The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1889-09-20

Saturday stated that his neighbor-
hood is strong tor Mitchell.
James Loughran, one of the solid
pioneer farmers of Turner county,
passed through the city Saturday
morning enroute for Kimball. He
states that the farmers of the southern
portion of his county and those living
in the Star corners district of Clay
county, who assemble at st. Columb-
kills Catholic church, are solid to a
man for Mitchell.
VIM. Roach, who has lived in Hyde
county for several years, passed through
recently looking for location some
where in the corn belt of southeast
Dakota. He says the territory imme-
diately tributary to Pierre Is becoming
so depopulated on account of repeated
crop failures that it cannot give very
large vote to the investment company's
choice. One township in Hyde has
but three voters left in it, another but
twelve, and from all of them there
will be large exodus before election.
Railroad men are confessedly care
full observers. Two of them, engineers
Noble and Perry have of late paid par
ticular attention to the capital ques-
tion. Both report Mitchell's candidacy
winning favor constantly to the north
and east. Engineer Perry says from
Aberdeen as far even as Milbank
friends of Mitchell are rapidly increas-
ing, and from Aberdeen this way both
agree that Mitchell is in the lead.
No favorable testimony can be more
convincing than that of an avowed
rival. A choice bit of such testimony
was given for Mitchell in Lesterville,
Yankton county, last week by work
er from Watertown. After canvass
of the situation he remarked that
there was nothing in that vicinity ex-
cept for Mitchell" and started in quest
of a more favorable field.
Some more testimony of the same
kind comes from Douglas county. A
gentleman there who has openly advo-
Gated Pierre from the beginning of the
campaign. writes to party in this city
that Mitchell will have good major
ty in this locality"
Chris. Fawcett, A. E. Thurston and
Harry Keene, of southern Beadle
county, were in Mitchell Monday
enroute for Vermillion, where they en-
ter the state university. They were
more eager to further the interests of
Mitchell than those of Huron among
the voters at the university. and to this
end wore away Mitchell capital
badges.
The REPUBLICAN, learns from a reli-
able party that prominent lawyer of
Yankton gave it as his opinion recent
ly that "the Pierre sentiment is lessen
ing and the Mitchell sentiment grow
ing among the voters of Yankton
county,"
A leading merchant of the same
city told our informant that he would
vote for Mitchell, so that he could WIS.,
it the capital without going outamong
the Indians.
There is no longer doubt but that
wonderful change. in capital sentiment
is going on in the southeast counties.
Mitchell is rapidly gaining ground,
Pierre and Sioux Falls losing. Voters
have come to see that Sioux Falls is
entirely out of the question by reason
of her location on the Minnesota bor-
der, and the hold upon them which
Pierre has had is being weakened by
fuller appreciation of her inaccessi-
bility. They are turning very natur-
ally from both these candidates to
Mi chell, the happy mean, a city more
centrally located than the one and far
more easy of access than the other,