Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-10-30
THE LATE DISTRICT CON-
VENTiON.
TIE VIEW TAKEN OF ITS DAMNABLE
RAsCALITY BY a DISINTERESTED
LooKER-oN.

RAsCALITY BY A DIsINTERESTED
LooKER-oN.
We ask the voters of Turner county
to compare the following with the ac-
count published in the New Era, bear
ing in mind the fact that the New Era's
production was written by one who was
interested in the matter and helped in
the disfranchisement of a portion of
the voters of Turner county:
10 the Press aud Dakotian.
am locker on in "Venice." On
my native heath i have always taken
some little interest in politics. In fact
| rather enjoy the excitement of arough
and tumble political fight. Hence it is
suppose, that have watched the boi-
lingof the political pot here, during my
suyourning of the past two months or
more, with some little interest. Being
Il down easter" had curiosity to
ooserve the means and methods in
vogue in the political arena of the far
west, in the land Of the DakotaS. My
curiosity has been amply gratitied. In
fact it has been satiated to nausea. In
ways that are dark and tricks that are
vain," | laid the tlattering JUNCTION to
my soul that we OF the east could not
be out done. That bossism, gerryman-
dering and bulldozing was an unknown
quantity among the independent, wide
awake, rustling voters of the far west.
But aftefSMhat l have seen | am prone
to believe y6ii can double discount us in
almost syerythhilg. That for intrigue,
knaver$, idecsption, ungrateful hypoc-
risy, lying, aads, up and up scalawagism,
Yanktbn county politicians can take
the cat ,hea3ailkt the world.
TheteAa sght to he honor among all
persoEAea q q among some of the Yank
ton cHgf gfnnpoFticians there is evidently
no hpnof, 40 Aecency, aud no shame. l
have no intvrcst personally, or other
wiss, In Yahston county politics, fur
thef ths spaX abiding interest in the per-
pethH-, ~ welfare of the republican
pattMegensSllly all over the country.
TfiereIorejt n4sdters not to me per-
s9haaysWfo 70 the upper or under dog is
in tffisAsNt. l write only to express
my utter disgust at what l have seen
in the way of chicanery, rascality, and
hypocrisy on the part Of the successful
machine politicians of this burrough in
the management of political affairs, and
to warn all true and honest republicans:
/ to beware how they, by voice or vote,
| endorse and countenence Il line of action
and policy that must inevitably lead to
| utter destruction and disintegration of
the republican party. 1t was Just such
| tactics as | hvae seen practiced here
that cost the republican party in New
| York twoyears ago, one hundred thous-
and votes, and secured the defeat of one
of the ablest and purest statesmen of
the empire state and made the loss of
the state to the republicans this fall
possibly, Undulterated and rampant
rascality in politics may carry the per-
petrators thereof to victory once or
twice, but either they or their nomina-
tions are sure to come to grief sooner
or later because the very life and future
existence of the party demands that
they should.
The republican party of your grand
territory has a brilliant and glorious
future before it, if its leadership is not
allowed to pass into the hands OF un-
scrupulous men for their own self
Observation-Disclosures who are ever
ready, as / saw in e. A. r. hall, to lay
aside their self respect, their social and
political standing, and join with q
democratic rahblc to silence the voice
Of a majority of the good and true and
loyal republicans. But if the heleadershiI
of the party is to be accorded to such
hands as ] have indicated, and snct
means and methods as | saw at G. A
h. hall are to be employed to run the
party, then l venture the prediction
that there will be no republican party
in Yankton county hereafter worthy
of the name.
Such, at least, is the opinion of ;
stranger in your midst, and an old re
publican who has been for twenty five
years in active political life, and wht
has no interest at stake and no wish tt
crafty, excepta a wish for the supremacy
everywhere of that grand old fepubli
can party that has accomplished $,
much for my country,
Respectfully yours.
II q