The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-02-06
THE KIMBALL GRAPHIC
cLATE R. TINAN.
Official Pauer Of the Citv and Gouniy
THAT FINE ITALIAN HAND AGAIN.

'NdoeVu any pOAttGdl IdNU1S vi eulUlu-
ments he must first consult the self-con-
stituted oracles-or oracle-at The west
end of the county-then he had TO fight
for 1t or get left. In some way or other
Kimball aspirant for an office OF any
consequence within the gift of the Re-
publican party or nati0 nal-at
once invites the attacks aud scuriie in
uendoes OF some unprincipled sheet at
the west end, that when certain big(?)
man down that way takes stuff
sneezes like house fire. There isn't
all instance on record where Kimball
paper has ever lent itself to any such
dirty work TO please any man or any
cOterle of individuals. The fact that the
Republicans at this end Of the county
have more than once overmatched the
west end in political conventions and in
other ways has not helped things any,
but simply made matters worse. The
climax was reached wien the convention
of two years ago literally mopped the
floor with wOuld.be boss rr0nl Cham
herlain.
The bitterness exhibited toward l.. A.
Foot in his candidacy for lieutenant
governor, as sequence, is we'll known.
A few. too, may have heard something
or other Of the dirty attempt OF the
PuEwanaPress to injure him through
out the state pending the state conven-
tion. Asa Democratic newspaper the
GRAPHIC might have laid itself open to
comment had it at the lime referred to
this bit of contemptible business in the
terms it deserved. but now that the cam
paign is passed it is not out Of the way
to thus indirectly mention the matter
| and to call attention more particularly
to the last nasty work of the Pukwana
Press. 1t happens that E. P. Ochsner is
a candidate for the office of Indian
agent at Crow Creek, in which he has
secured the endorsement OF about
seveEty-tive OF the most prominent Re-
publicaGs In the state. lie had the
effronttry to do all this. however, with
!! out the permission Of any tin or cast-iron
god at Chamberlain, or without con-
sulting with any individual or persons
who may have become imbued with the
idea that the Sioux Indians are for the
exclusive picking Of a few men at
Chamberlain. His offending was great:
When the fellows down there found it
out word is sent to Puk. and the Press
has fit and steps in it.
Now, il all that the Press says of
! Ochsner is true, what does it all amount
to? The Press says that two years ago
the state senator appeared to Go the en-
tire ticket with Mr.. Ochsner. By the
way the Democrats and Populists we're
chasing foote little idea of that kind
by MIR. Oclsner was excusable. Ii the
! Democrats and Pops had had a little
more help from certain ward in Cham
berlain we would have skinned Lewis
Alton in very nice shape. Had it not
been for the most strenuous efforts OF
Foote'S friends at this end of the county
we would have never let the Republican
party of this county been represented in
the senate. 1t was a most fortunate
thing for Mr.. Foote and his party that
he had friends and workers like E. p.
Ochsner. Maybe that's what's biting
the Press. The Pukwana sheet also says
that because the Republican candidate
for the senator last fall was not Just
the man Mr.. Ochsner wanted accounts
for the loss Of about twenty votes in
Kimball on state senator. Pure rot.
Kaufman ran behind Anderson, republi-
can representative, just five votes, while
Foote lost IA votes in one ward alone IN
Chamberlain two years ago. Mr.. Ochsner
could not have added one vote for state
senator if he had tried. Kauffman's
nameiwas Mud. like the rest OH the ticket
with him. The other reasons the Pres s
gives why a Chamberlain man should
have the place Mr.. Ochsner has aspired
to are even less trivial than those noted
Were it not for the animus shown and
the despicable methods Of the boss
further down the road, the article would
not be worth noticing at all.
The GRAPHIC and its editor personally
has been up against E. z. Ochsner in a
good many hard-fought campaigns and
it has yet to know of single in.
stance where he has not been work. ne
harder for the success of the entire
ticket of his party than any man We
met. In fact. there is no Republican the
Democratic party at this end Of tho
county would rather see locked up dur
ing the campaign than Ed. Ochsner. Il
was so in the last campaign. To cas-
reflections upon party worker Of E. P
Ochsner's standing shows how really
! small newspaper can be when undel
bad influence. The Democratic part!
has no bouquets for E. P. Ochsner, bu
! from his own party he is deseryin;
of much. The GRAPHIC knows more o
Mr.. Oclsner's loyalty and fidelity to Iii
party in this county than the Press o
any jealous politician at Chamberlain
can ever know of ANYTHING that ssqnar
and white and reputablc-and ever,
Democrat and every Republican who ha
honesty about him will endorse what ",
say Of him. He is not only straigh
out and ont Republican. but he is one O
the most liberal, enterprisiDg AMI wide
J awake business men Brule county ha
ever known. His time, his money an
his work have been given freely not onl
to his rarty. but to oyery movement tina
would help his town, his county or hi
state. The GRAPHIC is not alone anon
Democrats who like TO see such men re
ceive of their party em0lnments what
has to give. and who dispise dirty, under
handed work even when heaped upon
political opponent.
The free silver Republicans up q
Pierre, under Pettigrew's magnificen
finesse, are the whole thug, and the WA