Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1891-02-19

got to do with looking after Bnshfields
amily2 In the artists own graphic and
lighly cultured Queens English as she is
wrote, Don't that crimp you 2" We
lont know whether the public recipro
'ated with Vanderbilt or not, but We do
lpow one thing, even in our political
II Bush6eld did not take
,are of himself and family, first and fore
most above any political opinion, the
,ublic would very quickly id him.
4. The reference to Benedict Arneld"
md ''trmtor. is remarkable for its exquis-
te grasp Of the situation, no less than for
Is patriotic earnestness--at once exem
Dlifying, even unto the ludicrous, that
within the orbit OF his intelligence Van.
las excellent discernment! AS we never
to the deal we could not well
jecome ''traitor' thereto. and ss the
deal" was conceived in a rebel brain,
pregnant at the same time with such bra.
zen sentiments az Jefferson Davis was o
consistent statesman the Republican is
entitled to commisseration If through Gu
pidity it becomes the languid though
npologist OF this modern Arnold
bull rush heroism! Yes, in the
Iulness of its verdancy, ''despised by tie
man who owns it" for such untimely re-
ference to TRAITORS" let the organ die.
1t is the last living evidence of brief po-
Iitical regime,
The 9th gem Of this remarkable con.
stellatIon is Let the republicans remem-
ber that the PREss has owned up to all
that the Republican has CHARGED against
it," That is the most degrading piracy of
truth noted in the annals OF county
journali IN. The merest assertion, un.
by any evidence other than
the juniors" own lying misconstruetion,
which is accompanied by the egotistIcal
that the intelligent reader can
not understand it without Vans diagno-
sis. But the gauzyness of his analysis
shows it to have been woven in
the loom of a demagogue. So what is in
tended as a grand finale, redounding 10
the gloritication of a profound t2) mind. be-
comes a piece OF absurdity which leaves
the juvenile in an awkward position be-
fore an amused audience.
The burden of the machine organs
song has been that the ''PREss is not re-
publican" By every misconstruction
possible, incomplete quotation of SEN
tences and articles, aud peryersion OF nat
ural sentiments by bare faced lying, Van
Hosen has endeavored to prove that Bush
field is traitor to the cause of good re-
publican government, and that his actions
in the recent campaign were not those OF
a free American citizen aciuated by mo-
tiyes of honor. He has signally failed IN
each and every attempt to corroborate
any of his assertions. and his last gasp is
an effort to distract attention while he
crawls into his hole and pulls IT after him
On the other hand the PRESS has prov.
en-, not by lying or misconstrnction, bal
by direct evidence, that Van Hosen's every
political act is to bend the knee fawn-
ing" to Doodle, and that he has been a
traitor to all but pelf. After noting his
vain effort to besmear the PRESS with his
own characteristics, let the reader con-
trast the following extract from the Miller
Indicator of Oct. IL, 1883, when Van was
editor Of that paper, and which we are
ready to prove in his exact wording by a
copy of that paper now in our possession
or forfeit 500 In case of failure TO SO
prove:
''To better our own condition financi-
ion Labor platform"
And further, what is we'll known by
every man In Miller, the sum for which
this republican" sold his birthright was
$500. Now the above language needs no
explanation" and admits of no miscon-
1t stands there remarkably
plain and distinct, ample proof of polit-
ical villany.
The PRESS il not republican ascending
to their standard, because it docs rot be
lieve in $500 caucus votes; snap caucuses
after the style of the Greenleaf job; we
fail to see the need OF q Moses, dictator,
a boss for an enlightened people; we do
not elieve in attempting to maintain the
REPUBLICAN majority in Hand county by
Ideals" in cold cash, gold watches, etc;
we do not believe in party officers suck
ing blood money out of poor farmer can
didates or threaten the alternative of de-
feat; we have serious doubts whether the
republican party of Hand county is able
to maintain two or three professional pol
iticians, with no other visible means OF
support than campaign funds--in fact do
not believe in any of the machines car
dinal principles Of deception and Doodle
ism as proven in the last campaign.
IL TO oppose corruption, trickery, de-
ceipt and bossism Is ani-republican, then
the little fistes swapping at our heels
might expect to meet with applause from
the public. Bat II Is not.
The assumption that Van Hosen and
the rest of Moses gang are the republic
can party or represent republican princi-
Piles. is the idle -vaporings Of a diseased
mind. The rudimentary law of repub-
licanism Is freedom-''l ''liberty enlightenins
the worldF-not blind a1ulation for a
professor OF the "science OF tricks,
whose mental endowment is horizoned
by the mirage Of 1.-The end jnstiies the
MEANS" acceptance of its precepts i'm
plies the possession of some principle,
hence Van Hosen is relieved from the
suspicion OF ever having experienced re-
"We leave" Mr.. Van Hosen and his
scabby cohorts. "alone to enjoy the bliss
which he may obtain" out Of his republi-
canism and the glittering success Of his
last campaign. ''and do not envy him one
iota Of the same"
WE GAG.
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