Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1922-02-18
WHOM lT MAY CONCERN
From Custer Commercial Club, Custer,
South Dakota, in Re John Doe,
Egan and 0'Leary

Recently Lhert mas DeGu written a
letter purporting to have come from a
prominent business man of Custer.
well known overthe state" This letter.
oralieged excerpts therefrom, have been
published with comment in the Sioux
Falls Press, issue of February 9th and in
Egan's Weekly, issue Of February 10th.
The Custer Commercial Clubiu regular
meeting assembled February l4th direct.
ed its officers to properly and publicly
express the sentiment ofths community
as represented by said Club With refer
ence to the letter and articles mention
ed, and condemned most emphatcally
and vigorously the method Of both the
correspondent and the above publica-
tions
The alleged prominent business man
is strangely quiet in his own commnn-
ity-for perfectly apparent reasons
scripturaly He has done those things
which he ought not to have done and
left undone those things which he ought
to have done and there is no health in
him.
The article alluded to in the Press is
entitled "kick From the Black Hills. "
In Egans Weekly tits entitled: "More
| Evidence of Politician Picking Pums
The Press states that the correspondent
finds that the people close to the erst-
while trolcs of state royalty are frankly
critical etc
The Custer Commercial Club repre-.
SCENTS community of people perhaps
closer to the work of the state officers
lone in the Hills recently than any
other community This community and
commercial club is composed of mem
oers of all political parties, and this
Commercial Club is necessarily absolute
| y non-political This community re-
sents most emphatically the anonymous
expression Of opinion purporting to bind
this community whether that ex preston
be for political purposes or otherwise
Ihe correspondent has absolutely with
ont authority imputed to this community
sentiments which most emphdtically are
not the sentiments of this community
The writer is anonymous Neither
paper saw fit to publish his name The
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