Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-02-23
HAND HIM A Big BUNCH
DEADNO GOD BUSINESS MEN
LAND ON EDITOR SEM.
DEFEND TOWNS REPUTATION
BY Vote of 1913 tn II, business
Men of Deadwood Declare the
Daily Telegram Has Been
Slandering the City and
Also its Residents

| For the past several weeks bitter
fight has been in progress in Deadwood
between the business men of that city
and Z. l.. Sem, editor of the Daily
Telegram, the business men of that
city being unable to bestow the adver-
Using patronage on the paper to make
the same financial success and the
editor declaring that unless the hoy
colt" was raised he would drive from
the city large percentage of people.
The fight has been long and bitter
one and during its continuance Editor
Sem has alleged in editorials that
practically the entire city was sup
ported by the vice which predominated
and that so per cent of the men of the
city were affiic ted with venereal disease.
Angered at the SANDER which had
been heaped upon them by Editor Sem
whom the residents of the city openly
charged with blackmail, the business
club of the city met on Saturday even
ing and adopted the following resolu-
ton by vote of 1913 to II, the resolu-
tion being prepared by John r. Rus
sell, Robert p. Stewart, Jonas Zoellner
j. Goldberg, j. Doetken and r. f.
Grimshaw, all prominent business men
of that city.
The Resolutions.
Whereas, Z. l.. Sem, the editor of
the Daily Telegram, has for the past
two months, through the columns of
said paper, conducted vile, malicious
| and unjust attack on the good name of
the City of Deadwood and it's men,
women and children, without justifi-
cation, through sinister motives and
under the guise of an effort on his part
to rid the community of some of the
of like size and prominence, and
Whereas, said editorials and articles
have assailed the morality of the good
people of Deadwood generally, and
made vile, obscene and untruthful
charges as to the physical condition of
80 per cent of the male population of
the city, and unjustly and dishonorably
impeached the credit, integrity and
honor of its business men, who have
ever, Notwithstanding the ravages of
flood and fires, and the appearance
among them of such characters as r..
l.. Sem, maintained the financial stand
ing of the city and its reputation for
honesty and square dealing among men
and
Whereas, the E. l.. Sem on the
18th day of February, 1911, continues
to threaten the community and declares
his true purpose as follows: And if
they assume this position meaning the
refusal of reputable merchants to pat
ronize him, they cannot expect the
Telegram to devote the same energy 10
the building up of the city and their
business and it would if the consider
alton shown was mutual, and
Whereas, the circulation that has
beer: given to such articles has been
wide and far-reaching and calls for an
expression of the position of the bust
ness men, citizens and taxpayers of
Deadwood, and while depreciating the
necessity for public utterance in this
matter, now, therefore, be it
Editor is Spurned
Resolved, by the business club of
the City of Deadwood, on behalf of its
members, citizens and taxpayers gen.
orally, that we spurn his demands for