Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-06-05
POLITICAL sTRAws.

in ''cahoots" is possibly true, and it is
also possibly true that these gentlemen
viii enjoy such relations even after the
convention in the soup. The cores
pondent says:
Everybody knows that Governor Mel
lette is actively in the field for renomin-
alton, and good many people seem to
think that he will have hard road to
travel. just now he is reported in the
Hills, fixing up his own fences, and pos
sibly putting little dynamite under
Senator Moody's. 1t is hard to account
for the rupture, but that it exists there
seems to be no longer any doubt. More
than this, the governor is said to be at
outs with good many of his former CO.
workers, including his present associates
at the capital and Charlie Mccoy seems
to be the only man with whom he is on
close terms. Tt would be queer spec
tacle to see Mellette join hands with
such antis as Judge Palmer, Edwin Van
Cise, Gen. Campbell ct. al, but stranger
things have happened.
One of the peculiar features of the
campaign is the prospective fight over
the treasurership. The present incum-
bent, Smith of Lake, was reported to
be Frank Pettigrew's particular choice
last fall, but now we see Joe Bailey, the
pickerel senator's fidus achates, actively
in the field himself, while over in Sphinx
county bobs up w. W. Taylor, it is al
legged at the suggestion of Mellette, who
is also said to have an understanding
with Bailey. How the tangle will un-
ravel itself time only can tell. Nieaun-
lutte Borgert, of Bon Homme, and Sla-
man, of Dawson, are training as dark
horses, neither of them being suspected
Of any particular warmth Of feeling
toward the governor.
The congressional outlook is decidedly
mixed. Maj. Picker will of course be
an active candidate for denomination,
and his friends claim he cannot be
beaten. But il he should be, the entries
for his place thus far, Charlie Mccoy,
ex-Capital Commissioner Meyers, OF
Sphinx, and j. E. Diamond, OF Brookings,
give no sure indication of who would
succeed him. Down in Gifford's dis
trict the uncertainty as to whether the
"old man" himself is to be in the field
upsets. calculations. If he is he may be
laid on the shelf, but the district will moi
lack for timber. Prof. Wakefield, who
has just bought the Mitchell Republican,
is suspected of wanting it as lever to
help boost him into congress, and rumo1
has it that he and Diamond, who
camped on Matthew's trail last fall, are
working together in this deal. Col
Price, of Letcher, who is stout with the
farmers, and who has some pretty strong
political connections besides, would moi
be adverse to rounding his career by
going to congress, Railroad Commits
sioner King likewise hath .yearnings
toward the lower house, and is on pretty
friendly terms with all factions, having
a>smooth concilatory manner on all oc
casions. The redoubtable ''Cap" Lacas
of Brule, would take the old soldiers
with him with a whoop, and stands wei
generally, but the prohibitionists may
frown him down because he is not one O
them, though temperate in all things
Judge Palmer and Speaker Young, o
Sioux Falls, are also mentioned" bu
may not be considered among the proba
bilities of this trip.
In fact, the position which the ALI
ance may take at Its convention il
Huron the Ath of June will go grea,
way toward determining some things
and npsetting others. The Loucks
Hardin element is in favor of an indie
pendent ticket, made up presumably t.
seduce the democrats into indorsing tht
most OF it, but the Crosse Needham fac
ton will doubtless adhere to the policy
of making the alliance influence fell
within the respective party lines. Ny
prediction is that the latter course vii
be pursued, and if SO, the situation vii
be very much simplifed.
IL / get time later on / may drop yor
a line from somewhere and unload wha
I pick up about Senator johnson, o.
Dawson, and Col Foster, of Sphinx
whose rods are pointed inyitingly in tn,
direction of gubernatorial lightning.
ORIG. PACK.
T. M. Goodykoontz is in receipt of ;
letter frem Frank LallY, a gentlmai
/ well known here, who is now stopping ii
what is known on the map as the bat
| lands Of South Dakota, about one hun
dred and fifty miles west Of here. Hs
writes that insriding over the country ht
finds large fertile valleys, some of then
| thir ty miles long and seven miles wide
and in which be found numerous fin,
springs and plenty Of good water. FL,
also reports besides it being an agricul
Etural country that it is one OF the bes
stock countries on earth. This coming
from what has always been considered
the poor portion of the country west o
here is very gratifying TO us. Chamber
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