Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-01-12
Objects YU OUR ALLUsIyN.

Oh stupidity /! the righteousness
of thy blunders is only exceeded
by the denseness of thy gall
The STAR incidentally referred
to the Hot Springs Herald as
populist sheet in an article alluding
to the change that has apparently
come over the independent party
of this state in its attitude toward
Senator Pettigrew, and our re-
marks evidently hit a sore spot,
for our contemporary wakes hot
over it. Hear it:
"'Ihe wonderfully wise. and peculiar
IL cute and unusually astnt q gentlemen" :"
self constituted law-g,vers," ''have n"
authority to call the Herald a pOp,,iist
paper. Aud when We pive them u tit
for tat i'y calling the >TAna republic =
d-mo-goli bug sheet they W II swell up
IN the neck and get hot in the collar
aud d~nnunce the utterallce :,s n ill ell
eninating from u snurcp unworthy uf
notice. This may perhaps he Il little
rank. hut it rests OH precisely as good
ground us that winch excuses tll. STAR
in questioning the repuhlicanism of the
ilerald. Facts may just as well be adj
United"
Thus the Herald contends, or
biography and all, in a labored
article nearly column long. We
do not know what "cute," and
"astute gentlemen" and "self-
constituted law givers" call the
Herald, but if they should class it
as a republican paper they would
certainly not be very cute or astute.
If that sheet can produce anything
that it has uttered that would lead
one to infer that it is republican
newspaper, it could use its space
to no better advantage than by re-
producing such articles, providing,
Of course, that it cares any thing
for what the public thinks of its
political creed. The STAR onlv
regrets that the Herald has not
proven itself republican. But
'facts may just as we'll be admit
ted" Will the Herald admit of
the fact that it has not in any way
proven itself a republican news
paper since its present publisher
assumed charge? Will it admit
of the fact that during last falls
campaign it never had line favor
able to any portion of the republi
can ticket? Will it admit of the
fact that il has not taken the stand
of republican in all the news
paper controversy that has been
going on in the United States re.
garding the all-important question
of tariff? Will it admit of the fact
that whatever it may have said
upon any political question has
been more in keeping with the
populistic dogmas than with repub
licanism, as per the republican
platform And will the Herald
admit that it is in favor of nomi-
mating good, true republicans for
the legislature-and good, true re
publicans for all ofices-and then
doing its best toward helping elect
them?
All the STAR seeks is straight
facts.
1t may require little expert
testimony upon the part of the
Herald to convince the public as
to what its politics really is, from
its past course as we'll as by the
snarling manner in which it speaks
of the ''gold-bug monopolistic wing
of the republican party" and its
'.branches." If it proves itself a
republican we shall be glad, and
hope it might continue to merit
the name.
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But here is a gem of wisdom
that we desire to reproduce from
the Herald's last effort, in order
that the people may comprehend
the full and final status of affairs,
and that they may be assured that
somebody or something is expected
to live or die, and learn, and have
being, and ideas-"of our own"
and all such things, regardless