Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-10-20
Political pick-ups.

Rs A0'o DCCu uyiuS w Siuh-
der Kirk Phillips by asserting that
he retained large sums of money in
the banks that should have been
used to pay off the states indebted
ness. They openly assert that they
can rely on the Ignorance of the
people to believe them. 1t is well
known that all state warrants are
paid when presented. Bonds are
redeemable after a term of years.
Wheneve or bonds be come redeemable
Kirk Phillips as Treasurer Of the
State has paid them. He could not
pay them before because the holders
would not allow it. Yet intelligent
people are asked to sit for hours and
listen to these P. p. P.'s charge Kirk
Phillips with holding public funds
they art requested to believe it too.
1t would be possible to go on
for great length citing acts Of Mr..
Lee. His record as Governor stands
out in letters of fire compelling at
entieG from the honest taxpayers of
this state. 1t demonstrates that the
man who rode into office of a wave
of reform sentiment is utterly unfit
to be the governor of a great state.
1t shows hat he came to the gov
e%rnor's seat a professional who has
been willing to barter any principle
to gain a personal pecuniary end,
That he employed the most nefar-
ious means to bride and bulldoze
through the Legislature schemes for
the personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of him
self and his friends.
That he used his veto power not
to improve the Legislation of the
state, but to vent his personal spite,
pay tor votes he had bought and to
punish honest Legislators who refused
to sell their consciences to him.
That he allied his appointive o FL
ces with men whom he knew to be
utterly unworthy of trust, but who
were pledged to support his personal
aspirations.
That after starting in response to
universal public demand to prose-
cute a republican delinquent official
he suddenly dropped the proseou.
ton Lecause he found hat his own
appointee was likewise delinquent.
That be retained the latter in of.
fee for months after his criminal
practices were made public and only
dismissed him in order to get pos
session Of patronage for use in brib.
ing newspapers.
That while fully appraised that
one OF his appointees was a default
er and had fagrantly violated the
law he shielded him from prose Gu
ton or even public reprobation
and still protects him in his defalca-
ton.
That he tried to force the attorney
general to give a wrongful opinion
TO permit money to be illegally
taken from the treasury by his strik-
ers.
That he openly violated the law
and grossly abused honored officers
in re-organizing the militia.
That he turned out an honored
veteran and citizen of this state from
the command of the South Dakota
regiment, in order to appoint a nom
resident who happened to be his per-
sonal friend.
That be grossly libeled another
honored citizen and brave soldier
because he refused to father the gov
errors illicit schemes.
That be attempted to lie out of
this and several Of the preceding
o~ffenses but was forced latsr to adj.
NIT the falsity of his defenss.
That to vent his spite upon one
man he grossly insulted a regiment
of brave soldiers on their way to de-
fehd the country's Gag.
That he attempted to ruin the
states credit by re~pudiating its
bonds on a technicality.
That he attempted to make a rail-
road assessment which he knew the
courfS wonld dacl.ra ;lIar.l Ill