Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1894-01-05
The Farmers Leader
CANTON, S. d.. January lst, ls9

| CANTON, S. d., January 1st, 1894.
Mr.. N. G. NASH,
S1R:-In rerly to your "rejoinder' OF
last week notice that you declare that
your space is exhausted, which leads me
to infer that you are out of the game.
am in the game, as I have heretofore
stated, to the finish or until every lie and
insinuation and innuendo you have hurled
at me haye been refuted.
note your inside history and rs usual
with all your statements against me it is
monstrous fabrication from beginning
to end. - ,.o- #sE
The most Infamous act any man can
commit is to make public private con-
versation agreed to be personal. Inc
conversation had with you about the
manner Of conducting the campaign was
agreed between US to be strictly personal,
and you violate your agreement and
make it public. Don't you feel Infamous?
Do YOU ever expect any man will again
90 to YOU as man and frankly speak to
you? If this conversation was to be
made public, why pray, did we close the
door Why did you not then insist that
the door should be left open so that all
YOUR employees could hear what was sa' d
so that there would be no dispute in the
future. 1t was not intended to be public
it was private conversation between us
and never to be made public, and you
violate your agreement, again illustrating
| your savage nature. ~
Now for the conversation. You have
introduced it and that makes it necessary
for me to correct what you have said.
On the 18th of July you came out in
your paper with your scurrilous deadly
parallel" On Monday following | called
on you at your office and asked you what
you meant. If a campaign of mud was
intended, was ready for you. Ii you
desired to make clean campaign. was
with YOU. You said a clean campaign
was the proper one TO make but all the
facts would come out and you would not
then make any promises. On July the
21st, the next issue after our convcrsa-
tion. you came out with YOUR 'John
Schoen brutality" If you had agreed
that the campaign should be clean one,
cid you not violate it in your very next
issue? There was no agreement--you
simply lied. @&A.
Then your statement ''On account OF
that little squib which appeared in the
News, 1 had that blast put in the LEAD.
Err. wherein I was charged with having
bolted my party nominations or sundry
occasions" Again you lie. In that con-
vcrsation, nor in any other. did | ever
state or admit that I had written the
article In the LEADER.
You say: For some people know
that when the law was enacted while
YOU drew the notes at twelve per cent,
YOU charged bonus for negotiating the
loan which fully maintained your usur
ious rates OF interest," Again YOU lie
If you can find IL single loan wherein
drew the note at - per cent. and. took Z
|
will pay you the amount Of the loan
Now then find your people and prove
that the note was taken at twelve pei
cent. and bonus besides, or forever
stand an admitted slanderer and aiar.
note your brutality with reference tc
nv business success and it is SO indict
i've of your true character, that will moi
stop to notice it. .....s. .. -
With reference to the Donahue case
charge you again with falsehood. The
papers nor records show nothing like
| what YOU charge me. The Judge took
this case away from the jury; moved
for new trial and am in receipt of the
following letter from the Judge:
Yankton, S. D.. Dec. -26, 1898.
''Since returned home last Saturday
| have given some time to an examination
Of the questions involved in the Donahue
case, and nay conclusions are thaJl erred
In taking the case from the jury ana
| shall grant Il new trial. 4 .-- ~"
Asthis case will have to be tried again
| it is not proper to discuss The facts. .N
TO NC NASH, S1H:-You again indulge in
| YOUR we'll known propensity to use Infamous
insinuations and innuendos in your reference
| to my dealing with the stockholders or tne
| Bank of Canton. have been misrepresented
| and villified by you and others with reference
| to this bank until many people believe that
| actually swindled the stockholders out Of their
money and you insinuate that, not only swtn-
| died the stockholders. but also the deposltor<s
Both insinuations are Infamous lies and well
known by you to be such. and were made By
| YOU for the sole purpose of prejudicing people
against me. Justice to myself requires that I
| should give the facts with reference to that
bank case: -.' -..--
In the fall of 1886 my brother Ben and organ
| lied The American Loan and Trust Company for
| tho purpose OF negotiating real estate loans;
but before we had completed the organization
| or i.suad ,ny stock he died In order to