Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-06-02

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BOWEN K1NGsnURY. Prop'ts.
S. w. Packard has either been badly
misrepresented by the Chicago Tribune,
or he has badly misrepresented the peo.
pie OF Yankton county. He Is made to as.
sert in the Tribune that he has gained q
wonderful victory over the people of
Yankton county by superior skill and
shrewdness; but nowhere does he state
that he was zealousIy aided by the peo.
pie OF Yankton county, without which
aid he could not have succeeded. The
opposition of certain republicans in con-
gress to the admission Of Dakota because
OF the Yankton county debt is cited and
it is finally stated that the last Dakota
legislature was elected under a pledge
to force Yankton county to settlement.
1t would have been more reputable in
Mr.. Packard to have stated in this
connection that Yankton county sent
committee to Washington to try and in
duce congress to pass refunding act
similar to the one upon which the debt
settlement was finally effected. He
knows very we'll that such a committee
was in Washington and that it worked in
conjunction with himself to procure the
legislation needed. 1t would have been
decent in Mr.. Packard to have given the
people who labored so hard and put a
$25,O00 fee in his pocket the credit of a
long continued earnest effort to bring
about the settlement just attained. The
statement that the legislature
was elected upon the issue
stated is such a grave per.
version of the truth as to nearly attain to
the dignity of falsehood. The settle
ment of the debt was an issue here in
Yankton county but nowhere else) and
our representatives were given to under.
stand in advance that they were expect
ed to procure the legislation required
for settlement. They did their duty
and by their efforts the bill was passed
and became law and was ratified by
the voters of Yankton county with only
seventeen negative ballots. While the
the bill was pending in the legislature
the chairman of committee to which
it was referred was urged by the write
of this article to make favorable re-
port thereon. if there were no general
objections to the measure, as it was i'm.
portant to public interests that the mat.
ter be adjusted. He replied that he first
desired to assure himself that the peo.
pie of Yankton county asked for the
passage of the bill. If they did he
would report favorabIy. Ifnot he would
consider what it would be best to do.
He went out among our business men
and everywhere encountered senti-
ment entirely favorable to settlement
of the debt, and backed by this author
ity the bill was favorably reported and
became law. These are in brief the
facts in the case. The unkindest cut of
all is Mr.. Paekard's effort. in behalf of
his own superior ability, to cast odiun
upon the people who aided him in the
procurement of q settlement of the debt
and without whose aid he never could
have accomplished his object. 1t is a
fact which he may not be
aware of that he had 80
strongly prejudiced his case by
giving it national notoriety that the last
legislature was very much disposed to
deny his clients the privilege of re-
funding act and finally they were induced
to yield only because of Yankton
county's advocacy of the scheme. We
are disappointed in Mr.. Packard. We
had supposed him to be the kind of a
man who would gladly share the honors
of q victory with those who so materially
aided him in its accomplishment. We
did not suppose he would 90 back to
Chicago and cast reproach upon our
people by giving to newspaper such
an outrageous Misrepresentation of the
case. The world seems full of Packards.