The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-16
DAKOTA is HAPPY.

The election is no sooner over and the
result announced than the people OF
Dakota rush forward with their claim
for citizenship. Last week Col. John
. 81. King, a prominent citizen of Rapid
City, was in Sioux City, Iowa, where he
said to a reporter: The six hundred
thousand people of Dakota earnestly
pray Mr.. Harrison to call special SEES
sion of Congress Immediately after his
inauguration for the purpose of dividing
and admitting Dakota as two States.
The people OF Dakota need Mr.. Harri-
sons kindIiest and most immediate at
tention and believe they will get it. "
The Colonel went on TO say that an out
slider could have but little conception of
the feelings of DakotSns over the new
prospect of admission, for which they
have labored and eutreated so long.
The resources and development of that
country we're kept back under Territor-
isl laws and people had to put up with
many things that were absolutely I'M
just. This was because the unheard-of
advancement of that section in popula
ton and wealth had made their condi-
ton out of proportion to the laws under
which they lived and transacted bust
ness. Division and Statehood is what
they want and what they confidently
expect within the next year.
It would be proper rebuke to the
Democratic Party if President Harrison
we're to cali the Fifty-frst Congress
together at the beginning of his term,
and have Dakota admitted TO the
Union The keeping out of the Territory
has been outrageous, and there has
been no shadow of excuse for it except
that the majority of the people were
Republican in politics. THE HERALD is
aware that a Republican Congress
would do the same thing towards 8
Democratic Territory, but that fact
cannot be pleaded in justification by
the Democrats who have so stubborneIy
and with such defiant meanness stood |
between the mighty Territory and her
rights. The politics of Territory has |
no more to do with its rights to State
hood than has the eyes Of the people or
the color of their hair, and a party !
which opposes the admission of de-
tendency on the ground that It's poll
teal vote will be cast for the opposition
should be punished by having all the
Territories turn against it.
The Republicans will soon have 1t
in their power to gain several Sen
ators and congressman, and increase
their vote in the electoral college, by
the admission of four or five Territories,
and The HERALD, Democratic though
Il is, hopes the opposition will take
advantage of the situation to teach the
Democracy deserved lesson. 1t will
require very clever and conVin ling
arguments to win Dakota, Montana,
Washington and New Mexico to the
Democratic Party if a Republican Con-
gress emancipates those Territories and
confers upon them their political RICH S.
The other Territories will all heartily
congratulate Dakota on the prospect
of her early release from the cruel serf-
dom in which she has so long been
held. No local jealousy will suggest
protest against her elevation to the
dignity and power of Statehood. Even
Utah, kicked and cuffsd as she has
baen and snhiacted TO abuse and dis
IN til she has almost lost
heart, will build bonfires aud rejoice
over the emancipation of her sister
sufferers.