Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1890-10-17
PIERRE's CAPITAL VICTORY.
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Garry Tie Day by 10000 Ma
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expressed the opinion that most of the
counties which gave majority for
Mitchell. Watertown and Sioux Falls last
fall, gave Pierre more votes than they did
Huron.
The unobserving and unthinking mind,
who carelessly wonders where the capi-
tai will be permanently located but don't
bother his head about where it goes, has
*probablyoa nded The LEADERS state
nent IS Important and perhaps un-
reliable NJ tion, without reason or any
practical fodndation. But the thinking
man, given to investigation and the study
Of propositions he sees in print, has
doubtless found, before now, that the
-claim laid in this columns is more than
merely varif1ed by the official figures of
the last election, and has already been
convinced that the facts therein contained
mean something.
Every reasonable person will admit
that while Pierre got q very large vote
from it's own tributaries-its own neigh
boring counties, as well as the counties Of
the Black Hills-after all it was the coun-
/ ties lying east Of Pierre and tributary to
other towns particularly Huron-that
! gave Pierre the exceedingly large major
ity it received last year.
The question naturally arises why did
the people of these counties vote for
iHSanr.o 1.,h;Io5 u,ro,, on.ls5 W.. <ov<oxv,,
sioN and Mitchell were closer to
tht1 q S24se convenient for them to
reH EPierle, if it is true as is gen
eraifa opposed, that the popular, senti-
ment is to locate the capital at that point
located nearest to them. The LEADER
has disputed that this would be the basis
Of the outcome in the coming election
and it now gives its reasons for its posi-
ton.
The reason why SO many people in all
parts Of the state. in counties tributary
70 all the other cities except Pierre, cast
. heavy vote for the latter place, was due
to !; prevailing opinion among the them
that the capital Of a state should be locat-
ed at the geographical center. They rea-
soned that inevitably the state would soon
settle up and eventually there would be
rs many or more people west of the Mis-
souri, than east of the Missouri, and that
sooner or latter the permanent capital
would be located at Pierre any wav.
Therefore they voted for Pierre from the
in order to avoid moving it from one start
place to another. This year, this opin-
ion amoaM the people that the center Of
the ste il! soon be the center Of popu-
latioss pr that reason ought to be the
state esf 7, has intensified rather than
deminishegg for no other reason
that there are greater reasons why the
permanent capital should be at Pierre
than there was reason for the idea that
the temporary capital should be there
last year, because the state is more de-
veloped in the western direction, and there
is no probability, that if it is. not located
at Pierre, the center, now, that it will
ever do SO hereafter, while last
year there was chance for that idea be-
Ing carried out. There were thousands
of votes cast for all the other towns
Huron included, that would have been
cast for Pierre had the last election been
I to decide the location of the permanent
seat of government instead of the tenn
porary.
The LEADER predicts that the same
line of reasoning will be followed in the
present campaign that was followed in
the last and that the same counties which
gave Pierre majority over Huron last
year will Go the same this year only in
a greater proportion.
1t will be noticed that in the last cleo
tion, the counties of Brown, Bon Homme,
Bufisl Butte, Campbell, Charles Mix,
Gay tster, Douglas, Edmunds, Fall
River, FA4lk, Hand, Hughes, Hutchin-
son, Hyde. Jerauld, Lawrence, McPher-
son, Marshal, Meade, Pennington, Potter,
sully, Walworth and Yankton-(26
counties, gave Pierre plurality. Why
should these counties not do the same
this year as they did last and cast their
majority for the same place that got their
plurality last year? There is absolutely
no reason, and as there are greater reasons
Ahy Pierre should have the permanent
capital than there were that it should
have the temporary location, all these
counties will cast more votes for Pierre
than they will for Huron, only in q
greater proportion than they did last year.
OF the other "a counties, only six gave
. plurality for Huron-viz. Beadle. Clark,
Kingsbury, Miner, SAnborn and Spink.
The other 18 8counties distributed their
pluralities among the towns not now in