Bismarck weekly tribune., 1886-10-15


st. Paul Globe historical of the division
movement in Dakota, which is interest
ing, to say the least. It goes back to the
earliest settlement in the southeast cor
ner of the territory, and in the Pembina
region in the north, later-in 1871. There
was not, in those days, anything known
about the central Dakota region, and
there being nothing in common between
the two sections, the Northern Pacific
railroad company caused to be intro
duced in the United States senate bill
for the division of Dakota and the crea-
ton of the territory of Pembina. At that
time there we're no settlements, even
along the line of the Northern Pacific,
and the road did not reach Bismarck un-
til 1873. The division sentiment in those
days was all in the north. It had been
heard of in the south, but they didn't
care anything about it. North Dakota
made it's first appearance as North Da-
kota and won its first victory in 1874.
Judge Barnes, of Fargo, and Col. Louns-
berry, of Bismarck, went down with ten
votes. There were about sixty votes in
the convention. Moody and B. F. Camp
bell we're the leading candidates. The
northern delegates made a fight for
Judge Kidder. They held the balance
of power and won. His first bill wa 8 for
the division of the territory, and during
his six years in congress his best efforts
we're given for it's division. Continuing
further, the correspondent says:
The north grew and prospered, and al,
the capital went to Bismarck. In 1882
Burrows, in urging division, brought for
ward ten-year-Old arguments. He told of
a barren waste which separated the two
sections He said there was not wagon
track connecting the two sections, and that
the north could only reach the south via
st. Paul and Sioux City; that there was un-
dying hostility and no prospective rail
roads between the two sections and the
people were as separate and distinct in
their tastes. interests, etc., as those of Ohio
and Tennessee. After he closed his speech
he visited the gallery, where the Dakota
boys then in the. city had congregated in
Of Off, doWntrodden w % en- DAKOTA % ana and i pGilar %aior
Edwards said: Burrows, for heavens
sake, don't ever tell that barren
waste lie again; it was good
enough plan for you to work for di-
vision five years ago, but Central Dakota
is now the best settled portion of Dakota,
ana ahdt # you fellows are m not pretty lively
here and demand admission as whole"
And that is just what central Dakota is do
ing to-day. She demands that this nom
sensical cry for division be silenced. And if
we of central Dakota ever do succeed in
getting a vote upon the question: vote
that being legally authorized is entitled to
respective shall show how completely
the sentiment Of the people has changed
The politicians may want to double the ex-
pense Of state government in order to gain
a percentage of the spoils !:
they may want to double their chances for
gaining official positions, but the people of
this section want admission without di-
vision-they want to be a part Of our grand,
imperial and undivided Dakota. They
want the power in the house of representa-
tives and in national conventions that a
large and united delegation will give them.
They want the North united with the South,
and both to be in sympathy with central
Dakota instead of using Central Dakota as
the battle ground on which the hostile
tribes of the north and south meet year af-
ter year to fight their battles over. For
our part we are in earnest in opposition to
division. We are tired of this sectional
war. We are disgusted with the capital
controversy, and are perfectly content to
allow the capital to rest in peace on the
banks of the Upper Missouri, knowing full
well that if it remains there it will result
in drawing to it new lines of railroad that
will open up to settlement portion of the
territory as productive as the best, now al
most entirely unoccupied: that the north
| and the south will, within year or two at
| most, be united by half dozen north and
south lines of railroad, and the people of
| both will unite in opposing the infquity
that the politicians are trying to work upon
them in this division matter. y = y
| y The people are becoming
disgusted with the Campbells and the
MO0dys and the demagOgues of both the
north and the south, who have robbed Da.
kota of statehood for the past four years
| Dakota could gain admission before the
lst of January il her people were united in
asking for admission instead Of urging di
vision, which the people do not want, and
do not think possible.
Gov. Hauser, Of Montana, has for