The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-10-31
Communicated.

Remember Senator KYLE SAID of our
/. candidate: Col Jolley is q man whose
heart is with the people"
Smith the Independent candidate
for congressional honors, sold bis farm
about two years ago for $4,000 and
it made him calamity screecher.
Decentralization has been echoed
from every hill top; 1t has filed
volumes; Editors have hurled at it their
vilest epithets; Orators have screech-
ed themselves hoarse about it; what
it looked like, what its habits were
what it fed on, was mysterlously hint
ed at but never fully explained. 1t
was demonstration and that was
enough and they said that in the year
of our Lord, 1873, the beast did his
foul and demonical work. Well,
gathered up the political almanacs,
musty old volumes, statistical abstracts,
etc, and setting them in 4 row made
n plunge from hither To skither and
to my CONSERVATION and Notification
found that in the year named we put
little more silver into the dollar Of
our dadies and it became known as the
"trade dollar and that in 1878 we re-
turned to the old weight dollar again.
But | took some soothing syrup and
returned to the assault.
*k
found that the Republicans con-
tinued the old free coinage policy for
seventeen years and coined for the
owners of silver bullion in the time
stated about sl10,0OO,OOO and that
none of it went into circulation; that
no compensation for the minting re-
suited to the treasury, the circulating
medium or to the people; that it was
teld tor export and that tree coinage
of silver was failure to all but the
owners of bullion And found that
in 1878 free coinage gave place to the
Bland bill and that in the subsequent
thirteen years the new policy has add
ed $500 100000 of legal tender to the
currency and S65, 100000 profit to the
treasury. 1t is glorious success, but
the silver mine owners and thier allies,
the independents are not satisfied.
Feeling better filled the cob pipe and
resumed the investigation.
Well, found the report of a Mr..
Newlands to the mining exchange as
Salt Lake City, in which among other
things he says: "fhls agitation began
where we are directly interested in the
production of silver as matter of
business That they formed national
league land collected a sum of money
mostly from the mines OF Nevada and
Montana and circulated tracts amongst
the Farmers Alliances. "rhis work
appeared to be spontaneous, but you
can rest assured that wherever YOU
have heard OF agitation in the country
the National Silver Committee has had
some share in the work"
The success OF the demogogs in de-
ceiring a portion of the people into
opposition to the present silver policy
in the face OF its indlsputable success
Is serious reflection on our cisillza-
ton. Verify, money in the hands OF
skillfnl experts is a power.
Since the Republicans came into
yer the annual use of silver for
A,ey has increased from Sl,600,00O
3about 500, O,O0n,00O per year and that
characterization.
&lurrah for demonetizatlon.
Now, Gee Whlz. you're only recent
accession; you're way out on the edge.
You can't wag Loucks and that other
twin Walter. You may as we'll eat
your clow by endorsing the railroad
ownership plank in your platform that
would cost the people $l2, 900 ,O00. 900
To buy-equal TO four times the national
debt ut the close of the war, and YOU
may as well endorse the sub treasury,
that's in your platform also, and YOU
may as well suppress all thought ofthe
100000 employees necessary to run
those machines, and would be added to
the administration paw rolls, already
too large and influential for the peoples
good, but your candidate is pledged TO
those planks and you have to vote for
him and in voting for him you endorse
them yourself OF course they are
silly, but you are in it. Come write
them up. II. O'CoNNoR.
Charlie Peterson, formerly of Rich
Valley township, was up from Pierre
the first of the week.