Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1885-10-31
VOTE for Hurley!
Row Parker Obtained the County Seat,

Row Parker Obtained the County Seat.
That cause is always weak that re-
quires lying and Misrepresentation to
sustain it, and questions settled on
those principles wont stay settled. but
are, like Banquo's ghost, continually
bobbing up when we haye least use for
them.
1t is known that the legislature last
winter removed the county seat from
Swan Lake to Parker, but just how
this was done the people have never
been Informed; they object however to
this kind OF settlement. They inn
aglned themselves able to boss this job
themselves and wanted to do it. They
like this way best and the party that
gets fairly beaten will willingly abide
the result.
Unscrupulous persons. especially pol
iticans, generally hold that the end
justiiies the means, s,--they are not dis
ciples of the doctrine" Thou shalt
not do evil that good may come.
Now we come to the enquiry, did
Parker secure this legislation on the
county seat question by fair and
truthful statement OF the facts in the
case? We answer no; but on the con-
trary by the grossest misrepresentation
and perversion of the truth.
| We have before us an interesting
circular printed in Parker, intended for
i CIRCULATION in Bismarck, Il copy OF which
! was placed on the desk of each member
/ OF The legislature. We Willquote from
/ it IL few Of the facts as samples.
/ First it states that three times have
| the people OF Turner county voted on
! the question OF removal OF the county
seat, and each tune has Parker been
/ the choice of the majority.
Now if this means anything, tits that
| Parker has three times received ma
jority vote for county seat Now this Is
4 not true. and their own figures deny it.
In the election IN 1881 the whole num-
j her of votes cast on the county seat
question was 1876, of which Parker re-
| ceiyed 620 or 26 less than Il majority.
| And in the election of 1882, with the
tloating railroad population then en-
gagged in building the Northwestern
road, Parker polled G5o votes or ID less
4 than q majority of the vote of the pre-
yious wear, and let it be borne in mind,
during these two elections Hurley was
not in existence.
The first vote taken after Hurley was
started and before it was two years old
1t received 7o7 votes for county seat or
one numbered and Twenty-Five votes
more than Parker hes received in the
two previous elections. And these
were the figures upon which the legis-
lature was asked to take the matter
out OF the hands of the people and place
it arbitrarily at Parker with the pro
yiso that il no point in the county al
the next election should receive ma
, iority vote then Parker would be the
permanentlocati and could only bt
changed by a two-thirls vote.
, We quote again from the circular a'
follows: "There are no county build
5 ings in Turner county except an ole
iail which was condemned by the granC
Jury in 1879" Now the grand jury il
1874 did not condemn the Swan Lake
ail and it never has been condemned
/ In proof Of this we quote the sheriff
and the clerk of the court-tWo officer
, whose duty it to know these things
!, When Matt Nlillers was arrested in th
| fall of 1851, four years after this ALLEGED
: condemnation, Tor attempted murde
& at Finley the question arose as to hl
place OF continlnent until he could b
brought to trial, the sheriff telegraphe,
5 the clerk OF the court for Information
+ about the Swan Lake Jail and he replie
5 that " the ,jut5 },tltl not 6een condemned.
So the prisoner was kept at swan LAX
until tried. Two prisoners were after
wards kept ut Sioux Falls becallS
: board there could be had for $l,0O q Ga
! when il cost the county $500 at Swa
:, Lake.
y The document further states tina
there is no place where court could an
d longer be held ut Swan Lake as tn
= church building was about to be r,
y moved. The church building stanc
II there vet and is better adapted TO coul
s. purposes than theone now occupied.
y Again it says "there is no hotel {
= Swan Lake" The Swan Lake Hons
~ built 10 years ago, and which hi
1t afforded accommodations for the chit
% Justice of the territory with his cou
a., and jury, is still standing and able
take care of all that may seek its no
% ptality.
le We VIII tire the reader With only OF
II. more quotation from this spicy doc
ment but 1t seems too ridiculous for SCI
Gus consideration: AT the Septcmb
le term A. ID. 1884 OF the District Coul
II. the court was compelled TO sleep und
cover OF Il tent on the prairie.
eS When, carpet-bag in hand, the uns
n. phisGcated tender-foot referred to in t
le above paragraph first breathed t
- invigorating air Of the Dakota prail
= and felt the effects of the accelerate
rs of the vital fluid courSing through II
n. veins, is it surprising that he shou
ty become the prey of Il willy Parker po
y ticIan. with his glowing description
W. camp life on the picturesque bank
r. Swan Lake, whose placid waters retie
is the glow of the evening star. d
Nv turbed only with an occasional rlpl
~ caused by the thorny hull-head spri1
ing from its peaceful bosom TO cat
gy the IlnWfary fly, andhis honor, the Co,
under hiSinspiration dlsdains the eff
Inquiries of the fremont House., a
ro- the more "solid comfort OF Tn
40 Dams" and like the noble Red man
,d the Prairie take up his abode in a tt
~. and exchanging the ermine fora she
y skin or a butilo robe. goes gently
nix sleep and holds sweet communion W
isk NImrod. Blackstone and Sitting B1
no but never a thought that his design
friends were working him into capi
i to be used at Bismarck TO further th
'r. county sea. schemes.
sue r-, .;,, =;
1t IS rumored that Harkef VIII WI
draw her bonus should the county $
ck' be located there by vote this fall ii
the have string tied to it and will hau
ner in when no longer needed. Its
eX- of many strings.
F,uker can not put up any genu
bona tide bonus for the reason that
ICY has already paid immensely for
w manufactories, and nearly bankrur
~ herself in attempts to secure the cou
'i'' seat, she did not spend less than !
u" thousand dollars last winter.
sleo When the Centprville branch of
avs Northwestern Read is completed, va
api- ton brick can be laid down in HUI
the at about 5000 per 1900; at thisrate !
he ley's bonus will put up brick CO