Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-03-26
Chicago Tribune specia

Boiled Down-A Series of Unsupported
Dentals And Counter Charges.
Chicago Tribune special.
Washington, D. G. March l9-Gov.
Ordway, of Dakota, has prepared an
elaborate and voluminous reply to the
charges of his accusers, and will present
the same to President Arthur at Wash.
ington tomorrow. The reply deals
mainly with the a&davits and other
documents laid before the president Feb.
18th, charging Gov. Ordway with cor
ruption in Office in connection with the
organization of Faulk and Hyde coun-
ties, Dakota territory, and asking for his
removal. Accompanying the reply are
the afidavits of William B. Tebbetts,
contradicting the accusations against the
governor in connection with Faulk
county and denying the charge
that he (Tebbetts) had corrupt
arrangement with the governor,
and of Lewis E. Whitcher, chair.
man of the Hyde county board of com.
missioners, denying the accusations in
regard to that county, and sustaining
the governors action in its organization
Whitcher also contradicts some of the
statements made by D. A. W. Perkins,
whose affidavit is one of the strongest in
support OF the charge Of malfeasance in
office.
Gov. Ordway, in his reply, argues that
the accusations were prompted by vim.
dlctive spirit; that the immediate cause
of the attack on the part of the so called
Estate ofticials." who signed the letter &C.
companying the accusing papers, pro.
ceeded from desire to revenge them.
selves on him because of his refusal tc
sign various unwarranted acts of the leg
islative assembly. notably the bill to set
up state government in southern Da
kota without proper authority from con
gress. He recites the manner in which
the bill was manipulated, the holding o.
the unauthorized constitutional conven
ton, and the consequent i'll feeling
against himself, the argument being
that each person engaged in the presen
tation of these papers had persona
grievance and q vindictive feeling as ki.
motive for action. Bartlett Tripp. w. 8
Bowen. Newton Edmunds, G. G. Moody
John 81. King, George h. Hand, anc
Hugh j. Campbell are oil mentioned a
being so prompted. Special charges az,
also made against Tripp and Bowen
the latter being charged with defraudinl
the taxpayers by peculiar manipula
tion of stationary and printing bills
Newton Edmunds is also charged will
crooked work in connection with tn,
wiping out of the Yankton county deb
repudiated. Gov. Ordway then ana
lyzes the petition asking for his removal
points out that it contains no: 5000
names, but 1900, or about two per cen
of the voting population; that the major
lty OF these signat1res are "the jaw.break
ing names of innocent foreigners wh
would be just as likely to lend thei
Dames for banishing the leaders who ar
making this raid upon th
governor to Siberia if urged to d
SO by some persons they did nc
caro- to refuse" and that the remainde
come from disappointed factions wh
think they have q grievance against th
governor because Of his refusal of som
impracticable requests. He then take
up the Faulk county afiidavits, and, aite
declaring them to be false, vague, and j
{ some respects contradictory, calls atte.
tion ito the fact that each person sh
has made oath to what he knows or hs
heard somebody say, swears that he SUI
: posed that he was taking steps to aid j
!. bribinR the chief executive officer Of tt
territory, and that all of these persor
are sell convicted criminals in the eye {
}. the Law, and therefore their statement
must be considered of doubtful chara