The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-06-22
The Argus Leader gets very war

Inc Argus Loauer gets very WAT"
under the collar because We have expos
ed from time to time its hypocrisy in the
Taylor case. 1t has pretended great zeal
from the very beginning in securing the
capture and punishment OF the enibez.
zler and yet at every opportunity it has
ridiculed every effort made by the state
to capture Taylor or repair the wrong.
1t has tried to injure the work Of the
state by casting imputations upon its
sincerity in it's work of following mp the
criminal and has poured out sympathy
and encouragement to Taylor's friends
and aobetors in their efforts to rob the
state and thwart justice. Its different
positions are samples OF the most dis
honest journalism ever perpetrated up
on d decent people, and it's course has
been more injurious to the state finan-
cially and morally than ever the Taylor
embezzlement in itself could have been.
Speaking OF this feature Of the Argus
Leaders duplicity the Sioux Falls Press
says: O.
The reports which have been sent out
from this city and FROM Aberdeen, to
the effect that the state authorities have
made any such compromise with Taylor
as has been stated, have done more to
~injure South Dakota than did the en-
bezzlement and all that was connected
with it. 1t is in svitable that such re-
ports must smirch the state and damage
it's reputation much worse than did the
original crime. There was absolutely
no excuse mol pretext for the circulation
OF any such report. The truth about it
had all been printed IN The Press, and
was known to the parties who sent out
tho statement that an arrangement
amounting to compromising a felony had
ly nothing that warranted any such
thing. But now the state will have to
suffer the effects of these misrepresenta.
tions, inflicted upon it by these sensation
mongers, and will be compelled to en-
dure such slams as the extracts printed
herewith, which are only samples of
comments that are being made through.
opt the United States"
But the true inwardness of the Argus
Leaders desire to see the state bafied
in its prosecution Of Taylor, and his
bondsmen and the recovery Ut the states
money is thus suggested by the Howard
Press, whose editor knows whereof he
speaks. 1t touches both wings-Aber
deem and Sioux Falls-of the Taylor
sympatkizers:
speaking Of 'rumors,' there's one
that's been afioat for nearly six months
Of which 1t is possible the editor of the
Argus Leader has not heard. It's a real
live rumor, too, that floats somewhere
except in imagination. It was passed
about freely at Pierre last winter and
has 81 ined new impetus within the week
past. 1t is one which great many good
people fully believe, and many more
have expressed very grave suspicious
founded on very careful observation
that a Sioux Falls man is one OF two
editors 10 this State who have some of
the states money 'jingling in their
pockets II the Aberdeen News wants
TO know the name Of the other man who
is viewed with suspicion based op
observation it will have no difficulty In
learning it If it will make a little inquiry
very close home-it needn't send a repre-
sentative out through the state to &C,
quire the information.