Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1910-06-16

.or the house6 10 BE- regretted. Mr.
Cable has served three terms for Lin
coin county and was booked for speaker
In the coming legislature. Ho is 3
pronounced progressive. bur safe aud
sane man and did most valuable work
as chairman OF the committee o" ap-
preparations of the last house. Possibly
the voters fOrsa that L!ncoin county,
was getting her full share AID 80 10 q
streAk OF unself shness lett Nc, Gale by
the ways de. One thiLg is certain,
with the big vote Linco n county cast
Tor Egan. she is getting in state officers
all and more THAI she lie emitted TO-
JUST A CAMPAIGN STORY
"Wil, the Sioux Fails Press please
give Us full particulars about that 5 600
majority it prophesied Gov. Vessey
would receive Ia the four southeastern
coantiess Of this ?"-Elk Point
COURIER
Gladly. The Press never prophesied
or said anything of the kind. That
was one OF the campaign stories put out
about The Press in the hope that it
would in some way inju"e Governor
Vessey. The Press did not deny it be-
cause it was useless to ill the columns
of the paper with denia,s OF such sto.
ries as long as a bunch OF new ones
we're sprung every day.
1.-The statement referred to was con-
tanned in a dispatch to The Press from
Beresford. Whether the correspondent
made mistake OF one cipher IN his
figures or whether he was really of
that much in his estimate, The Press
is not prepared to say. The point is
that an attempt was made TO conveys
the impre ssion that The Press had put
out such an improbable estimate as Its
own and such papers rs the Elk Point
COURIER jumped at the bait and help
ed to spread the absurd charge. ~
Sioux Falls Press.
TIE Elk Point COURIER jumped ct
no bait and, far frJm heiping Ito
spread the charge" never mentioned it
until after election. Notwithstanding
its effort above to discredit its Beres-
ford correspondent, who was probably
member of the Press regular staff
sent to Beresford 10 report the Wesley
address, it was the Press itself thai cir
culated this prophecy. The plain facts
Ia the matter, which the Press cannot
and will not deny. are as follows:
On Sunday, May 49, the Press con-
tanned on its front page and under a
big slug heading, a special from Beres-
ford giving a glowing report OF Gov.
Vessey's address to the high school
graduates. One of the headlines,
which the Press cannot shift eff onto
its correspondent but is responsible for
itself, co ltains the prophecy" in
question. II reads exactly as follows;
UNION. CLAY, TURNER AND
LINZ OLN WILL GIVE VESSEY
5000 PLURALITY"
The Press will now probably con
tend that its Beresford corr espondent
and its headline editor were in Wig
conjunction to put it 10 hole on t6e
prop hecy business. If there was Any
possibility of sustaining the charge, it
would now probably lay 1t to the
COURIER.
The article In question closed with
the following paragraph, which, the
reader will please notice, is what 'The
Press" says, MT what its "Bercsford
correspondent says:
"The Press may say frankly to the
people OF tae state that the counties OF
u Mon, Clay, Turner and Lincoln will
give the progressive ticket majority
OF 5000 and that Thorson and Lawrence
will be away ahead Of that"
Well how, as matter of fact. ga the
Press come out 10 its prophecy? Ac-
cording to the Press own report put
lished last Saturday, V7ssey inst cad OF
getting ''msjority OF 5OOO'' In the
four counties named, was actually de-
feated by Egan by plurality of 553.
Thorson and Lawrence seem to have
done a little better, but received no ap-
probable plurality. The Press seems
to have peen az badly ratified on its es-
Inmates as the average Sioux Falls
citizen was on his voting.
The Press need not feel so touchy
over It's vaccinations; during the late
unpleasa ntness it's prophecies we're
quite as reliable as its news reports.