Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-10-22
LEWIS CAMPAIGN METHODS.

-Oelrichs Times free silver.
LEWIS CAMPAIGN METHODS.
The attention of our readers is
called to the following letter received
by Clerk of Courts L. II. Wells.
RAPID CITY, Oct. 8, 1897.
MIR. Thos. III. Wells, Hot Springs, S. ID.
Friend Tom:- l write you in refer
ence to the present campaign. - AS
you are aware, it is necessary for that
party %lsilver) if they ever
accomplish anything, and prevent
government by injunction, andthe con
troll of everything through corporate
greed, that they must: have the courts.
Considering the impending litigati ons,
with the railroads of this state, in re-
ference to the new railroad law, 1 am
confident that you will take an interest
In securing the election of our free sill
yer candidate. Il l write you to
request that you S all honorable
means to secure the election of Judge
McGee; Confidently believing that
you will do so anyway, without a re-
quest from me. by reason of import
and the Importance and influence eX-
ercised by the judiciary. l feel justified
in taking this liberty of writing YOU.
and my friends in the circuit urging
them in the interest of reform to do
all in their power to check the pres.
ent trend of a government by injunc-
ton. II l am. as ever.
Your friend and we'll wisher,
EDMUND Smith.
To all of which Mr.. Wells replied
and by his permission, we reproduce
extracts from his answer in part:
"As to the impending litigation
with the railroads of this state; those
questions will be determined solely, by
the Federal Courts and not the Cir
cult Courts.
"While 1 voted for MCGEE in 1893, up
on the Il question of honestly
have come to the conclusion in the
language of Bryan, that he is only
'tolerably honest after all-no more so
than you or l or Wilson, and knowing
MCGEE and Wilson from their arrival
in this country, very we'll indeed. 1
have no hesitancy in this campaign in
casting my lot with Wilson, having no
doubts at all about his being Lewis
equal from any point of observation
and as a lawyer incomparably his u
perior.
'As to the Importance and influence
exercised by the judiciary upon the
body polite, neither myself, nor the
eight hundred republicans who voted
for my deceased friend Nowlin in 1889.
BELIEVE THAT THE JUDICIARY SHOULD BY
REASON OF THEIR POSITION SEEK TO FORCE
THEIR IMPORTANCE AND INFLUENCE by
INJUNCTION uNLAwFuLLY, oRoTHERw1sE,
UPON THE PEOPLE AND THAT is ONE OF
MI REASONS Why AM NOW OPPOSING
McGEE-Judges are elected to adiudi-
cate differences between people under
the law M 1T EXISTS, by enactment by
the representatives of the people, GOOD
OR BAD, and not to swell out of their
sphere with IMPORTANCE AND INFLu-
ENcE' to switch people to vote the party
ticket they represent!
''The remainder of your Letter l will
1t attempt to refer to at all, abound
ing in such demagogery as applied to
the local situation, that / must confess
in all cnndor. that 1 should not have
believed my friend Edmund Smith
guilty of it.
81 will only say. that if the laws ia
vor the corporations, the people should
through their representatives repeal
them and enact more equitable laws.
BUT JUDGES SHOULD. NTH THAT is DONE.
DULY ENFORCE THEM REGARDLESS oFcoN-
SEQUENCES"
Do the peolpe want IL judge whose
Chief hackers howl about government
by i%niunction," and at the same time,
by their w confession, want a Judge
who will by reason of his position seek
to mse the importance and influence
exercised by the Judiciary" to further
i%ntrench & political party? Do the
people think the spirit of Judge Now
lin would approve of such base per-
version of the Importance and the in
fluence exercised by the judiciary"
la our humble opinion the people will
answer on November End, NO, a thous-
and times no. Political death must be
the punishment for such candidate as
cOuntenances such doctrines.