National Republican., 1888-04-17
REU-ITOT SHOT,
Senator Spoouer raralyzcs the southern
Democratic Senators.

Democratic senators,
In advocating the bill which gives an Gu
abing act TO South Dakota, Senator Spooncr
yesterday spoke Of Dakota as THE Wonder
Land Of the Continent" and of the opposition
10 the bill as unjust partsanslip." In area,
population, intelligence, morality, and all the
qualities that make up n state, the right of
south Dakota to statehood could not be qucs'
ton. lie could invite comparison between
South Dakota and South Carolina In dctri.
mcnt to the latter and to several southern
states. And yet (ho sgidl every senator from
southern state stood atllwart the pathway
Of South Dakota.
Alluding To the remark in Mr. Buffers
speech last week to the effect that the prcCe-
dent sought to lie established would justify
10000 socialists or anarchists getting tngeth,r
ina corner of a territory 4ld demanding az
mission n~ u state, he asked what was IN" oh.
lection tn their pcttiuuing for admission;
What harm had pctitonng ever done? They
had tine Inherent right to try to get into the
niun a. states lust rs certain states hl'i
claimed that they had the Inherent right to
try To- get out " Tie nion. Il.uugltcrl
Mr.. Butler said that he had not denied ana
that nobody denied the right of South Dakota
10 Try to get In. What hc had denied and did
deny was the claim set up by senator pl1tt
that they hal an inherent right TO demand al
mission.
Mr. Spounrr went on to argue that ,thc
qies tlon. of the division ot the territory. had
been submitted tu the whole people on tie sth
| of November last. and had been deci led In
favor Of division by Il Majority OF over 0uN.
That the said was fair, Just. AMI Intelligent
expression uf the wish Of the people on that
Butlcr that 10000 voters Of Dakota had been 50
indifferent to the question that they had stHycd
away from the polls and that, therefore, the
| vote was not iair expression OF the popular
| WILL hr drew distinction between the eases
! of voters IN the northern states who remained
| away from the polls through ndiNcrcncc, ana
| of voters in the southern states VIII" were
| kept away through intimidation. In the form
| Ur ease there was no Impeachment Ot tile FAIR
| ness of the election; but IN the lattcr ease
| there WIS. If a large number of men We're
| thor Indifference, but because of the memo.
| Ties Of Outragcs pcrpctratCd ana tolerated
| by the intelligent men of whole communities
| anil whole states year after year -nltrnscS
| by ku.klux clubs and might riders, because of
| ii.suC.ballUtS, blood, intimidation, fraud: be
| c.uisc of memories pf burning shanticS of col.
| orCd Republicans driven into swnmpS. lasllol
| cNilod, pursued, hunted down; because of
| memories of YazoO and Copiah; then the
| election was not a fair expression OF the pop
No complaint dc saidl was made of the
| smullncs. of the votes in the southern states;
| although for the ten representatives rom
| Georgia only sG,on votes in the aggregate had
been Ctst-less thnn the average, vote for
| each of the representatives from Wisconsin.
| rhc election in Dakota had been fair, or.
| derby, reacenblc. An who voted hal had
| their votes counted, and there was a majority
| Of over 5000 in favor of diviling Dakota.
! What party necessity was Il, he asked,
which, IN the face of Il vote like that, led sen
ators to bar the pathway of South Dakota on
the ground that there had been no fair eX-
preston Of the people In favor of division!
| The people would not misunderstood II. Mr.
Institute (itnd lie commended II to senators on
the other side: "A political party. may fool
Iait of the people all the time, and all ot the
people part OF the time; but no political party
the claim made by the senator from South
Carolina Mr.. Bntlerl that there was no dan
lie questioned It, aud asserted that the great
empire state of Texas did menace, by her mon
StrnuS territory, the interests Of other sections
Of the country, She had in the other house
the chairman of the judiciary committee, the
chairman of the committee Of ways and
means "a committee which dealt with the
dearest interests OF New England, New York,
/ Pennsylvania. and AL tile country, ana chair
, man of the committee on claims, while the
great state Of New York had no voice on the
committee of ways and means.
! Why lie asked, such political prCplndcrancc
in political influence on the part OF the empire
state of Texas II was not due TO the wealth,
the loyalty. or the intelligence OF her people.
1t was due to two thingS-hcr solid Democracy
and her everlasting territory. No more such
| empire states were. wanted in the Union. II
was not difficult be thought, To- understand
the real motive of opposition TO the admis sion
of South Dakota a. n state. IN the old days
WHEN slavery existed IN this country when
il was Il bone Of contention; when there wa~
2 struggle for political power between the
| il came about, not uunaturally, that u slave
| state had to come into the Union alongside OF
q tree state. And So II seemed that today, rs
IN unti-bel!i';# days, the oXiscncics of Dcnoo'
racy demanded that no new state -ftvrii,!!!2.a.l
in politics should be admitted unless alongside
| Off came ina state that was surely Democrat
ic. lie believed that the state of South Dakota
would not be admitted into the Union by this
Congress; but he would bid the people of
South Dakota tcs sbe patient. Their cause was
Il Just one, he Inc nents AMI prctcXts might
delay. but could not defeat them. lie would
ask them to stand by their guns, not Ia
surrender, not 10 he cajoled Or threat
cnod, because lie believed that surely
as tom orow wuuld follow to-day
the people of the United states would begin
tutake an interest in this question. The pcO'
pie were slow to anger, but u wrong was sure
to arouse them, aud lie thought lie might
safely prophesy 20 the people of South Dakota
that before long independently of what wa.
done to-day there would be elected II Con
prrSs that would recognize her rights and
GLADLY welcome her into tile Union of states.