The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-15
UnjustIy Attacks Mitchell.

legislature TOR the capital removal bill, he is doing
his best, through the Aberdeen News, to poison the
minds of the people in the northern part of the
state against Mitchell. AID with IL singleness q
purpose most reprehensible, he isn't particular rs
to the means of bringing it about. In Tuesday
issue of the News he introduces his subject by rt.
terrlng to what he terms ''sneering illusions to Il
buffalo hunt to be held on the range west of Pierre, -
which he says care particularly out of place in the
columns of my newspaper in the northern part of
The state ard very particularly 50 in Brown coun-
y" This bit of good-natured joshing of PIER
over the proposed buffalo hunt did not originate
with Mitchhll, and if the newspapers in the vicini-
ty of Aberdeen have been using the same arguments
Editor Mcleod dit to get the resubmission bill
through, he should have no fault to find.
1.-The same sneering illusions have been made
nme and again by the same pAr,ie:,'' continues the
News; ''to all that vast and important territory
lying north Of the limits of Dawson county, and
then it goes on to say that it was for this reason it
did not circulate the Mitchell corn palace sup
dement's a year ago and this year only in Aber-
,Ieony ''heing unwilling TO give tacit sanction to the
aEoLlsm and INSTRUMENTATION with the supplement
;3ntaincd.'
1t has remained for the News, in its blind
jealousy Of its southern ]nei0hl0r. to discover 4.
matter of an Objectionable nature for State wide
circulation In the corn palace supplements. Not
)no of the newspapers OF the state who refused to
tICSc supplements DlOlSnl Ills Charge
,g&inst them, while se.enty-iye newspapers cir.
tutatcd 20, 900 of them. There was not Il line in
the corn palace supplements this year or last to
which any reasonable man could obicct-no master
where his location or vocation. The wri,e-up of
The state was that comprehensive and wide in it's
application that the Pierre Capital Journal pub
Ii he'd the Introductory of.Uyer a column under the
mistaken idea that it was original with the
Argus-Leader-which newspaper took it from the
c,i,r,1or,npfc r,r,Ilicho5 NV ;+colF a fav uo,L.I
previous. In the fifteen hundred words in that
part OF the supplement to which the News objects
less than two hundred were given to the corn
palace and Mitchell and that but to fill out the
pace-and none but one possessed with a morbid
,tesire to iniure Mitchell and its enterprises could
find an Objectionable word in it.
The News says that this years corn palace
supplement / eferred to Aberdeen as the extreme
%aortlern point at which corn could be raised suc-I
the acme OF successful corn culture being
Il Mitchell, of course, while the fact is that Grant
county, n@rth of Aberdeen, is a great corn pro-
!ucer." 1t is not Of great Importance that Grant
county happens to lie south of Aberdeen, instead
+ north of it. But it is. of Importance that the
News is w%ilifnlly trying to prejudice its readers.
Il 9 Objectionable excerpt from the corn palace
supplements WAS taken verbatim from a folder isl
,aed this year by the g NJ. & st. Paul road in the
.ceial interests Of South Dokota and with no
lSlSiC VI ~ iHY part Oh 1J.# w nat |
he supplement did say was this:
sit was not believed that corn could be raisedl
accessibility, and fruit culture was not thought of
Until a few years ago. Land offered at prices from
y. 80 to So. 90 an acre was a drug on the market. |
Tho same land is now selling from $50 to 800 an
ere. Now corn is successfully grown as far north
i Aberdeen and more successfully SO all over the
part OF the state, while lands that five years
hunted buyers at So to S. an acre are c~lianging|
lands at SIS to $50 IN acre
As stated, this paragraph, we think was taken
bodily from the Milwaukee folder, South Dako-|
along with some statistics. Perhaps had
editor Mel cod known this he would not have
it as. as n sssneerino allusion' to theI
part Of the state--for even he can underI
tand that the Milwaukee road is not jeopafdizingl
is own Interests. Aberdeen is twenty five miles
,nly from the extreme north line of the state, and
when that city, as the M st important and hest.knoWnI
i'll the extreme northern l~lattAaf lhs state was
it was virtually claiming that corn could
10 raised anywhere III that part Of the stale.
The News cannot find il lineihat ever came out
rom Mitcheli-before Or afterih capital question
anne up-that is III any way q sneeripg ailuslon to-
AL that vast md important territory lying north
II the limits Of Dawson county. Furthermore,
fae News cannot point to Il single ~utterance of
M of Mitchells friends which can be construed
& q reflection upon the secrionto which ii refers.
il Is a satisfaction to know that the News is
locking by itself il Aberdeen ii this kind Of work.
Il IS true the Mitchell corn palace COMMITTEES
ont an insert last summon that contained a.