Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-12
POLITICS IN THE DAKOTAS.
Judge Gifford's Aspirations Tending
Toward Washington.
A MoooY-PErTleR Ew ALLIANCE.
The Shelving OF Congressional AS
pirants by Appointments to
Ofiice-Excitement viii
Last All the Year

YANKToN, June 11.-lSpccial TO THE Bee
Hon. .. s. Clifford is in the city for few
days, circulating among the politicians for
the purpose of getting the lay of the land for
congressional and senatorial purposes. Gif-
ford will take republican nomination for
congress If he can get 1t, aud failing in that
he will be in the hands of his friends for tho
senate. The judge has been four years in
congress; is a man of fair ability, and hands
cleaner than those of the average politician.
Judge Moody, Judge Edgerton and II. f.
Pettigrew are all openly In the field for sem
atorships, aud will all push their claims for
the office unless some of them should be
withdrawn by the bestowal of some other
office before the senatorial fight comes on.
There has been talk of shelving Edgerton
with judgeship on the supreme court
bench; and, on the principle that bird in
oraoie gentleman will probably take the
1udgeship If it comes his way. He served
the territory as chief justice by appointment,
aud gave general satisfaction
In tho Black Hills, determined and des-
perate fight is being made against Judge
Moody, and as all the other asprants will
league against Moody and Pettigrew, be-
tween whom there is n bond, offensive and
defensive, dating back to 1871, it is possible
that they may both be set aside and entirely
new mon brought to the front. Pettigrew Is
the best worker of the three and will de-
velap the most strength in the senatorial
fight, but 1t will be the pooling of strength
between Moody and Pettigrew that will be
depended on to take them through.
Charles G.. Williams, of Watertown, who
served six years in congress from Wisconsin
before coming TO Dakota, has been retired
from the race for elective Office, being regis
ter of the land office at Watertown
Williams is a man of considerable
ability, and would represent s;thd
new state i'll congress with marked
ability, but he has to give way to men of less
Charles T. Mccoy, of Aberdeen, formerly
of Bon Homme county, and connected with
sthe famous Douglas county bond scandal of
few years ago, has announced himself a
candidate for congressional nomi
nation, and though South Dakota is
to have but two members in tha
lower house, there are already three candi-
dates Tor nomination at the hands of the re-
publican party-McCoy, Clifford and Mat.
theyvs, the latter being the present terrltor-
ial delegate and dispenser of the postoffioes.
The Alliance meeting, to begin at Huron
on the 18th, is looked forward to with great
interest, for an attempt will surely be made
there to shape matters so the most of the
offices can be controlled by the organization,
and their action will be followed by other
tional convention meets at Sioux Falls on the
4th of July. 80. gs. Ia. ,.... 't...
South Dakota is full Of politics and politi-
tians, and from now on this will be an event
full year, for the excitement will continue
with increasing intensity until the United
States senator's are elected and the state ad-
mlitted. a .- , fa.