The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1895-09-21
THE KIMBALL GRAPHIC
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Official Pausr Of the Cityot kimbaIl
Our Compliments TO Mr.. Ryan.
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Oar warm friend and admirer down at
the county seat. Mr.. B. W. Ryan, Register
of Deeds of Brule county, has rushed in
to print again-a furor scribendi that
breaks out upon the slightest provocation.
10 be sure no one has spat In his path
this time, but that makes little differ
ence with Bennie if he can see an oppor-
tunity to get even with the county COM
missioners, and incidentally, the GRAPHIC
He simply lets ont his hat band another
notch and wades in. He has held fat
office SO long that he imagines himself
another Atlas with Brule county for his
world-that is, he did until the commits
sioners, last January, sat down on him
aud he ran against the GRAPHIc's buzz
saw shortly after. This bit of experience
would hhve been sufficient for most men
But our present register Of deeds is no
ordinary individual any more. His
swe)led head has SO dulled Ills faculties
that he doesn't know enough to ache
when he hurts himself. The screed in
this weeks Index is, therefore, n logical
sequence.
Mr.. Ryan would have it appear that
the GRAPHIC is a special champion Of
the Republican lin majority board Of
county commissioners, and proceeds to
set up man OF straw that he may pum-
mel it until his malice is exhausted.
Ever since the board refused him depu-
ty to do his work while he nursed his
rapidly bulging head and the GRAPHIC
upheld them for economizing on clerk
hire-the same board that took away
from it at that same meeting the county
printing-Mr. Ryan has nursed llls
wrath. The animus of his attack is
therefore, apparent. The article would
have come with better grace over the
signature OF some one with no ak to
grind. If Mr.. Ryan was gifted with a
loyo for strict accountability to
the letter Of the law on the part of the
county officials he has had in tic acts
of preceding boards material enough ito
fill page of the Index. Why has he re-
mained silent? Where was his prod ?
He wonders why tie GRAPHIC has not
prodded the board for this, and for that
and for the other. Yet in his own arti-
Gle he dare not come out openly and
name the county commissioner who is
guilty of the malfeasance he charges.
He criticises us for not doing that which
he is too cowardly to do himself.
If the GRAPHIC has not criticised the
board OF commissioners of Brnle county
to a greater extent than all the other
papers in the county combined, we will
make Mr.. Ryan present of it. And
why. we ask him, does he expect it to do
more of this kind of work than his pet
paper, and more than all the rest?
| That the GRAPHIC has not "prodded''
the board more is for the same reason.
probably, that we passed unnoticed the
taking away from the Kimballite the
county printing by Messrs Conaway,
Shrake and Gunderson, when Messers
Kinsella and Wilks were absent, simply
because we bought half interest in it;
for the same reason we overlooked the
cutting down of one Of the GRApHIC's
bills S2S when it was lawfully entitled
to $13 more than the hill called for; for
the same reason that we did not prod
Mr.. Ryan when--havihg himself a
"clnch'' on the Office of auditor another
year--he crowded II much better Demo-
crat out Of his Office and gaze to the Re-
publicans one of the most important
offices in the county, and for the same
reason we did not ''prol" near relative
of Mr.Ryan's when to have done SO would
possibly have injured Bennies chances
in the campaign. The public veal did
not demand it. Is the GRAPHIC ''ready
to sacrifice what little principle it has?'
Verify, but its stock of principle has
been drawn on more heavily bY Mr..
Ryan than by anyone we eknow.
1t is difficult for the best of editors to
determine lust where charity should end
and the interests Of the public begin
Every patron has his ideal of country
newspaper. But it Is hard to reform the
world on diet of liyer-as difficult as tC
hire competent county commissioner
for 1925 year.
| Most OF the charges Mr.. Ryan brings
against the board are of recent origin
alleged facts that have come to the sur
face within the past few weeks. There
is no more reason why the GRAPHIC
should have ferreted them out than any
individual. We are not the keepers o.
the commissioners. II we made a bust
ness of prying into theiNacts we coult
have kept every board in hot water tina
has sat in tn e court house for the pas
ten years. We could have made it 8,
warm for the present board and its pre-
decessor that neither Of them could hav,
floated an artesian we'll warrant at so ct
on the dollar. We have smothered ou
personal opinions in order to uphold tn
credit and good name of the county
Public sentiment has sustained tn
i
seed grain business, and we have rod
along on the flood, relying upen persona
J appeals to the commissioners individual
ly, rather than in caustic criticism
through these columns-which probabl
could accomplish no good and nigh
harm. Swine cannot appreciate pearls
and it is too much to expect that person
Of Mr.. Ryan's character can comprehen
the fine points sometimes confrontiD,
the publisher Of a newspaper.
1t has come true, however, that Will
the taxpayers Of the county, including
the most prominent business men, hav
given their consent to a system OF sink
ing artesian wells at an expense 0
thousands of dollars in excess Of VIVA
the work should cost, vet this same pub
lie is quick to jump on tho commits
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