The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26
CAMPAIGN COMMENT.

Major Butts, the gentleman whom
Senator Kyle accused of approaching
him with a $l4 1000 bribe in Washing
Eton, last winter, is now candidate on
Hhe Populist ticket in North Dakota.
SO it turns out to be sort of family
Affair with the Populists.
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Governor Mckinley spoke to $4,000
people in New Orleans, the metropolis
of the South, on the Goth. That Sec
zion of the country is, as never before,
ready to listen to the doctrine of pro-
tee ion from the standpoint of their
own interests. They begain to see it
lis southern question, made SO by the
desire Of that section to do more than
grow raw materials. They now pro-
h pose to complete the process and manu.
sacture the goods.
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IA Which policy appeals most favorably
Ito our farmer readers-the one which
gives the consumer free sugar at 20
Il pounds for dollar and gives the beet
4 and cane producer bounty? or the one
(which taxes the consumers sugar
gives him but Is pounds for a dollar
and lets the producer go unprotected,
but which protects a great trust with a
high tariff? The Republicans perfer
the first. Are you with us?
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Which policy appeals most favorably
Ito your interests-the one which would
Ngive the producer an advantage in the
FSdomestic market? or the one which
sforces him to compete at his own door
with the cheap-labor producer of other
Scountries? The Republicans choose
Sthe first. Are you with US?
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If you are a wool grower, are you
ssatistied to campete in our markets
with herdsmen of Australia, South
81 America, Mexico and the rest of the
\ world, when the protective system,
which you have tried, affords you
{ from five to eight cents more per pound
L for your wool?.
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81 If you take any stock in the indis-
! criminate howl of certain Populist
4 speakers, alleging extravaganza and
q dishonesty in state expenditures, kindly
read the plain, unvarnished facts re-
4 lative to our state finances, as furnished
by the state auditor. We assume that
i no person who really seeks information
\ will hesitate to read an official state
ment. Whether you vote with us or
\ not, you will do yourself credit by read
n ing the truth about this matter. If
/ any Populist has grounds for question
ing the truthfulness of the statement,
let him talk with figures and reason,
not with his mouth and his prejudice.
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81 The REPUBLICAN believes the state
#eof South Dakota has been managed
with economy, generally, since its ad-
mission to the Union. We further be-
b lieve the charges of extravaganza,
brought by Populists and Democrats,
1 are based upon blind, partisan jealousy.
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The candidate who goes about pledg-
ing himself to all sorts of measures,
4 merely for the purpose of getting votes,
either shows by it that he doesn't know
what he is doing, or that his constitu-
ents are afraid to rely upon him with
i out pledge. The NAH best equipped
4 10 serve the people we'll in the legisla-
I ture is he who goes unpledged and is
4 free to meet each problem with his own
judgment. The Republicans believe
in the Judgment and honesty of their
legislative candidates. Has the Ca
zette anything to say against them?
Dare it say anything against them9
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THE REPUBLICAN dres not believe
any one of the County Commissioners
4 has been aoluated by dishonest mo-
tives in his conduct of the county
\ affairs, but everything in connection
H with the running of the Poor Farm
certainly exhibits bad management and
expensive business from the standpoint
OF the taxpayer. It shows the differ
4 ence between Populist profession and
Populist practice.
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Gazette: "The latest accession to
the Populist ranks is the Illinois FEEDER
alton of Labor
This valuable accession includes the
b paraoned anarchists, who participated
ln the Haymarket riot of 1885.
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The Gazette asserts that Gov. Shell
don's speech was q hundred years be-
hind the times and why? Simply be-
cause he talked Americanism, instead
OF socialism and other foreignisms
which spring from revolt against mon,
arches.
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/. What the farmers and all people in
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