The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-11-18

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stite, NOT one tV,iar has beer
spent Is the campaign that ans
from The sale ot bonds, all reports e.
the contrary uotwitnstandins There
WAS \ disposition at the outset Oh
every side to know how much there
IS In IT before work or enthusiasm
could be enlisted, the former capital
campaigns having SO thoroughly de-
bauened the voters that IL vas
looked upon as a matter OF course.
The disposition TO let the capital
stay where ii is unless Mitchell was
willing to "rut up" literally WA one
OF the hardest factors to contend
with.
The fact that Mitchell had built a
s55, 900 city hail ready TO turn over TO
the state; was willing TO pay all costs
OF removing the records; vas willing
to donate twenty acres OF valuable
land within a stones thlow OF the
Northwestern station and was under
enormous expense for legitimate eN.
nanSas h,Spo.la1 tNNr -. nh ~, tt.t
very large element OF present day
American citizenship which wants
to be seen
But this MITCHELL declined to do.
Even If be had bad the means at
his command, Harry L. Bras is not
the type to get down into the mire
and dirty pool of politics and buy
votes. II there was anything wrong
with the Mitchell organization this
is where it was wrong" In all
other respects it was perfect. There
is no better brains in all this state
for organization than Harry L. Bras
possesses. That was shown when he
made the Huron and Redield crowd
look like nine spots when Mitchell
won out in the legislature two years
ago, and it was no fault of his that
Mitchell did not win out last Tues
day. II We know one thing more
than another We know this.
Mitchell had nothing to lose and a
good deal to gain. Pierre had eve1y
thing to lose and nothing to gain.
The prestige and advertising that
Mitchell has misunderstanding no.
thing of the 40, 900 vots cast for her
is worth all the fight cost and more,
too. 1t isn't likely that the beauti-
full city hail would have been con.
structed for some years yet-and
then not nearly as fine a building as
the q there now, with its mag
niicent auditorium = and nobody
knows whether The Widmann would
ever have been built or not. Mitch
is now prepared TO handle any
kind of a convention or state gather
ing and do it as we'll as Sioux Falls
and she'll get 'em, too.
The Mitchell people put up a
square and manly contest and Mitch
ell has Won thousands upon thous-
ands OF new f1ienGs in every part Of
the state who can lie depended upon
to root for Mitchell in the future on
any and every occasion at any time
and place she goes after anything.
There never was a better lot Of
business and professional men than
make up that feature of Mitchell's
life. They are as square as bricks in
all their operations; and as they
have quietly with no noise or beat
ing Of drums gone on and built the
finest city in the state outside Of
Sioux Falls, so they will make every
other town 90 some to keep in sight
Of them for the next few years. The
scrap has awakened them for
the first time to their own strength
and they will be quick hereafter to
take advantage OF it.