Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-17
DIDN'T DIsFRANCHIsE.
HURON's DAsrARDLY ATTEMPT IN
DIsFRANCHrsE VOTERS FAILS.
The Supreme Court Decides Against Their
Writ of Certiorari-Tae "lsarren
Waste Votes.


court d. cket by the Huron gang of des-
peradoes, with the base intent of wrest-
ing from the legal voters upon the res
ervation their right of suffrage, failed to
to be looked upon by the supreme court
judges as right move ard they decided
against the issuing of the writ. Now,
the only thing those ssdear lovers of
right can resort to is the shot gun poll
cy, to prevent the casting of the legal
votes upon that barren waste" of South
Dakota. Their scheme was very trans
parent from the first and now that the
great legal tribunal has decided against
them it simply leaves them in the wind
up OF this capital campaign with their
posterior covering down. 1t leaves them
before the voters of the state in the att.
tude of the southern bulldozers, attempt
ing by improper means to prevent citi-
zens from voting, and shows very conclu-
sively that they will stoop to anything
and everything to carry their points; it
shows that there is no way to prevent
those votes from being cast, because the
proceedings for granting that right were
in accordance with the statutes, and
those Huron attorneys weresuch shallow
fellows as to overlook the fact, in their
intense desire to defeat Pierre. This
onght to be a settler in the minds of all
undecided voters to whom itcan be made
known that Huron has at last laid down
the last spark of honor she might have
been accredited with, to possess the much
coveted prize. The certiorari case was
hardly entered in the courts before the
news was dispatched to all the daily pa
pers in and out of the state that would
tend to make q vote for Huron OH the
capital question. The same and greatly
exaggerated items were sent to all their
weekly hirelings accusing Pierre as city
and as contestant in the capital fight
of trying to gain the day by illegal votes
from sscow boys, barbarians and semi
barbarians." But thanks to a wiser and
an unbiased tribunal for saying to them
by refusal to grant the writ, "boys,
you are on the wrong track; you must
show q better reason, and show it, not in
an irregular, but in regular way why,
under the proceedings already had in the
matter, those citizens in Stanley and
Nowlin counties shall not vote" What
do the voters think of the town on the
Jim now?, Answer on the 4th of Novem-
Der, please.
The following is an exact copy of the
decision:
| SUPREME Court. State of South Dako
tain the matter Of the application o
Thornton S. Everett for writ of Ger
tiorari to the County Commissioners o
Hughes County, ct. al.
The court has come to the conclusion
that the writ of certiorari prayed for in
the petition should be denied.
This being primarily an appellate court
it should, in our Judgment, only exercise
it's original Jurisdiction in cases in which
there are special reasons for calling into
exercise it's original powers.
| The affidavit in this case does not. we
think, present such state of facts as
show any such special reasons for the ex-
ercise Of this courts original Jurisdiction
as would justify us in issuing the writ in
this case.
Without, therefore. passing upon the
merits of this case, or upon any of the
questions presented by thepeti.ion other
than the one indicated, the writis denied.
All the judges concurring.