Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-08-16
a Few Facts for the People.

For the Turner County Herald.
About the middle Of last May, Mr..
Jos. Allen, Mr.. Dan Dwyer, ST., and Mr..
Ed. Kennedy, chairmen respectively of
the republican, democratic and peoples
committee, issued call for county
convention-irrespectiye Of party-to
be held at Swan Lake. for the purpose
of electing delegates to represent all
of the people of Turner county at the
Huron convention. 1t was generally
understood that the convention would
be slimly attended, the people having
entire confidence in the gentlemen who
signed their names to the call, that they
would do the fair thing, and see to it
that delegates representing all of the
political parties Of the county would be
sent to Huron.
The prohibitionists with the cunning
and duplicity characteristic Of weak,
shallow-minded and inexperienced poll
ticians, saw their chance, They went
silently to work and drummed up suf-
ticient number of their miguided fol-
lowers, and came into the convention
with an overwhelming majority.
Mr.. Jos. Allen. as one of the original
signers of the call, and as chairman of
the republican county committee, as
sumed the chair and was about to read
the call, when in the most brazen, AFRO
giant, and impudent manner, he was
summarily deposed and one of the pro-
hibitionists elected in his place. A full
delegation of extreme prohibetionists
was promptly elected; the object of the
meeting defeated and the will of the
people set at naught. The delegates
thus elected by trick and shuttle,
went to Huron and there allowed it to
appear that they represented all of the
people of Turner county wnen they
knew in their hearts that that they rep
resented but mere faction thereof.
1t is asserted that the chairman of
the Huron convention was authorized
by said convention" to nominate or
appoint committees for each county
from among the number of delegates
representing each county, the under
standing being that the delegates at
Huron were the unanimous choice of
the people of their respective counties.
$50 they were except from Turner)
With this understanding a committee
was appointed from among the dele
gates who falsely allowed it to appear
that they represented all of the people
of Turner county.
The object of appointing said COM
mittee was for the purpose Of having
them issue call for second conven-
tion without regard to party to NOM
mate delegates to the Sioux Falls con-
stitutional convention, said delegates
to be afterward elected by the people.
The convention was called by l. III.
Newly, chairman Of the so-called peo-
ple's county committee. The people,
who were fully alive to the trick that
had been played upon them at the first
convention, rallied to the second one
and by their votes ousted the entire
gang from the positions they had Sc
cured by the most shameless trickery
and jugglery. a new committee was
elected and . ticket representing every
political party in the county, except the
prohibitions, was nominated, and as
the readers of the Herald are aware,
the action OF the convention was rati-
fed by the people at the recent election
and the nominees elected.
Rev. Mr.. Newell, Mr.. Reebe and Mr.
Hand made the silly and ridiculous as