Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-11-04
POLITICAL POINTERS.

The populists have p~ersistently circu-
lated a falsehood that @. H. Burke is a
railroad attorney. MI. Burke has new
or directly or indirectly been in the
employ of any railroad nor has he ever
received n cent of compensation
from a railroad. This falsehood is
merely a sample of those upon which
the populist campaign has been based.
1t has been learned that the populist
managers, in a desperate hope to
brighten the voters and mislead them
into voting the fusion ticket have ar
ranged to spring during the last week
of the campaign a number of veno-
nous roorbachs. This is a fitting Gull
mination of a campaign devoted to
Islander.
From the beginning the fusion pa
pers and orators have avoided discus
sion of principles or issues and have
devoted themselves to putting forth
~falsehoods against the republicans,
unable to meet republican argument
ut any point. They have tried to
smother the issues With a torrent of
mud. Their allegations have been
completely and promptly refuted.
Driven to desperation they propose to
wind up the campaign with charges ut
terly without foundation but sprung
too late for refutation. Voters should
remember that any charges issued ut
this time are patent falsehoods since,
had they been genuine, they would
have been utilized early in the cam
paign. Intelligent men will not only
meet these roarbacks with disbelief
but will resent the depravity which or
iginates them and the imputation on
the intelligence of this state.
A singular condition confronts the
republicans of this state. They are
opposed by a fusion of the remnants
of the populist and democratic parties.
All the old leaders of the populists,
james H. Kyle, II. l.. Loucks and Mel
Grigsby and ali the old leaders of the
democratic party including Bartlett
Trip, Mark Sheafe, p. +. Wickham,
Col. Steel and DIR. Flick, the men
whose earnest, ability and clean meth
DDS built up the two parties, have with
drawn their support from the fusion
lists because of the record made and
with a large section of the rank and
file are supporting the republicans.
The remnants of the democratic and
pupulist parties are being led today by
r.. f. Pettigrew, U. s. G. Cherry, G. S.
Palmer and three or four other dis
credited republicans who we're turned
out of the republican party in 1896 and
who today form the most selfish, pitt
less aud corrupt machine ever known
in this state.
The populist committee have opened
up and continued a campaign of vitu-
peration, hypocrisy and SANDER. AS
a sample of their desperate efforts to
retain their hold upon the people of
the state w. z. Kidd, chairman, and H.
w. Sawyer, secretary, w their names
have sent out to thousands of voters
in the state, each one being addressed
as "the most influential' man, a PER-
soNAL LETTER, dated October ID, 1893,
in which they make this statement
that "the railroad companies are fur
nishing 100000, with which to de
bauch the voters of the state and elect
the ticket named at Mitchell" Not q
dollar has been received by the repub.
lican committee and Messrs. Kidd and
Sawyer knew this statement to be a
malicious falsehood. This precious
pair of moral philosophers also gave
this direction: "Teach them that to
accept the money and vote their primo
iples is a less offence than to accept
the money and vote against their con-
convictions.
Every republican who honors the
great founders and leaders of the par
ty, who endorses the great policies of
protection and sound money, which
have brought about the returning
prosperity of the country generally,
and who wish to see those policies con-
tinue will this year vote the repu blican
ticket. The issue of this campaign is
quite as important to the state and the
country as that of 1896. The election
of Mr.. Mckinley and the passage Of
the Dingley law have changed the
sharpest depression with its multitude
of failures, its low prices, its Coxey
armies, its fears and dis nay into active
trade, higher prices, better wages, em-
ployment for every one, confidence
and good times ON the farm, in the
work shop and at the merchants