Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1890-08-06

tate boomers to save themselves and
the city secure existence from the
public crib, a malicious desperation
has seized upon the capital ndyo-
Gates, that has burst all considerate
bounds and eliminated in O. phe.
nominal craze of unblushing false
hood, that would put the common
est kind Of common fairness to
shame. Legitimate salaries to those
employed in presenting whatever
claims Huron has, to the people is
proper, but bribery Of votes is not.
To pursuade a man that he should
vote for Huron is legitimate but to
buy his vote is no better than horse
stealing or safe blowing. TO pur-
suade whole communities that
! Huron should become the perIna-
nent capital is legitimate work, but
to attempt to buy with hard cash
the whole vote of an entire town or
city, is n piracy upon the American
system of manhood government,
and an effort to debaueh and de-
moralize voters that should c%onsign
to everlasting infamy all engaged in
it; the cause that for want of merit
resorts to such means cannot hope
to win.
Huron gives to the Farmers Iii
ance company n quantity Of land
which shesays is worth 100000 if
she is made the capital, by this she
says to the alliance members you
should vote for Huron, not because
she ought to be the capital but be-
cause yon can make 100000 if
! Huron wins. She says to The citi-
zens Of WATERFOWL, if you stay out
Of the capital raco we will give you
$4,000 in hard cash and our note
for $4,000 more if Huron WINS.
She does not appeal to the man.
hood, intelligence and honesty Of
the people of Watertown to come
out Of the capital race because the
best interests ofthe people Of South
Dakota, when it is all developed,
demand that Huron should be the
capital: oh, no, that's mott Huron's
line: she has no stock in trade of
that kind, and she knows it only too
we'll and so she says to Watertown
we can offer you no argument but
we can give you money; we will
buy your people up body and
| breaches with u real estate hood
lers gold and promises OF more if we
, win. and then with q cheek and
ef1rontery that would shame a
scarlet ONE she points her Jewell
ed finger towards Pierre and says,
"pierre is bribing." Pierre has
tried to hire Watertown to STAY in
the race" An infamous lie out of
whole cloth; started and reported
for no other reason than to draw
the attention Of the people from the
corsair methods of Huron away
from her wholesale attempt to de-
bauch the people. But it won't do;
the time has come to speak out, and
we do so by authority Of our own
knowledge, and some of the best
business men and citizens OF this
city will endorse it, when we say
Pierre not only never offered Water
town any money to stay in the cap
ital race, but on the contrary when
certain of her citizens were DESTROYS
OF staying III the race, applied to
the representatives Of Pierre to
know ii they would sssist them
financially to do SO, the Pierre hoard
Of trade wrote, and we saw and read
the letter, that they had no desire
for Watertown to stay in the race;
that they were ready to make the
race with Huron alone, and preferred
to do so, to have no choice made.
That they thought that the interest
of the people demanded that the
capital question should be settled
by this campaign.
The opinion Of the people Of this
city and county Of Huron's methods
will be known of all men when the
vote is counted. Honest men
whose votes cannot be bought will
express their feelings in like manner
throughout the state. Next to the
methods we have mentioned Hur-
ou's largest stock in trade is bluff, n
game that may win If the man who
has the better hand has not the
nerve to back it, but Pierre has the
nerve and Huron can't bluff her.
Bluff is the proper name for the
card game called poker" Travel
ing on a lower Mississippi river
steamboat we once saw a man who
was playing a game of bluff, bet
$1,000 on a pair of nine spots; that
was a clear bluff and he thought it
would win, but he mistook the
nerve Of his opponent who cody
"cnlled him. on a pair Of kings and
pocketed tile money, Huron is a
noisy "blnHern in this capital game,
bat when Pierre :scalls her. in No
vember she viii be found with only
i pair Of nine spots while Pierre will
hold a "full hand
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