St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-21
Representative Democrats
Declare in Favor Of DiviS-
ion and Admission.
Congress Memorialized in a
Way That Will Astonish
Springer.
Ex-President Hayes Gives
President-Eleet Harrison
Some Pointers.
Southern Democrats Have No
Earthly Use For a Third
Party.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
MITCHELL, Dak., Dec. 20.-The DEM
ocratic statehood convention, called for
the purpose of emphasizing the univer-
sal demand of the citizens of Il e terri
tory, irrespective of party, for division
and the early admission of South Da-
kota into the Union, began its session
this afternoon. The convention was
called to order at p. m. by Hon. E. w.
Miller, of Huron, who briefly stated the
obj ect of the meeting. Chief Justice
Bartlett Tripp was then unanimously
chosen chairman of the meeting, and
acknowledged the honor in few we'll
chosen words, expressing his entire
sympathy with the movement. The
afternoon was then taken up
with the reports of the
committees on credentials, organization,
resolutions, ETC., when an adjournment
was had until 7:30 this evening. When
the convention again met the attendance
was largely increased by large num-
Der of citizens, who were not slow to
show their appreciation of the object of
the gathering by frequently applauding
the sentiments expressed by the orators
of the evening. Jerrauld, YanKtOn,
SanbOrn, Sully. Faulk, Potter, Hughes.
Moody, Hyde, Turner, Dawson, Aurora,
Minnehaha, Buffalo. Beadle, Union,
Sphinx, Brookings, Hanson and Brule
counties were represented by delega-
tions. The assemblage included ma
jOrity of the emost prominent Democrats
of South Dakota-men who are heartily
interested in the movement, aud who
desire that their party retrieve its pres
tige by the admission of South Dakota
during the present session of congress.
Hon. 2. F. Mcclure, commissioner OF inn
migration, Hon. j. w. Harden, adiutant
general; Hon. Marcus Taylor, surveyor
general; Hon. E. w. Miller, receiver of
the Huron land office; Capt. q. s. Nave,
United States deputy revenue collector;
Mai. Barrett, of the Aberdeen Repub-
lican; Joseph Freudenfeld, secretary of
the Farmers Insurance company; and
many other prominent Democrats are
in attendance at the convention. The
citizens here of both parties are hearty
in their welcome to these prominent
Democrats who are here in the interest
of admission OF portion of the terri
tory with
A ZEAL AS INTENT
as that entertained by the leaders of
the Republican party. This gathering
is not an eleventh-hOur scheme, but is
the result of the honest expressions of
the majority of the territorial Demo-
Gratis relative to the political rights of
South Dakota, and they are united with
the Republicans in regard to the speedy
admission of South Dakota into the
Unlon.- 1t is the desire of the conven-
tiOn, expressed in no uncertain way,
that the ideas of the Repub-
lican party be anticipated by
the admission of South Dakota
by the present Democratic congress.
The debate in regard to the instruction
of the delegation chosen to represent
the sense of the convention in asking
congress for the admission of South
Dakota was lengthy and earnest. The
majority of the convention, upon the
submission of the question 10 vote as to
whether the delegation should favor
admission under the provisions of the
Platt bill, were in favor of admission
under the latter plan. Many Democrats
are of the opinion that the decision of
this body is a scheme of the Huronites for
the selection of permanent capital at
Huron should admission be effected, and
denOunce in the strongest manner the
bringing of the capital question into
the convention. The delegation chosen
to lay before congress the object and
desire of the convention consists of
Chief Justice Bartlett A. Tripp, chair
of the Yankton land Office; Z. w.
Miller. receiver of the United
States land office. Huron; James
A. Ward, territorial auditor,
Sioux Falls; James E. Foster. Mithell.
The committee on resolutions consisted
of Taylor, of Beadle; Hardin, OF Jer-
auld; Hammer, of Dawson; Kingsbury.
of Beadle; Jeffreys. of Hyde, and Z. S.
Rowe, of Brule, who drafted the fol-
lowing resolutions:
To the Congress of the United States:
Your memorialists, citizens of South Da-
kota, in atfiliation with the Democratic party.
duly assembled in convention at Mitchell
the 21th day of December. 1888 hereby re-
quest, urge and solicit at the hands of your
honorable Dody the division OF the territory
of Dakota upon the seventh standard parallel
OF surveys thereof and the immediate ad-
mission into the union OF states of that .por-
ton of said territory ying south of said par
allel of latitude. We desire most respect
fully to represent that the division of the
territory of Dakota by an east and west line
has for many years been desired and ex-
pected by its citizens; that the congress Of
the United States has been memoriGlized
to that end, but without avail. by
sixteen successive legislative assemblies;
that in view of such expectancy the penal,
charitable and educational institutions of the
territory have been duplicated in the North
and in the South: that religious sects have in
like manner Northern and Southern bishop
aries; and that anticipating division through
out all The years intervening since the first
settlement of the territory, all hope has been
guided. all interest bended to that end. We
desire further.to represent that either section
of the divided territory would be exceeded
in size by but eight out of the thirty eight
states in the Union. The smaller portion
comprising "a 900 square miles, or more
than 10000 square miles Ill excess OF the
mean average of all existing states That
the southern half. FOR which immediate ad-
mission is now requested, contains within
restricted compass doubtless the most prOl-
iic mineral section within the national
producing gold, silver. copper,
iron, Galena tin, nickel, graphite, mica, gyp-
and Oil, while the larger area of
prairie is remarkably productive in soil,
and almost entirely cultivatable by reason
of the absence of hills mountains, swamps
or other distractions to profitable agricul-
ture, constitute fair estimate upon which
may safely be predicted for the future un-
usual density Of population. That the peo-
pie of South Dakota now number $4,000,
and that thus equipped their rights, interests
and future welfare will be enhanced, their
sense of patriotism exalted, free citizenship
realized and the fundamental right of local
guaranteed by speedy ad-
mission into the sisterhood of states. We
desire further, and finally, to represent that
the constitution for the proposed state OF
South Dakota framed in 1885 under auth0ri-
ty of the territorial legislature by constitu-
tional convention, bipartisan in character
and subsequently, adopted by the people at a
popular election,is deemed by your memorial.
lists wlse safe and conservative eharte OF
and that in its limitation Of the
public DEBT its restrictions i'll Official salaries
and Ligidness OF Official requirements. Ii is