The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-11-18
KIMBALI, SOUTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER Is, 1904
NO POST MORTEM.

NU fU0l MUN / EM
But Just a Few Remarks On the cspl-
tai Contest
"JuSt what beat Mitchell was this:
the people did not think it was fair to
take the capital away from Pierre.'
Thus writes friend OF the GRAPH.
&c from Yankton, and a prominent
citizen of that city who was Il warm
supporter of Pierre.
We think lie has hit it exactly-pro-
viding of course that it is not admit
ted that it was the almighty dollar
that defeated Mitchell-as the people
Of that city have the best reasons for
believing.
When the editor of the GRAPHIC
hitched up with Mitchell eighteen
months ago he thought that sympathy
ror Pierre would be the hardest pro.
position to meet in the campaigns: and
notwithstanding the hundred ana one
arguments made pro and con he neve
changed his mind, Notwithstanding
Pierre wasn't Sharp enough TO work
this point as we would have pushed it
had we been on that side.
Our friend from Yankton writes us
that he urged John Sutherland, the
manager OF Pierre's campaign, to push
this argument for all it was worth
and not to claim that Pierre was as
good IL town or in as good a country as
Mitchell, but they only issued one cir
cular on this point.
The assumption from any quarter
that the people OF South Dakota have
rendered a verdict against ''knocking"
any part of the state or that Mitchell
and kind of arguments put out is the
purest nonsense.
There is absolutely no question but
what Mitchell gained hundreds upon
hundreds of votes after the big cXcur-
sions to both towns set in, and that
was why every newspaper supporting
Mitchell was urged to prod up the
people to go to Pierre and see the
country for themSelves-though Of
course it was impossible for any of
them to look over but the one county
of Hughes IN which the capital was
located.
No removal bill would eyer have
been posi- ble in the legislature had it
not been the general opinion that the
state west of Pierre was not adapted
to sustain dense population outside
OF the Black Hills, belief pushed by
Huron, Redtield and all others who
had for years clamored for Il location
nearer the more popu lated part of the
state. Pierre claimed ut the start that
the mere proposition of capital re-
moyal was a Islander on two thirds of
the state," and no sooner had the
campaign got under way than the
prime movers in the campaign at
Huron and Redtield gotcold feet and
turned IN with Pierre inaccusing
Mitchell Of being knocker and her
citizens "pundering plra tes.''
Those who are prone to regret any
knocking should blame Pierre fot
making statements about itself and
the country west Of it which every
body who knows anything about the
state knows are not true-and meyer
will be true.
There are probably lying around
loose some valid reasons why the cap
ital should remain at Pierre-as cyl
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them is not Il prospect of the western
half Of the state increasing It's ratio of
population to the whole. This is the
sum and substance OF and knocking
by Mitchell and the whole or 1t.
EARLY III the c,.Elpaign something
like 10000 letters We're sent out from
tho Mitchell office to representative
men in all PAL is of the state asking
what in their opinion we're the most
effective arguments To use ana what
not to use. Though replies were re-
ceiyed from nine-tents of them none
suggested admitting that the coun-
try west Of Pierre would be as thickly
settled IN time as the eastern part OF
The SLaJe.
When we found a man kicking
about any knocking he was invariably
a Pierre supporter-out and OUT 81
from the Start-and using the knocker
charge to create prejudice against
Mitchell.
When we found a man in sympathy
with the removal sentiment but in.
clined to deplore any reference to the
western part of the state. he was
asked to suggest what answer to make
when Pierre claimed that in Il few
years western South Dakota woillt
contain more people than the eastern
half, was just as good country, ant
then some, and it was ali to com