St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-30
WITH BALLOT IN HAND
Citizens OF South Dakota
Ready for the Election
To-MoproW.
The Capitalization Cues
tion Will Bring Out a
Big Vote,
Ind the Big Fight Seems to
Be Between Huron and
Pierre.
Fhe Republican State Ticket
will Be Elected by About
10000.

AU,IUUs
Special to the Globe.
HURON. 5. D.. Sept. 29.-The Repub-
licans and the Democrats, the Alliance
and the ProhibitiOnists will vote next
Tuesday, under the provisions of the
omnibus bill. on a constitution, and the
three side shows Of minority represen-
tation, prohibition and capital location:
also a full ticket of state and judicial
officers. These issues are so mo-
mentous that every voter will 90 to
the polls. If some do not go to the polls
who are not voters, then are appear
ances deceiying in certain quarters.
There is no fight upon the constitution.
1t is not what a great MANY wish it
were: but the prospect of statehood,
with 100000 of debt at the threshold. is
SO seductive that all differences of Opin-
Ion upon the organic act Will be neld in
Obeyance till we are in the union. Then
there will be some furious assaults
made upon certain OF its sections. and
in such a vigorous manner that inn
pOrtant changes will soon be made in it.
But all these objections will take a rest
till we shuck these old cl0thes-politcal.
There will not be 1909 votes against
the document.
MINORITY REPRESENTATION
will fare badly. Republicans do not
take to it at all. Our Democratic papers
have not showed up the great advan-
tage it would be to our party if it were
adopted: hence great many of the
voters are in ignorance of the necessity
of earnest work for its adoption. 1t
may receive as high as 2S, 900 votes. but
will not have sufficient TO engTaft it
upon the constitution. Further, our
canvass has been so short that it could
really effect nothing. But two weeks
TO organize and prosecute political
campaign in a state of this SiZe-the
mere mention of it eXciteS ridicule.
The racket on the prohibition
question was begun in June,
1882, and has been continued in
some form from then till now. Last
March its friends organized on a grand
scale in Huron. and since then they
have collected fully $4,000 to carry on
their agitation. They have covered
every county, secured every hamlet,
preached from 80 Of every 100 pulpits
on the subject, warmed it up in the
class meeting and the prayer meeting,
imported speakers from Texas, Georgia.
Kentucky, Connecticut. Illinois, Michi-
gan. IOWa-and the Lord only knows
where else, to "whO0p her up' for only
cold water. Sam Small. the ScurrilOuS;
Balm. the benign: Hector, 1.-The Black
Knight" The Texas CyclOne;" Chris
tian, the chaSte in thought and manner:
Mrs. Woodbridge, the ScOld; Mrs. Bar
ker, the perfect lady. along with half a
hundred local celebrities, have got in
their work according to their own incli
nations. All of this will
TELL ON THE NATIVES,
many of whom take their cues from the
best speaker who addresses them. But
this crowd aint having it all their own
way. True, the Republicans declared
for prohibition, and the casual observer
may think the vote for the Republican
ticket and for prohibition will run to-
gether. But this is where the casual
observer will be nightly fooled.
Nearly all of the Black Hills Repub-
hNan papers kick on this plank in the
platform. The Sioux Falls Press, with
its usual waywardness, does the same
thing. None of the Pierre papers are
working for prohibition; one of the
Aberdeen papers fights it-and so on,
here and there. all over the state.
While the Liquor Dealers association
has no organ, it has many friends in the
press gang who are giving it aid and
comfort every day. This same aSSOcia-
ton is being largely assisted from the
outside with the sinewS of war, and is
getting in its work this week with tell
Ing effect. If prohibition prevails, it
VIII be by not to exceed 5000, with the
prospect good that il may not be over
0ue-half OF this figure. If the question
ever comes up again, its enemies should
engage Sam Small to speak upon the
same side that he has halloed for this
season. This will be the best way to de-
feat it. He can 'rile' an intelligent
audience quicker than you can madden
bull by waving bloody shirt.
THE CAPITAL.
"Thank the Lord we've no capital
fight on our hands as you have" said a
bright North DakOtian this week. They
all should be thankful. A county seat
quarrel is bad enough. as every West
ern man knows. But a fight for a state
capital is propOrtiOnately worse. 1t is
debauching, degrading, humiliating,
maddening, eXtravagantly expensive, a
divorcer of friends, a blighter of par
ties. the beggaring of thriving towns, an
apple of SOdom from stem to core. Yet
South Dakota, by the terms of its on
stitutiOn, is to be cursed with three
such-yendettas that is about the near
est description of it. The vote of next
Tuesday on the subject will be for
the temporary location. There are
six beggars for it: Huron, Cham
berlain. Mitchell, Pierre, Water
town, Sioux Falls. The total vote i'm
the state will be nearly $4,000. About
$4,000 each, if equally divided. But
neither Chamberlain nor Watertown
will get this quota, so the fight will be
between Sioux Falls, Mitchell, Pierre
and Huron, with the last two in the
lead. Pierre has scattered the most
corner lots over the state, with lavish
hand. For this consideration many will
vote and secure votes for Pierre. Huron
has the best organization of either of
the six Notwithstanding over half of
the counties of the state organized
down to the remOteSt voting precinct,
and she will have men at each of these
polls TO see that the floating vote. and
as many more as possible, deposit
Huron ballots. No one can say that he
knows which will succeed. 1t is a
Walk-aWay for neither. The Republican
state ticket will be elected by from l5.-