Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-10-22
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will naturally come to his mind next
and he will tell why he iilibustered
against the confirmation OF General
Sheafe while protesting the most pro-
found friendship for that gentleman.
Unkind people say this seeming double
dealing was due to the fact that Gen.
Sheafe's company holds a $1,000 mort
gage on the senator's property, but
those who know the senator have full
confidence he will be able to clear him
SELF of the charge with a few fiery SEN
fences and a few eloquent sweeps OF
bis hand.
He will also tell the people why it Is
claimed the books of the Great North
ern Railroad Company show he receiv-
ed $4,000 with which to secure tho
right Of way for that road from Sioux
Falls 10 Yankton, when these two cities
bonded themselves to raise $1,000 or
more for the same purpose, and when
the last named sum was the generally
accepted estimate of the total cost. lie
viii also say to prove himself worthy
OF the immaculate company with which
he now processes TO train, that he was
mistaken two years ago when he told
a number Of parties that President
Hill of the same line Of road gave him
$4,000 for campaign expenses to sup
plement $4,000 given him by Comeron
Of Pennsylvania. His possession Of a
township or SO OF Washington pine
lands, supposed to have been former
~ owned by the same Mr.. Hill, Will DO
touched upon, too, because uncharita-
bic people have unlindly limited that
title 10 the lands passed TO Mr.. Petit
grew very soon after the passage Of u
certain amendment to the timber cul-
ture laws that quieted Mr.. Hills title
TO a tract extending ten miles or so on
each side OF the river at Great Falls.
This piece Of legislation, it will be re-
membered, was inserted In q conference
report, contrary 10 the rules, and
all OF the conferee5 except Mr.. Petit
grew denied all knowledge Of.
He will likewise interest his audience
by explaining why he particularly
championed the clause in his Indian ap-
preparation ill q few weeks ago which
provided for 500, 600 attorney fees in
connection with payments Of ~annuities
10 the Sisseton and Santee Indians,
when Mr.. Allison opposed it on the
ground that the services of attorneys
we're entirely unnecessary and that the
fees were crlminaliy eXorbitant. Then
this matter OF attorney fees may recall
TO his mind his connection with his
side partner, John II. King, in certain
other Indian reservation deals, but az
the amounts involved in these deals
were inconsidcrable, compared with the
100000 transaction, he may see fit to
pass them over or touch upon them
lightly.
When the speech drifts to state issues
he will naturally give some very good
reason for having concealed the defal-
cation OF cX-TrcasuTcr Taylor, when
the Populists claimed he knew all about
IL several months before Taylor de-
camped from the state with all is
available assets. His Populist friends
say he knew all about the unfortunate
affair but kept it secret for fear Of tho
effect II would have upon his own cleo.
ton to the senate-a matter of vastly
greater importance, Of course, than the
financial welfare Of the commonwealth.
An exposure might have saved much
TO the treasury, but it might also have
jcopardlzed the legislature. OF course
he will clear up the misunderstanding
surrounding his payment to a private
PARTY Of $1,000 he had borrowed from
Taylor, when he knew the ex-treasurer
was a dcfaulter TO the state. He will
also add a missing link in the chapter
OF the investigation which shows a
loan Of $500 was forced back upon him
from the proceeds Of this payment and
still as far as the testimony goes, re-
mains in his hands. All these things
and many more in the same connection
will be made perfectly clear.
There are many other things he may
explain in order 10 prove his right to
associate with purists like Chairman
Kidd, Bowler and Cherry, unless he Ee-
l,cvcs that when he took the plunge at
ST. Louis and landed chin deep in blood
with Waite. Cyclone Davis, Jerry Simp-
son, Herr Most and others Of that ilE,
tho baptism washed all former deeds
| away and entitled him TO wear the robe
and whiskers. But for this absolutiOn
he might even explain the stories OF his
enemies to the effect that certain real
estate near the government building ar
Sioux Falls was sold to a syndicate NJ
personal eastern friends .or $4,000,
upon the representation that it was
worth that sum, when later litigation
showed II was worth but half that
amount: how warranty deeds were Civ
en- to mortgaged property in Sioux
Falls upon the representation the 1t
was urincumtered; how a quit CAIN
deed was obtained in the long ago to
eighty acres Of land in the same hal
lowed precincts, which transaction. re-
port says( gave him his start upward
in finance and downward in morals;
how the returns Of Moody county e
thrown ont and an attempt made to
secure a seat in the legislature by
means that i'm the case of most other
persons would lie considered criminal,
etc, etc. In fact, if he has the time. he
will probably explain a score or more
Of other charges involving even graver
things that we're hurled at him two
years ago by his friend, Chairman Kidd
through the columns Of his paper, al
though it Is but fair to the senator to
say he cannot lie expected TO spend all
the time that is left of the campaign in
this CITY. Mr.. Kidd has forgiven him
and taken him to his bosom, and no
doubt wants to pass him along TO other
communities that have need Of enlight-
enment. Time is valuable-less than
sixty days intervene between this date
and election. 1t is believed the
tors audience will recognize this fact
and be willing TO excuse him after ne
has touched upon the calumnics Of his
Populist friends that are specified here
in, leaving other and harsher ones to
somo other delightful occasion when
Ringmaster Kidd sees fit to preclpitate
him Gin our midst"
He can, however, if his breath holds
out. do a graceful act for his friend
Kidd by ~CXpounding that gentleman's
great financial discovery Of how to pur-
chase potatoes with checks that have
no funds behind them-a discovery, by
the wav. that Is said TO have caused