Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-09-28
THE DElfopop FARCE

q ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Co00Ey
conventions held as the court house
last Saturday was n Or two Of the
! best .fazces that has ever bsen put on
the boards in the Black Hills. It was
better than some Of the smock trials"
that our country school houses used
to have years ago. The democrats
organized in the left hand corner Of
the court room and the populists in
the right hand c~orner-about . rod.
apart. It will be impossible to give .
detailed report Of each convention a.
they proceeded, for they proceeded
at one and the same time, each doing
what the other wanted it to do, SO
that after the thing was over with
the two end would "fuse'' like q graft
ed tree.
Charley Eastman as spokesman for
democrats explained how the state
triangular convention managed to
harmoniously name a ticket, and
suggested for this convention that the
.'pops over there lin the corner) can
name a committee and we (~democrats)
name a committee, and let them get
together and distribute the offices be-
tween the two parties" The populists
listened attentively to this suggestion
from across the court room, and with
a nod of assent forthwith named such
a committee. The democrats did
likewise. tAfter being closeted fora
while the committees reported to their
respective conventions that they had
agreed upon the distribution of the
%loaves and fishes-and had practically
nominated the demopop ticket. The
democrats took members of the legis-
lature, treasure, sheriff, judge of pro-
bate, and county commissioner, while
the populists were given clerk of
court, auditor, register of deeds, states
attorney, assessor and superintendent
of schools. Then each convention
proceeded to endorse the ticket as
fixed in the closet by the committee
of politicans-like Will Dudley, Archie
Riordan, Charley Eastman, Col. Kellar,
Capt. Phillips, ct al. 1t was a pretty
wei cut and died affair and the COM
mittees had no trouble whatever in
having their conventions swallow the
whole dose without a struggle-except
that of A. T.. Eckstein's friends con-
cluded that he was the best fitted for
county auditor and "a him up against
a stone wall by presenting his name
to the pop convention, but Henry
Marty had that thing corralled before
hand-and 'Eck" was slaughtered.
Geo. Highly, of Edgemont, was
named for representative. George
was not present-nor was anyone else
from Edgemont-and therefore the
f~usionists though it a good time to
force him into the arena. But it's
hardly a square deal for him to be
thus worked into empty honor and 9
big assessment. Samuel johnson, OF
Ardmore, who was not present either
was named for treasurer. But he will
be q disguised man when they motif,
him Of his assessment.
Henry Marty was named as the
victim for the Office Of auditor. H,
wants the place and will go after Il
hard but in vain.
Ted Petty hasn't been working fol
the nomination of sheriff these pas
} two years In vain. He had it all tixei
but will regret the day that he evel
was nominated, for defeat is already
written upon disclaimer.
Cannon Fisher, the poet laureate o.
Upper Horsehead, captured the nom
{ ination of clerk Of courts in q walk
No one could have believed that Car
mon could manipulate things q
smoothly-but it was easy for him.
n For rigistertof deeds F. A. Fasset'
was named. He is indeed q loyal pop
ulist to submit to being thus led te
the political burying ground.
Judge. Dudley isn't satisaed Will
the way Jnckstt beat hin. .tWo-ysar'
.lngo;ands hssiconasnted TO ;bsing;knock,
eled down: this year worse than ever
Hes must have q special design ON th,
Office Of the judge Of probate to be *
! persistent after Il.
9 Judge Cleveland is another victim
that don't know when he gets enough
i He was so badly beaten for state'
d attorney before that We didn't suppos,
t he could ever be worked up by tn
8 fusion forces again. But after gettinl
g up and Withdrawing ibis name from
8 the convention he permitted them {,
t nominate him, and he must again, TO
K the sake Of having a complete ticket
n suffer the humiliation of running 70
an Office he can't get, and go still
futher down to terrible defeat.
. j. A. Ball was named for assessor
a Jim Feels badly enough about bein,
n on the ticket at all, so we will MOI