The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-01-02
TO Be RESUBM|TTED.
No Question but What the Capital Ques-
zion Will be Resubmitted to the
People.
RumorS Of Additional Passenger Trains
to Mitchell Seem TO Have Good
Foundation.

Ing Sunday Theatre in Mitchell
Hereafter.
ON CAPITAL RESUBMISSlON
The Question to be Up for Disposal at
Coming Session of the State
Legislature.
The sentiment that is constantly
growing throughout the state for
the resubmission of the capital
question makes it practically assured
that it will have a hearing before
the legislature. AS to the outcome
of the proposition there does not
seem to be any reason to doubt but
what it will prevail and the people
will have an opportunity to express
themselves as to whether they want
the capital to remain at Pierre or a
more accessible point in the state.
Once the geographical center, along
with the purchasing power, had a
great leverage with the people.
One of the great pressing needs Of
the state is a capitol building in
which the business Of the common
wealth can be transacted, a place
where the records are safe, and a
place that will be a credit to
the state. There have been six ses-
sions Of the legislature at Pierre
since the capital was located there,
but at no time has there been a dis
cussion through the press or an at
tempt made to secure the passage of
an appropriation for the purpose Of
erecting a state house. If the people
were So well satisfied with the cap
ital being at Pierre they would have
shown a disposition long ere this to
have made some attempt at least to
have provided the state with a home
that it could call it's own. 1t was
this uncertainty Of the capital re-
manning at Pierre which has been
a ban on IN attempt to pass an
appropriation. This silence on the
part of the members Of the legisla-
ture has given a strength to the pur-
pose Of eventually securing the
chance Of voting once more on the
location of the capital. Pierre really
ought not to object to it. If that
town is so thoroughly %entrenched in
the hearts of the people as being the
correct and only place for the capital
why they have nothing to fear in
the campaign, and they will only
have that much more strength in
the future. However,. it is the fear
that Pierre has lost standing with
the people Of the state as a capital
location that is urging on the opposi-
tion to resubmission.
The basis on which the three towns
are working for capital resubmission
is n in which the motives are
honest and will bear the most
searching Investigation. and the PEG.
pie of the state are coming to believe,
as the campaign progresses, that such
is the case. Politics have been left
entirely out Of the question and the
united efforts OF Mitchell, Huron and
Redfield are being concentrated on
that n point. Each town will use
an honest endeavor to win out in
the legislature as the favored candi-
date against Pierre, and which ever
is the successful one the other two
will not sulk in their tents but 20 to
work with the same earnest effort to
relocate it within range Of the people
of the state.
In speaking Of the necessity for a
new capitol building the Deadwood
Pioneer looks at the proposition in
the following light:
1.-The present state house is a
disgrace to SO thriving and pros
porous a state as South Dakota. 1t
is a great barnlike structure. utterly
unit and absolutely inadequate to the
needs of the state officers. 1t is in
constant danger of destruction by
fire, with the consequent loss of
books and records, which it would be
next to impossible to replace. There
is need for a permanent homo for the
seat of state government and the pro-
lection OF the accumulated records
and documents now stored in the
basement and other out of the way
places in the state house,
AS the time progresses the Black
Hills people are looking at the matter
OF resUbmission in a more favorable
light. They realize o that they
have nothing to lose by insisting on
Pierre making a show of it's strength
in regard to railroad extensions. The
Hills people have a right to demand