Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-02-04

Inc Late democratic conference AT
sioux Falls-Hlerely a Social Affair
Smoothing the Fur of the Neglected
Ones.
Sioux Falls Press: a very strenuous
effort is being made to cool the collars of
the local democracy, which became SO
heated by what was understood to be the
exclusiveness of the qulntette of moguls
that fingered here Wednesday afternoon
and evening. Governor Church, Com
missioner Boynton, Colonel Sheefe,
haa enjoyed q very social time-among
Observation-Disclosures Thursday, and left
bitter rankings behind, among not
only the rank and fle, but likewise
among the ~lieutenants and brigaders OF
the party here, who had not had a chance
to bask IN the gubernatorial effulgence.
But the abrasions are being smeared
with soothing ointment. Governor
Church himself returned to the CITY in
the afternoon, after having started for
Huron early.ln tbs morning, and in the
evening several ct the disgruntled gen.
tlemen we're invited in to see him-and
the grimyisaged sulkiness smoothed its
wrinkled front, and all went merry as
could be expected in q gathering 80 late
iy afflicted with a gorge Of bile. Ex-
plantations were made that of course
there was no intention of sighting any
~body-and that most certainly any demo.
crat would have bsen welcome to We'd
nesdny's gathering-and that indeed
cordial invitations had been sent out to
have the boys come in, but the invita-
tions seemed to have miscarried, or to
have been blockaded in the drifting
tempest OF thoughts and things which
surged in the brain of the messenger.
Then the messenger was made the scape-
goat of tha dndoenn@ WhiakA hsa
prevailed; end, although there wasn't
the same spirit of cheer b~rooding about
this secondhand, homemade, warmed
over, galvanized reception that had
characterized that which was par
ticipated in by the imported democrats
on the previous evening, still the party
settled first into q sort of neutrality
and finally into peace.
Gov. Church declared to The Press
that the statements made to ID by a
prominent local democrat were absolute
Ily unfounded. He says that Wednesdays
gathering OF himself and Messrs. Boyn-
ton, Sheafe, Rowley and Inman, was a
purely social affair, and that there was
nothing whatever OF political Significance
to it. And most emphatically does he
declare that there is absolutely nothing
whatever in the report that there ia any
dissatisfaction OF the office OF territorial
auditor, or that any suggestion has been
made from Washington about it. He
further says that everything which Au-
ditor Ward hes done is cordially endors-
ed by him, and that to-day they are as
lstaunch friends as they have always
been. IL is a fact, the governor says,
that MIR. Ward has for some time con-
templated resigning the authorship,
but has continued IN the Office
at hia urgent personal solicitation.
There does not seem to be
anybody specially eligible for the OPP.
pointment, as the selection OF q southern
Dakota man for treasurer makes il neces.
sary that Mr.. Wards successor should
como from the northern portion OF the
territory. The Press, in printing the
asseverations of those democrats who
declared that Wednesdays gathering
was for the purpose of considering Mr.,
Wards case, stating that it suspected
some OF them might be imagination and
the declarations OF Governor Church
The Press congratulates Auditor Ward
upon the cordial endorsement OF his
chief, and offers the local democracy its
condolences upon the fact that they
should have suffered such heartburnings
and chafng disquietude, and should
have missed the fesst OF reason and flow
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