The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-11-19

If Chamberlain hadn't had some wide
awake men and fast horses on election
day to skip over the country with reycl-
ations of the plot and defeat it, Kimbail
would have Loen ahead. We don't blame
her for feeling sore headed at the failure
of the plot, but Kimhall papers will show
discretion in keeping quiet if others do
|-CAon6ertain. Register.
The plot referred to was movement
made here by few individuals in secret
session in the shape of fixing up combi-
nation ticket A move which the voters
of K;mball did not endorse. While the
| GRAPHIC is not defender of that move
ment nor Of any ring or clique, political
or non-political, in Kimball or elsewhere
| yet the plain facts are that that move
was not made in Kimball until it had
been openly stated in Chamberlain that
Gates, Weeks and other Kimball men
would not get twenty votes in Chamber
lain, and until combination ticket to
down the east end candidates was printed
| in Chamberlain. We know this much to
be true. AS to who was at the bottom
Of the combination ticket gotten out in
| Chamberlain is something we don't know.
| 1t may have been the work of one indi-
vidual candidate or of several and not
the work of a system of organization,
but it is a very significant fact that the
ticket teas tbs re,y one that Chamberlain
aoent sold for one week after-election
| day-almost to man. This is not Of
fered as any excuse for the action of GER
tain individuals in Kimball but merely IS
some interesting facts which we know.
1t is an interesting fact also that prom
inent Pukwana gentleman of unimpeach-
able integrity told us after election that
while he blamed Kimball and Chamber
lain both for forming combinations,
yet to his certain knowledge combina-
ton was first formed in Chamberlain.
| Whether this combination was known
and countenanced by such men as
Spaulding and other prominent politicians
| there we have no means of knowing, but
1 the result shows that Chamberlain as a
whole was only anxious for an excuse to
| go into some such scheme. And the re-
suit looks ns though those "wide awake
men and fast horses" got in considerable
work before election day. We don't say
they did, We merely say it looks that
way, for it is not in the nature of things
to suppose that in one day not only
Chamberlain, but the adjacent townships
as well, could be made solid for one tick
| ct and combination one ut that We
| don't blame Chamberlain for the actions
of certain political ring unless she en-
dorscs that ring, and surely Chamberlain
ought not to blame Kimball for that
which she does not endorse. as her poll
books show. Az for her being sore
| headed, that's all bosb! Why should she
| feel sore? And why should her papers
keep still? They have done nothing to
| be ashamed Of The combination made
here was kept secret from this paper
| Kimball has more friends in the county
| $50 days in the year than Chamberlain
1t isn't to be expected that she could
elect two sheriffs, two register of deeds
and if we count in Major jenkins whom
she sent down two years ago. two treas
| urers. She elected one to each office
the principal officers Of the county
Sore headed. Well, hardly. 1t will
take better town than Chamberlain
ever Will be to make KiuhaIl sore mud MI
better editor than the Register hes had yet
to keep her papers quiet,