Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-26
SOME YELLOW METHODS
Adopted by Democracy Against ". r.
Morgan, the Faithful, Honest
County TreaSurer

County Treasurer.
The desperate straits to which A. w.
Roirdan is driven in his contest for
county treasurer is shown by the pub
lication and widespr cad distribution of
little .yellow" circular headed ssofil-
cial" purporting to give from the off,
cial records an itemized statement of
the expenses Of the county treasurer's
Office from the beginning of Billy
Morgan's term of Office to the present
time. The first item of $500 which
Riordan would have the tax payers be-
lieve was expenses incurred by Mr..
Morgan, was for notary fees on 5000
tax certificates issued during the last
year of Mr.. Burke's term as treasurer.
The notarial work was done by w. w.
Stewart, who was employed by Mr..
Burke in the exercise of his duties AS
county treasurer, and is, of course, not
chargeable to Mr.. Morgan, who has
never received a penny for notary fees,
although in many cases, entitled to
them. The height of infamy is
reached in seeking to make it appear
that the items of express, freight, trans
portation of county poor, ETC., are tex
penses of the treasurer's Office" For
instance the bills of s3s.s4, s54. .16, s57.77,
$3.50 16, s1s4.s4 and s9O.43 are made up
of items like these: Transportation of
A. M. Round, wife and son County
poor); transportation pauper to Stur-
gis; s;transportation Mrs Enfield County
poor) to Alexander, Iowa; transporta-
tion pauper to Crawford; Transports
tion of county poor to DesMoines;
transportation of county poor to
Kearney, Neb.; cash paid Chas. East
man, as sheriff, for taking man to Alli-
ance; cash paid Chas. Eastman, as
sheriff, bringing witness Behrendt from
Nebraska, by order of county commits
sioners and states attorney; transpor-
tation and expenses of Mrs. Dan Scott
and son to state blind asylum; trans
portation Mrs. Ida Wright and family
to Pueblo, Colo, at urgent request Of
Edgemont citizens; freight, postage,
kilograms to insane asylum, and num-
erous other items for which cash was
required, paid by order of county COM
missioners. We would ask in all fair
ness, are these items proper charge
against Billy Morgan for "eXpenses of
his Office" as the little yellow ''dodger"
seeks to have the voter believe?
| Vouchers are on file in the auditors
Office for every cent of this. cash eX.
pense and show for themselves what
the bills are for.
The amount paid for clerk hire in
the treasurer's office is merely nomi-
nal and the treasurer's salary has been
exactly what the laws allows him and
no more, all of which has been paid out
of the treasurer's salary fund, which is
made up exclusively of commissions,
fees, etc.
1t is a reflection upon the intelli
gence of the average voter and tax.
payer to assume that he can be hood.
winked by such statements rs those
contained in Roirdan's little yellow
'dodger," and all of the old residents
of the county, and the new ones as
we'll, who are acquainted with Billy
Morgan, know that he would make nc
. illegal or unjust charge for services
that he is reliable and trustworthy
that he has the interests of the county
at heart and, above all, that he is tor
honorable, generous and charitable tt
attack his opponent in the unjust anc
malicious manner in which he ha.
beenattacked. There are those
: high in the counsels of the demo poi
party who are assisting in this nefari
GUS and dishonorable policy Of mis-
representation and abuse, and we war;
them that the numerous friends o
Billy Morgan throughout the county
many of whom have known him sine
the days of 'S5, will resent such insult
as are offered by the little "yellov
dodger."