Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-23
CORRECTING MIR. RLAINE.
roI. Pat DOMAIN Talks Upon the Ad-
mission of Dakota to the Union.

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mission of Dakota To the Union.
From the Chicago Ns'os.
%, Pat Donan, whose familiarity with
notota affairs none will dispute, takes
ovcention to the utterances OF James q.
p,aine in his Bangor speech charging the
democratic party with the responsibility
=, keeoing Dakota out of the Union. The
following extract from Mr.. Blalne's
sneech was shown to the Colonel;
f"Mr. Blaine asserted that the Demo-
orots in Congress determined to keep Da-
Enta out of the Union just yet for fear OF
+he three electoral votes she would
nronablv cast for the Republican candi-
dates and he cried OUT They beat that
safe and hold 1t out by thirty five to forty
conservative votes they have stolen In
The south. They not only take 6,O00,0o0
of men in the South and exclude them
from the ballot and take that electoral
strenCth and give it to white Southern
men. but they go into the Congress of the
United states and use the votes thus taken
n keep white Northern men from their
Yes. | read that as it appeared in the
DoiIy News" said Col. Donan, in reply,
sand IL is a strangely reckless and er-
rone0us statement even for Mr. Blaine.
His friends dwell admiringly on his
,audacity,' but audacity Is virtue only
when backed by truth and right. TOM
Reed. of Maine, in an interview which APP
feared in the New York Tribune just AZ
Ter Congress adjourned said pretty nearly
the same thing. They both lay the
whole blame of Dakota's exclusion from
tbe Union on the Democrats and the
southern bulldozers, Now, / have no
more affection for the Democratic party
or its kuklux allies than Mr.. Blaine or Mr..
Reed has; but neither hate democracy
nor love Dakota enough to blind me TO the
truth.
81 lama Dakotan and have done as mueh
to advertise, settle up, and develop her
great territory as any other living man.
have pleaded her cause in Congressional
committee rooms, in religious, political,
and festive conventions, through the
newspapers, and in books and pamph-
let's. | am familiar with every move that
has ever been made for or against her
statehood, and my knowledge does not
tally with Mr.. Blaine's statements. lie
knows, or ought to know, that when the
Arst earnest movement was made, in 1881,
TO bring the Territory in as State the
the Republicans had virtual control OF
both Senate and House, and Keller, of
Ohio. was Speaker. Who led the Opposi-
ton to her admission then? Some North
ern copperhead or Southern niger killer!
Not bitof it..
1.-The hostiles were headed by little
Eugene Hale and one Frye, both OF Maine
and both Republicans. They fought
against the rights of the grandestof all the
Territories, which then had over 2OO,O0O
people, not on any ground OF principle
out because some obscure county In
South Dakota had repudiated few dol
lars worth of dubious bonds and perhaps
caught a constituent or two OF the high,
moral Maine Republican statesmen for 10
cents. Then the idiOtic wrangle over the
division question broke out among the
DakOtans themselves, and they really
never asked admission since. Remem-
Der, there is an infinite difference between
refusing to admit one majestic state with
more than SOC, 900 people and declining TO
divied a raw Western Territory into two
States balancing New York and Pennsyi-
vania in the United States Senate. Da-
kota has right to demand admission as
one State, but this her political buccan-
GERS have not asked since the Democrats
regained control OF the Lower
House of Congress, and they
are not asking it now. 1t is ex-
actly what they do not wish. Dakota bas
no right on Gods earth to admission as
two States, and this is just what her hor-
des OF wOuld-be Senators, congressman,
Governors, Lieutenant Governors, and
miscellaneous and assorted official till
tappers have clamOred and are clamoring
for. Mr.. Blaine should not lay the sins
aud f0llies Of DakOta's jackassical
statesmen on the Democrats. They have
load enough to carry in their past twenty
five years. record and in their present
sln0ads of civil service failure, revenue
reform failure, tariff reform failure, ex-
penditure reduction failure, and Bay
ardn