St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-16
The Bill to Build Anew the
State in the South Is Likely
to Carry.
No Prohibitory Measures Will
{ Pass the Legislature at
This Session.
The Black Hills Want One
More Institution While
They Are Going.
Some Alliance and Personal
Matters That Will Inter-
est All.
Special to the Globe.

Spec1al TO the clone.
BISMARCK. Dak., Feb. 15.-There is
no measure before this legislature which
is attracting so much interested atten-
ton just now as Prices bill for another
constitutional convention IN South Da-
kota. 1t is an official call for a new
deal, and those who drew satisfactory
hands at the old Sioux Falls convention
of four or five years ago are Directing
to this movement with an opposition
truly pathetic in its intensity. 1t is
stated that when the Sioux Falls eonsti-
tuition was drafted and state officers
nominated, no one supposed that the
former would ever be enforced nor the
latter installed. This being the skep-
teal spirit that pervaded that meeting.
no particular pains were taken to make
the
CONSTITUTION WISE
and just, but every class of enthusiasts
was allowed to engraft upon it its par
tieular pet hobby. And for the same
reason the offices were allowed to 90 to
those who were satisfied with CANDY
shadows. and men who deserve and
would have received the substance. had
there been any in sight, were vOlun-
tarily ignored. Now, that there really
is a chance for statehood in the not very
distant future, there is a strong desire
among substantial men OF influence to
re city these mistakes, if such they can
be called, for at the time they were in
tended merely as harmony incubators.
True, caucus of South Dakota MEM
,bers was held some weeks ago for the
purpose of obtaining their sentiments
upon this subject, and the Sioux Falls
.fiasco was Endorsed by small majority
vote, but that was before the. recent
statehood convention partially repud-
lated it. Then. the opinions of average
men on subjects of this kind are easily
moulded, yes, and remoulded too. by
professional leaders. and the belief
that Price S bill
WILL BECOME a LAW.
has already gained substantial foot
hold in Legislative circles. The bill in
itself is model and, acting upon ex-
perience gained by witnessing the re-
cent North Dakota fight, every element
liable to occasion interneeine strife has
been carefully omitted. The time and
place of holding the convention has
peints will be decided by friendly con-
There are just two sources of oppose
ton to the bill that will prove trouble
some obstacles in its passage. One is,
the officers elected at the time of its
adoption think they may SO handle the
affairs of infantile statehood that it will
appear as if their terms of Office have
but just begun when South Dakota is
admitted, and, of course, will cling te-
naciously to this hope. This is the
class of politicians who want some
body to
HOLD THEIR COATS
while they go for Col. Prices presump-
tuous scalp. The other opposition, and
it is more numerous, but less skiliful in
political warfare than the first, comes
from the temperance people. They
were made glad with exceeding great
Joy by the good-natured authors of the
Old constitution, through the insertion
in that instrument Of prohibition
clause. A great roar OF objection is eX-
pected from them, but this can be
quoted by skillfully made promises to
attend to their case under the new Or
der of things. Of course South Dakota
| will never adopt constitution, that it
! expects to be governed by, containing
/ the "blue law progeny. but it is better
to have the ProhibitionistS believe SO,
for time, at least.