The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-10-07
HUGHES co.. EXHIBIT
Statement Made to The Public by Hitch
ell Business Mems League Setting
Forth Facts.
Pierre Declined to Accept Corn Palace
Space After Ii Had been rendered
in Good Faith.
4 Letter From Chas. L. Hyde, Of Pierre,
Shows Where Hughes Got Their
Products.
PlERRE's FAKE EXHIBIT
nts Up a job ON the Public and
and Makes a Grand Stand
PLAY.

-NC' = Aft' ~ S'1i ENiI tp
on an honest public than Plere'S So
called exhibit OF agricultural pro-
ducts FROM Hughes coupty. displayed
dt Iankton and Huron n brought
to Mitchell with a blare of trumpets
from IA subsidized press and opened in
a vacant Don in the new Widmann
hotel com palace week.
At Gankton and Huron it was
shown as a Hughes county exhibit,
but at Mitchell it has turned into
an exhibit of the region Mitchell is
slandering'-if you'd stop to listen
10 the tale Of woe. AS the Pierre
frauds have been yelling for eighteen
months that Mitchell was knocking
two-thirds of the state. including
the northern part and the Black
Hills. it is not surprising that they
were able, regardless of expense. to
gather a display which would COM
pare in some respects at least with
the products grown in and shown by
a single county elsewhere.
Pierre has spread to the four winds
the report tnat their exhibit was de-
MED admittance to the corn palace,
being careful to keep it hack that
the management was forced to cut
down the space for exhibits one-half
even after the building had been
greatly enlarged.
To have admitted the exhibit as a
Hughes county exhibit would have
been a direct insult to others show
ing the normal products of their re-
spectiye counties. 1t would have
turned the whole exposition into a
farce.
IT, ON the other hand. the Pierre
exhibit purported to be a showing Of
agricultural products gathered over
an area Of 0 1000 square miles. it had
no business i'm the corn palace in
competition with distinctly county
exhibits.
Pierre may take either horn of the
proposition and blow it until she is
black in the face.
Pierre may fool outside people, and
to which there isn't the slightest Oh
lection, but-as ono Lyman county
observer remarked-''she can't fool
the people OF South Dakota with her
picked up exhibits from irrigated
garden patches along Medicine creek
and over in Sully county with fruit
from irrigated orchards in the Black
Hills, sheafs OF grain from Faux
county exhibit and stuff out OF the
fruit stores i'm Yankton."
Nobody eve heard Of Pierre travel
ing around with an exhibit OF any
thing from Hughes county except
hides and sheep pelts until the cap
ital question came up, though the
Mitchell corn palace has been kept
open to any county in the state since
il WAS instituted twelve years awo.
Last year that county caught d
little moro rain than usual and there
was a slight foundation To back up
an exhibit in competition with the
stIe crop counties. The public is
also disposed to hulnor lierre's des-
perate attempt to make Il showing
of some Kind. but this year Hughes
county has experienced one of the
worst droutbs in its history, and
oven all the area which the present
capital can rightfully call its own
the crops were practically a total
failure.
In spite of this Pierre comes to the
front with a bigger exhibit than
ever-tllougb not to be compared
WITH counties that have made a
Legitimate shOwing-and asks honest
people to believe 1T, while other
counties with ten times the crops
did not feel justified in making any
display whatever.
In proof OF this compare the rain
fall at Pierre during the crop grow
ing months with the Jim river val
ley. taken from the government
weather reports issued from the CEN
trail office at Huron:
May June July Aug. Total
Aberdeen. 3. 10 800 PIP 3.9e l4.9s
Huron ....3.lS 4.37 2.GO 4,65 IA. so