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

OF actual occupdncy ana cultivation and % receive
their titles. Spsrhs's order left them all AZ SEQ.
There was one thing that prevented the auaces.
Of this Democratic steal Few people eouN hs
found dcspcable enough to live among tbes farm.
ers and aid in doing them such fatal injury II
could only be accomplished through she hnd
agents here, and they soon found their task
odious They exerted themselves ably and Ell
GENTLY in that part Of the conspiracy directed
toward the promotion Of Democratic immigrstioa.
but they grew tired Of that other part ealing
on Thorn to hnrass and browbeat settlers by de-
laying the issue Of titles until they revised their
politics. Such Of them ms persisted in doing this
dirty work became objects OF general contempt
Ihe rank and file Of the Territorial Democracy
looked with undisguised disgust upon the whole
business Its effects were too cruel ard too dis.
honest Tor men Of decent blood 20 witness tamejy,
everybody in Dakota, no matter what his politics
might De- knew that charges of general fraud were
hes' They knew that general fraud was mpossi-
DIE ana that even IN individual fraud could be
PFrpefated only by far-reaching and systematic
ueSilHy' lhe game WIS not worth the powder
Inc ierritories are settled, except along the iins
oI Inc northern Pacific land grant IN the Red
hNer FhIey ny small farmers owning from so
~ o%O acres. There are only two farms N South
DaKota OF more than 800 acres. The question
OF 'he Iatniut performance OF the Homestead laws
conditions Is one that adjusts itself Everybody
is watching like hawk TO avail himself of tina
advantages 10 be derived from exposing the neY-
lcct or fraud Of everybody else The Interior De-
partmcnt officials learned in time that they coulS
not make their miserable tricl,cry profitable. and
they gave u up. But not before they had inflicted
heavy loss upon thousands Of poor and honest SET
tiers under the wicked prctext that they were re-
forming the administration Of the hnd laws.
What remains Of the history OF Dakota,s
DIVISION and admission Is National and was n
consequence OF the late Presidential election.
Inc hepublcan party declared its policy al
chicago by admitting eight delegates from South
Dakota the quota to which 10 would be entitled
as STATE, and hut two from North Dakota which
has not yet adopted a State Constitution. When
General Harrison was found to be elected ths
Democrats realized that nothing remained for
them but TO gave what they could from the wreck
OF their plans. They knew il they failed to
pass an enabling act, IL would be done and done
Just as South Dakota desired, by the next Con-
greSs, even II the President should not summon
an extra session for that very purpose 90 soon
es he WIS inaugurated They yielded to the
inevitable, however, very reluctantly. They did
their best 10 prevent the division. and forced al
last TO abandon that feature Of their opposition
they set up a device TO secure the defeat Of tls
Sioux Falls Constitution. They utterly refused
10 accept the vote OF November, 1888, as final,
and the Omnibus bill rs il passed makes O series
OF rdicuons provisions as to the process Of South
Dakotas admission. II orders a new conven-
ton, and directs that when the people vote for
delegates they shall also vote more for or
against the Sioux Falls Constitution. II they
in,
must amend 10 by substituting South Dakota
instead OF" Dakota the name OF the State and
" south Of the 9Th standard parallel instead OF
"sonth Of the 46th parallel7-they are three
or four miles apnrt-as thr dividing line Then.
not these amendments merely, but the entire
instrument, must for a third time be subjected to
the hazard Of popular contest and IL for a
third time IL endures, South Dakota may proceed
10 he State.
IL was undoubtedly in the belief that they
could by hook or by crook defeat the Consti-
tuition that the Democrats insisted on thoss
repeated ballotings Somr Of their hopes were hung
on the liquor section, which orders prohibttory
amendment to be submitted to the people, hue
both the Prohibitiouists and the liquor men each
probably fearful lest in another deal they sbouM
fire worse. profess themselves content Nor can
the local Democratic leaders drive their party 70
vote against the Constitution. The people Demo-
Gratis and Republicans alike are tired Of and dis
gusted with al this political chrss-playing BilIs
Springer, as they call the individual who calls
himself the father OF the four new Statesn is
tho object of their unmitigated execration They
are expressing their hatred OF him by layisbny
attentions on dear little Sunset Cox, who stood
by them so boldly last winter. Sunset Is coming
ont 10 Huron 10 deliver o Fourth OF July speech.
and they ore going 70 make him happier than was
ever an amiable elderly gentleman before An
indisrreet paper AZ Sioux Falls thinking something
shouh he done for Springer suggested that he be
asked to come there upon a similar errand, nal.
adroit suggestion which came alarmingiy near
tnking Sioux Falls out OF the capital race.
That the Constitution will pass with practical
unanimity is everywhere conceded The Repub-
leans are n unit upon II, and no Democrat no
matter what he would like 10 do dares open his
mouth against il. Popular feeling aroused BIZ all
the trickery, intrigue and rnsoality practised or
attempted 10 he practiSed during the Cleveland
Administration. will tolerate no more nonsense,
The people want their Territory admitted az the
earliest moment possible under the enabling act.
and they are going 70 carry things through with
rush. They are 10 eject their delegates TO the
convention on May IA, The convHntion meets on
July 4, and its work Is submitted in another cleo
ton on October l. at which the State officers win
also be chosen. These dates apply to the process
Of admission in North Dakota, Montana and Wash
ington also In each Of them. under the Springer
bill, the minority viii be sure Of representation
as out OF three delegates TO be elected from each
Of the twenty-five districts into which the States
ore divided no person can vote for more than two.
THIS vicious principle Of robbing the people OF d
third OF their franchise rights in order TO secure
the election Of persons who could not otherwise
obtain majority of the votes cast, is naturally the
subject Of much dcnunciation.
Governor Mellettes appointment was made 40
the result Of his earlier election and Of tho unan
nous endorsements Of his name 20 President Har-
rison by all the prominent Republicans OF the