Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22
A Gross Prevaricatiou.

county convention, the Herald, as
usual, could not confne itself to
facts, but must distort and mutilate
them after its usual fashion adopt.
ell by all the journals of that ilk.
Here IS a specimen:
Following the appointment Of
committee no business was transact
ed for more than an hour during
which time parties from some of
a dozen or more unrepresented
towns, who happened to be IN
town, were hunted up and brought
before the credentials committee to
be admitted as delegates. In this
way most of the towns we're repre-
sented by at least one delegate,
there being abou thirty delegates
present out of the 81 entitled to
seats. Where the full delegation
was not present from any town,
which was almost invariably the
cease. BY a motion put to the
convention and carried, those pres
ent were permitted to cast the full
vote of their town, bringing the
total number of votes cast up to
sc.
Every one knows that after
committees were appointed and
temporary organization effected at
ten o'clock a. NJ, the convention
adjourned at half past eleven to
met again at N o'clock. During
the interval the credentials COM
mittee had no meeting. The COM
mittee looked up no one, but par
ties here who had been requested
to represent York. Troy, Batter
and Liberty, presented their names
TO the committee who recommend
ed that they have seats in the con-
vention, exactly as the Indepen-
dents did with Butler, Troy, Scot
land and Pickerel Lake and then
had only twenty-five ont of twenty
six towns represented, when the
Republican convention admitting
the same number of towns in til e
same way, had twenty-four. The
total vote polled was Sc ont of 81,
and in countIn mi the ballot on rep.
resentative there was but one vote
polled at u time-56 ballots cast
three times and only one vote on
each ballot, in the first vote cast BY
the convention. The Independent
convention east Il out of SO. There
was no resolutions passed allowing
the delegate to cast the vote OF
their towns, because every town in
the convention had a full compile.
ment of delegates.
"Numeroas motions were put to
the house without being seconded,
and most of the nominations made
by asclamation were made without
susp .ndiug the rules, which pro.
vide that nominations should IL
made by ballot
Numerous motions were pat to
the house without being seconded,
says the Herald. How astonishing
In the Independent convention
this was very common, yet we did
not think it at all any detriment to
hat ccnyention-such things are
common in conventions. There
was not a single nomination made
in the convention by reclamation
without a motion to suspend the
rules, and the Herald knows it
Ii you hoped to impress youl
Independent friends with such
bald headed lying, with the ides
that the Republican party were
loosing ground in the county, the
effort missed the mark, because
there we're two more township;
represented than in the Independ-
emit convention. Ii was eyidentl,
Intended tie deceive the readers oil
that paper as to the real status oil
the Republican party in the county
= imitation of the practice Of
the Independent leaders of thu
state, who neye under any circum
stances tell the truth, when they
see any chance to deceive any Ole
by lying. That the Herald is LA
IN this case, can be substantiateG
by such men as Fred Moore, DaviC
Williams, j. Alley, j. W. Grange
md many others.
When the Ides of Novembel
comes you will find that your indie
pendent ring Office holders will b,
ont of a ioh and ont to SAav