Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-10
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a vsics 6rom dakota Asks q Few CUES.
ttons and Olives some Information.

A veice ffom Dakota Asks q Few CUES.
ttons and Olives Some Information.
Chicago Inter- ocean Letter.
Big Sioux Reservation, Jan. 3l.-Aud
now lhat Hammond and Hayt have walked
the plank, why cent Justice be done the
innocent but persecuted citizens Of this
section, who have and are suffering such
prosecutions at their hands? Why not
restore to E. E. Hudson the stock of goods
unwarrantably and unlawfully seized from
him ct Grow Creek agency. some two years
ago, or pay him the value of the goods at
the time that Hammond and Hayt laid
hands on them, and fair damages?
Why not dismiss the remaining suits
pending against DIR. Livingston /? Ham
mond and Hayt raised a good deal Of hell
along the Missouri river, but one BY one
those whom they sought to destroy are vim.
d~icating themselves, and tins and circum-
stances are righting their wrongs, while tha,
precious pair of worthless are drummed
out Of the service in disgrace.
When the people IF this section, who
knew them we'll, protested that Gasmann,
Livingston, Bingham, Clarkson, Hudson,
and others were not dishonest men, Hsyl
aud his m,n Friday, Hammond, retorted
that our whole population was dishonest,
and we regret to say that the interior de-
partment seemed tn side with the views of
it's subordinates; and our complete vindica
zion only comes with the discontinue.
dismissal and disgrace OF the s'reformers."
The truth is Hayt and Hammond were
10 search OF "Reminiscences. lands, herds
or anything else that would augment the
volume OF their worldly goods and failing
to find among the traders and agents along
the Missouri river those who understood
the beautiful workings Of subtraction. divi.
sion, AID silence" and would practice it,
they determined to hurl them all from place
and power and to disgrace and punish
them, and hence the unlawful seizure of
goods, the abrupt. dismissals from service,
and the malicious prosecutions that follow.
ed, and some of which still hang over limo
cent and honest men.
But all this did not pay, and Hammond
was promoted and transferred to fields that
we're new and pastures that were green ; and
far away on the Pacific slope be struck a
mine Tor rather sprung one) from which
they no doubt expected great riches, but
which has really been the means of bringing
them to grief. Smart enough to accuse,
arraign, and persecute innocent men, and
smart enough to induce many coed people
to believe that they were only actuated by
patriotic and pure motives yet when it comes
to conceaIing their own villlanies, they are
too stupid to cover their tracks, and the
bonanza from which they expected great
riches proves the mousoleum of all their
political ambitions and official hopes. But
we are happy in the thought that we shall
have no more of them in the Indian service
and wo do mnaf aincorolv trnst thot tho;.
SUCCESSORS will be selected on account of
their ability, character, and known fitness
for the duties to be performed, and not in
the interest Of rings and rascally combina.
tions.
There was great rejoicing in all this from
tier country when it was announced that
Hammond had sneaked out of the service,
but when the news of Hayt having been
given his walking papers flashed along the
wires, the enthusiasm was u%nbounded, and
the prayer of every honest man is, "May we
never see their like again."
FAIR PLAY.