Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-14

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pendent movement could be made to win
il political sagacity and good Judgment.
were exercised In the selection OF candi-
dates, that The position had recognized
this fact by making oyertures. Ofcourse,
it is hard to part with old friends. Mr..
Knowles realized this when he forsook
the democratic party and ''sold OUT to
the independents, but no one compared
him to that infamous traitor Benedict
Arnold, yet such comparison would have
fit the circumstances of his case, better
than it fits that of the editor of the Trib-
une He had been publishing demo-
cratic paper, had claimed and received a
share OF the democratic patronage, had
been chosen delegate to the democratic
state convention, and had his credentials
in his pocket at Huron when he betrayed
the confidence OF bis party, and sssold
out to the independents. The editor of
the Tribune worked on salary, had no
paper of his own, found out that the pa
per upon which he worked was about to
change hands, and leave him out OF a
job, managed to secure an option on the
plant, procured the Mecessary security,
and leased the paper himself. Now, in
what particular does such transaction
justify comparison with Benedict Ar
mold? The editor of the Tribune knows
that less than one per cent. OF the inde-
pendent party in the Black Hills under
stands the object of the movement. He
knows that more than ninety mine per
cent of the party is composed of the var
lest skulch, men whose word is not worth
picayune. He knows they will caucus,
scheme, lie and swindle, that they are
ignorant, stupid, narrow, bigoted and
dishonest, and that no movement can
succeed that is managed by men of such
character. These men are trying to get
Office, they know nothing about political
economy, and are in all things the direct
aDtipodes of the principles set forth in
the Independent platform. The editor
of the Meade County Times knows this.
He knows why he discouraged the or
ganization of the Knights of Labor in
Tilford, and why he never joined them.
| He knows that nine -tenths of the stuff he
prints in denunciation of the Homestake
company is false, and that in printing it
he caters to the very lowest element in
the Black Hills He knows that the in
dependent candidate for congress is not
a worker of mines, an employer of labor,
and that while he ostensibly opposes
gambling in railroad, telegraph and gov
ernment securities, he is an officer in five
or six wildcat mining companies, and
constantly gambling in mining stocks,
and he knows that men of that class are
the men he pleases when he attacks the
Homestake company. These wildcat
mine owning millionairs, of whom Fred
Zipp is chief, put notices in the news
papers warning people not to build on
their claims. Suppose the Homestake
company compelled every occupant of q
building on their land to move off or pay
rent, just as these gamblers do? If the
company did this, it would be as mean
as are those men whose whole stock in
trade consists in misrepresenting it
Instead of this the Homestake company
employs thousands of men the year round
at better wages than is paid anywhere
) else in the United States, and all this
howl against the company is the quint
essence of trash. The answer to this
will be Screen is paid to defend the
company" I deny it, except in the
sense that it always pays to tell the truth
Every assertion made by the Tribune
can and will be defended. Actual exper
ience and observation is better than hear
say, and the editor of the Tribune go
: none of his information concerning thu
/ independents or the Homestake company
at second hand. He simply refuses tx
longer serve an unprinoipled set of NAL
contents, and take poverty and abuse TO
his pay. He fully appreciates the com
pliment paid his abilities by the edito
OF the Meade County Times, and hope
that time will vindicate the wisdom O
his course.