Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-15
The Sioux City journal of this morn
inc contains tho follou;,r.

The Sioux City journal of this morn
ing contains the following:
Yankton, d. T., Oct. l4-To the Editor
| of the Journal: 4 local paper in this
city severely critioise5 the Yanhto1 Ger
respondence IN the Journal of the 18th
inst. for stating that the Gamble. Smith
faction of the party were victorious in
the Legislative caucus, but it does not
deny the fact. In an editorial on the re-
suit of the caucuses appears the fol-
lowing:
The best men of Yankton are evidently on
the eide OF the Press and Dakotaian and it
would rather abide even a minority of such
men than 1--we IN majority with an element
l; %lin WI t en- 10 overturn the will of those who
built this city and are sustaining it with their
means and their moral influence,
The following are the names of the
gentlemen who were elected at the eau
cuses in question:: L. r. Marshall, W.
81. McVay, r. j. Gamble, VIM. M.
Powers, Peter Royem, d. McCully, w.
IL. Munroe, G. r, Scougal, Chas. Wal
baum, John Rankin, j. L. Pennington,
Geo. Baumann, w. H. H. Beadle, John
Bremner, B. s. Williams, A. E. Colby,
U. +. Etter, q. Miner, Ole Lee John
Stafford, W.J. Wilcox, Fred Donaldson,
~. 1t. Edgerton, Jacob Seibert, Frank
Wyman, Fred Kincel, e. @. Dudley. J.
T. Crennan, E. G. Smith, e. 81. Van
Antwerp. LIE. CAVALIER.
The evident purpose of the citizen
who attaches his name to the foregoing
communication (nspired by the talent
of the combination which dictates his
sketches) is to apply the extract quoted
from the Press and Dakotaian to the
gentlemen whose names he prints in
connection Herewith. This is crafty,
but weak. The Press and Da-
kotalan was speaking in q
general sense OF the respectable element
in Yanktnn who are engaged in
an effort to rescue local politics from
the control of another element which
resorts to the most debasng methods
to perpetuate its power. With this
better element 1t would rather abide
even in minority than with the other
fellows in q majority. The journal
writer will observe that the Press and
Dakotaian repeats this assurance.
Fully one-half of the gentlemen
naSed in the above correspondence are
entirely acceptable to the element with
which the Press and Dakotaian has be-
come identified and several OF them were
on the other ticket. Three OF them
were not on the ticket presented by the
Smith faction, but were elected by the
other faction. The acceptable ones
were placed upon the Smith ticket to
give it responsibility and aid in its suc-
cess, the parties themselves, in most
instances, not having been consulted in
| the arrangement and some OF them re-
fusing to go to the caucus after they
found it out. That there are fifteen men
out of thirty upon the successful list
who sre entirely acceptable to the best
citizens of Yankton is something for the
ring workers to congratulate themselves
upon in the present emergency, bui
that they we're placed there out of af
fection by the Smithsonian institution
will never be believed. The strong fight
against the manipulators made the
concession necessity upon their part
The reform in politics reaches them tc
that extent