Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-20
INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN
i'AN MLkS.


\ en- have left your fathers housed
and gone off swine-feeding with deno-l
Gratis under the thin guise of lndapen-t
cents, what have YOU gained hv the
experiment: As republican farmers
you constItuted' twu-thiraa OF the re-
publican party OF this state. AS re-
publican farmers you Went into the
republican state convention oil 1889,
ana declared Tor prohibition. and thou
sands. IN the aggregate, OF republicans
who did not believe in prohibition
bo@ed 70 the will Of the party thus ID,
convention expressed, and voted for
prohibition. And the republican leg |
lslature of 1890 passed a rigid prohIb-
ltory law. \ on now have 81 large M
Gependent,vote in the lower house and
it has voted by u strong majority for
r,.silhmisslon. In your combination
withthe democrats you have major
/ ity in the lower house, u majority that
is well Acquainted with the fact that
the farmers ailianGeat three Of its an
nnal meetings voted unanimously in
favor OF Il prohibitory law. How much
attention does the uemo-independent
combine il, the legislature pay to the
N.ll OF the farmers alliance thus en-
pressed Had YOU stayed IN the re-
publican party do you believe your
wishes would have been thus ignored?
DO. YOU believe re-,lbniasion would
have been voted by the lower house as
il, has What could you hope on the
/, prohibition subject from democrats
who have always Eeen practically solid
J against it. Why WAS it that quite q
number Of republicans voted Tor resub-
, mission? In most cases it was be
cause such republicans were utterly
} disguised with the prohibitionlsts who
had gone cahoots with the democratic
opponents OF prohibition. Tor no other
purpose than TO defeat the republican
: party that had given them constitu-
tional prohibition, and a strong law
for It's enforcement What have you
GOT from the present legislature that
{ the last republican legislature failed to
r give you? What have you gained 10y
= following such Office seeking leaders
I ms Loucks, Wardall, Harden, Campbell
: and I.eayitt? You have broken the
J, republican majority in the legislature
t it is true, but still the republicans have
e more votes than the independents
Instead OF having any control in tht
h legislature you have given the contro
j, to twenty-five moss back democrats
|, who hold you wherey you can do nothing
: they uonot consent to, and where vol
: can have nothing but what they giN'
"a YOU. Why not have gone at once II
u the democratic party where Loucks
a Harden & Co. intend to lead you? !
i is the purpose Of the independent lead
+ prs here and elsewhere to destroy TIL
r. republican party. Such is the purpos
"a of the southern allianceaud industrial
It union and that is why Loucks & Co
+, led the Dakota farmers alliance int
"a thesotitnern instead OF northern a
10 lance. Are you ready to be deliYere
g. body and breeches TO the Democrat
r party? II yea, why not so direct
N into their camp and make IA end OF il
H. Is,t becauseit IS necessary to have
II purgatorial halfway house where 70
,e can be schooled by Loncks and Hafde
sd and drilled into soliiiescenre beiol
,ya ;.f.f,;,ai delivery is undertaken. That
II exactly what the independent can
nj was organized for DO you banker Il
s. si,c7. tuition: Ii ycueo YOU are wht