Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-11
The Mitchell Convention. and what
Mr.. Sheldon said.

49,
several other Independent sheets in
the State, a quotation from Mr..
Sheldon's speech as Chairman of
theMitchel Republican convention
of two years ago. The quotation
Is cut out of the center of the sd-
dress, especial care being taken not
to mention what he did say about
our foreign citizens. What he did
say was this, and every member of
that convention will recognize its
fidelity to the language of that ad-
dress:
81 desire to say to this conyen-
zion that it is a matter of humIli-
iation and regret to many intelligent
farmers in that portion of the State
from which we have come, that a re-
Gently naturalized importation from
Canada, whose ignorance, as we con,
ceiye, of the character and duty OF
the true American citizen is only
equalled by his impudeuce and i'll
sincerity, should aspire to the high.
est Office within the gift of the
people of this State and seek espec
tally for his followers among the
class to which We belong"
Mr.. Sheldon's idea was this, he,
with every other citizen, believes
that we stand upon the same poll
teal level, with no abridgement OF
our privileges or possibilities, save
such rs we ourselves impose. That
it is the unquestioned right of any
man to aspire to Office and 60 be.
fore all the people with his claims.
He does not believe in any attempt
to create what is called class legis.
ton, or to array one portion Of oui
people against the rest. lie knew
that Loucks had been nominated
for Governor on the 9th of July,
and was naturalized on the 18th oil
August following. He knew thai
Loucks had lived here for a term Of
years protected by our laws, to the
supremacy Of which, for four and 4
half years as a soldier, Mr.. Sheldor
had helped to contribute. That
during the time of Loucks residences
here, he had owed allegiance to NJ
government, loved no government.
beyond the reach Of his Sovereign
Not liable at any time to the per
Torrance of military duty, let tn
demand be ever so urgent, HI
could whistle the "Star Spanglec
Banner" out of one side of hi
mouth, and "God Save the Queen.
out of the other. Mr.. Loucks, a
! head Of the Alliance, sought t
found a political party on the far
Hers' organization and make hun
!, self its chief candidate. Mr.. Shel
don had been a member of the ALI
Q ance, had been President in hi
neighborhood, believed Ill any oil
~ganization that would lead to til
Improvement of his class, morally
socially and financially; but whe.
Mr.. Loucks had selected the farm
ers as a class, because their ignoI
ance was supposed to be SO pro
found, or their understanding 8
impenetrable, that they were no
able to see through the filmy gaus
. that covered the man and his en-
deayors, he felt it to be a sad com
mentary upon the farmers of thi
State. Of whom he is one. To
latter part OF what is ioated at til
: head Of the RurHlist as a part Q
Mr.. Sheldon's speech, Is RS untru
, as the first. Mr.. Sheldon is oppos
ed to controversy, and would not
over his own signature, deny Oh
word that is printed, no matter ho'
untrue or mean.
Every member of the Mitchell
I Republican convention, will re
member that he said:
"Tne man who endeavors to ele
. yate the human race 10 a phllan
thropist, the man who takes tn
: farmers of this State, IN their de
pressed condition, by the hand, an
endeayors to infuse into them new
er hope and newer faith, encoura
ges them TO take to the p~rosecutio
of their business where it be posi-
BILE, a more ~persevering industr
and q stricter integrity, to driv
from their minds a morbid appetit
for office, i'll the absence of tina
} known or supposed fitness whIcI
ought IN every instance to determ
inc selection, which will in a major
ity OF instances determine selection
and can not always keep itself con
cealed; to avoid debt az they woul,
avoid a plague, Is their friend ant
his advice ought to be listened to
But whoever endesyors to teach u
that all the mIsfortunes unde
which We labor and all tha hur
we bear, r due to the operation o
unjust and unequal laws and NAL
administration in every danartnan