Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-07-05
FARMERS JUBILANT
South Dakota AgricuIturists Have
Great Prospects.
The Political Pot in the New State
Begins TO Boil-Sioux Falls n
Largest City.

SIOUX FALLS, June 2s.-The crop con.
ditions continue to be favorable in South
Dakota. Local rains and showers are
quite general all over the state. The
recent warm days have given corn a
great start and farmers are jubilant over
the promise of this cereal. Late rains
have helped the corn in the country
west of Plankinton, but little can be
which is usually SO productive. 1t is
strange that all of South Dakota, eX-
cept a small strip in the counties Of
Aurora, Brule and northern Charles Mix,
should be thoroughly saturated, and
that section be missed by the rains.
TIE LARGEST CITY.
Recent census returns. as for as emu
nerators dare leak information, show
Sioux Falls to be the largest city in the
state. 1t has a population of a lite
over ~, 900. Yankton, TO the surprise
Of many, m i'll as second. Aber-
leen is third and Huron fourth.
Some years ago Yankton was losing
instead Of gaining population, but the
fostering of new industries has given
that city a new life, which it is liable
to retain. Aberdeen and Huron are two
If the most promising new cities,
especially the latter, as matters strongly
Indicate that it will. secure the per-
nanent capital. Aberdeen aspires to
be a jobbing point, and with its com
2lete system of railroads, and a large
and fertile country westward, 1T can fol-
low quite successfully its wishes. The
:ensus will be a surprise to many cities
Of this state, and here and there disap-
pointments will occur. Sioux Falls
fares the best of any, and comes nearer
reaching the figures set by her people.
THE EQUAL suFFRAGIsTs
have issued a call for a convention at
Huron July g. The cali is signed by
Mrs. Wardall, Mrs. DeVoe. Mrs. =. T..
Johnson, Mrs. Pickler and Mrs. Bon
lam There is something ominous in
his promised convention, meeting as
t does a day or TWO prior to
he rehashed alliance convention,
which is the only organization thus far
giving the s~uf'ragists any winks Of
promise. There is probably an under
standing between these embryo political
parties, and in their weakness they
nay pool their issues. But in their
oobbing around for footholds and popu-
ar favors there has occurred a mixture
Or two that is extremely ridiculous.
Hon. j. w. Harden has for several
Years been recognized as a leading dem
ocrat. He cut loose from the party and
vent into the alliance, and his wife is a
;uffragist lecturer. The late demo-
;ratic convention sat down on the
females hard and effectively. Wardall
IS supposed, or was supposed, to be a re-
publican, but he, too, goes into the
alliance and his wife becomes a
suifragist stumper. Mrs. Picker, the
wife of South Dakota's erratic congress-
nan, signs the equal suffragists' con
g~ention call. The old saw about the
mixture of hotel hash does not cover
certain political conditions in South
Dakota,
CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR.
The question now being asked in a
whisper is whether Mellette will be re-
nominated by the republicans for gov
ernor. A strong undercurren seems to
be setting in against the governor,
Hon. Geo. A tombstone, of Mitchell,
formally himself as a can
iludtc lOr governor, anu NOlOHel IL, w.
Foster, of Sphinx county, is also looking
wistfuily in the same direction. But at
this distance from the convention it is
fairly safe to predict that Governor
Mcllette will be his own successor.
The alliance will probably put Loucks
in the field. The democrats have Gen
eral Taylor, and the suffragists may
also put up a candidate. Senator Moody
will have TO hustle for reelection.
While n of our ablest men, he has
some bitter enemies, who are do
ing their best to down him.
Then, too, that senatorial seat is
considered public property. South Da-
kotans are decidedly ambitious when it
comes to political snaps. and now and
then a friend is left bleeding and disap-
pointed by the wayside. In the con-
gressional field there is a full compile
ment of nags. c.. Il. Mccoy is hustling
for Pickler's job, while j. X. Gamble,
Of Yankton, is trying to knock Clifford
out, The only combination in sight is
between Mccoy and Gamble, and it
looks quite formidable. j. M. Bailey,
IT,, of Sioux Falls, is hustling for the
state tr~easurership, and is making a
vigorous campaign.