The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-07-16

convention of Sully on the temperance
question, when elected a delegate to
Redfield. Gee Whiz is way up tenn
perance man where there are no s'blind
pigs
WEDNESDAY, July 9Th, was the day
fixed for the hearing of the mandamus
case of D. @. Jordan vs.. the Canvas
sing Board, in which the plaintiff asked
for an order to compel the county
canvassing board to re-convene and
count the vote of Precinct rs so far as
the same relates to the office of Treas
urer. Hon, Coe I. Crawford appeared
for the Board but Mr.. Jordan's attorn-
eys failed to put IN an appearance, for
some unknown reason. Accordingly
Judge Fuller denied the order for a
writ of mandamus, conditioned that
Mr.. Jordan be granted the privilege of
a hearing at some future date on pay
ment Of the costs Of both sides at such
hearing. This action gives the pro-
ceedings, so far as Mr.. Jordan is con-
cerned, the appearance of bluff game.
At Redfield the reformers stuck or
tried to stick the Alllancemen for
$4,000.
For the first time in two years Walter
Price failed to put in an appearance at
an Independent gathering by remain
ing away from the ratify Of Saturday
last. Now don't get off the track,
Walter, just because Gee Whiz played
youa mean trick at Redfeld. You
played an equivalent dirty one when
you evolved the Alliance of Sully
county into political annex.
The calamity party made determln-
ed effort to get Judge Gresham or
Senator Stewart or some other fresh
respectable Republican to accept their
nomination. Failing to do so they
were obliged to eat crow in the person
of the old worn out life long office
seeking Jim Weaver who has at one
time or another been member of all
the political parties of his day.
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In accordance with their now fully
established custom the calamity chin
ners while at Omaha made thorough
arrangements to bleed the farmers in
systematic style. They are ordered to
meet twice at least during the cam
paign to chip in. Also a collection is
to be taken at each political meeting
besides which four distinct funds of ter
dollars, FIVE dollars, one dollar and hal
a dollar was ordered and they closec
by reminding the farmers that votes
alone was not enough and that CHR
music called for something more sub
stantial.
The Onida Journal in it's last issu,
gaye it's ready print house sever
lecture and threatens them with a boy
cot because they used the politlca
page of one issue to write up th'
National Prohibition convention. 1
also treats the eminent and much re
spected Elder Fielder of the Methods
Church in mean and contemptibl
manner, as the following from it's page
will show:
"Even Commodore Fielder and his
whole staff and body guard who wer
on the field in person and force utterl
failed to stir those stubborn fellow
from the middle of the road.' No,
that Everts is running for office and i
courting the vote of the cities and tn
Black Hills region the w. G. T. Z
have a better opportunity to judge O
his true lnwardness
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j In response to call of the Onld
Journal for Weaver Field ratificatio
meeting and backed by promise c
an able speaker from abroad an enol
nous (o crowd gathered on the street
last Saturday. 1t had been made u
from four immense professions of on
each from as many different directions
This prodigious crowd supplements
by the two Commissioners, who ha
remained over some twenty-four hour
to enjoy the love-feast, constituted til
3 ratification crowd. There were te
others who came in to trade and
, attend the G.. A. H. that knew nothin
! of and cared less about the rat
The ratification consisted of sewers
immense crowds Of twos and the pr
gram Of jack knives, pine sticks an
faces as long as the moral law, WI
carried out to finish. 1t lasted fro
about half-past ten q. m., to six p. n
J., when they quietly stole away. Di
q that recent order issued from hea
Ii quarters to take up collections at eat
o political gathering dampen the ard
) of the now mlstrustful hay seeds? v
wager cookie that they don't blee