You never know what you’re going to find out there. Just picked this campaign ribbon up, pretty inexpensively.
I think mainly because no one had a clue what it was.
It’s actually coincidental, because we’re going to be voting for the – if not in name, in spirit – the successor of the office this weekend, as we select the candidate for School and Public Lands.
This ribbon is for the 1902 SDGOP Convention fight over who the nominee should be for the South Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction. M.A. Lange of McCook County was in a convention fight against George W. Nash, who won the nomination (Sioux Valley News, May 30, 1902):
That was one of the better $10 I spent!