The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-09-30
THE ISSUE ACCEPTED.

The republican party of Pennington county has placed it's
ticket before the people and stated its position on the issues of
particular Importance to the taxpayers of this county and
state. Through it's committee on resolutions the republican
convention Of Pennington county endorsed the platform of hy-
pocrisy and deception adopted by the recent state convention
at Mitchell, endorsed the candidates named at that convention
and declared for the rigid and economical management of
county Offices"
Through the nominees placed before the people of this
county by the Peoples Party of Pennington county in conven-
ton assembled yesterday, the issue as outlined by the republic
cans is accepted. The gauntlet thrown down by the republic
can party has been taken up and the contest is on.
Pennington county republicans endorse the Mitchell plat
form and it's candidates. The Mitchell platform is a fraud, a
deception and a makeshift. 1t declares in favor of the present
railroad law, which was given the state by the silver 1egis1a-
ture of 1897. That declaration of the republican state plat
form was dictated and written by the same paid railway cap
pers that are today employed in a legal capacity by the rail
roads of the state to DEFEAT the very law which that plank
pretends to endorse!-and Pennington county republicans in
convention assembled approved of this brazen Hypocrisy!
They also endorse the candidates named at Mitchell, two
of which are today under the ban of gravest suspicion, charged
by MEMBERS OF THEIR OWN PARTY with crimes of a penal
character! One of these republican candidates has spoken
and indirectly CONFESSED his guilt, while the other-kirk q.
Phillips, republican candidate for gov~ernor-wisely avoids
facing the charge against him, either to affirm it or to deny it.
And Pennington county republicans endorse these nominees!
They also declare for the rigid and economical manage
n1ent of county Offices Why did they not practice this doc
trine when they were in possession Of every office within the
gift of the good people of Pennington county?-THE UNION
asks why? Every steal that has ever been rairoaded
through to rob the struggling taxpayers of this county can be
charged up to republican rule! Every piece of political job
berry and favoritism which added weight to the taxpayers
burden has been the fruit of a republican administration Of
county affairs! Pennington county was run almost hopelessly
into debt, it's credit was wrecked and it's warrants sold as low
as As cents on the dollar. Now comes the republican party of
this county, with this black record as it's best recommendation,
and, pleading penitence, declares that it favors a 'rqid and
economical management Of county of6ces!' What reason have
the taxpayers to expect that the republicans of this county
and ask yourself the question. Such declarations come cheap,
but the official records at the court house are what tell the
story. Similar declarations were not uncommon at the very
time when the county was being robbed by republican officials!
Do they mean any more now than they did then?
The party represented by the nominations made in Rapid
City yesterday has had control of county affairs for two years.
Warrants have risen from 50 cents on the dollar to IS cents.
The county is paying CASH as it goes for materials furnished
from $4,000 per year under republican rule to less than
$685. 900 under populist rule. This year the county debt has
been reduced over S9,000-the first occurrence of the kind in