Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1893-12-22
The Farmers Leader
AN OPEN LETTER.


To N. c. NASH: In your paper OF the 18th
inst you fill nearly four columns with articles
by yourself and MI. Rudolph, rejecting upon
me- eplied the Daily Advocate in order
that it might be read as soon as possible after
the charges were made. You replied in the
Advocate and assign as reason for assaulting
me that s.Mr Kennedy went out OF his way to
insult us.'' challenge you to show one SEN
tence in Justices article that in any manner
reflects on you. You close your last article
with the statement that If Mr.. Aennedy;don't
want to play ball unless he can pitch all the
time he might as well quit. He must take his
turn as catcher if he stays in the game
will stay in the game to a finish, not for the
purpose OF traducing your character, butto de-
fend my own.
A discussion OF your character is of no public,
interest other than MS Won appear as public
teacher conducting public newspaper, as such
the people have: q right to know the character
of the man who poses as leader OF public
tn ought and whose paper goes into the family
circle will not discuss your character cnly!
as it appears in the attacks you have made
upon me- II in these attacks you have left
the door to your heart ajar and your true
charaster appears to the public, am not te
blame Do SOU catch?%
For yearscertain parties in the city OF Can
ton, envious of my success in business and
desirous Of searing me down, have been quietly
circulating Infamous falsehoods ssgainst nae
and trying to poison the public mied, threaten
ing that 1t I ever became candidate for
public offlce they would show me up to be an
famous. Mash, you are one Of these parsass.
Do you ca t1h:
After was nominated for judge you began
your insinnations evidently relying on these
ISLANDERS temake yourself understood, but Like
q coward rot daring to publish facts, notTith-
standing you were challengedto to do SO. Was
this honorable: Do you catch9
Again you say with reference to articles ap-
pearing in the LEADER that ':some OF the
meanest ones Mr.. Kennedy proudly claims as
his own preduction."s You simply Lie. Ineith-
er claimed nor wrote any editorials appearing
in the LEADER but will leave this to Mr..
Linu, he is.ahle to write and defend his own
editorials.
During the campaign you took especia al ,pains
to clandes timely circulate among grand army
men an infamous pension story which was .ab-
solutely false and since your vicious attack of
last week, you have stated that If sued you
for libel yonuwould publish this story. and also
. record certain parties now had ON me, L now
demand that you publish your pension STORY as
b road as you sneakingly circulated it. and
warn you to publish truth only. also ahal-
lenge you to publish your record in its entirety.
II selected and garbled parts of it are published
I will publish the whole. You and others
egging you on have repeatedly circulated this
record story and Thought you were holding it
over me as club Publish it and the reosrd
itself will show the infamy of your charge. If
YOU fail to show the truth of your pension rec-;
ord stories, as broad as you circulated them,
then stand convicted before the Grand Army IN
Dakota as a slanderer and liar. Do you catehs !
During the campaign you published the mean 4
insinuation that c. B. Kennedy's nomination \
for supreme judge was enough to make John
Schoen turn over in his grave" Was this insin- |
uatien without facts manly It was ghoullsh
to 90 down into the grave Of an honest man for
campaign thunder, and merits the condemn
alton of common humanity In another issue
YOU said in substance ''if there we're skunks to
be skinned ana the biggest skunk was assigned
to you you had the tools to skin it with dis
patch" You referred to me and in doing SO
didn't you again leave the door to your heart
ajar and allow the world to get glimpse. of the
vulgarty malice, hatred and brutality within? !,
Do you catch?
In another issue you made the mean insinu-
alton that was unfit for supreme judge. Why
did you not publish facts and allow me an
opportunity to reply. Such q course would
have been atleast honorable. But honorable
OF political opponent is not part
OF your ethics. DO you catch:
When the election was over and your ticket
had won you filled nearly column of your
paper with savage gloatings over my defeat !
and held me up to ridieue because did not |
carry my own county in the face of the fact
that ran ahead of my ticket, cast the largest |
vote of any man on it, and reduced the republi-
can majority over two hundred.
In gloating over NY defeat did you emu !