St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-18
The Jealous Ill HumOr of a
Chicago Paper Causes It's
Gross UnfairneSS.
The Absurdities of the Biz
zard Romances Reduced by
the Actual Facts.
Not a Cheerful Outlook for
Early Admission to State
hood Reported.

WATERFOWL. Feb. 17.-If there were
no other reasons why Dakota people
should stand by each other and dwell
together in harmony, they should do so
for self-protection, at least. 1t seems rs
if the East is banded together to do
what harm it can to the territory. They
let slip no opportunity to injure the
good name of this great territory.
Whether they are inspired in this work
by self-protectiOn or by spite | will not
pretend to say. We will simply look at
the results as we find them. The first
and great injustice that the East does
this country is to keep Dakota out of
the Union. You may talk all that you
want to about internal dissensiOns and
poor qualifications being the bar to Da-
kota statehood, but when you come
down to the real facts you will find that
it is simply a question of the East
against the West, and in DalkOta'S case,
against 1.-The great and growing North
west" and that these home troubles
and charges that Dakota is not pre-
pared for admission, are simply the
tares that these Eastern political wire
pullerS have SOWn in DakOta'S rich soil,
and where-wOe to us! in many case
they have brought forth more abundantly
than the good wheat we honest people
are trying to SOW. Yes, we can lay much
to these Eastern people on the score of
Dakota's non-admissiOn. They are more
to blame than we are. Dakota people
are a hundred times more Sinned
against than SHINING" Not to say any
thing against the host of ruthless office
holders that have been sent cut here to
rob uS-for in many cases they have
made good offensive need but call
attention to the fact that years ago.
when Dakota was about to be admitted
and it was under Republican admin
istratiOn,' too - that it was that
Maine galOOt, Senator Hale, who
objected to Dakota becoming state
although she was fully qualified in
every way, for the simple reason tn at
some of his (Senator Hill's) constituents
held Yankton county bonds, the stand
ing of which was in some doubt. For
this paltry reason, the great Republican
party refused admission to Republican
territory. No man in his right mind
will pretend to say that it was a suffi-
cient reason for putting aside Dakota's
rights to statehood. 1t was the old issue
the
EAST AGAINST THE WEST.
Even the Republican party did not
care to take its chances on
because the people of the East
were prejudiced against her. They
were afraid of her great agricultural
fields that were to hold the thousands
that in a few years would be demand
ing their rights against this same East.
Poor, foolish, selfish old East. it thought
to cripple, to hinder the growth of this
great country. How we'll they have
succeeded, you all know. Now, not
content with working against Dakota
politically, they have tried to hurt her
financially and materially. A very good
example of this hate that the East bears
us is it's treatment of the late blizzard
that visited this Northwest country. In
all their mention of it, they were not
content to call it the Northwest biz
card, but, having special spite against
poor Dakota, bee auSe this territory is a
big enough boy to 'pick on" they
always spoke of it as the
TERRIBLE DAKOTA BLIZZARD.
On the words "Dakota blizzard" they
rang their charges, taking a special
delight in rolling it round their tongues,
as they would delicious morSel. Even
one paper as far West as Chicago, the
Chicago Tribune, engaged itself in
this kind of business. The Tribune
for some reason seems to have special
spite against Dakota-this reason. l
have seen it stated to be due to the fact
that one of our imported Chicago gov
errors, as the representative of Dakota
people, had the awful impudence to APP
point one Lawrence Dunla as terrific
had been Oh the editorial corps of the
Inter-Ocean, that paper, which the
Tribune is only pleased to refer to as
its hyphenated contemporary. The
Tribune has taken pains not to show
DakOta's blizzard in its worst light, but,
unlike any fair paper should. to totally
and willfully misrepresent it. 1t started
in, a few days after the storm. by pub
fishing special telegram from Ne
braska City, Neb., purporting to
be an interview with one Kin
was an Indian agent from the
YanktOn reservation in Dakota. This
ridiculous especial" went on to say that
Mr. Kinney, escaping with his life, had
passed through country where the
people and stock were all frozen to
death, and "a curious thing he travelled
on train; in country where the rail
raOd traffic was supposed to be stopped
by the storm, and on this train babies
were frozen to death, although inclosed
and covered with mail sacks. Wonder
full adventure and escape for Mr.. Kin
neyl At last he reaches Nebraska
City, travelling by cars, and here he
related his fearful story to the Tribnne's
special reporter. According to this re-
porter'S interview with Mr.. Kinney, he
estimated the loss of life in Oak ota to
be not less than 1000 lives. Mind, this
loss was in Dakota-no where else!
But who is Mr.. Kinney? Where
is Nebraska City? Where is
the Yankton Indian agency? Mr.. Kin
ney has not been heard of since he was
interviewed by the Tribune's Nebraska
City special reporter, and the most char
liable explanation of his silence and alb
sence is that he has ''crawled into his
hole and pulled his hole in after him."
In order to reach Nebraska City Mr..
Kinney had to pass through YanktOn, a
city of 5000 inhabitants; Sioux City, a
city of 10000; Council Bluffs and Omaha
and at last to reach Nebraska City, a
little town of about 1000 people, there
| to tell in the Tribune reporters ear, his
fearful stories about the Dakota biz
zard! Why did not this Nebraska City
| reporter find out from MI Kinney some
thing about the storm in Nebraska and
| Iowa. ust across the river from his home
| in Dakota? And yet such a telegram
as this the Tribune prints with big
and glarirg headlines: .One thousand
lives lost in the Dakota blizzard. Great
suffering to animals in Dakota" etc.,
etc. Not content with this, what