Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-01-16

rooms for period OF week or sea day s,
In several instances he has been offered
81, 900 for three or four rooms for the
same period, and has refused the offers
IN every instance.
The reasons the proprietors OF the best
hotels will not engage their rooms for
the inauguration are manifold; but the
principal one is this: A room engaged
now for the Inauguration week would
not yield the landlord on an average,
more than $50 to $75. Nearly every room
in these hotels. il not engaged now, Will
be occupied within the next three or four
weeks by people who will stay until
after the Inauguration, Thousands OF
persons will come here within the next
three or four weeks and remain after the
4th OF March for no other purpose than
to have suitable accommodations. Thus
the landlords will rent their rooms for o
period of from five to eight week by not
engaging them, whereas, il they should
engage them now for the inauguration,
they wonld have but the patronage of q
week or ten days.
There will be no trouble about accom-
modations of o comfortable character for
every person who comes here during the
Inauguration, There need be no ner-
Yousness about the failure to secure
rooms at any time. Wise people, who
want good accommodations ana do not
care to pay fancy prices merely to have
them engaged in advance, will arrive in
Washington on morning train four or
five. or two or three days before the 4th
OF March, They will take carriage or
cab at the railroad station, drive round
the city, and secura their rooms. They
will get just what they went and pa,
legitimate price. There will be thou
saads of rooms unoccnpied on the 4th
Of March. Chairman Brltton. of the
inauguration COMMITTEES, is having q
canvass made of thu city and directory
will be compiled showing all of the
rooms which can be obtained by straag.
erH, their location and the price set upon
them. and those who do not car TO make
| trade directly with the landlords can
go to the inauguration headquarters in
the Atlantic building, on street be.
tween Ninth and Tenth streets, and
after an examination OF this directory
will be enabled to satisfy themselves.
There is no use trying to get rooms at
| first GLASS hotels before the persons wont.
ing them ale ready to move in. They
cannot be secured for,love or money !,
and efforts in that direction are simply
| wasted. Only promises are given, not
| assurance.
There is quite as much improbabilty
| that Arizona will be admitted to the
union Of states within the next few years
as chat Utah will be made state. The
obiections to the territory OF Arizona be-
| coming state are identical with those
opposing Utah. The Mormons in
Arizona have the balance of political
power, and were they given Statehood
would elect the officers. enact laws, and
run internal affairs. There are not near
as many Mormons in Arizona as in Utah,
but there are suficiency TO easily con.
troll she balance OF power and have @
margin left SO large that there is no
danger OF Protestant inroads.
Another objection used against the
administration OF Arizona to statehood
is the enormous tax being levied now
II is stated that property pays 81 per
cent tax, AID that the business men are
nppoeed to the heavier burdens which
statehood would impose upon them.
The conditions existing are very different
from those found in Dakota. In the
first place the people are entirely differ
ent. Then the way in which the citizens
have gone about to make improvements
and levy taxes hes been as different
from the way OF doing things in Dakota
IS can be imagined. To-day I asked q
we'll known resident of Arizona why the
Mormons in hls territory were allied
with the democracy, and he sRId:
'tF'or the same reason they are allied
with the democrats III Utah. The re-
publioans refuse to give the Mormons
any show in the selections OF officers or
the management of affsire, while the
democrats are willing to divide every.
thing in order to get the Mormon in:
haence and have control. In general
principles the Mormons are no more
democratic than they are republican;
but they will never rest easy In eny
community without voice In the
politics which runs everything They
demand their share, and frequently the
lions share. yhe democrats have been
willing to give this, while the republi-
cans refuse it beoarse they are from
principle opposed to Mormonism. The
democrats don't care fig about Nor.
nonism or anything else, If they can
gain the political majority.'