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

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ence we clip from the st. Paul Pioneer
Press of October 4th, and furnished that
paper 10y a Deadwood correspondent:
DEApwooD, Oak, July !, 1881.
Hon. n. G. Ordway. Sir: have just
now been furnished with a copy Of your
letter to J. T.. Smith, Esq, president p.
alliance, dated May |, in which, contain
ing your unwarranted and ~unprovoked
libelons attacks upon me, you meanly
and barely publish insinuations Of i'm
proper conduct IN my alleged sending Of
q dispatch to Gov. Howard regarding
the funding bill for Lawrence county. /
demand that you furnish me with a
copy of any such dispatch, if one exists
in your Office, which came to you from
your greatly lamented predecessor, as l
am not unheedful Of the fact that one
q he manufactured to order. The one
] want IL a copy of the one you allege /
sent to Gov. Howard, if such a one
exists. ! am confident | never sent such
q dispatch. At no time did l entertain
an opinion that the debt Of this county
should be funded at par, although a very
large proportion of the citizens of the
county were opposed to anything which
savored of Reputation, and as the war
rants had mostly passed into the hands
of third parties, favored funding at par.
Moreover, | did send q telegram to
members Of the Legislative assembly ex.
pressing the opinion that while some
;aaaas::=e &c relief for existing condi-
tions vas necessary. the debt ought not 10
be funded at over 80 per cent. / did not
know when Gen. Howard had the bill
under consideration, or that he hesitated
to approve it. In a somewhat protracted
and very cordial visit which he paid me
in the September and October following
this legislature it was not at any time "A
topic Of conversation by him, which it
certainly would have been had ! done
so extraordinary "A thing as to appeal
personally TO him TO approve it. |
could not have assured him that he
could rely upon the commissioners and
the court to prevent the funding of any
fraudulent issues" for the court had no
control over or act to perform in the
matter, as he could see by the act itself.
and could not speak for the commits
sioners.
/ cannot account for your repeated at
tacks upon me, unless it be because l
happen to be a citizen and resident Of
Dakota, against whose people you seem
20 entertain a general m~alevolence, or
unless your d%epraved mind contains an
uncomfortable desire to drag others
down into the dirt and filth of your own
level. Possibly it is the old, old story
Of the thief crying Stop thief! at others
to decoy away the public observation
from himself. l have given you no
cause whatsoever for your attacks, but
you cannot expect l shall always remain
upon the defensive or be silent.
/ shall give your letter whatever Of
y oetSAitioh ~ hi0y oSCih w ISIuiIc
when | have a reply to my demand for
a copy Of the dispatch you claim you can
furnish. Yours, ETC.,
[Signed1 q. C. MOODY.
The protest against the passage Of the
funding bill, to which reference is made
in Ordway'r letter to the president Of
the peoples alliance, il as follows
DRApwooD, Oak, Feb. IS, 1879.
To Hon. w. A. Howard: The present
large debt of Lawrence county under
Moody's instruction to grand jury, may
be partly illegal. Protection to the
county requires that no funding bill be-
come u law ut this time.
Star x Bullock,
5, N. Wood,
j.. c. Bent,
Graves & Curtis,
Browning Il Wringrose.
T.. b. Strass.
Now, it is charged that when Judge
Moody learned the above protest had
been sent to Governor Howard, he at
once ISN'T the following telegram, all Of
which he o Indignantly denies. Read