Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1900-03-08
WROTE TO PETTlGREW,
tor Osbon Replies to the Speech
Made by the Senator in the
Senate Recently.

Made by the Senator in the
Senate Recently.
A couple of weeks ago Senator
stigrew sent to Editor Osbon OF
Howard Spirit a copy ofa speech
made in the senate in which the
lator referred to the South Dako-
is who were conscripted into an
willing service. The editor took
hat the senator was sending him
speech for reply and Osbon
ok advantage of the occasion to
Ike an open reply to the-senator
-ough his newspaper. The letter
of sufficient interest to the public
be worthy of publication and it
thus reproduced from the columns
the Spirit.
am in receipt, uuder the senatorial
INK, OF copy of one of r. r. Petit
ew's recent fulminations. The least
IAN do is to reciprocate-at regular
stal rates.
Like Artemus Wark's kangaroo, the
nator is ''an amcosin' little cuss.'
But lie is laboring under awrong fa-
ession. He has been reading Petit.
lew y personal organ--or something
Sc as unreliable-and has been mis-
d as to the fact. That storm Of in
gnation he refers to SO feelingy ar.
we'd on time. 1t is here now, doing
lsiness at the old stand, bowling
eross the Dakota prairies like a sixty.
not blizzard. But it is whirlwind
e saw less of than he will twelve
,onths hence. Seven Dakotans in
very ten are indignant, disgusted, that
mustard seed of decency can have the
smerity to rattle around in so large a
ourd as a senatorial chair.
In plain words, Mr.. Pettigrew, Dako-
i is ashamed OF you, ashamed that
ban 80 devoid of patriotism should
hisrepresent her sentiment and stain
er honor, Ashamed with the keen,
lumiliating repugnance the apostles
slt toward Judas, the patriots at York
Town for Benedict Arno.d.
Aud when you speak, Sir, of "the
ixty boys from South Dakota who lost
heir lives, conscripted into an unwill-
ng service," you simply utter lie.
lie is harsh word but milder one
Fould fall short of describing it. /
ia IS rs fs.s,.n many boys.
yritten from San Francisco. when their
,nly fears were lest they be left be
bind, letters from Manila, when the in.
Burrection instigated by domestic trait
brs was imminent, letters written from
Ehe firing line. at Marilao, at Malolos
bat Quingua bridge. at Calumpit, at Sar
letters telling OF other let
|lers written to men in the ranks by /
|senator of the United States VINO couii
|stoop low enough to incite mutiny ane
|couusel treason, letters. dozens o
RI
Gthem, from the eighty who re-enlistee
bin spite OF the efforts of yourself ant
Eyour abettors to debaueh and dishonol
them. I spent a month with them q
ESan Francisco-where you dared no
| |go-heard from their own lips thei
views on the war Aguinaldo and Petit
grew, conversed personally with man,
who had withdrawn their application
| for discharge on learning whose hant
4 was working the traitors she'll game
| have had personal interviews with
or letters from, more than seventy o
those who returned anxious to go bacl
| 10 the conflict in a Dakota veteran
organization.
/" At all times, in every place where
have met or, heard from them, the
measured by your betrayal of Majo
Warne the depth of your interest i
their welfare. Almost to a man the
detest under the gauze Of hypocrisy
your purpose to EN- barrass the govern
ment and aid it's enemies, and thei
contempt for such perfidy is bounde
only by their capacity for contemp
Fortified with evidence: of the fat
whereof | write, as the father OF one {
those precious dead, of another VIII
served out his time, re-enlisted and
still chasing your model patriot throug
the Jungle, and as the friend of even
true soldier, resent the sacrileg'
the insult to our dear dead, the vii
SANDER that could only be conceived
the heart of q traitor or find utterant
at the lips Of liar. o. NJ: OsBoN.
Monday night eastern Iowa We
visited by the worst blizza1
which has visited that section K
years.
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