New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-17
THE WRONG DONE DAKOTA.
SENATOR sPooNERs ELOQUENT SPEECH.


rpr TELEGRAPH TO THE rRrBuSK.I
WASHINGTON, April l6.-The "event' Of thu
day was the speech Of Mr. Spooner in the Senate oil
the admission Of Dakota The announcement
that the junior Senator from Wisconsin woult
speak had the effect Of crowding the galleries
Even on the door Of the Senate empty seats wer
the exception. Mr. Spooner does not often maxi
set speech, but when he does 1t is apt to be
good one Those who came to listen to him to
day were not disappointed. 1t was probably th
best speech 50 far delivered In the Senate on tn
subject This is not to be regarded as In an!
sense derogatory Of the efforts Of Mr.. Spooner'
predecessors on the Republican side 1t was more
than anything else, perhaps. the natural outcome
of the speech made by Senator Butler the othe
day. Senator Spooner, however, knew how Il
make good use of his opportunity. Mr. Butle
had laid himself open to attack, and the Wisconsin
Senator was not slow in perceiying It,. Alter III
had finished his speech there was little left Of Mr.
Butler. The effect Of Mr.. Spooner's speech wa.
heightened by his delivering II without notes and
apparently without preparation.
SHUT OUT FROM THE UNION BY THE SOUTH
Mr.. Spooner spoke of Dakota as the wonder
land Of the g ntinent" and Of tie opposition tS
the bnl as unjust partisansbip.' In area, popu-
lation, intelligence, morality and all the qualities
that make up State, the right of South Dakota
10 Statehood could, not be questioned. He could
invite comparison between South Dakota and
South Carolina, In detriment to the latter and to
several Southern States. And yet, he said every
Senator from O Southern State stood athwart the
pathway of South Dakota
Abiding TO the remark In MIR. Buffers speech
last week that the precedent sought to be estab-
lished would justify 90 900 Socialists or Anarch-
lists getting together in o corner of Territory
and demanding admission q State he asked
what was the objection to their petitioning for
admission? What harm had petltionlng ever
done? They had che inherent right to try to get
had claimed that they had the inherent right to
try to get out of the Union. Naughter)
MIR: Butler said that he had not Denied and that
nobody denied, the right OF South Dakota TO try
to get in. What he had denied, and did deny
was the claim set up by Senator Platt that they
had an inherent right TO demand admission.
Mr. Spooner went on ., to II argue that liza the the
submitted to the whole people on November last
majority OF over 5000. That, he said. was o fair
people on that question. As to the suggestion
made by Mr. Butler that $4,000 voters Of
Dakota had been SO Indifferent to the question
that they had stayed away from the polls and that
therefore, The vote was not fair expression OF the
popular will he drew distinction between the
cases Of voters IN the Northern States who re-
manned away from the polls through indifference,
and Of voters Ia the Southern States who were
kept away through intimidation In the formtr
case there was NO impeachment Of the fairness OF
the election, but in the hitter case there Was. III
q larSe number OF men were kept away from the
polls, not because of their indifference, but be-
cause Of the memories Of outrages perpetrated and
tolerated By the intelligent men Of whole COM
munities and whole States, year after year-Out-
RACES by Ku-Klux clubs and night riders; because
of tissue ballots Decentralization, fraud because
Of memories Of burning shant1es, of colored he
publicans driven into swamps, dashed, exiled, pur
sued hunted down because Of memories OF Yazoo
and Copiah--then the election was not fair OK
preston Of the popular will.
No complaint, he said, was made OF the smallness
of the votes in the Southern States; although for
the ten Representatives from Georgia only 10000
in the ad oefa ysa9 Se
Wisconsin. The election in Dakota had been fair,
orderly peaceable-. All who voted had had their
5000 In favor Of dividing Dakota What party
necessity was IL which. in the face OF vote like
that, led Senators TO bar the pathway OF Dakota
on the ground that there had been no fair eX-
preston Of the people in favor OF divisionY The
people would not misunderstood it, Mr.. Lincoln
had said In his speech in the Cooper Institute, and
side: political party may fool part OF ths
people all the time and all Of the people part OF
the time, but nc political party can fool all the
people all the time"
PRYpoNprRATING INFLUENCE OF TEXAS.
As to the claim made by the Senator from South
Carolina (Butler) that there was no danger to be
apprehended from imperial States, he questioned
It; an2 asserted that the great empire State OF
Texas did menece by her monstrous territory the
interests Of other sections Of the country. She
had in the other House the chairman of the
Judiciary Committee, the chairman Of the Com. Com
dealt with the dearest interests of NewEngland
New York. Pennsylvania and all the country, ana
of the Committee on Claims; while the
great State of New York had no voice on the Com
mittee Of Ways and Means.
Why, asked the speaker, such preponderance
In political influence on the part OF the empire
State of Texas? 1t was not due to the wealth,
the loyalty, the intelligence Of her people. 1t
was due to two things-her solid Democracy and
her everlasting territory No more such empire
difficult he thought to understand the real no
tive of opposition to the admission OF South Da-
kota as State. In the old days when slavery ex-
listed in this country, when II was bone OF con-
tention; when there was q struggle for political
power between the forces Of slavery and the forces
of freedom, 1t came about. not unnaturaiiy that
of free State And so IL seemed that to-day, as
in ante-bellum days, the exigencies of Democracy
that no new State, Republican In poll
came in new State that was surely Democratic;
He believed that the State of South Dakota would
not be admitted into the Union by this Congress,
but he would bid the people of South Dakota to
be patient. Their cause was just one. Refine
ments and pretexts might delay but could not de
feat them. He would ask them to stand by their
because he believed that surely as to-
morrow would follow to-day the people of the
United States would begin to take an interest in
this question The people were slow to anger,
but a wrong was sure to arouse them, and he
thought he might safely prophesy to the people of
South Dakota that before long Independently of
what was done today, there would pe. elected q
Congress that would recognize her rights and
gladly welcome her into the Union Of States.
Mr.. Hoar omplmented Mr. Spooner on his very
able, eloquent and original speech" but he differed
from him in regard to the views expressed by him
as to the division of the State of Texas into sew
eral States He denied that it was obligation
incumbent. upon Congress under the terms of the
Joint resolution incorporating Texas into the
Union to recognize her division into several States
and to admit them as separate States.
Mr.. Vest obtained the door in opposition to the
bill.
Mr.. Platt suggested on understanding to have
the vote on the bill taken tomorrow, but Mr..
Butler said he could not agree to it. The bill
went over till tomorrow.
TESTIMONY FROM JACKSON.
Washington, April 10 (speclaD.-The Subcommittee
OF the Senate Judiciary Committee which has been for
several days past Investigating the electlon ourages