St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-12
BEWARE OF COERCION.
Senator Harrison Urging South Dakota
Enthusiasts to Take No Revolutionary
Steps Toward Statehood.
Poor Prospects For the Serious Oonsid-
Grafton of Any of the Bills For Di-
vision or Admission.
Some of the Dakota Measures Likely
to Receive the Attention of the
Lower House To-day.
Sensible Sentiments of Mr.. Frost on
the Faction Fight--Mr. Day De-
mics Being Interviewed.
Division or Neither.

Admission. Division or Neither.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, June 11.-NOthing will
be done with the Harrison, Baker,
Springer, Frederick or other bills for the
division or admission of Dakota during this
session Of congress. The territorial COM
mittee will either not report any of these
bills, or it will report them favorably.
There is not just one little glimmer of hope
for even the passage of an enabling act. So
the people will have to stay out in the cold
for little while longer. In response to
hundreds of letters from editors and others
in Dakota, Senator Harrison has written,
by his private secretary, number of letters
containing the statement, that Il do not
believe that state government can be set
up and put into operation, lawfully, with
out the consent of congress-" He further
adds that, while he is friendly to division
and admission. he does mot see how the
cause is to be helped by departing from
those constitutional and orderly methods
which they have up to this time observed"
Having seen extracts from the letter pub
lished, l took the trouble to ascertain its
genuinenesS,- and also the fact that it is
circular i'll its nature, and has been sent to
several hundred people i'll the territory If
the rabid divisiOnistS who wear the collar
of Hugh j. Campbell can get any comfort
out of the fact that they have excited the
HOSTILITY OF THEIR FRIENDS
in the senate, without gaining any new
champions, they may be, they must be,
very slow in learning to chew the'cud of Bit
ter reflections. It'll as we'll settled now. as it
ever can be, that the gentlemen in the SEN
ate who did such strong battle for the adj
mission Of South Dakota last winter are
hostile to the coercive measures recently
taken as they can be. They nave been in
terviewed and written to, and their univer-
sal reply IS similar to the above quotation
from Senator Harrisons letter. They re-
gard statehood Oh the part of any territory
as a mutual compact or contract. The
general government makes certain conces-
sions and the territory makes concessions
in consideration thereof. 1t is mutual
agreement. and neither party can be CO.
creed effectively. 1t has been very thor
oughly demonstrated in this country that
when any number Of the people attempt to
cOerce the general government the tables
are turned and the coercion goes the other
way. The Southern states made enough
history upon that point to enable the Da-
kota cOercionistS to read a profitable lesson
if they were not so blinded by their preju-
dices and demands for immediate personal
preferment. These are not merely my own
views which are being spread before you,
but the views of the honorable gentlemen
single exception. The sentiment is unani-
nous. There must be no further efforts
after the
LOUISIANA CAMPBELL PLAN,
orDakota will go to the devil for statehood,
with better prospects of admission to
sheol than to the Union of States. There
should be an end put to the nonsense by
the people. By the way. while upon this
subject, l want to call your attention to the
fact that there are not half a dozen papers
i'll Dakota which favor the Campbell plan.
Judge Clifford, the territorial delegate. who
is strongly in favor of division and admis-
sion, has felt the public pulse here, and he
has drawn in his hand and stopped the
game He isn't so much in favor of imme-
diate division. dsregardng congress-, as he
was. He says that he never did take much
stock in the coercive movement, but he adj
mitS that he was leaning that way for a
while. He believes that the next house
will be Republican, and that then the terri
tory will be divided and the south admitted.
That is a good scheme, but it must be re-
membered that even if the people do send a
Republican majority to the house the preSi-
dent is Democrat and no more anxious to
add to the Republican power than a Demo-
cratic house would be. He would be likely
to sign any bill which was based opon jus
tice and the needs of the people. but he
cannot be counted upon to simply play into
the hands of his Republican antagonists
merely for wantonness. He must be cred
tied with more brains than that. Besides,
there are two of him now, and wisdom
thriYeS il the White house.