Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1883-04-06


and broke his left arm tween ths elbow and
shOulIer. The results IRE not thought to be
serious.
jerauid's Blast.
; The following lett:r by II. a. Jerau!d, who, it
will be remembered, va. one of the six who op-
I psaed the original CORN: s-ion bill, bat who
| supported it warmly after it was amended, 10
published in~the Sioux City Journal after, it il
| ALLEGED, ha ling: been refused q p acc in the
Yankton Prees ami Dakotaian:
| Editor OF the Weekly Press and Dakotsian:
By skilf:! u g ot words you. in your issue of
! th i,Gt:. i: si::u te " rat you do not dare tI
=, y :irAl:4 c;,.rse that l was: as q member of
;ls a.t let. .isiatite council, bri:,ed to support
the ill for r. moving the capital In that itsne
you slao stat d that I was one of the six whn
8 o.d u, an solem' ~ pledged themselves NV r
to ca th.ir v"tes for the commission bill; that
the other five kept their promise aud II went
into the c:snp of the cner'y. Il fstly deny that
l made such promise. I I'D nit that opposed
the bill al originally Introduced, but as amend
Ell I chenrfully and consistently supported it.
81 Q deny your statement that L declared the
bill to be corrupt ia it's purposes. did say
that if all that was charged by the opponents Of
the bill (and since reiterated byyou) was true,
the bin should be defeated; but though favored
with all the aid your own friends could give me,
failed to find any credible testimony in proof
vf single charge. Your own opinions are all
have sren publicly added to The case, but they
are so prejudiced and unfair that they will u
timately do you more harm than good. In the
issue of the th inst, You admitted that you
were ignorant of the acceptance Of . bribe by
any legislator; also that yen do not place the
crime cf attempted bribery upon any particular
individual, and ct you have SIT up csRe Of
4 l;~h ekp.o mn:
and then have brass to admit it.
You SO frame your statemen!s that the pubic
may be deceived, and yet take care to leave
lOophole to sneak out of in case you should be
brought before court of justice on a charge of
libel. But you declare that you have been in
formed by two membt RI IF the legislature that
they were made direIt offers of land and money
for their votes. I aak your readers to read the
oath of office taken by these members, in chap
ter two, of the laws Of 1877. If any member
was 80 corruptiy approached, why did be not
rise in his place when the bill was on its pass
age and inform his associates and the people of
the guilty act? All the members were in their
seats: where were the voices of these virtuous
and incorruptible members, when, as honest
guardians of the peoples interests, they were
required by honor and duty to speak? ~Whs
we're these angels in disguise, that tho people
may hereafter know where they can choose eer-
wants vita pluck and sand enough to vote right,
although they are too modest to denounoe
fraud? Where are these good newspaper report-
ers, but unfaithful servants Of the public2
Until you talk palmer decline to believe
that acy member has bfen 80 corruptly ap-
preached, but am satisfied that you are trying
to decisive the public for your own selfish pur-
psses For years past you have had an almost
uninterrupted monopoly of the legislative print
ing, and have pocketed scores of thousands OF
dollars thereby.
With the removal of the capital, the patron
age that has fattened you at the public expense,
will enrich you no more, but we can stand ttst
if you can.
You persistently assert that the commission
ers will draw $54 per day, or $3S, ,804, and neo-
essary expenses, for the next two years, while
the law provides in express words, "taat in Il 9
aggregate tn shall not receive ~ compensa-
tion more than 9lO, ,000."
You have tried to show that the pc ,ple are to
bear the burden of the expenses and salaries Of
the commission, the erection of the capitol
building and other expenses under the law, when
the law il, and you knew it, that the capital site
shall not be selected until at least $lOO OIU and
at lea ct 160 acres of land frat secured t., the
territory; that all of the land not needed for the
capital buildings is surveyed into lots and sold
or offered for sale; that all these moneys are
gathered by the territorial treasurer into one
fund and that each and all of the expenses
must come out of that fund only. You allowed
fifteen days to pass in trying to prejudice the
public against the bill before you published 1t
az enacted. On the 18th inst. you were appar-
emily satisfied with the amendment increasing
the capital site from twenty to l6O acres, bot
stated that the majority considered Mr.. Dewey's
amendment of $40 acres instead, as encroaching
upon the rights of q syndicate. The next week
you object to the 16O acres amendment as Civ
ing said syndicate more land to handle. or
course then you would have objected to 800 acres.
As to your charges of corruption or suspicious
actions let me say, that if you can prove any
thing out with it! Give rs the names of; the
virtuOus members who told you facts that they
kept from the people, their masters. have q
faith in the integrity of my associates that your
insinuations cannot shake. I defy you to prove
corrupt motive for any vote that cast rs .
councilman. Undoubtedly you can show where
have sometimes changed my mind. Some of
the $50 bills of the last legislature taxed my
feeble mind before arrived at satisfactory con-
clusions. Probably made mistakes
Go, as you suggest, to the grand jnry, with
your accusations and while you are about it.
and as possibly you are better qualified than
anyone else, testify to what you know If the
use of Yankton money in the past few years, to
keep the capital at that city. So long As you
attend strictly to the purifying business will
time give us the news and quit your sharp prac-
tice.
Tell the people that your tax about syndi-
cate is delusion; that the ca oital building and
the l6O OF more acres of lani will cost them
nothing; that the gift is theirs anyway, and the
next legislatu re can go back to Yankt0n by
passing Law to that effect, and can convert the
building We hope to provide tho people with,
into an asylum for sore-hea1ed public print
ers, or to any higher use. Tell them further
that Dakota does not own building in Yank-
ton, except the insane asylum, but that all pub
lie officers at the capital are in rooms rented of
private individuals; that the members Of the
last house were Gagged in room, unit, under the
circumstances, for human beings to live in.
Tell the m that by reason of Yankto,; : compare.
tive inaccessibility, several members drew mile
age according to lsw for l $40 mLeb--more than
one-haH the distance across this broad conti-
nent Of America. Tell them that Dakota 10
growing, and that the greatest good t. the great
eat number, demands thst the seat of govern
ment Of Dakota should be removed from Yank-
ton. II. A. JxRAULD.
EDEN, March 26, 1882.
Dan Thayer, assistant foremsn Of the
Pacific yards ct Fargo, has resigned. Mort