Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1889 — A Hoosier in Dakota. [ARTICLE]

A Hoosier in Dakota.

Yankton Special. It goes undisputed that Gideon C. Moody, of Deadwood, will be one of the South Dakota Senators.He is Ja phlegmatic man, savage when aroused, big framed and big brained. There is very little that is politic about J udge Moody. If lie doesn’t like a thing he says it in words that cannot be misunderstood. He is to-day the best known of all the Dakotaians about Washington because of his frequent visits there and aggressive fight for statehood. The Judge is a New Yorker by birth, an Indiana man by virtue of four yearp war service, during which he rose from private to colonel in a Hoosier regiment, and a Dakotaian by final, mature choice. He came to Yankton in 1863, and has been in the Territory ever since. At the recent Fourth of July celebration, which was also South Dakota’s birthday celebration, there were read to the assembled people the Declaration of Independence and the Statehood memorial of 1885; It was difficult to tell which document aroused the deepest emotion. Judge Moody was the author of the memorial.

The Judge is the attorney of the famous Homestake mine of the Black Hills, aDd is a warm friend of Senator Hearst, who is one of •the owners of the mine and wlio is those who know something of his circumstances, but will hardly class with the millionaires of the Senate. Republican will add to the above sketch, that its subject was formerly a resident of Jasper county, and that he was once elected to the Indiana State Legislatvre from this connty. Many of onr older residents still hold him in personal remembrance, bat we doabt whether he could command their undivided votes for United States Senator. His residence while in this county was on a farm in section 20, in the west part of Carpenter township.