Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-09-07
Only Temporary.

rarv location, and will not seek the
permanent capitol, which must be con
coded to be the %gauziest web of subter'
fuge ever woven by designing men for
a deceptive purpose, is manifestly
credited by the Tribune, and forms the
basis of an article appearing in that
paper on the 3lst ult., which should be
cut out and preserved as a sample of the
most sublime sophistry ever presented
for public consideration. The Tribune
says with apparent, but doubtless as
sumed sincerity, that all other places are
seeking the temporary, for the reason
that it will thus secure the permanent,
and that only Sioux Falls promises
(most solemnly, no doubt that she will
not seek the permanent capitol. Shades
of departed logicians, deep thinkers and
discriminating ]reasoners, rise up and
explain away this u%nfathomable declar
alton, which has left us in such an mex
tricable labarynth of uncertainty as to
its intent. Is it possible that there can
be a shade of seriousness on the part of
Sioux Falls in making such q deciara-
ton? Can it be possible that the Tri-
bune has seriously and honestly i'm
bibed such a belief? We pause in the
vain hope that some modern oracle on
abstruse questions Of capitol import
N ppV,gh1o 20 t1a n,,r,rnpg Thn Til
une has also avowedly succumbed to the
conclusion that Sioux Falls is pre-emi-
nently the point for the holding of the
first session Of the state legislature, mas
much as "it will be charged with serious.
grave and ~stupendons questions of
legislation affecting the commonwealth
for all time to come, which they should
have every opportunity and surrounding
to consider and examine fully and
closely with all the light, knowledge
and information relating thereto and
bearing thereon; y all Of which, it AYERS,
can better be had at that place thar at
any other point or place in the state,
and for that reason it is deemed i'm
mensely and infinitely preferable" to
all other places as the temporary loca-
ton for the capitol.
Now, if there is a scintilla of sense, O,
the most infinitesimal grain of reason
in the statement that Sioux Falls
located as she is upon the borders OF
Minnesota, possesses advantages over
other capitol aspirants in the direction
indicated, we confess our inability to
grasp it, and we do not hesitate to
declare such claim to be fallaciously
based, and a reflection upon the paper
that made it. 1t is q double surprise
10 us that the Tribune should have
declared in favor of Sioux Falls for the
capitol Of South Dakota. 1t is surpris-
ing, under the circumstances, that any
Black Hills newspaper should fail to
advocate Plerre's claims for the capitol,
and doubly surprising that Sioux Falls,
the point most remote from the Hills,
and in all respects, from a Black Hills
standpoint, the least desirable, should
be supported.
1t is certainly time that the people OF
the Hills should fully realize the i'm
portance of the temporary location of
the capitol (Which in all reasonable
probability will be permanently at the
nearest and most convenient point,
taking into consideration the changed
conditions which are morally sure to
result from the in-building of railroads,
consequent upon the opening of the
Sioux reservation and the rapid prog
ress and material advancement of this
most promising region. The situation
is somewhat peculiar, as under the cir
cumstances the Black Hills, while the
vote is insignificant as compared with
the balance of the state, may name the
capitol. This can be done by uniting
upon a given point, and that point
should be, as a above stated, the nearest
and most convenient point to reach for
all time, as near as can possibly be de-
termined at present. 1t must be APP
parent to all that Sioux Falls is less
favorably located, viewed from a Hills
standpoint, than any other aspiring
town, and that she presents no claims
whatever that can be considered worthy
of candid consideration. Aside from
Pierre, there is none Of the capitol as.
pirants, except Chamberlain, which
could reasonably expect the support OF
the Hills, and as it is generally conced-
ed that Chamberlain could not win,
even with the solid vote of the Hills, II
would be a suicidal policy to unite upon
that point. AS it looks from where we
sit, the Hills has it in her power TO
locate the capitol at one desirable point,
and at no other that point is Pierre,
the strongest aspirant in the race, and
the point which to us. is decidedly and
emphatically the most desirable on the
list for the location of the state capitol.
1t is now only a question with the voters
of the Black Hills as to whether they
vote solid for Pierre and secure a desir-
able location for the capitol, or divide
the vote with Chamberlain or some
other point, and locate the same in some
remote region, probably upon the bleak