Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-07-02

resign his seat in the United States
senate. The campaign now on Will
choose a successor to Kyle, and Pet
tiprew should let them choose his
successor at the same ime.-Hbron-
lite.
A delegate elected to Aberdeen
who cannot stand upon the st. Louis
platform should have the honesty
and decency to stay at home ana
vote as he pleases. The party can
spare them, but acts of treachery
such as the one Senator Pettlgrew
has treated us to will not be coun-
tenanced by the rank and file, and
the man who perpetrates it will be
remembered. The issue is a good
one, and the Republicans propose to
meet it squarely and fairly without
any equivocation.-Armou Chron-
icle-Tribune.
Senator Pettigrew of our own
state is among those who the
ties which bind them to the Republi-
can party. The Republican
party will survive in the nation and
in the state without these men. 1t
will march to certain victory in No
vember, and when it returns to full
power, it will solve this financial
question rightly, as it has solved all
other great national issues which
have demanded its attention in the
interests of the masses so that all
may live happy and contented lives
in this land of the free.-Huronite.
Senator Pettigrew assume to
know more than the Republican
party when he leaves that party
which has twice elected him U. S.
senator. In leaving the party, he
demonstrates that he cares nothing
for the great principles for which
the party has always labored, and
throws them all aside for the me
question of free silver. He has dem
onstrated that he was never worthy
of the place to which he was elected,
and the one regret of the party in
the state will be hat he was ever
nominated.-DeSmet News and
Leader.
When the deal was made in
Washington among the silver SEN
ators to bolt the national convention
if they did not succeed in getting a
free coinage resolution into the plat
form, Senator Pettigrew expected to
be in a position to control the South
Dakota delegation. He failed in
this and was forced to walk out
alone. Unlike Teller and some of
the other western senators and con-
gressmen, Pettigrew did not have
his state behind him, and in this
action did not represent the conven-
ton that elected him. Senator Pet
tigrew has made a mistake and very
few Republicans will follow him into
the silver party.-Iriquois Chief.
Our senator says he doesn't know
whether he will go into the Republi-
car caucus next fall or not /; that he
will know better by that time what
his constituents demand. He knew
very well when he accepted a po-
sition on the St. Louis delegation
what the party who elected him to
the senate of the United States de-
handed of him, and said he would
bow to the will of the majority, when
he knew what their will was but did
not do it. In u judgment, il
makes but little difference what
caucus he goes into, as he usually
votes against the party he is training
with, anyway. He now proposes,
through the prestige hat he has
gained by the support of the Repub,
lican party, to assist in an effort to
defeat it, but if he fails may vote
with it next winter. There is not
much consistency in that kind of
politics and the less there is of it
mixed up in the Republican party
the better off we will be.-So. Oak,
Sentinel.
Senator Pettigrew stated after he
left the convention that he had ar.
rived at the conclusion two months
ago that he would bolt if the conven-
ton adopted a gold platform. Know
ing pretty thoroughly a month be-
fore the convention met that silver
would have nc show, Senator Petit
grew woald have done a wise thing
in remaining away from the national
convention. If he could not repre-.
sent the state according to the in
structions he had received and &C.
cepted at the Huron convention, then
he had no right TO bring the Repub.
lican party into such standing as he
did by his action. The Republican
opposed the idea of Senator Petit.
grew going to the national conven-
ton when he was making such siren.