Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1903-05-14
GOV. BURBANK AGAIN, AS SEEN BY COT.
LINN

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The Elk Point COURIER has stirred
the blood Of the Canton Leader t
boiling. The former has been publish
ing in its columns the happenings Ol
thirty years ago In Dakota and when Il
reached the Governor Burbank episode
the old files were loyal to that gentle.
man and history reveals the fact thai
Col. Linn was bitterly opposed to the
Governor. The following clipped from
the Yankton Press OF March 26, 1873,
indicate the esteem in which MIR. Bur.
bank was held ia this community.
Governor Burbank has done more
Tor Dakota than any government official
ever sent here. Had Ii not been for
his efforts to get our railroad bond law
confirmed by congress we should not
now have railroad. While ut Wash
ingt0n the past winter he has labOred
zealously to have Yankt0n made the
point for buying and shipping the milf
tary and Indian supplies. Press and
Ddk0tdn
1t Is only necessary to say that the
Yankton Press in 1873, was the organ,
mouthpiece and Doodle recipient OF the
|carpet-bag gang that thought they
owned the territory. burbank got
Poore to start the Springfield Times, an
internal revenue appointment con.
trolled the Elk Point COURIER, and the
Yankton Press was the home organ OF
the woFst gang of carpet baggers every
saddled on any territory. The only
thing Burbank ever did while Govern
or was To start the town pf Springfield
for Burbank and when Yankton county
voted bonds for the Dakota Southern
railroad, from the s'Big Sioux bridge
to Yankton,n Burbank got his dirty
hands into the deal and had the act
read ito Springfield, which we always
believed destroyed the validity Of
Yankton county's $500, 900 Ia bonds, at
least Wicker, Meckling & Co., would
not build their road farther than
Yankton.
Burbank worked for Dakota.
That sounds all right now, but it was
lie when first printed and time cannot
change it. Burbank never did any
thing for Dakota only to make trouble
In Yankton, and when things got too
hot for his cowardly legs he would skin
our and leave Gen. McCook as acting
governor and bulldozer In his interest.
7 Il was Burbank's cowardice and Nc
Cooks bulldozing tactics that lead up
ff. tho frauhla tuhsah GnaI1x, masa,1@ad ~
McCook's death at the hands of man
he was whipping because he was able,
and the men behind McCook showed
him into the death trap. That's an
cient history, but the truth might as
we'll be told. McCook betrayed the
friends who secured his appointment
and brought him to the territory and
barrel of whiskey was one of the con-
siderations. Poor Batchelder, Secre-
tary Of the Territory, before McCook, q
son In law of Vice President Hamlin,
was ruined by the gang, and tool OF
the gang, Barker by name, had him
arrested for abusing his wife. Judge
Bartlett Trip and the writer went to
Batchelder's house and remained all
night with the unfortunate man, Brook
ings was on the bench and Burbank
was governor then. Gang whiskey
used for Doodle purposes ruined Col.
Batchelder. The gang hated the writer
who was editor of the Dakotaa, with
a bitterness that was develish, and
Editor Linn exposed Them In 1873 as he
is doing now. and defied the entire nest
of conspirators. McCuok, giant as be
was, WAS the only one who could mus.
Ter courage to attack Editor Lian and
McCoolS Sretreated hnmiliated. That
was the condition OF Yank ION under
Burbank and bis gang.
The editor Of the DakotG,s exposed
"Old Necessity French, who was
chief justice, and he was forced to
leave. Burbank was forced toget out,
and Brookings, another United States
Judge, was removed, and this brought
us Judge shannon and Judge Barnes,
and Governor Pennington. This would
Indicate that Editor Linn, Col. Moody.
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