Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-11-04

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machine republican is from the pen 6
g. N. Lukes. we'll known as q news.
paper man:
Four weeks have rolled around sinee
the Mitchell onvention was held. z
sufficient time to allay soreness and gse
kickers into line under ordinary cir.
cumstanecs. and the party should nov
have composed any differences and be
presenting q united front for the cam
patgn. Is this the case? Mr.. Kittredgs
departs from his affected pose as the
Sphinx of South Dakota politics ant
takes an entire column in the Sioux
City Journal to tell Of the altogether
lovely condition in which he finds thu
party In South Dakota. Candidats
Phillips takes up the tale in the Sioux
City Journal and declares that he does
not know of q solitary man in South
Dakota who voted the republican tick
ct two years ago who will vote against
the party this year. The lesser candi-
ments of tho leaders and are willing tG
make affidavit that the republican par.
ty in South Dakota was never so har-
monious as now-and yet from every
part OF the state comes the reports Of
disluiet and dissatisfaction and disgust
with the result of the Mitchell conven-
ton that in many places Is eliminating
in open revolt. Men who have been
wheelhorses in the republican party,
who have never voted anything but the
republican ticket, men who have fought
vallantly in the past campaigns for re-
publican success and have never wav-
cred in their support Of the party In
either good or evil report, are either
coming out in open revolt or are pri-
vately declaring that they cannot as
sist in electing the ticket nominated at
Mitchell
Wherever an instance Of this kind
comes into prominent notice the ma
chine organs and strikers cry out
heard" "insurgent" and pop"
but the trouble the trouble is that the
disease seems too widespread and the
cases too many to be dismissed in that
way. The intelligent men in the rank
and file Of the republican party who are
not IN politics for what there is in 1t.
who make their living by honest toll
are not satisfied with this explanation.
The man who thinks of these things
while his hands are on the handles Of
his plow or while he is standing in the
dust and dirt at the tail end OF a
thresher, wonders why 1t is that in a
state where nine-tenths of the people
are identified with the agricultural in
terests, there is no farmer on the Mitch
ell ticket The honest toiler Of foreign
ancestry puzzles over the fact that in
q state where so many of the producers
are either foreign born, or of foreign
born parents, the only candidate repre-
senting that element succeeded in get
ting a place upon the ticket when the
machine slipped cog. The old SOL
diers are trying to solve the problem
In the fact that every comrade who was
a candidate before the Mitchell conven-
tion was turned down by themachine.
These men are not kickers or sore
heads. They have been the bone and
sinew Of the republican party in the
past. They have been willing to allow
others to reap the fruits Of party vic
tories. But one dull thud has followed
another with such frequency of late
that they have come to think that there
is something more than the ordinary
significance. They have commenced to
investigate and they find these facts
disclosed. That the republican party
has passed into the control Of band
of politicians and corporation attorneys
and lobbyists who are manipulating it
for their personal advantage. That
these men under the leadership Of A.
B. Kittredge have built up Tammany
organization in South Dakota, with
exit" as the Grand c7chem, who rules
absolutely within the party, attempting
to crush the men that it cannot control
They find lat Boss Kittredge draws a
princely salary from the Milwaukee
road not on account Of his legal SER
vices but for his political pull. That
this Tammany machine under the direc-
tion of Kittredge and Aleck Johnson
dominated the Mitchell convention, Sc
curing the organization, selecting the
various committees and finally naming
the ticket. He reads the railroad plank
in the platform and reflects that it was
written at the dictation of Kittredge
and Aleck Johnson. He looks over the
ticket and sees the names of men who
in the past have stood faithfully by the
railroads and corporations the ,ogis-
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