination OF cupidity, corruption and
revenge. Two years ago Mitchell went
30 deeply into this selfish scheme as to
abandon all of south Dakota and all Of
south Dakota's dearest interests,
forming an alliance with
the eapital ring and casting its legisIa-
tive votes for everything northern and
against everything southern. Like the
knights of the golden circle of the north.
ern states during the days OF the war, its
sympathies, its influence and its votes
were against its friends and it's brethren
and with the enemies of south Dakota in
every contest involving sectional issues.
1t snuggled up to Ordway and all his
tressoable allies and his speculative
bummers and in every instance recogni.
zed and gave aid to those enemies of
morality and progress who were oon-
spring to squapder the money OF the
tax payers in projects for personal enrich-
ment Mitchell and its Representative
alienated themselves entirely from the
south and were always found in the
camp of the enemy of southern hopes
and southern efforts. 1t did this that 1t
might purchase Yankton's United
States court from men who never give,
but always sell, and it matters not TO
them whether the goods they deliver be-
long to themselves or to some one else,
as long as they SECURE the equivalent of
the delivery. In its alliance with the
north and its abandonment OF fellowship
with its Own neighhers
Mitoheil went 30 far
as to side with the enemies OF south Da-
kota's statehood aspirations, even to the
extent of refusing to participate in our
constitutional convention gatherings,
and to-dayit stands alone of all the
southern counties unrenresented in that
body. Having thus u ,i,z it's scorn in
the teeth OF south D.A,.i,..it now ap-
pears before the Representatives Of that
section, the confessed ally OF the con-
fessed enemy of the south, and asks
that south Dakota institution be
moved from one location to another for
the sole purpose of bringing pecuniary
benefit to Mitchell. This much it ex-
hihits in the way of audacity and cheek
in the face of its deliberate
treason to the section from which it
now asks help in pursuit Of q scheme
containing nothing of public veal
for any one or nythlDg but Mitchell.
Failing two years ago to secure the re-
quisite number of votes in the legisla-
tAture through treason to the south,
Mitchell again consummates it's unholy
alliance and JOINS hands with Bismarck,
for profit and revengo, to take q conrt
from Ysnkton and locate it at Mitchell.
The incoming legisl4ture will be asked
to vote upon this proposition.