Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-04
The TWIN CONVENTIONS.
Both North and South Dakota to
Assemble To-Day.
CONSTITUTIONS TO CONSIDER.
Everything Lovely in the Lower
State But Very Bitter Feeling
Prevalent i'm the Upper
One.
A Combine Knocked ont.

SIOUX FALLS, OAK, July g. Especial
Telegram to THE BEE. If any foreign ele-
ment gets control of South Dakota's consti-
rational convention it is more than likely
to be the capital gang than the Loucks-CamD-
bell combination, representing the farmers,
prohibitonists and democrats. This after
noon Messrs. Loucks ana Campbell left the
city, saying they would be absent till the last
of the week. The straightout republicans
breathed easier thereat, although the pres
encc Of those gentlemen did not cause very
greatamount of diflic1lty in the ordinary
process of respiration. The republican eau
Gus which was to have been held tonight is
not q necessity, and there is every prospect
that the old managers will organize the con-
vention and carry out the programme which
outlined in my dispatch to THE BEE last
night.
Senator-elect Edgerton arrived from
Mitchell tonight. He will call the conven-
tion to order tomorrow and will be chosen
its president, barring any unforeseen Incl
dent. He said tonight that the Loucks-
Campbell combine would make no trouble;
that they had evidently given up In disgust,
and that the republicans would have their
way aud not control the work Of the conven-
ton, but elect their ticket on the 1st of Octo
poi. Luz oCudIOI Wncu dShcu
what he thought of the statement that there
was disposition among some OF the dele
gates to keep the session gong until the
s20,0 900 appropriated by congress is exhausted
in per diem salaries. He said that even
though there should be man so mercenary
they would not do it for 81 day, the stipend
allowed
Each one of the seventy five delegates who
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night, seems to have brought with him. like
magnet attracting needless from a half to a
dozen capital boomers. The hotels are flooded
and more interest is shown and more deter
minaton advanced in the question of capital
location than anything else 1t is matter
OF dollars and cents. Every politician Of
consequence is interested in dirt wherever
he thinks the capital will be located, and
many of them have whipsawed and have real
estate at all the principal cities seeking this
plum. Sioux Falls, Mitchell, Huron, Water
town and Pierre are the leading aspirants,
and it is safe to estimate that million
dollars will be spent by these places and
their citizens in the fight which is
to be settled at the polls on the
1st of October. The common councils in the
cities aspiring to be the capital are voting
money to defray the campaign expenses, and
the citizens are supplementng this with pri-
vate subscription, amounting in some in
stances to per cent of the real estate val
ues. The territory is being plastercd with
posters and literature of various kinds, tell
ing of the advantages of this and that place.
This is regular huckster business. Options
are being taken whenever real estate is not
sold. Watertown seems to have the lead in
the movement for the capital. There the
ladies have organized a capital club and are
working like true missionaries. After this
month the city will have q special train,
which will run all over the
territory, advertising Watertown for
the capital and carrying people
to the Mecca free gratis. Once there they
will be met by brass bands and given royal
entertainment | understood that Sioux
Falls will go Watertown one train better.
These two cities will make splendid cam
paigus, but there is fear that there will be
a combination of second choice cities in favor
of Pierre and that the aspirants who will
conclude during the last day of the campaign
that they have no show for success will com
bine In favor of Pierre, which is not a rival
TO any city, and give her the prize.
PERRY S. HEATH.