Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-10-28
REGARDING STATES ATTORNEY.
o Fall River County voters:-

To Fall River County Voters:-
There are several reasons why you
should vote for Albert r. Anderson
for states attorney, and there are sew
erai reasons why you should not vote
for q. NJ. Cleveland for the same office.
Albert Il. Anderson is "a lawyer of
much experience and practice. He
vas one of the best known aud most
successful criminal lawyers in Iowa at
the time of his coming TO the Black
Hills. He was for several years prose-
cutting attorney in tine Council Bluffs
district in Iowa. He was "a brave sol.
der, rising from a private to 81 lieuten.
ant-colonelcy. He is Il brave citizen,
honest in his beliefs and fearless in
his advocacy of them. But to the citi-
zens of Fall River county there is an
especial reason why he should be at
this time honored by all election. His
persistent advocacy of the establish
ment of the national sanitarium at
Hot Springs, the most recent act of
which was his magnificent speech at
the Grand Army Reunion at Cincin.
natl, by which he secured the passage
by the G.. A. II. of strong resolutions
endorsing and demanding the estab-
lishment of the sa~nitarium at Hot
Springs, certainly should recommend
him to the citizens of Fall River coun-
ty, who are all SO greatly interested in
the matter. In the opinion of the doc
tors, tho illness from which he has now
almost recovered was caused chiefly
by his efforts and over-eXertion in this
matter at Cincinnati. Governor Shell
don, at his last visit to Hot Springs on
ly IL few weeks ago, spoke of Major An
derson i'll the presence of several citi-
zens of the town us the mar who by
his work at Cincinnati had done more
towards securing the sa,itarium for
Hot Springs than both of South
Dakota's congressman put togetn-
er. Ii the people of Hot Springs and
Fail Eever county desire to show their
appreciation OF such work which can
he done only by IL few mel aud has
been done Only by this one man, let
them give Albert II. Anderson a major.
ity tor the Office OF states attorney
SUCH as has never before been known
in the county, Il majority so large that
If will uff pnnf tGn nNtn,<:,, .E Al,o
gressmen and senators and other pro-
minent men of the state and show
them that u citizens give more than
empty thanks for favors done, that if
they exert themselves for our good
they may expect to meet gratitude and
substantial reward rather than ingrati-
tude and Indifference. By electing
Major Anderson to this office by an
overwhelming majority you will not
only in the present reward most eff
Gent work but you will give to your
representatives in congress an object
lesson of which they will not be slow
to take advantage and act accordingly.
To insure such a majority every man
who goes to the polls must bear it in
mind that such a result can be accom-
plished only by each voter conscien-
tiously GUSHING his ballot as though he
had the deciding vote. The indiffer-
once upon the part Of a voter which
allows him to stay away from the polls
or which leads him to say to himself
swell, the best man will be elected any
way. 81 it makes no difference how [
vote" has beaten the best mon who cy-
err ran for Office.
On the other hand, now, the voters
of Fall River county who are property
owners and taxpayers aud have the
good of the county ut heart have IL
most excellent reason for voting
against Gilbert NJ. Cleveland for the
office OF states attorney. AS might
v been expected when our county
was young, the otiiceholders were now
and inexperienced and several errors
were made i'll the assessment aud levy
of taxes in several years which errors
were sufficient to make the tax fo,.
those years invalid. In 1883 n error
made about one-fourth of the tax
invalid aud another made all of it in.
valid. Nevertheless, the property
owners paid their tax. except u few.
These few were about to be forced to
pay the tax by means of tax sales and
the threatened Issuance of tax deeds.
Gilbert NJ. Cleveland. Il lawyer, ferret
ed out and hunted up these errors
spoken of. lie went to the men who
were about to be forced to pay their
tax and informed them of these errors
and OF the law that made the taxes i'll
valid and asked them to let him begin
suits for them to sbeat The tax" Not
only did he solicit them to begin suits.
but he offered to work on the half
shares. That is, if he failed to win the
suits, if he failed to beat the tax for
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