Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1900-06-29
CANTON. SOUTH DAKOTA. FRIDAY. JUNE %, I!

!. FRIOAY. JUNE ~, l9OO.
Additional Locals.
Miss Lizzie Abbott has resigned her
position as teacher in the public schools.
Mrs. Mcbride. who has been quite i'll,
is improving slowly and tits hoped she
will soon be out again.
j. w. Bremen has bought the lot on
the corner west Of James Lewis and
we understand will Immediately begin
the erection Of q g. 600 dwelling.
The old Augustans College building
will be moved east to the new college
site and used as a dormitory in connec-
tion with the new college to be built
this year.
b Saturday last . man drove into town
with knife-g grinding outfit and took
out q license to operate on the street.
In order to gather crowd around his
wagon, he resorted to a method which
was very common and very popular
with street fakirs and Republican
politicians of the highly intelligent sort,
from about 1894 to 1896. He was an.
Irishlnan by trade, with the usual gift
Of CAB Of that loquacious race. and he
started off with q harangue along par
tisan lines, exactly after the style Of
Republican orators when Cleveland was
President, and the Democratic party
was in power. There can be no mistake
but he was one of those original, Re-
publican anarchists Of the time Of
Growers reign, hut who had made q
flop because he could not train with
Bartlett Tripp and Loucks. He pitched
into the President and Republicans in
general, in a TRADE Of fdenuinciation
that would have made the Hanna gang
happy ifTit had been hurled at the other
fellow The funny feature of the en-;
tertainment was it's success as q crowd
gatherer, though total failure az q
vote.getter The ludicrous side Of the
affair, was the serious view which
Canton Republicans took of the show
They swarmed like hive Of angry.
bees, and every distur bed gold bug had
his stinger run out yard, ready for 9
fight. The more the razor-grinding
Artist prodded them with his random
|darts, the madder. the Hanna hornets
the Irishman with the grinstone.
stuck sharp sticks into their vitals It
was the most graphic illustration of the
workings of the endless chain idea
ever put upon the boards or streets
Of Canton The alternate filing and
|empting Of beer kegs, comes the nearest
eaualing Saturdays circus Of any thing
witnessed In this prohibition city for.
h long time. Every power of prayer
land pugilism was invoked to put q stop
tO the sensational Mckinley y-skinning
Exhibition at the front end Of the razor
mans wagon; but as the pugilistiO
nerves Of the wounded patriots were
mot equal to their wrath, and as their
fflayers seemed. to lack the essential
element Of faith, and the order to keep
|of the grass was readily obeyed by
the crowd. some other expedient had to
be resorted to. 10 keep Canton in
.Caesar's column during the campaign.
II red headed comet loaded with
dynamite, had been seen coming full
Ftilt for onr earth. it could not have
excited the confusion of alarm that
stirred the Mckinley crowd upon the
streets into wild buzzing, humming.
whizzing Calamity howl" az the old
tanarchistic'' knife grinders tongue
kept Topping at both ends. A fellow
with tin horn for his mouth and.
several horns in his stomach, charged
down on the orators position, like the
horn blowers before Jericho. and down.
came nis ori.ollcal cl.ausl .nass WI 9 ,rn sua
% sLad vh1 49, ha stonnad his r.cket 20 -
suddenly. he said he could stand all
the ..horns" that our wholesale houses
could pour into Hanna crowd OF
boomers. but when tin horn and 9
tool charged on him. he conldn,t stand
the racket. The counter.irritant,'
90 VIZ -. AZ 80 vs .
OF town dtsgusted. Ihere ism : mucn