The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1892-11-05

REPUBLICAN DISGRACE.
The managers OF the Republican cam
paign in this county are up to their old
tricks again and are resorting not only
to the gamo Of Misrepresentation so char
acteristic of the party generally but have
got to that point Of desperation where
they must flood the county with a lot of
circulars containing not alone m%isrepre-
sentation Of facts but downright lying in
order that their. failing cause may be
bolstered up. 1t is the last gasp of one
OF the most corrupt ami un~principled
body Of political schemers that ever dis
graced Brule county.
One of the circulars makes a frantic
appeal to the yoterste vote the Republic
can ticket because so many Of the Demo-
cratic nominees live in Chamberlain, as
if every vot er in Brule county did not
know that Messrs. House, McKittrick,
Morgan and Ryan were forced residents
of Chamberlain by virtue Of the offices
they Gil. These schemers are fond
of referring to the "damplool farmers"
but these self-appointed 6. Q. p. leaders
will find that the farmers of Brule county
are not fools enough to think a man can
live on a farm and perform the duties Of
treasurer. clerk Of courts, sheriff, auditor
or any other important office. With but
two exceptions the Democratic nominees
were all originally from the farm and
part OF them are now actively engaged in
farming.
But this circular is unimportant COM
pared with the tissue OF lies woven into
the other. 1t charges that:
Brule county has been in control of the Demo.
Gratis for the past two wars and have run the
county Sl2, GOO into debt. That if they are placed
in power again for two years more you will be
unable to pay your taxes. That sin ce tho Demo-
Gratis have been in power they have put the
county 100000 in debt. That when the Republi-
caus went ont of power the county was out o
debt, county warrants were at par and nowt
they are worth 30 cents. and q lot of other trash,
all OF which bears the stamp OF falsehood on it's
face.
What are the facts?
To begin with the lying sheet charges
the Democrats in one place with running
the county $4,000 into debt and further
on makes the amount $4,000. Thus
doth n lie tread upon another's heel SO
fast they follow. There isn't a voter in
the county but what knows that there
isn't a county officer who has it in his
power to increase or decrease the county
Indebtedness, cave the commissioners
and that of the total amount of the
county's expenses not even they handle
OF act upon 10 per cent. of it, except in
some extraordinary emergency. like the
construction OF artesian wells. When
the Democrats broke into a solid Repub.
lican board Of county commissioners b,
the election of l.. S. House and Edgar
Moss the Indebtedness Of Brule couRty
was S27,S00 aad not a Ming to ,Aoe for Il.
When the three years term of these Dem,
ocrats had expired the Indebtedness hat
been reduced to about $4,000. There
never WAS a day when BrGle county was
out Of debt. When the Democratic ofic
ers were elected two years ago the county
: had a debt of exactly $S,259.96, as til.
records shsw. That the amount has in.
creased since then everybody knows has
been due to the county, by a vote. author
lzing the commissioners to eXpend 57,Nt
or artesian well machinery and by the
county subsequently advancing none,
, to Chamberlain township, Pleasant
Grove, Lyonville and Willow Lake fol-
wells, all of which will in its proper
time be paid back to the county by direc,
assessment upon the townships to which
the county has lent its credit through the
wish Of the people.
The present board of Democratic-Inde
pendent commissioners have drawn dur
= ing the past year $1GO less than the Law
: allows them, and their individual war
= rants have been discounted by a Demo
, cratic treasurer on the same basis Ii:
: paid all warrants. A former Republi
! can beard was paid par for their warrant.
by a Republican treasurer, while every
y other holder was obliged to take so cents
on a dollar.
:. The lending Of Its credit for the con
. struction of artesian wells by the county
! was and is necessarily a costly expert
ment. But the board Of commissioner.
had the sanction of the people and no Re
publican has ever offered a word of pro
u test. If the expense has been create,
y than it ought the voters are referred Il
!. the former Republican chairman Of til,
board, Mr.. ]. j. Gregg, who was TIN
. prime mover in the present artesian wei
era, who purchased all outfits and VIII
had the supervision Of all contracts.
There never was a time in its histor,
d when Brule county stood so we'll fnanc
: tally as to-day; no time when its credi
stood so high. The assertion that count,
warrants are worth but so cents is
r barefaced lie. Commissioner Wilkes ha
a standing offer Of 9s cents on the dolla
s for 5000 in warrants. z. r. Tinan ba
I. been paying SO cents for warrants for
year and is unable to get enough of them
: and stands ready to take at par to-da,
every existing warrant Brule county ha
+ outstanding if the Republican campaign
r liars will deliver them, and there is no
a bank in Brule county hut what jump
at warrants at 9S cents. When the Re
] pablicans had complete control of BruI,
county warrants were never above 8:
cents until G. II. Tinan raised them to 95
0 where they hung until the past year o.
so.
t No wonder that the better class of Re
publicans in the county openly denounc,
Q those dastardly, lying circulars which
the authors were ashamed to sign thei
name to.
/ The Republicans of the county rcaliz.
3 fully that there is no possibility of elect