Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-04-30
>THE ]: REPORTER.
yFrIcIAL PAPER OF DAY COUNTY.
Men q Bnrtol.

Your vote. Come out one and all
aud vote against the Webster ring.
They have tried to bride some Of
your ne.ghbors with money, offer
ing 81 per day for teams to bring
YOU to the polls, and provide for
| your meals. Show them you can
not be bought. Look to your own
townships interests. The larger
the comfy, the less your taxes.
You will be compelled to pay the
whole county debt. Half county
the whole debt to pay. Hand bill
used by Bristol Ring.
The above form OF hand bill has
been circulated in Bristol township,
and shows an animus on the part of
its designers that anything but hon
orable and manly.
They open out on the old cry
webster ring" that was the slog-
an two years ago when they voted
for Waubay for the county seat---a
place in the extreme southeastern
part Of the county. Let IT be un-
derstood that this cry is not raised
by the people Of Bristol township
themselvet, but is confined TO two
or three sore heads, who could never
get an idea through their wool, I'M
less il were kaccAed in by a 800
pound pile driver.
"No division Of the county"
! Why? Because, what these inter-
esting, unsophistocated gents call
the Webster Ring" wants it. In
other words, every man, be he far
mer or business man, in this part Of
the county, is q member of the
"Ring," is not worthy of respect or
consideration, in fact is an outlaw,
because, forsooth, he chooses TO
exercise his inalienable right and
vote as he pleases with the
people OF Webster township, who
are all classed as belonging to that
nafarious organization which Is
charged as the webster Ring"
though, strange as it may seem
people who live in and around
Webster have never been able to
discover the "Ring" or anything
like it. There is nothing but the
dog in the manger in this cry
lyon shan't slide on our cellar
door" "Stand aside we are holier
than thou"--veritable pinks Of per-
lection. There isen't any Ring in
BRISTOL Oh, No. certainty not.
The Bristol Ring has only half
dozen teams employed to bring
voters TO the polls, and they havn't
arranged to feed voters when they
come! Courteous that, while far
mers arc so buisy they cannot spare
teams from the field that the "Bris-
toll Ring" should adopt the plan of
hiring teams to get voters TO the
polls--a thing that is charged as a
crime on the people Of Webster.
What silly idiotic, slush! Especi-
ally when every man knows it is a
common custom to employ teams to
bring men 10 the polls in all kinds
Of elections. What charmingly in
consestible wishy-washy nonsense.
But here comes the whole milk
in the coconut, and tie thing for
which the whole Of the balance of
the bill was written. lyon will be
compelled to pay the whole county
debt, wisely announce these "Bris-
tol Ring solons. Just why they
should frame such a weak lie is
hard to understand, unless we attri-
butte IL TO the mate rottonness of the
ring, who promulge IT. Certainly
no respectful lie citizen Of Bristol town
ship would countenance such bare
faced lie; because outside Of this
ring they are all actuated by homer
able motives. What are the facts
in the case5 We quote from the
law authorizing this vote, defining
the boundaries Of Day and creating
the county of MARSHALL:
SEC. 3. That the county Of Mar
shall is hereby to be liable for such
portion of legal indebtedness of the
county Of Day existing at the date
Of the approval Of this act as the as
scSssa,11 valuation for the year 1854 Of
the property taken from the county
Of Day bears the whole assessed val
uation of Day county for the year
1884, as shown BY the assessment
rolls Of said Day county; and the
cash assets in the treasury Of Day
county at the time said Marshall
county is organized according to
law. shall be turned over to the
treasurer Of the comfy Of. Marshall,
in the proportion that the assessed
valuation of said Marshall county
bears to the whole valuation Of Day
county as shown by the assessment
OF the year A. ID. 1884, and it is
made the duty Of the treasurer of
Day county to turn over the money
on hand as provided.
Do the people want any more
positive assurance that they will not
have to pay more than their proper
ton Of debt, according to valuation?
Can they see how the"Ring' is to
escape the fact that they have de-
liberately corelled the truth? 1t
seems to US plain.
No doubt the people of Bristol
will remember when this same
"Ring" Of theirs let some school
house recently and started a man
clear back to Wisconsin TO get lum-
Der for their construction, without
advertising for bids or even intimat-
ing that such thing as the con-
struction of school house was to
be let III Bristol township. You all
know how the "Ring" took the back
track when they found the Legisla-
ture had been ''to cunnin for EN-"
and had passed q law requiring that
the letting Of such contracts should
only be done after two weeks notice
when, where and how such bids were
to be received, opened and contracts
awarded.
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