New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-12

Er-mm," he said, Pm doing httlo thinking
on that point myself
The effect upon Northern sentiment OF the re.
moval Of the capital tn Bismarck was at once
apparent Bismarck Is In the heart OF North
Dakota and the Northern people, having the
capital safely in their grasp, now became dis
tinctively cool about the division project They
were also annoyed OF the South for refusing their
proposition to divide on the 9TH standard parallel
which separates counties from counties, rather
than on the 46th, and 90 call the States North
Dakota and South Dakota. The Sioux Falls con.
vcntion had adopted the name Dakota, TO which
the North justly felt il had rs much claim a. the
South. In the meanwhile the committee sent TO
Washington by the convention had returned, after
spending the winter at the National Capital, with
nothing but d,Scoura Ermcnt and failure 20 report
II in no very good humor, theref fore, that the
Republican Territorial Convention OF 1884 met
N Pierre 10 nominate candidate for Congress.
They tell me that Of all the shows on earth
Territorial Convention Is the funniest. BE the
end sought great or small. be the Offices dispofd
Of important or trivial no Territorial Convention
would think OF adiourning In less than two or
three days. They meet and fuss little and 20
20 dinner, come hack and fnss some more and go
70 tea, return and fuss like everything and go TO
bed. On the morning OF the second day, they
are beginning 10 feel In good shape, like race
horSe after he has got warmed mp, and they
enter upon the days friSsing with robust enthu-
sissn. The excitement is usually at it's height
on the evening OF the second day. when John ID.
King, the General Hustled of Dakota, Is always
called TO the chair King is the only chairman
who has been known TO survive the second night
Of n Territorial Convention. On the third day.
being somewhat tired, il usually occurs 10 the
convention 10 do the tPn-minutc Job for which 1t
assembled A ballot Is token and the thing is
over. The Pierre convention. however, eclipsed
all that had gone before. For four days and
nights the 6ood-gatcs Of everybody's wrath were
kept Open The only real business 70 be done
was to nominate u Congressman, vino was only
half Congressman at that, but not until the
fifth day did they get down 20 work. Then they
al began 10 explain 10 one another and North
and South ported on good terms, reunited in
favor OF division The Southern men, however,
seem 10 have been pursued by fatality As
soon as the Legislature met they haVhed a
scheme 70 rob Bismarck OF the capitOl and TO
send IL down 10 Pierre. They actually passed
such a BILL which the Governor wisely vetoed.
But its effect WIS 70 arouse the resentment OF
the North against the South with renewed visor.
This, then was the condition Of affairs when hr.
Cleveland became President. In the Owinkling OF
an eve the Democratic party Of the Territory
sprang into organized being, and the larger part
Of 1t hurried of TO Washington to give the
Administration some good advice. II came back
solid agninst division. Those dauntless Radicals
who. the year before. had wanted 70 smash every
body's head. who were going 70 divide and set
up State Government whether or no, now, meek
as limbs and twicc as gnilelcss, urged the sweet
virtues Of mode ration and peace Every Demo
ornt In South Dakota, without enough exceptions
70 I'll claim shanty. doubled on his record, and
from o rampant Divisionist, ripe for rebellion,
Territorial form OF government AFTER all, the
best! The Democrats then gave themselves over
10 the business Of grObbinR for Office They had
no time 20 fool with improbable questions Of how
TO found an empire. RrceiycrshipS, collector
SHIPS, land offices, judicial ofloes--upon these
things their hearts and minds were concentrated
with on intense and lnsty longing. They said
that circumstances altered cases; that the sacred
liberties OF the people WEIR no longer in danger
Of being ovcrthrown, and that with good man
Ike Cleveland holding the pums OF Official patron
age and dealing them out 70 trusty souls, the
Territory would get along better than II IL were
running itsrlf The Legislature OF 1884 had sum-
monrd another Constitutional Convention-the
third-to meet no Sioux Falls in September, 1888.
IL caro- together under rather gloomy sky.
shall continue and conclude this historical and
political sketch in n brcr article. l. Q.
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