Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-09-24
The Pierre Convention.
JUDGE 0. 5. CLIFFORD THE NOMINEE.
A Glorious Triumph for South Dakota.

The cry for a South Dakota man
for Delegate i'll Congress was proved,
at the Pierre convention, to be no
false cry, but a deep-rooted and well
founded fact, that no amount Of
political engineering could contro-
vert. Our space will not permit a
detailed account Of the proceedings
Of the convention. From Wednes-
day until Friday noon the time was
taken up in organizing the conven-
ton and the maneuvreing of the
different forces and factions. The
Sioux Falls Press gives the following
very correct account after balloting
commenced on Friday:
After dinner a formal ballot was
taken, the vote of the several dele
cations being distributed as follows:
Raymond. North Dakota
Barnes 8, Bottineau 2, Benson 2,
Cass IL, Cavilier 2, Dickey 3, Foster
2, Grand Forks II, Griggs 6. La
Moure 3, Nelson 2, PembinaS 8, Ram
sey 2, Ransom 5, Richland 6, Robert
2, Rolette 1, Sargent 2, Stark 2,
Steele 2, Stutsman 7,Towner 2,Traill
10, Walsh Is, Wells 2, south Da-
kota-Bon Homme 6, Brookings 8,
Brown 1, Brule Ii, Charles Mix 8,
Day 3, Douglas 3, Deuel. 3,Edmunds
/, Grant 4, Hutchinson 1, Hughes 2.
McPerson 2, Moody g., Pennington 6,
Turner 2, Walworth 2, total 171S.
Mellette: Southern Dakota-Au-
rora 5, brown 6, Campbell 2, Clark 4,
Codington 6, Deuel., Edmunds l,
Faulk /, Grant 4, Hamlin 4, Miner /,
Potter2 Sphinx 7, Sully 2; total 46.
Clifford: South Dakota-Brule
81, Clay 7, Davidson 6, Hanson 4,
Hutchinson 4, Lake 6, Lincoln 8,
McCook 6, Miner 6, Minnehaha ID,
Sargent 3, Turner 6, Union 8, Yank-
ton 8, total 1891.
McMasters: Northern Dakota
Billings 2, MeHenry /, southern
Dakota-Bntte 2. Custer 4, Fall
River 2, Hughes 2, Lawrence 81;
total "a.
Bently: Northern Dakota-kur-
leigh 7, Emmons 2. Jerauld 2, Kid
der 8, Logan 2, McHenry l., Mclean
2, Mercer 2, Morton 5, Rolette l,
total 90.
Shannon: Southern Dakota
Beadle 5, Faux l. Hand 5, Hyde 2,
Kingsburry 6, total 10.
S. M. Laird of Pierre: Southern
Dakota-Hughes 2.
q. c. Moody Of Deadwood:
Southern Dakota-Moody l.
Succeeding ballots did not indicate
any important change until on the
sixth Grand Forks gave 6 Raymond
votes to George Ii. Walsh The OBJ
jeet OF this, which had beer puts upj
BY the anti Raymond managers, was
to test the promise understood to
have been made by Mr.. Raymond
to turn his forces to J. OBI. Scohey
of Bookings county in case u break
vas made therein. The forces We're
not delivered, and this was urged
upon Mr.. scobey as an argument
that he was no longer under obliga-
tons to hold the Bookings dele
cation for Raymond, but he did not
vet weaken. The totals subsequent
ly settled to stmething not much
different from what they had lie
On the eight ballot George II. Hand
of Yankton received a Raymond
vote from Brown and a Shannon
vote from Hand. On the tenth bal
lot John f Bennett of Clark got two
Mellette votes from Faux. The
dark-horse tactics soon weakened.
however. The eleventh stood as
follows: Raymond 172 1921, Gif
ford 81 4-21. Mellette 81, McMasters
SO, Bentley 81, Shannon IL, Walsh
.. Edgerton !,
The break occurred on the twelfth
ballot, and was inaugurated by the
change OF Burleigh county from
Bentley to Clifford, which was
followed by the other counties in
north Dakota hat had supported
the candidate from Bismarck, the
arrangement having been entered in
to that this transfer should be made
as soon as it seemed likely to elect
any southern Dakota candidate.
This arrangmsnt was understood by
everybody, and in order to weaken
it the charge was made by Ray
mond's supporters that a combina-
ton had been made between Alex.
Mckenzie and Frank Pettigrew, by
which the latter was to control the
Bently forces in return from a prom
Use not to interfere in the Bismarck
capital deal. The representations
were absolutely and unqualifiedly
false. There was no Interior ad-
vantage whatever for Bismarck taken
into the calculation. The whole fact
is taat Mckenzie and his friends de-
sired the defeat Of Raymond becarse
they felt he had not kept certain
political promises, and they saw in
the southern Dakota movement the
only chance for an alliance which
might secure such defeat. They
therefore asked permission to ride in
this wagon, and it would have been
simply foolishness for the southern
Dakotians to refuse the overtures
that were made. without which the
nomination of Judge Clifford or any
person else except Raymond woulsl
not have been possible. The story
that the alliance had anything at all
to do with the capital removal ques-
ton is shown to be false by the factf
that connected with the Raymond