Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-02-07
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Sioux Falls Press: The people of this
state demand of the legislative COM
mittee, oappOinted to investigate the
Taylor dedication, that it shall go to
the very bottom Of the whole miser-
able business.
No difference who may be hit, nor
where nor how he may be hit, the re-
hottest participation in or assistance to
or responsibility for this crime must
be laid bare.
No consideration OF any individual
nor any ~coterie OF individuals-no idea
Of making it easier for any politician
o r any political party-must for an In
slant stand rs an excuse for drawing it
mild.
Ii it be the case-which does not
seem likely that secrecy in the inves-
tigation would prevent Taylor and his
assistant cOnspiratOrs from securing
knowledge Of the testimony adduce0,
then secrecy might he iustifiaole.
But it Is absolutely impossible for
there to be a whisper before that COM
mittee, or in any Of its deliberations.
affecting in any degree whatever the
clandestine interests OF w w. Taylor,
without him and his friends becoming
aware OF 1t.
On the other hand, star chamber
proceedings will inevitably inspire in
the minds Of the people Of this state
and Of the country Mt large the sus-
piciOn that something is to be hidden
and mitigated and covered up.
1t is therefore demanded, by every
consideration for the reputation Of the
state, and by every oncer in the ulti-
,,,o$a gnyaiforn ri thu or,11tnr snnvt,,
that this investigation shall be SO thor
Ough and SO open and SO abOve-bO board
that not a single surmise Of any prOtec-
ton or favOritism to anybody a find
a single. hook on which to hang itself.
Not only do the principles involved
demand this, but the republican party
Of this state cannot possibly afford to
leave ANYTHING undOne which will man.
ifest its fullest determination to utterly
reject and condem and punish any mar
who nearly or remotely has been con
nected with the tremendous cOrrup'
ton Of which this state and its people
have been made the victims.
This investigation committee mus,
thew to the line, let the chips fail
where they may"-and the people o
this state must be allowed to know
that without fear. favor, fraud or af
fection' the hewing is going forward
as relentlessly as fate.
Even il pub. ictity might enable some
body somewhere to AVOID his financia
responsibility in tn, matter, 1t is inf
nitely preferable that every cent dus
the state should be irretrievably lost
than that there should be any occasion
for the public to fear that perhaps some
guilty party had been allowed to es
cape.
But, as has been said before, nothing
which any interested party really care,
TO know "A be covered up. There ar,
leaks which no bOlted doors nor NJ
oath OF secrecy can stop.
Therefore, let the Investigation bt
open-let there be no nook nor Granny
into which the fullest sunlight of truth
shall not be permitted to penetrate
let there be NO chance for any suspi
cion that anybody. high or low, near o.
remote, is being shielded in any parti
cular whatever.
1t is only by such a policy that thu
people of this state and of the countr,
at large al be satisfied, and the re
publican party BIZ relieved completely
and entirely from all OF its responsible
lily in the premises.