Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-09-21

THE GATHERING CLANS.
Extensive Arrivals of Con-
vention Delegates
Last Night.
All the Evening Trains Bring
Crowded Cars Into
Yankton.
A Lively Evening Among the
Contending Forces and a
Day of Active Work.
THE GATHERING CLANS.

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Contending Forces and a
Day of Active Work.
The surprise of last evening was the
large number of arrivals of delegates to
the territorial republican convention
which convenes in Yankton tomorrow.
1t was not expected that there
would be any general rush
upon the scene until to-day and this
evening, but the first train of last even
ing dissipated the idea that there was
any disposition to delay the preliminary
work OF the coming assembiage. 1t
brought a large instalfment OF central
Dakota representatives, who had fol-
flowed the line of the Milwaukee down
from Aberdeen and reached Yankton by
q flank movement, via Scotland. The
second train, ver the Northwestern. also
brought it's quota of centraland southern
central delegates and the Milwaukee
train from the east landed large access
sions of Sioux valley and. far north
LAASCl, bhO ihSb MI IL
western train steamed into the city,
bringing q ten o'clock accession to the
crowds already %thronging the hotels.
BY this time there were fully a hundred
delegates here from abroad end as the
early corners always include the political
pushers, matters assumed a lively phase
long before the small hours Of the night
signalled their presence.
THE AsPIRANTs.
General Allen and Major Edwards
had reached Yankton at noon yerterday
and were comfortably installed in their
headquarters OF the Morrison before the
delegations began to ELL the Hobbies an d
corridors.
Judge Clifford arrived on the $40
train in the evening and proceeded to
the Merchants hotel, where his head
quarters were established and where
his adherents had already assembled in
large numbers.
The same train brought Melvin Grlsby
from Sioux Falls, accompanied by the
M~innehaha delegation, and he located
his headquarters at the Morrison.
THE DELEGATES.
On the 1880 train came delegations
from Brown, Edmunds and MCPHERSON
counties, with some o%n-lookers from
SPHINX. The eight o'clock train brought
the Bookings and the Beadle county
delegations and others. At $40 the
Milwaukee train pulled in with
representatives from Lincoln,
Minnehaha, Moody, Burleigh and La
Moure counties and scatteiing delegates
from various other localities. The ten
o'clock train brought only q few who
are interested in the work OF the con-
vention. The delegations which arrived
last night are domiciled-
At the Morrison-Cass county, Brook
ings, Codington, Beadle, Hughes, Min
nehaha, Morton, Walsh, part of Burleigh.
at the Observation-Disclosures county,
Minnehaha, Day, Moody, part Of
Burleigh, Dawson, La Moure, Dickey,
Grant, Lawrence.
c. AMI RUMoRS.
In the midst OF last nights rush there
was q babel OF rumors and out of the
whole there was little worth extracting,
because one report killed its predecessor
before it had q fair start in life. From
the beginning it seemed to be reoogni-
zed that the contest was q sectional one,
with the north on n side and the south
= on the other. As the south possesses
the greatest numerical strength, interest
. cen tered about the query, who
y of the south will fail
u into the embrace of the north? Tit
prestige of northern leaders gained il
past conflicts gave to them the reputa
. ton of being more sbrewd and NOR
interruptions than the southerners an,
these two qualities seemed to inspir
some awe. Divided by the 10th parable
e the sections stood numerically, respec
10 lively, 305 to 1S6. The north needed t
d gain sixty votes and to hold all of it
l. northern delegates. There was goo
reason to believe that there were severe
le northern votes in the body for Clifford
20 bat Allen early secuted this idea o
ID preposterous and his views were exten
Of sively quoted. Clifford expressed n
Of opinion, but kept himself busy through
O. out the evening. His close friends, how
g. ever. adhered rigidly to their figure
y, and insisted that Clifford had the vot,
to nominate him,
BROWN COUNTY
I'd was q marked one in the discussions
ce the throng. It came to- Yankton sol
q (so its delegates say for NJ. ]. Gorde
OF an Aberdeen attorney. In the Brow
Oh county convention the question of who
Of the county would support in the Yanl
ton convention arose and it was put
q vote. The vote stood iorty-two +
m Gordon and twenty for Colonel PEG
OF This quenched the aspirations
Colonel Peck and brought Mr.. Cord,
lis prominently to the front as the char.