| Show PRESERVING THIS EQUILIBRIUM I The Philadelphia American presents for the consideration of those Democratic I Demo-cratic Congressmen whoare opposing the admission into the Union of Dakota t on party grounds a very happy hint f Th suggestion is that Texas be divided and two or more States created from j one Dakota is largely Bepublican but III the sproportion therein favor of the I q Republicans is nothing like so great as it I it is in Texas on the side of the Democrats r Besides there is a hope that the Dakotans I Dak-otans will one day be made to see the evil of their ways when they will wheel I 1 into the Democratic line but there is as l little prospect of the Texans leaving i r 1 their traditional party as there is of the Trinity Rier running up into Dakota i The hint is worthy of c consideration 7 I especially as it could be so easily acted t r upon and its adoption would prove so I i beneficial all around When the great State went into the Union it was i with a provision that it might hereafter 1 I be divided into any number of States not exceeding five It contemplated a time C when the population would be norm ons and when the vast territory then 3 so sparsely settledj would term with w q thrifty progressive people The time has not yet arrived for the division into I five commonwealths each with sufficient population to accept the responsibility I f and bear the burdens of statehood but two States can be made of the one with 4 1 j advantage to both and to the nation Anew I A-new Democratic Texas would be a standoff stand-off for Republican Dakota and quiet the lears of those politicians whose partisanship j partisan-ship is so much more excessive than I B iheir patriotism that they cannot consent j P con-sent to do right lest might injure their t il tIl L party or lessen its power Il 1 I = Jj I j I |
