The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-08-23

The Pennington county republican
convention is q thing OF the past. The
material out OF which it was built was
fully prepared before it was collected
and the work it was to do all cut and
basted ready for the machine. Prob
ably there never has been a body OF men
together since the county was organized
that was more completely banded to-
gether for a certain purpose than were
the majority OF that convention. The
Rapid City delegation might just as well
have been one nan with twenty votes
as twenty men, all voted and talked in
perfect unison, with them were the dele
gates from Hill City, Pactola and
enough from other outlying precincts to
make success q sure thing. 1t is sup
posed that conventions will alway re-
fleet the sentiment OF the people in
whose interests it is called, for the rea-
son that the caucusses are made up OF
the people WHO send the men they want
to represent them, but it is as well
known that last Tuesdays convention
did not reflect the sentiment OF the re-
publican voters OF Pennington county
as it is known that the body assembled
When local politicians put in weeks OF
hard work getting men in line, placing
demijohns and boxes OF cigars, promls'
ing officers and favors, and where these
will not answer resorting to other meth
DDS to secure the desired ends, it Is safe
to say that packed convention is
bound to be the result. 1t is a discracc
to Pennington county that her first con
vention should have been assembled anC
run in the manner in which it vas w
have deplored and condemned the met
thods by which southern politician:
have kept the south democratic durin!
the past twenty years, but since TIN
days OF the Ku KluX the methods hav
been no more unfair and corrupt thai
those used to manipulate the late con
vention. The men who did the work sa,
that the voters can be whipped into lin
by the cry OF "bolter" and "sore head
that none will dare to 60 back on repu}
lican nominees. That while man
members OF the party are sore an
feel like taking revenge they will get ov'
their soreness, vote the straight tickle
this time and wait to play even in +
ture, and they say if they will do ths
we have got just what we have play,
for.
Twelve or fifteen men have no right
dictate to a thousand who they sh;
choose for their rulers and represent
tives, it is contrary to the letter al
spirit OF our free institutions that TIN
do so. Nowhere under the stars al
stripes reside more devout worshipers
liberty than among the mountains al
valleys OF Pennington county; the
know they have been hoodwinked, b
trayed I'M robbed; they know who Iii
the work and what it was done for an,
they propose to administer a rebuke t.
the guilty ones that will be felt. TIN
UNION regrets the condition OF things in
the party, bnt it regret more the means
by which the Generalization ame The
republican party is the grand institution
it has always been and the way to keep
it 50 is to weed out the bad elements,
when, in any locality they sain control
OF the machinery and attempt to prosti
tute party principles to their own CO,
rupt ends. When poisonous gasses CO
lect in any given locality they are ne
tratized or destroyed by thund
storms, they cause considerable rack
but they are as effective and just as II
essary as the electric political sto
that is now gathering here.