Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-08-31

dorses the nomination OF George A !,
Matthews for congress, the Sioux Falls
Argus-Leader refers to it rs shat GROW
eating wonder IN the southern part OF the
territory" This is possibly a case of
mistaken identity or il may be a
malicious misfit OF terms. In endorsing
Mr.. Matthews the Press and Dakotalan
partakes of no crow. This is republi.
can newspaper and Mr.. Matthews is q
republican nominee, fairly placed upon
the ticket, to whose candidacy the Press
Dakotaian offered no objection prior to
the convention and knows no objection
since the convention. He is vastly
superior in all the requisites OF gentle
man, statesman and an honorable man
to the political tramp whose sign hangs
at the masthead of the Argus. Leader by
permission of tue democratic convention.
He is before the people upon his own
merits and does not borrow, in a puerils
appeal to class prejudice, the habiliments
of vocation which never soiled his
hands with its honest toll. Mr..
Matthews is just what he assumes to be
and his candidacy is not covered over
with the false pretenses of an office
seeking sdventurer.
1t is the assumption OF the Argus
Leader that Yankton newspaper, or q
7ankton voter, can not favor the can
didacy of member OF the late capital
commission, and upon this snpposltion
it constructs it's mistaken theory that
the Press and Dakotaian partakes of an
obnoxious political dish In its support
of the Watertown nominee. In the
combinations resulting from political
manipulations men should not always
be iadg d from the standard OF their
temporary associates. There were bad
men on the capital ocmmission-a ma
jority of that organization were
corrupt and unscrupulons. But
there was q minority which
maintained good name and
fair fame throughout the disreputable
transactions OF their fellows, and in that
minority Yankton has always recog-
nized Q. q. Myers, of Redfeld, and G..
A. Matthews, of Brookings. OuE COM
munity is more competent to judge OF
purity and impurity in the individuals
of the commission than any other COM
munity, because here was the scene OF
the conspiracy which produced the
commission and the headquarters OF its
active existence-apd Ysnkton man
was its Judas Iscariot. OF that con.
spiracy we may have more to say in che
future-and We may not. The inside
facts have never been printed.
It "a Matthews who is now under dis
cussion, brought before the public by
his congressional candidacy. 1t is the
mission OF his political opponents to
cast reproach upon his past because OF
his connection with the capital oommis-
sion. They may probe this subject to
the uttermost and they WILL not be able
to attach any stigma to him in their
Investigations. Itthey will fairly and
honestly make enquiry, their labors will
result only in the entire exculpatIon OF
the object of their vague charges. This
they will not do, because they can ae-
oomplIsh the most in their nefarious
warfare by dealing in generalities and
avoiding direct allegations. But before
this political canvass is ended the goats
OF the capital commission will be separ.
ated from the sheep and the innocent
will be relieved from the burdens OF the
guilty. Mr.. Matthews can sustain his
honor and his integrity in such sepa-
ration OF the component parts of that
organization.