Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-29

.NNNs WIZ sI-NtS WIFI NOtt ehN tItt tIIe I.lbSt
ia:srant cases OF bribery in legislatures were those
Of men elected ,,r;.d,n BY in Na,, d.'ihsrs and upon ina &
Deaaw"od Independent.
Before the Independent proceeds to
brand others more truthful than itself
as liars, it might be in order for it to
point out a more fragrant case of cor
ruption than the last session Of the
Nebraska legislature furnishes. 1t
was when the maximum freight bill
wa brought up i'll the senate. The
independents themselver accused. four
of the members that they had elected
or helped to elect, of having been
bribcd by the railroads. One Of these
gentlemen was Collins of Gage county
and another Taylor. of Loup county.
The names of the other two have es-
capped our memory. Collins was elect
ed by the democrats and independents.
Taylor was a straight out independent.
| Collins remained at his post in the
| senate chamber and when the session
was over went to his home. Taylor
left Lincoln secretly. spent several days
in Council Bluffs and forever bid adieu
TO the people whose interests he had
betrayed. That Taylor had been bribed
nobody yer questioned. Will the In
dependent point out a case of bribery
more clearly proved. The STAR prefers
to discuss measures, not men. 1t is no
fault of the independents if their ranks
Go now and then contain a traitor.
The republicans should not be held
accountable for the actions of every
man who joins their ranks. But that
Independent is woefully mistaken who
presumes that his party has a monopo-
ly upon everything good and noble
and that the old parties contain Moth
ing but corruption. The STAR invites
the independent to take up a discus
sion Of the money question which it
has so far ignored. Defend your
party principles when they are at
tackled if You deem them worth de-
Tending. Show us the justice Of
speedily increasing the circulating
medium to not less than $50 per
capita" Remember that abuse is not
argument. When it comes that a
paper exists only for abuse and v%lllifi-
cation it looks as if it had outlived IFS
usefulness. The STAR did not falsify
when it said that independents sell out
sometimes and it is ready to furnish
more proof whenever called upon.
"You knnw that in the last South Dakota lcgis-
l@ature independents who were go poor that they
had To borrow money to rot to Pierre, were offered
$1,000 and IN appointment under llarrison's adj,
ministration if they would hetrav their trust and
vote for the Homcstake attorney for United States
senator. independent.
The STAR doesn't know any such
thing. and deties the Independent to
prove the statement.
"You know that corruption has touched the
ermine of the bench in state and nation. Old
Edserton was appointed to the federal bench in
this district in consideration of his corrupt deal
with Moody by wl.tcs, the interests of the farmers
CO ,n,s ssnt too were l hssspsnd into the hands OF a
That statement Doesn't prove that
"cor1aption has touched the ermine Of
the bench" If there was any deal
whatever that lead to the appointment
of Edgerton to the bench. the IDEAL"
was made before Mr.. Edgerton became
a judicial officer, and that there has
been any corruption since, the lnde-
pendent dare not attempt to prove.
This alluslon to corrupt deals" re-
tultlus luo OIAh w dSCuSdUlOuS luhU
were frequently made during the last
session of the state legislature concern
ing the "deal' made between tue indie
pendents and democrats Of this state
and those of Illinois, and the peculiar
(lf that word is sufficiently express,ye)
and prompt manner in which indepen-
dent Kyle was then elected senator
from this state by the aid of the demo-
Gratis, and with what apparent ease
that democrat, Palmer, was chosen
senator from Illinois by the aid of the
independents. Does the Independent
remember this circumstancial evidence.
The Independent rants about the
Associated Press being "the most COR
rupt tool of monopoly" and makes the
ridiculous assertion that 1.-THE Indepen.
dent press is the only one not mnzzled:''
The SrAn will merely hold up that
statement as a fair comparison with