Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1891-01-29
MOODY'S HOPE FADING.
J, The Aomestake Senator is Being De-
serted By His Friends and Can
not Be Elected.
Gigantic Election Frauds Uneathed in
the Lawrence County Cases,
Republicans Implicated,
Charges Of Bribery and Corruption
come From the Halls Of
State Legislation,
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.


PIERRE, Jan. 26- Special Correspon-
dence: The week just past has been one
or kenizing suspense to the numerous
Eorial aspirantes and to those who are
interested in the senatorial contest. There
has been scarcely anything done in either
branch of the legislature the whole week
along, business has been practically sus-
pended in the city and the war for the
spoil has been unabated. Day and night
the battle has been raging, and yet at
this writing there is positively no foun-
dation upon which to base an intelligent
estimate as to the possible outcome. Up
to present writing eight ballots have been
taken and the number of 26 different
names have appeared in the list Of candi-
dates. The fact that everyone of them
has his friends and that they have all
been exerting every possible influence for
their respective men, leaves the situation
in a state Of Undesirable confusion
Everything is chaos.
MooDY's STRENGTH WEAKENING.
seitis true that Moody holds the
reIl S1icans with apparant uninterrupted
solidity, it is stated by men who are COM
petent to judge, that a great many Of
them are not voting for him by reason of
any affection for the man and if he had
a possible chance ofyelection, at least IA
of the votes now being cast for him
would go to some other candidate quicker
than wink. Although the republican
caucus pledged its members solidly for
Moody and made solemn promise to
stand by him, the republicans are becom-
ing restless and a break is liable to occur
at any moment that will leave Moody
deeply in the Soup" That this will
occur sooner or later, is now considered
out of the question for the best friends of
Moody are ready to admit that he cannot
be elected. Even Senator Pettigrew is
discouraged and has gone away and those
who will vote for him hereafter will only
do SO by reason of the resolutions of the
party caucus and they will probably
stand by him to the last, fact which
is very evident that no republican can be
elected.
THE DEMOCRATS AND INDEPENDENTS.
The democrats are voting solidly for
TriL2 knd. they will continue to do so
n NHH II q independents concentrate upon
one man. The latter have not made a
choice in caucus but only passed reso-
lutions permitting every man to vote as
he pleases as long as he votes for an i'll
dependent. As soon as all the contested
cases will have been disposed Of, it is ex-
pected that the independents will hold
caucus and decide upon one man, and
after that there will be enough democrats
vote with them to elect. Who the sue
cessful one will be is impossible to tell.
Wardall has been the choice of most of
the independents, but he has lost ground
during the past week while both Hardin
and Crosse have gained. Yet Wardall
has many splendid workers here and
through their influence, he may be able
to carry the victory in the caucus. But
there are number of other candidates,
all of whom have many friends even
among those who are now voting against
them, and when the thing once resolves
itself down to the necessity of uniting on
one man or let the legislature adjourn
without eiectlng senator, it is hard
telling I.not a dark horse will have to be
broug 5rth to win the race.
G ksANTIC FRAUDS COMMITTED
The contested cases have been the only
topic of interest aside from the senatorial
situation during the week just passed,
probably owing to the fact that they are
closely connected with the matter of
electing the senator. The cases from
Lawrence county were the principal ones
in controversy this week. The elections
committee on Monday reported favorably
to seating the five Independents who were
contesting the seats on the ground that
evidence had been adduced showing that
gigantic frauds had been committed in
Lawrence county. 1t was proved beyond
doubt that the Homestake Mining COM
pany had l4O of it's miners illegally