Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-10-25
"a Gang Of Assassins."

l1iat Id lii viz iItIhtNs iaot WIN
calls the REPORTER AND FARMER IN
regard to u expose of senator
Kyle's vote on sugar. Now Mr.. kel-
ley, that is strong argument to show
that we misrepresent kyle's vote on
sugar. To call us an assassin-to
call us a murderer-that is strong
argument, indeed. But that is Just
the kind of argument you are making
this year. If we misrepresented.
why don't you 60 on and show
wherein we misrepresent. Show
one word in our article that is
false. You have not done it and
you cannot, and that is why you call
us an assassin murderer. You
are the man, Boss Kelley, who is ma
king the false statements and you
know it, therefore we are assassins-
murderers.
Now you recollect some three
weeks ago your paper contained an
article headed IA lie nailed" You
accused us and other Republicans of
lying because we said Kyle voted
for a duty on sugar. We took up
your article and showed by the con
gressional record that it was you who
lied yourself, and not us. Kyle him
self admitted he voted for a duty on
sugar, and since that time there has
not been a peep from you on that
falsehood.
You made the statement that when
Dakota was divided into North and
South, that we got all the public in
situations and North Dakota had to
build hers, and that was why taxes
were SO high under a populist admin
istration in North Dakota; but we
took up hat question and showed
that North Dakota had the capital
building and penitentiary and other
institutions, showing your statement
to be false, and there has not been a
peep>out of you on that question
since.
Then, when We heard the speech
of Kyle and how he lodged about in
regard to his vote on sugar, we took
up the congressional record and
showed how Kyle voted twice with
the Republicans for free sugar. and
then on the final vote deserted his
forces and went over body and soul
to the democrats and helped them
vote a tax on sugar. Now, you do
not disprove n word we have said
in regard to Kyle's sugar action, but
say we are assassins. That is very
strong argument indeed.
You now say it was Pettigrew who
voted for the sugar trust, not Kyle.
Now right here you state another in
formal falsehood, and you know bet
ter and we will prove it by the con-
gressional record. Senator Petit
grew did, on the 9th. day of June,
move TO strike out of the sugar
schedule the one-eighth and one
tenth a sent a pound, but left the 40
per cen just precisely what Kyle
done ON the 3rd. day of July, as
shown on page S4l5 of the record.
If that was v%illainy in Pettigrew, it
was villainy in Kyle also.
You say hat when Kyle on July
3rd, moved to amend section 1921 by
striking out the one-eighth and one
tenth of a cent, that Pettigrew
was not among the voting.
Now that is a false statement-a lie
out of whole cloth, and you know it,
If you have fead the congressional
record. Mr.. Kelley, will you please
state why you persist in making such
false statements? On page S4l6,
is the record of the vote on Kyle's
amendment to section 1924 and the
record on that page shows that Petit
grew voted for kyle's amendment.
Senator PETER made a motion to
strike out the whole of 1872! and pre-
scented the question of free sugar.
The record on page 1929 shows that
Pctt:grew voted in favor of PETERS
amendment. On page S491, Petit
grew vas present when the final vote
was taken and did not vote for the
tax on sugar in the Wilson bill, but
stated when the vote was being
taken that he was paired with Cam
den, of West Virginia, who would
vote for the tax if present, and that
he (Pettigrew) would vote against it,
If not paired with Camden. We in
vite anyone to come and see this
record, that is just as we say.
The difference between YOU and
the editor of the REPORTER is that
when we say you are false, we prove
it by the record and you never cheep
afterwards, but say we are assassins,
liars and bad men generally which
is very convincing argument indeed.
Why don't you trot out the Record and
show that we lie in these matters?
Don't YOU know that by deceiving
and lying TO the people in regard to
these matters, YOU hurt your party?