Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-05-26
By the division and State
hood Central Coma
nittee.
An Appeal 10 The Active Divis1onists
of North and South Dakota.
Can for a Division ana statehood Com

arise which oalled for such convention,
In the Sjudgment of the committee
that emergency has arisen. a
1t is now certain beyond doubt that |
Oongress will take NO Affirmative action
upon the demands OF the two Dakotas
for their legal and constitutional rights. /!
Since your last convention, the people
of Dakota have expressed their will |
upon the subject OF division at the polls
by an extraordinarily large vote. consid-
ering the circumstances OF the election
and by an unequivocsl majority Of near
Iy five thousand votes.
The unauthorized attempt of the |
Aberdeen convention to reverse this YER
dict OF the people, as expressed at the
polls, met with exposure and general
disapproyai.
The last election In north Dakota was
permitted largely 20 60 by default and |
the votes there cast, we're cast, as we
are informed by the people Of that coun-
try, under prevailing misapprehen-
sion that division meant statehood for
South Dakota and indefinite territorial
hood for NortA Dakota.
This misapprehension has been COR
rected, and we now learn with pleasure
that Eour brethren OF North Dakota are
ready and anxious to Join hands with
us in working for two states and irnme-
diate admission.
In this posture OF affair the deople OF
Dakota find themselves confronted with
a grave and perilous state OF facts. s.
The elections for territorial delegate
and for the legislature are soon TO take
place.
Ii these elections are allowed to 70 by
default by the friends Of division, as they
were two years ego, we are threatened
with she same results for the next two
years as we have had for the two years
Just past.
That 10. that q Legislature elected at
random, on local issues alone, making
combinations for appropriations, will
again bargain away what little, is left.of
the rights and liberties of the people to
an executive who is already vested with
more arbitrary and despotic powers than
have ever been bestowed upon ON Ameri-
can governor.
A worse evil than even this threatens
us.
To renew and keep alive the struggle
for OWL and political liberty, and for the
boundaries and institutions Of our
choice, and for two states, il is necessary
nc nsw sts,t;nn no;nt ~ 'nassinr n 81 er'e o.s ~
conyoh,nO two oonstitntionai cnnvan-
t,ona ana for No,th and ona for pnuth
DAKOTA
Tb;a ia ahsnlntalv asaens,aI 10 kaa,,
al,va orr etrnuola =
Rnt IN aaonra this. with a .Sosti,a GOV.
ernor. will reanire a two thirds mnioritv
| ~ The Ieoialatnye. This naaior;tv IL
tharafore the frat renaisite. - =. q"
Rnt 10 ohtain This we ,aed Z thoyonph
oyna AVIATION az the friends Of the two
states and nerfaot harmony ~ action
hatween thosa friends in both North and
Sonth Dakota. sl-'-, 80 = -
We need also something further. We
nasd ed ave- wall oonaiderad metnred and
nracticah,a plan of Act;an. which si,aij
ha aOraed nnon bv All ndontsd hv' ali
and carried thronch .by ali. and whiei,
shsH therefore, he made the. nnlv and
n onnt,oiI;nr % issne al IN % ali The fall aIao.;ans
Snch q man cannot he DEVISED nv nne
man or set Of men. -
/ gnch nlan rnnst be agreed upon and
casr;sd oa ont : % hy all 's or = wa will M sa,I M A
a failure nov means the loss OF The
next four. perhaps eight years. 81 81,
The people Of Dakota cannot afford
such a failura.t
Therefore, 10 the end that the people
1 NAV have al ouportuRity before the fnl]
lnominations and elections are upon
them. to consider devise and adopt sueb
q plan Of action as in their wisdom may
seem best adapted to SECURE their riphte
| and to recover the powers uDiustly and
i corruptly baroaiped away from them
into the hands OF q foreign and hostile
il governor, this committee, By virtue 81