The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1884-10-23

The time for talk has passed, the time
for action arrived The hotly conducted
contest that was carried on to the casting
of the last ballot in the last county con-
vention bore the expected allotment of i'm
mediate dissatisfaction, and the after-clap
of this tumuituous battle as usual is the
cause for secret gati6cation by the demo
cratic minority 1t seems wrong that po-
litically inclined personages should allow
the thraldom Of elevation to seethe to the
extent of effcrvescence that marked the
campaign in this county the past four,
weeks, and it further seems the climax of
decided anti-republicanism when the Sc
lcctons by the body OF republicans are
questioned to the extreme extent Of bot
ing the ticket. When nominations are
gained through unfair means and results
eliminated by foul preimnarics, it is but
right that the press as well as the people
rise and check the domination by an ad
verse ratification at the polls. 1t is a
right that every man possesses, and
duty that every voter should pay ten-lod
this quashiny the bill founl by an un-
true jury, but when the limitation of
prejudice reaches the burning desire to
overthrow the actions of a rcpl blican con
and whose motives are but the climax Of
Just equalization, it is certainly time that
a complete overthrow of this boiling ele-
me mt and ust vindcation of the accused
be the final result When rrejulical
characteristics enter into the matter of re-
publican selections or when pure motives
of revenge prompt the subsequent attacks
on one of these selections, the time for
prompt and dominant action looms up as
the first duty of true partisan, and the
result can but be vindicative Of one rele-
gative to the other
The reference is as to the action Of the
News last week in its rather Syllogistic
attack upon the personal character of the
republican nominee for propate Judge
Hon. A. B. Wheelock of Eden. The
irreconicilability of this feature of the re-
publican ticket leads Mr.. Nash to the
former rule followed by that gentle
man, to tear down by foul means the emf
nent popularity of one of the best citizens
of Lincoln county by series of TRADE,
both unfair and untrue. Under the guiSc
of an attempt at ''purity in politics a
correspondent devotcs about about col
umn to inuendoes, insnuations and per-
sonal filings at Mr.. Wheclock, winding up
the effuson with the charge that it was
the whisky element that secured his eleya-
ton, and the ''bummer' feature Of po-
litical body that secured for him his home
delegation at Eden The best way of
treating such fabricated series from an
unknown source would be to let the mat
ter severely alone, and reparation will fol-
low to the accused as natural order of po-
litical gravitation; but in this case where
charges are made that directly implicate
the best elements of political or social
condition in Lincoln county the people
should know that the statements are false
and the origination born where political
retirement has striken the accuser. Mr.
Wheelock did not run as democratic can
didate for the legislature twelve years, does
not represent the hummer element, There
not being such an clement at Eden, and
furthermore Is qualified for the position
The business men and three fourths of
the voters Of Eden township are charged
with being 'bummcrs, and forty-three
delegates in the last convention are charg-
ed with being implicated in upholding the
actions of the three -fourths of Eden vot
ers who are charged with flowing "bcer
and whisky like water that Mr.. Wheel
ock could secure delegation favorable to
his selection as probate judge. We ask
that the voters of Lincoln cour ty denounce
this gross misrepresentation of one of her
pioneer far mcrs by complete vindlcation
at the polls.