St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-03
ADDRESS ON DIVISION
The Committee Appointed at
Huron Finds an Emer-
gency at Hand.
The One State Bill Is Pro-
nouneed Ubiquitous and
Fraudulent.
A Convention to Be Called
Soon to Take Decisive
Action.
The Division Issue to Be Car
ried Into All the Elec-
tionS.

HEADQUARTERS OF STATEHOOD Com
AIITTEE, YANKToN, OAK, Feb. 90, 1883.
To the People of Dakota: This COM
mittee appointed by the division con-
ventiOn, which assembled at Huron,
July Is, 1887, was charged with the duty
of cOnvOl1ing a convention of the people
Dakota whenever, in their Judgment,
an emergency should arise which should
demand the action of the people. In
the judgment of the committee that
time is at hand. The committee is now
engaged in a conference as to the proper
time, place and manner of calling snch
convention. The committee, before
issuing such call, would be glad to hear
by letter personally from all friends of
division and statehood upon these sub
jects. The committee Is deeply impressed
with the most solemn conviction that
the enemies of Dakota, under the lead
of Mr.. Springer, chairman of the house
committee on territories, i'll spite of the
noble remOnStranceS of leading and rep
reSentative Democrats, such as the Hon.
s. S. Cox, of New York, as well as of
all the Republican members. will sue
coed in killing all measures for division
and admission i'll this congress. The
committee takes this from the published
utterances of Mr.. Boynton and other
officials. The iniquitous scheme of Mr..
Springer and the cOncoctorS of the
fraudulent Springer bill to
FORCE DAKOTA INTO THE UNION
as one state, against the will of her peO-
pie and against every interest of the
territory, financial. as well as political
and moral, will be defeated in congress,
as we are advised, by the patriotic and
manly opposition of the ablest and
wisest Democrats, as well as of the Re-
publican congressman and by the aid
of the united press of the great West.
This is now conceded. The able daily
press of st. Paul, Minneapolis, Chicago,
Sioux City, Omaha and st. Louis see
this, and are fighting our battle bravely.
Cincinnati, Louisville, Omaha and
New Orleans will eventually take the
same side, because our interests are
theirs. as Western communities. The
attention of the people of the United
States will be attracted to our struggle
by the coming debate in congress. The
recent report of the minority of the
house committee on territories is ex-
tremely suggestive, and pregnant with
meaning and hope to our people, and
should be carefully studied by every
citizen of Dakota.
[CopiOuS extracts given from that re-
port are omitted, as they have appeared
in the GLOBE still more fully.
There is some ground for believing
that Mr.. Cox and the fair and just Dem
Ocratic members of the hOnse, who are
Disguised by the injustice and obvious
dishonesty of the Springer bill, may
succeed in passing the Baker bill
through the house. If they do, and this
bill, or any bill giving us division, is
made law, the people of Dakota will be
satisfied. But, in any event,
THE PROPOSED CONVENTION
will be necessary. If division passes it
will be necessary to enable the people to
consult as to the proper steps to take
under their new government. If it does
not pass, it will be necessary to enable
them to consult as to the steps neceS-
sary to then take. For this fight must
be kept up till we win, as we shall. 10
aid Mr.. Cox and our friends in
their work for Dakota, the committee
urge upon friends of division TO at once
hold meetings in the various towns and
cities, and send to Mr.. Cox petitions
signed by as many citizens as possible,
setting forth the sentiments of the peO-
pie. If nothing is done by congress the
issue is upon us. 1T simply means that
you will have to decide for yourselves,
within the next three months, i'll the
formation of party lines, in the nOmina-
lions for members of the legislature, for
delegates to the national conventions,
and for congressional delegates, the
question whether you will lie still under
the dead weight of intOlerable taxation,
ruinOus interest, and burdens of various
kinds, which are eating out your life.and
substance, and literally eating up the
farmer for an indefinite number of
years to come, or whether, in the
spirit of true American freemen,
YOU will undoubtedly take the manly,
lawful and peaceabe steps which
the people of other territories, in
like circumstances as yourselves, have
hitherto taken successfully, and which
will lead, directly and Immediately, to
local self-government, responsible to
the people, chosen by the people. and
acting for the people. This will be for
YOU to decide in the next few months,
one way or the other. You must either
do it or let it alone, and take the cOnse-
quences. The people, if they would be
helped, must move in body and help
themselves. Therefore, to give an OPP
portunity to the people, as such, to ex-
press their will on this important mat,
ter, it has been suggested that the
PEOPLE BE CALLED TOGETHER
in large delegate convention this com
ing spring at some convenient time and
place. And also that at the same time
and place leading members of the four
great interests among us be requested
to call together conventions OF these
several interests, to meet separately,
and on the day following the general
convention, to consider and act upon
any recommendations which that con-
ventiOn may make. 1t is therefore con-
templated that on the day following the
general convention there will be assem-
bled conventions of the four following
named bodies, to be called by members
of each: First, the farmers and bust
ness men; second, the press: third, the
clergy; fourth, the legal profession.
Upon the first named order falls most
directly and heavily the ruinOus rates
of interest and the unjust eXactions
imposed by corrupt legislation. Their
representatives in that convention will
consider how this movement may be
guided so as to best remedy there evils.
The press is the voice of the people,
through which alone public sentiment
can be uttered with power. When
united and in earnest they are OmnipO-
tent. They will review the proceedings
of the general convention, and, If these
are stamped with their approval, that
will make the movement universal and
impossible to defeat. The clergy have
in their charge those high moral and in
tellectual interests which alone make a
commonwealth great, and which can
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