St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-05
ALL IN THEIR GLORY.
Gladness and Joy Make
Music in the Black
Hills
Since the President Signed
the Sioux Reservation
Bill.
Days Of Waiting Give Place
to the Fruition Of All
Hopes.
Something About the Unfor-
tunate Factions at Dead
wood.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
RAPID CITY, Oak. May 4.-Politics
is queer. In Rapids City. short time
ago, local election was held in which
the line was drawn between Democracy
and Republicanism. and the fight was
square-toed one between the two par
ties. Result-mayor Republican, treas
uTer Democratic, council a tie-four
and. Up in Deadwood they do these
things differently. Party doesn't enter
into local pOlitics-that is, it doesn't
matter whether a man is a Democrat or
Republican. The lines are drawn be-
tween the iDs and the outs, and the fight
is chiefly made ON the desire of the one
side to continue and the other side to
change existing affairs. And don't
they make things hum when they get
a-going? Last TuesdaynDeadwood had
an election for mayor and cOuncilmen,
and the assertion is a safe one that her
material interests Will not recover from
the rancor engendered before the time
arrives for another fight of a similar
nature. It's of little use to 60 into the
details of this subject. Suffice it TO say,
l4ldl III DtduNOOu there
ARE TWO FACTIONS
arrayed constantly one against the
other. each doing all it can to obstruct
the plans laid out by its opponent, and,
consequently. both are working to the
towns permanent disadvantage. The
leaders see this and realize fully the
Importance of union at ali times. but
neither side seems to be imbued with
that nObleness of spirit necessary to
the subJugation of private ends TO pub
lie good. And so between their petty
chickering's Deadwood is continual suf-
ferer. The time may come when the
differences will bereconciled and the fac
tions united, but just at present the pa
tIent taxpayer and property owner up
there have cause to say, "a plague on
both your houses"
Maybe the people of the Black Hills
didn't celebrate the signing of the
RESERVATION BILL
by the president. And maybe they
didn't have cause to celebrate that act.
Any one who has not his all invested in
this section of country cannot appre-
ciate the anxiety which prevailed here
during the interim between the receipt
of the bill by the president and its sig
nature. The nerves of all were on a
tension painful to witness and dOubly
so to endure. For years have the peo-
pie out here worked with congress to
have this great barrier to their prosper
ity and advancement removed. and
without avail. So little interest was
felt in the matter by men who had moth
ing al stake in Dakota, and the only in
tereSted ones were
LIKE SENATOR DAWES,
of Massachusetts. who, for all of his
professed friendship for DakOtians, is
summarized Inv fhn hi++aracf
opponents the scheme for opening the
reserve ever had. Annually has Dawes
made some attempt which would serve
TO show his good intentions toward the
people out here, who needed the relief,
and at the same time would he incor-
porate some provision at the suggestion
of some Eastern Indian wOrshiper,
which would bring about the defeat of
the bill. and thus could he keep solid on
matter, no doubt, but his judgment on
the Indian question was about as un-
biased as the old mans preference of a
COLOR FOR HIS BARN.
Il don't care id. so long as it's
red" said the old man. and the policy
of the senator from Massachusetts was:
Il don't care what you do. so long as
you do nothing" But the issue was
forced on him last winter, and he
SOuIOiI OOuSS IL. u pItSSuIc lie Idu
not thought possible was brought to
bear on him in Washington. and like
Davy Crockett'S coon. he came down.
Never had the matter been so nearly
conSummated before, as when the bill
went to the president week before last.
And what would he do,waS the question
here. Some said this and some said
that, and all waited and as day after dav
went by and no news came, the feeling
OF anxiety grew stronger. until some had
become almost mOnomaniacs. The well
known unpleasant experience of the
president in connection with the Crow
Creek reservation was granted him as
an excuse for reasonable delay, and his
well outlined policy of looking closely
into all details in legislation of whatever
kind or nature, made it certain that if
the bill contained flaw it would surely
be found out. There are those here
whose trust is like Jobs of old. Even
though He slay me, yet will thrust
Him. and these were always sanguine.
But Tuesday. the last day, when it was
known that something must be done in
Washington or the bill would become a
law any way, the
SUSPENSE WAS AWFUL.
AS the day wore on it increased, and
at noon the average citizens face was a
study. Hope and despair mingled.
Wnlle the light OF one and the shadow
of the other chased ftfully across the
countenanceS of ali. And when the glad
news came, wild fire never spread
quicker. Almost in an instant the air
was burdened with such expressions of
JOY as proceed from giant powder and
other means of that nature. And ii was
well justified, all the noise the people
made, and all entered most heartily into
! the occasion.
Considerable conjecture as to whom
! the president will appoint on the COM
mission TO obtain the signatures of the
Indians to the cession is INDUCED in.
There have been many names sug-
gested, and the selection of any would
prove satisfactory in the end: Rapid
City has one man most eminently quail
fed for the place. He is DR.. Y. T.
MGillycuddy, late agent at Pine Ridge
agency