People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1895 — NORTH AND SOUTH DAKOTA. [ARTICLE]

NORTH AND SOUTH DAKOTA.

Republican Robbery arid FopullHtEcoiioiny Coin pared. Lost fall we heard very much concerning the “Populist control of North Dakota?’ how the funds of that state had depleted, etc. The Populist administration hud cut down the taxes as * far as possible, and after paying much of the indebtedness of previous republican administrations, the generaVfunit Was very low when the Populists Went out of office to be succeeded by the republican administration. Well, the fact that the funds in the treasury of North Dakota were low, was . commented on at length by the republican press, not one of' whjek gave any good reason there-' fore.neither has any of them alleged defalcation. lint what of South Dakota always under the rule of republicanism? Let’s see. At the recent inauguration of the new governor a grand inaugural ball was given in ■ lorior of the event. “Brave men and air ladies' of the state were invited to the swell affair. But “after the ball was over" and the officials got ready . for business, 10, and beholW! the republican state treasurer, who, by the wav, spent $14,000 for his nomination, was a defaulter to the tune of about § >OO,OOO, and all the state educational institutions are seriously embarrassed thereby! One state was under the Populist control, the other under the rule of republicanism. Better it would have been for South Dakota had it been under “the blight of Populism.” —Mankato Journal.