The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-21
SOME STRAIGHT TALK
~FUSlONISTS OF NEBRASKA,
READ AND REFLECT.

READ AND REFLECT.
Don't Get Excited MT the Gra]ndilouuent
Sayings of Republicans About alleged
Ref"rmers"-Thcirs is the Courage
Born OF Desperation and Despair.
1t has been II privilege, for the
past several years, totalk to the fusion
lists OF Nebraska, and or many oc-
casions we have not hesitated to sound
an alarm if we believed the situation
warranted it. Up to the present time
we have not received complaint hat
our talk was amiss or remiss. and We
take much pride in this fact. When
one fights for principles he knows arc
such that. when adopted, will aid the
people and bless mankind, he cannot
go far wrong if he sticks to them.
We have not lost faith in the people
yet, and as long as they continue to
keep their eye fastened on the princi-
pies we are laboring to have adopted.
and do not wander away in search of
strange gods and fatted calves, we will
keep faith with them, and continue to
labor for their good.
We know that much has transpired
to dishearten many of the rank and
file, but II steady plodding along will
get us to our destination in the course
OF time, providing We do not let the
enemy slip logs Of discomfort and doubt
under our vehicle and tumble us up
INTO a tangled mass of humans, each
looking to his wv welfare rather than
jointly working to destroy the fell dis
turbcr. We cannot afford to allow
ourselves to be spilled out by any such
instructions. 1t is for us to watch
the ~lcad-horses and to keep them
in the pathway. and if We do not do
duty we owe to Others not so fortunate
as we are. Any cause, however Just.
is rarely won without battles. and
ours, even though extremely Just. can
not be VOL except by hard fighting.
sacrifices and self-denial. Being men
who want to do the best VIC can for
others. we car afford to do these things
without loss Of self-rcspect.
Now brothers, we have Il task be
fore us this fall, and whether this task
be difficult or easy depends upon our
ability and Willingness to do it. Any
problem is difficult to solve if We hest
late about entering into it's solution:
any task is hard to accomplish if VIC
engage in it weighted down with doubt
and disScnsion as to how it shall be
done.
We are to builG the pedestal this
fall for the shaft OF success VIC will
erect next fall. We are to build a
structure strong enough for the march
ing hosts of bimetalliSm to cross ovcr
into the promised land of peace, plenty
and progress, where the people do not
forget the Declaration OF Independence
no hat they have "a Constitution to
live under. With all this in prospect.
shall VIC be SO unwisc as to allow self
ishness to colnc in and tear us asundcro
No. no. We cannot do it Too much
Is ut stake for that. BETTER far that
we throw all self-consideration aside,
and think only of how best to secure
/ Der.
1t is the purpose of this article to
call the rank and tile to arms and
arouse them to Il sense of their duty.
In the selection of "A candidate for
supreme judge this fall, the people
have the responsibility in common. 1t
is the people who select the delegates
to attend county conventions. and if
the privates select the proper non-com-
missioned Office. the latter will select
the right kind of commissioned officers.
Start right and you will surely end
right.
The place to start right is ut the
primaries where you select delegates
to county conventions. When YOU
select the right kind of material here.
you need have no fear that a faulty
ticket will confront you at the polls.
The time TO select delegates for
county and state conventions an
proachcs. and the men who want good
candidates to vote for must Immediate
ly go to work and succeed in having
such delegates selected as will 20 to
these conventions and do their share
in nominating good. clean and able
men for office. Pay attention to the
small Offices as we'll as to the larger
ones.