Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1913-08-29
DELIGHTED VISITOR
IN THE CITY
R. 5. PERSON, FORMER AUDITOR
Of THE TREAS. INTERIOR DEPT.
PRAISES HOT SPRINGS
AND DISCUSSES POLITICS IN WISE
and INTERESTING FASHIoN..HIS
VIEWS on s. D. SITUATION.

Hot Springs had q pleased visitor for
few days during the past week in
Hon. Robert 9. Person. who for about
sixteen years served the Government
as auditor of the treasury for the In
terror Department at Washington Mr.
Person is now prsoticing law before
the departments at Washington, but
retains his legal residence in South
Dakota. and his large number of
friends sll over the state are hoping
and expecting that he will soon return
to the state to permanently reside. He
is q newspaper man Of much ability
and experience and sees things usually
from the proper abgle. Therefore
when the Star reporter had pleasant
visit with him at the Evans Hotel,
what he said relative to Hot Springs
and its surroundings. as we'll as re
garding politics, we are sure will In.
terest onr readers. In a reminiscent
mood he said:
"A few years ago visited my birth
place in western New York and was
greatly surprised to learn for did not
know 1t before-that the local scenery
was one of enhancing beauty. l never
realized the beauty of the country
where l was born and reared until
returned to it after years of absence.
l went into ecstsoies over the panorama
but fassd this inhsbitants, who had
never lived elsewhere, we're as oblivi-
GUS of the grandeur of their environ
ments as l have been in my youthful
days. 1t was all commonplace to the
natives.
IL am reminded of that experience
by what | have seen and observed
here at Hot Springs. For one SO ac.
customed to the enhancing environ
ments here that possibly you do not
realize what garden of the gods this
is. or course you couldn't enthuse
over it all the time for state of costa.
OF would exhaust one even in this in.
vigorsting climate.
"Seriously am charmed and would
like to stay long enough to put the
matter to the test to see il could ever
become 80 accustomed to this piotur-
esque environment as to forget that it
is truly one Of the rare spots of the
universe.
If you quote me on anything, don't
fail to say that l am delighted at the
transformation that has been wrought
at the Soldiers Home, by my old
friend, Col. Orr. His administration
as commsndant, marks an epoch in the
management of that grand institution.
He has lifted the Home to an emmi-
nence in efficient administration that
will command recognition to the highest
extent as soon as the public becomes
aware of the facts. Col. and Mrs. Orr
evidently we're 'to the manor born. >
Happiness and many years more Of
useful service to them both.
"Politics? The South Dakota brand
is peculiar and growing more so. We
have recently had an illustration of
that at the Sioux Falls convention.
II seek no quarrel with any Republi-
can who for any cause voted for Roose-
velt, Taft or Wilson, last November.
They exercised a right which it is no
mans right to question. They were
not acting in representative capacity,
and were answersble only to their oon-
sciences After the November election.
however, the line bet veen individual
representative responsibility q
sharply drawn. Members OF the legis-
lsture who did not declare themselves
publicly in advance of the election, as
being opposed to the election of the
candidate for United States Senator
who had been legally selected as such
in the June primaries, and who voted
against that candidate in the legisla.
tive assemtly-well, lest l say some.
thing ugly, Thos. Sterling should have
received the vote of every republican
member OF the legislature, and private
citizens as we'll as public officers and
legislators who aided and abetted the
conspiracy to defeat him are proper
subjects of public criticism and should
not be surprised that they do not en-.
joy the highest degree of confidence
among the rank and fle of the party.
Some of these erring brethern l
have counted among my personal and