Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-07-31
U. S.

"a prominent newspaper man from
the Hills, says, that the Hills country
cannot be carried by the republicans
with Judge Moody the republican can
didate for the United States senate.'
That part of the country lying east of
the Missouri river was carried by the
populist once on this very issue and
the Huronite believes that the same
result would be inevitable now, If
Judge Moody and his friends have any
desire that the. republicans should
carry the state this fall they should be
gracious enough to put his boom to
sleepi in it's infancy Huron Huronite.
"The Huronite might as we'll recog-
nize the fact that the Black Hills will
claim the next United States senator
in case a republican legislature is
chosen. In giving to this side both
congressman there was an implied
agreement that the senator should go
to the Black Hills. The Black Hills is
entitled to representation in congress-.
Its legislative needs are somewhat
peculiar and require Il representative
who is acquainted with them."-Yank-
ton Press.
"Ihere is a lot of talk about what
should go to the Black Hills and
about the Black Hills being entitled to
representation in congress- aud things
OF that sort. The fact is that the Black
Hills casts less than one-ninth of the
republican votes of this state. There
are three judicial circuits east of the
river. each of which casts more votes
than the Black Hills region, and two
others which castnearly as many. The
Press is not disposedto raise Ii issue
upon this score-but now that it is
raised it is Just as we'll to meet it.
And the Black Hills has no such
needs which are somewhat peculiar
that they require Il disregard of every
other consideration in the distribution
of the states representation in con-
gress. This question of republican
support of any particular candidate
for United States senator. Oh account
OF whether he lives east or west of the
Missouri. is not warranted by the facts
and figures. The first necessity is to
get a republican majority in the legis-
l%ature-and the senatorial candidate
who a do most toward guaranteeing
that majority is the candidate who is
best entitled to support of his party.
Ii Judge Moody and hisfriends can ac-
complish more in that direction than
anybody else. then it will be time
enough to talk about what is due to
the Black Hills."-SiouN Falls Press.
1t seems to us that the argument of
the Press is quite "far fetched" The
argument presented above against the
Black Hills beinggiven asenator would
just as reasonably apply to South Da-
kota. So far as population goes does
the Press believe that South Dakota
is entitled to as many U. S. senator's as
New York? Or to as many as almost
any other state between this state and
the Atlantic coast? Certainly not.
U. S. senator's are not apportioned &C
cording to population, but SO distrib-
uted that each state will have Just
representation in national congress.
The Black Hills, as suggested in the
item from the Yankton Press, are al
most entirely different from the other
portions of the state-more unlike the
remainder of the state than the states
of Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and Illi-
nois are dissimilar. Our needs so far
as legislation goes are therefore differ
ent, and we need representation in con-
gress to represent our interests just as
much as though this were a different
state. The eastern portion of South
Dakota should in all reason see the
business of this.
+. As to whom this should be, there is
ample timet to discuss that feature later.
1t would be absurd to make a U. s.
senatorial candidate an especial issue
just now. But a majority Of Black
Hills counties can probably get to-
gether on that proposition at any time.