Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-27
DAKOTA'S COMING ELECTION.
What the Farmers Alliance Pro-
poses to Accomplish.
MINORITY REPRESENTATION.
Opening Up Reservation Lands-The
Beautiful Prospects For Settlers
The Good Live Indians--
Official Spoils.
A Wholesale Election.

BEE. dakota Will elect full set OF state
offlcers Two congressman, thirty-six state
senators, ninetyeight representatives, nine
supreme and circuit judges, and vote on
the same day for one of seven candidates for
the states capital. And the legislature to
be chosen will have to elect United States
senators. Whatever may be the yield of
wheat and garden truck, politics are already
waist-high, and we will be in over our heads
long before election day, October 1.
THE BEES Black Hills corresponds mt has
given an account Of how Mr.. Loucks, presi-
dent of the Farmers alliance is antagoniz-
ing Judge Moody in that direction. OF
course that is all nuts for Moody because
he and fear are strangers In reality, he
succeeds best when he is stoutly opposed.
But there Is method in Louck's opposition
to the Judge. and he is not working alone
There Is a very well-founded report IN this
part of the state that he is working in con-
cert with Judge Hugh j. Camp
bell to combine with the alliance and the
prohibitionists for the purpose of electing
full state ticket, legislature, congressman
and senators. He said In speech in the
Black Hills that the farmers ought to have
all these offices, and he evidently meant by
this that he and those he can influence in
tend to strike for all the sugar and take what
they can get.
And here's the proof. These two gentle
men are travelling over the territory trying
to combine their friends on Loncks and
Campbell for United States senators; Frank
Aikens for governor; Abe Van Osdel for
lieutenant-governor; Judge G. S. Palmer and
George A. Mathews for congress. No one
believes that Aikens and Matthews are in
sympathy with movement that has such
paternity. For Loucks is known to be
democrat and he did all he could to induce
farmers to vote for Harden last fall when he
was the democratic candidate for congress.
Two years before that he opposed the repub
lican legislative ticket in Brookiugs county.
In further proof that this scheme is being
worked Judge Campbell was in Aberdeen a
few days ago, and said if the citizens there
would help in this. move, they could
have then ominee for governor and also the
of the United States senator's. OF course the
Judge has any quantity of governorships and
senatorships at his finger tips and can dis
pense them 'ad lib" While there is nothing
said about what part the democrats will play
in this plan, there can De no doubt of their
being willing to aid and abet 1t with all their
votes. For Loucks helped them last year,
and they will return the favor in 1889, when
it may put one of their number in high
Office and certainly will sow thorns in the
path Of the republican party. ..x
The Constitutional Convention.
HURON, Oak, May 26.-TSpecial to THE
BEE. lit was not fully known until this
week who all the successful candidates were,
in the election Of the 14th instant Now that
the returns are in, it appears that fifty-two
republicans and twenty three democrats were
elected to the constitutional convention. Thus
the democrats fell two short of getting
member from each delegate district. This is
the only trial that minority representation
will ever have in our state. There
was marked oneness of opinion on
readopting the constitution III a number OF
counties. For instance: This, Beadle county,
gave ], ,9SS votes for it and 32 against; Dav-
son 6S1 to IL; Sanborn $50 to 10; Hutchln-
son county gave but votes against 1t, while
Moody dropped but against 1t. Kimball, in
Brule, which is solidly democratic, is the
only town thus far reported that gave ma
iority against the constitution.
Party Spoils.
HURON, S. D., May 26.-[Special to THE
BEE. 10. W. Blair, young lawyer here,
has been appointed receiver of the land
Office in Huron. He succeeds Hon. Ezra w.
Miller, of Elk Point, who has made very
satisfactory official, Our people hope that
he and his family will continue to abide
with US.
Postmaster General Wanam aker held up
the commission of j. w. Banbury as post
master at Britton. on account of charges
preferred by one Sherin, he of unsavcry
reputation, whose name was connected with
a scandal at one of our hotels. When Ban
bury found out who was thus bothering him
he sent certified copy of certain
Legal to the
his commission. He is editor of the Britton
Daylight in Marshall county, and was sworn
in as postmaster last Tuesday.
b y the middle of June the commission Of
immigration will have several thousand new
and lately corrected maps of the two Dakota
states, all for gratuitous distribution. Ad-
d2ess f. II. Hagerty, Aberdeen.
There has been considerable inquiry as to
ex-Delegate Clifford being candidate for
the congressional nomination. am author
lied to say that he will not refuse If he has
an opportunity.
Sioux Falls is growing rich from her
quartzte quarries and now Iankton finds
that her river front OF chalk stone is availa-
BILE for the manufacture Of a cement as ex-
celent in quality as the Portland. They also
have an abundance of potter's clay, and are
looking forward to the near future when
they will have manufactures of pottery,
pipes and thing. That old town is coming TO
the front. 1t is high time.
Free Land in Dakota.
SIssEToN AGENCY, Oak, May Especial
to The BEE. Three million five hundred
thousand acres of the finest land IN Dakota,
the Sissoton Indian and military reserva-
tions, are soon to be thrown open for settle
ment. There is no such rush here as oc-
| Cured when Oklahoma was declared ready
| for the homesteader, but there lie steady,
| quiet movement toward the new Ell Dorado
| by the farmers of adjoining Minnesota and
| Dakota countless and when the time arrives
for entering the reservations several thou