The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-10-30
NE KNEW FARMER SMITH.

TE1e
Visited Henry W Smith at
Work on His Farm
Description Of a Gang Plow Made
and Run BY Smith
EDITOR UN1oN.-Inotic an article IN
the Journal from the Sioux Falls press,
which reminds me OF a way some people
have OF praising their %neighbors, in a.
half hearted manner, and then ending by
calling them thieves. The article IN ques-
ton concluded by stating that H.. w.
Smith, the independent candidate for
congress-, had not been as successful as
his more thrifty %neighbors. This is a
very vague and indefinite statement as
nothing is neither good % bad without
comparison, and brought IN position to
shed some light on the subject, perhaps
o will allow me space to tell your
readers what kind OF a man and farmer
H. w. Smith appeared to be before he
became the independent candidate for
congress. First, I cannot refrain from
expressing my establishment at the I'M
gr~atefulness of the Sioux Falls press in
endeayorinp to belittle the character OF
a man, and neighbor, who I am sure
has rendered the press material aid and
support in gaining the emminence it now
occupies in the newspaper world, while
his more thrifty neighbors would see the
press and its proprietors. IN obligatory,
before a nlckle OF their money Wenld as
sist them. Ii the farmers and laborers
would only realize that it is their names
on the subscription books OF these
pluto newspapers for revenue only,
which enables them to exist, to abuse
and villify them and their champions,
these vampires would not exist Il month
from date. Thirteen Vars ago the
writer lived in Sioux Falls and had a
slight acquaintance with II. w. Smith.
Passed by Mr. Smiths farms often and
called there W. or three times. I can
assure the farmers OF the Black Hills
that our candidate for congress, did not
then at least, farm either by proxy or
through the telephone, as some would
have us believe. TO anyone visiting his
farm it became evident that the owner
uses both BRAIN and muscle III conduct
ing the work. The republicans endcavor
to manufacture a good deal OF political
capital for their candidate from the all
legged fact that he hud the fortune, or
misfortune, to teach school in the first
log school house in the Territory OF Da-
kota. To offset that I'll endeavor to
describe the first gang pillow the writer
saw in Dakota. 1t consisted OF the front
wheels OF a log wagon with two IA inch
breaking plows fastened to the axle, n
beam shorter thar the other SO as to
follow, with six yoke OF cattle hltched on
to it, and H. w. Smith, the independent
candidate for congress, sole proprietor,
manager and director OF the entire Cir
Gus. The rigging up OF that pillow showed
more ingenuity III the right direction
than I ever knew a lawyer to display.
Farmers and laborers OF the Black Hills,
you are safe in casting your vote for II.
w. Smith. The republicans make a
great ado about the goodness OF their
man, but what does it amount to? II
elected he becomes a caucus voting ma
chine, a good one if you choose, but a
voting machine Just the same. II the
independent man is elected he is free tc
vote for any measure which in his Judge
ment is OF benefit to the people, regard
less OF king caucus.
The independent movement was in
a%ugurated for the purpose OF securing
representation IN the halls OF congress
for the laborlng masses. Every labor
ing man ought to realize, regardless o
party affiliations, that the laborers il
this reform movement are not in il
either for fun OF glory. They ought tc
know that the taunts and iecrs OF the
party bosses are not always pleasant tc
put up with, but when the very men
whose condition they are endeavoring to
better along with their own, add thei1
venom, for the sake Of curing favors OF
through ignorance, it is adding insult tt
injury and they may be tempted to CRY
out with the Nazarene, Given thor
Judas.'' The old chestnut that the new
party is composed OF sore-heads ane
disappointed office seekers ought to b
given a rest. The time for the influx o
Office seekers to the new camps is to.
!, soon, those shrewd politicians know too
much to board a craft until she ha
} proven herself seaworthy. They will
come, and in such numbers that the oil
guard will be totally lost sight OF in tn
scramble for pap, and no one knows tina
better than the men now IN the front.
The opposing forces clam hat GU
candidate is not smart enough to 60 t.
, congress as the representative OF Da
t kota. Let me assure all doubters OF
that score that for good common sense
didate will compare favorably any MAJ
in or out OF congress, and besides al
honest man who will do his duty to hi
constituents is worth a BARNARD full Q
smart rascals And don't you forget it.
r In voting for H. w. Smith, if you are
, farmer, or a laboring man, or a soldier
you vote for one OF your own ranks, on
who has worn the shoe and know
where 1T pinches. You vote for a lawye
or a banker, you vote for a class OF me-
! who dispise you and your calling. The.
, look ON farmers as a class who al
thriitless, lazy good-for-nothing nc
bodies that do not know what the,
want or what ails them. To prove it
quote from two leading papers substi
tute for our plan OF relief, the sub
treasury. The New York World (dem
advises the farmers OF the northwes
"To go South and raise onions" Th
New York Tribune (rep) advises us t,