The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-03-25
NEWSPAPER Comment ON CAPITAL IDEAS
Some Very Favorable Comments REPRODUCED From the
Press of the State Concerning the Removal Of
the Capital.
Some Essential Points in the Campaign are Touched Upon
in Way to Show Mitehelrs Strength Among
the People.
the People.

People.
state. not one section. Oar repre-
sentat!ves voted from a logical and
business standpoint, and their action
should be endorsed.
Ipswich Democrat; Some day the
state Will own a capitol building in
keeping with its vast resources and
wealth. and if it should be located
on the red clay banks of the Big
Muddy at Pierre, how many citizens
of Edmunds county would ever get a
chance to see it? People coming or
going from the south or east must
pass through Mitchell and the tax
payers would at least have the oppor-
tunity to get a glimpse of the build
ing they helped to erect. For selfish
reasons we would Of course prefer to
see the capital located at Aberdeen,
but ii we can't do that let's do the
next best thing, and this is vote to
locate it where it is most accessible
to the people OF Edmunds county
and the greag majority CT all the
people OF the state, at Mitchell.
Vermillion Republican: There is
no argument in favor of keeping the
capital at Pierre except that it is in
the geographical center of the state;
on the ether hand every condition
argues in favor of its removal to
Mitchell. The time has gone by for
the people to be moved by senti-
mentalism about the geographical
center. A mistake was made in
placing the capital at Pierre, and
the people should avail themselves of
the opportunity given them to rec
tify the mistake by moving the capt.
tai to Mitchell, which, by reason of
its central location with respect to
population, its accessibility and I'M
excelled railroad facilities, is the
best place that could be chosen for
OoS PSll1oLSllU SSaC vi SONClltLClI
OF the commonwealth.
Waubay Clipper: Although we
have nothing to say against the land
west of the Missouri still there is
considerable to say against leaving
the capital in a city that has no flu
ture, that can never become a place
worthy Of more than a branch rail-
road, and which is not as accessible
as ever IL own little city of Wau-
bay.
Fulton Advocates: IL the editor Of
the Advocate believed. as the Pierre
papers in the eastern part of the
state profess to believe, that the
western half Of the state is as good
a natural agricultural section as the
east half, he would not only advise
all his readers to sell their holdings
in the east half and get west of the
Missouri as soon as possible, but he
would lead the procession. If that
is as good an agricultural section as
this we are all ninnies for holding
on to land at 800 to $50 an acre when
by going only about 100 miles west
we car get just as good land for SO to.
So an acre. Strike one of these men
who are always telling Of the great
agricultural ADVANTAGES of the west
half Of the state, and offer to trade
him land west Of Pierre for land east
OF the Jim. five acres to one, and he
will laugh in your face. This is a
good Illustration of the actual faith
he has in the agricultural possibi!i-
ties OF that section.
Emery Enterprise: Pierre capital
boomers ale endeavoring to convince
the people in the eastern portion of
the state that the capital ought to
remain where it is. at Pierre, be-
cause it will help settle up that por-
ton of the state. Why is it not set
tied like other portions of the state
while having the advantage Of the
capital being located there? a
gentleman from the east wrote his
cousin here and invited him to come
and invest in South Dakota land,
telling him that he visited our state,
had been at Pierre, thinking that
the capital would be located in the
midst Of the finest portion OF the
state, but finding it on the end Of
civilization with only one road rum
ming into town, he would not look
at any other part of the state and
could not be induced to invest in
South Dakota.
Howard Spirit: Half Of Dakota's
halt a million inhabitants live
within one hundred miles of Mitch
ell. Less than one-tenth of them
,ive within one hundred miles of