Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1882-10-21

Citations and political ahiliations with
Gov. Towards bitterest enemies.
AS an instance | will remind you that
I read with disgust in the Deadwood
papers that you had presided ut 4 public
meeting in Deadwood before the grass
had hardly grown on the grave of GOV.
Howard, and had introduced and eulog-
ICED i'm the most fulsome manner, X. +.
Pettigrew, the reviier and %vilitier Of
Gov. Howard, who had by main force
placed you in the Judicial position which
you now hold. With this record before
You | can fully comprehend the pretend
ed friendship for one whose footsteps |
have followed from the day | was called
to fill Gov. Towards place.
The statement in your letter that |
had commenced an attack upon You is
wholly without foundation. \ corpora
ton with whose officers you were IN
close utilization, paid nearly $1,000 for a
newspaper outfit, placed your son III
charge and expended several thousand
dollars through him in assailing myself
and other officials, while at the same
time the columns of this organ were
teeming with fulsomc |llattcry of yourself
and the man who stated publicly In the
legislature during the same session that
the Lawrence funding bill was passed
that the president had brought a corpse
from Michigan in a carpet bag To rule
over and govern the people of Dakota.
1t is truc you denied responsibility for
the early and unwarranted assaults of
this newspaper. which your son con
trolled. upon myself. Vet in your letter
of the lst inst. You substantially give
evidence that YOU inspired them. Dur
ing the pendency of your extra salary
bill before the legislative assembly |
Went to the very verge ofeXtreme kind
ness and courtesy in order to secure a
modification of the bill that | could
give it my approval, as the members of
the Black Hills delegation will all tes-
tify. 1t was only after the receipt Of
kilograms by the delegation from YOU
and your friends, demanding that this
unwarranted and special act should be
pushed through owe my objections and
those of the attorney general. that | WAS
compelled in order to preserve my self
respect to make report Of the whole
matter. subsequently, when the county
commissioners of Lawrence county sent
me 4 copy of charges which they prefer
red against you to the attorney general,
and requested my cooperation in secur-
ing your removal, | declined to 60
farther than my duty in making my re-
port had nece>sitated.
The letter to J. +. Smith, to which
you refer, was written in response to an
extended communication from him IS
president Of the Peoples Alliance. and
only covers in Il guarded manner the
subjects Of his inquiry. That your name
and that Of your friend PettigreW appear
in that letter is the fault Of your official
acts as public officers, which |, AZ the
executive Of the territory, having the
official record of these acts at NY com
manl, felt justified in giving to a re-
spectacle body of taxpayers, seeking
relief from unjust burdens.
To This extent only have |, IN TIN dis
charge Of my duty, brought SOME of yJur
! nrtS 10 public attention. That goa AID
z, z. pc.!i@rew. the reyiin. of Coy.
Howard, myself, and other officials,
through an insane jealousy OF fear that
new vel may stand IN the way Of your
schemes FOR prefcrmcnt in the new
state, have misrepre@cnted and yllitied
ine in public and private conversations
almost from The day | entered the terri.
tory. il notorious. i;ut owing - The
constantly increasing stream of intelli
gent and Eirmindcd citizens, who are
making heir homes in all parts oftnis
grand and productive territory. these
silly vaporings have only returned to
plague their inventors.
Yours, etc,
signed y. 6. ORDwAY.
TO g.. c. Moody. Judge First Judicial