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BOWEN KINGsBURY, Prop'ts.
The organization Of the legislature Of
Dakota has resulted in the complete de-
feat of the northern element and it does
not appear that the Black Hills end of
the south has any share in the victory.
The successful combination was doubt
less made by the members from the
southeast quarter of Dakota, who would
have in their alliance twenty eight of
the torty-eight members Of the house.
and fourteen of the twenty -four mem
bers of the council. The north has
eight members of the council and six
teen members OF the house and the
Black Hills two members of tho council
and four members of the house. An
alliance between the Black Hills and
the north would not give 9 majority
against a united southeast, but it ap-
pears from the result that such COM
bination was made, as both the north
and the Black Hills are left out in the
cold or given only small bite in the
organization. Nearly oil tho officers of
the legislature are from the southeast,
if the slate of its CAUCUS was
adopted and it probably was, as this sec
tion was in the majority. The officers
of the council are:
President, j. Il. Westover, of Pierre.
Chief clerk, A. w. Howard, of Yank.
ton.
Assistant clerk, W. G. Eakins, Of
Gary.
Enrolling clerk. NJ. B. Kent, of Elk
Point.
Sergeant-at.arms, Andrew Thompson,
of Sioux Falls.
Assistant, John Todd, of Springfield.
| Clerk OF the judiciary committee, j..
Nj. Preston, of Madison.
Messenger, E. A. Kudisill. of Ordway.
The house list stands as follows:
Speaker, Geo. Rice, of Flandrau. 4
Chief clerk, @. N. Reed, of Sully.
Assistant, Major Hamilton, of Grand
Forks.
Enrolling clerk, E. A. Smith, of Ellen
dale.
SerReant-at arms, j. A. Monroe, OF
Columbia.
There are few minor positions which
would naturally be conceded to the sec
tion in which the legislature sits, as the
compensation is not sufficient to warran
q long Journey to reach ft1e seat of leoit
lative work.
In the foregoing list
of officers the council po.
sitions ore filled entirely by south.
eastern Dakota men. In the house two
places were given to northern men
Major Hamilton, of Grand Forks, ant
p. A. Smith. of Glendale. This indi
Gates the admission into the combina
tion of anti-ring, anti -Ordway members
from the north. The entire organiza.
tion is anti Ordway in its make up and
is composed OF men who openly opposed
the capital commission iniquity. Mr.
Westover, president of the council, wat
a leading member Of the Sioux Fallt
constitutional convention: is vigorous
advocate Of the rights of southern Da
kota and an avowed opponent of the
ring which carried its measures BY
corrupt practices in the last legis
lature. MIR. Rice, speaker of th.
house, was member of the las
house and was leader of the opposition
to the capital commission scheme. Fol
the part he.took in that contest he wal
assailed on the streets of Yankton in {
most undigniied manner by Governor
Ordway, and the heated expressions O
the executive on that occasion have be
come part of the history of that
memorable fraud upon the people.
This combination on the part of th,
solid southeast will grow in strength a,
the session advances, unless the usua
methods of the McKenzieites and til,
Ordwayites develop some weak brethren
which is not probable. There are man,
men in the north who have no love TO
the capital gang and while they ma,
have possessed some sectional pride II
the outset, they will naturally drift int,
the ranks of the majority as the sessio,
advances. The result seals the fate o
LaMoure and Walsh, whose council
seats are contested, unless they make on
clean cases of undoubted right to tn
places they claim, exceedingly Difficult
tasks, il we read the evidence correctly
For the first time in the history of Da
kota the south has taken position t
protect itself against the schemes of
ring of manipulators in the north. It j
the work Of these unscrupulous trader
which has made necessary sectiona
contest. It is not the north as Who'll
that the south opposes, but few me-
in the north who have made their sec
tion obnoxious to the section whicl
possesses the numerical strengtl
to compel recognition of it
rights. The north will be fairly treated
. even If all the work of the session is die
tated by the south. The south vii
insiet only that the reign of corruptio
must end and the better element Of th
lnovfh us11 io;n IN kho 1anound