Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-04-17
STATE GOVERNMENT.
The Dakota Plan Endorsed by senate,
c. K. Davis.

The Dakota Plan Endorsed by senator
g. IA. Davis.
Huron Huronite: The position Of the
Buronite, SO persistently maintained, !,
against all odds, during the past three
years. that the organization of state
government by the people of Dakota, is
a matter of their own, not dependent
upon the discretiou OF congress, is
roundly endorsed and maintsined by
Senator O. x. Davis, of Minnesota,
himself one Of the most learned lawyers
OF the northwest, and whose fame for
deep, political learnlngis as broad as
that for the law. No advocate for tho
"Canpbell plan" has ever gone further
than Senator Davis went yesterday in
declaring the inherent right OF the Da-
kota people to organize self government
for themselves, and in denying--even
the "iegal" right-of congress to refuse
to recognize such government, and ad-
NIT the state to ell its rights in the
union, on complete equality with the
other states. Senator Davis came in
sharp conflict with the editor OF the
Siorx City Journal, and the distin.
guished lawyer and statesman of the
Sioux Fslls Press, bat since he stands
in perfect accordance with the utter
ances OF the fathers and great de-
tenders of the republic-oi Franklin
and Washington and Jefferson, of Jack
son and Douglas and L,ncoln--his own
great fame, as student OF law and his
tory, cannot suffer. A great many honest
people will reoast their Judgment on
| these questions within the next,twelve
months. There is no hope Ter Dakota
with the present national and territorial
administration. So long as the people
of Dakota listen to the teaching OF such
| journals as the ionx City journal
which mistakenly inculcates that the
people OF Dakota have no governmental
| rights except such as are delegated by
congress, so long we must remain the
! ableot subjects of the Buffers and the
Vests end the Springers, who are now
on that basis, our unquestionable mas
teis. Shrink as we may from the state
ment Of the fact, it is the plain starh
fact all the same. that Hamburg Butler
the venomous Vest and the shameless
Springer completely rule Dakota affairs
They are our governors, our legislators
our judges. Whatever they demand shall
be done regarding us, the dominant
party will do Whatever they demand
shall be withheld from as the dominant
party withhold. And the Sioux icy
Journal is using the strength OF all its
we'll earned reputation for ability, and
candor, and fair Judgment, to impress
upon the Dakota people that these men
these thugs-have the perfect Iegal
and constitutional right SO to govern
and that any protest against such con
troll, that involves manly action in op-
| position, must necessarily be rebellion
and revolutionl
Dakota is not yet pushed to the point
of evaporation. The bitterness of the
| Buffers, nor the venom OF the Vests
nor the gall of the Springers, nor the
local mal-administration, involving il
its maintenance such wild scenes o
scoundreGsm and anarchy as we're en-.
acted at Sioux Falls, yesterday, car
drive the Dakota people, for the present
from the solid, dignified, legal, strictly
constitutional and over-patient stand
they have taken. These people are wal.
ing. They are awaiting the action of tha,
portion OF the American people whose
right to voice IN the republic ia reeog
nized. at one more election. II that 40.
tion shall result in continuance OF the
present revolutionary rule. then Dakots
will have but one brave and manly
course left. We do not need to suggest
| what that course is.