Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-10-24
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South Dakota Topics.

South Dakota Topics.
A deal of gossip has been heard in polit-
icai circles this week. One report, given
here for what it is worth, is that Mr.. Craw-
ford is going to get out of the race for SEN
ator and leave a clear field for Mr.. Kit
tredge. The formers case is declared
hopeless, by no means as good as before
the death of Senator Kyle. This report,
50 far as known, is not confirmed by the
home friends of Mr., Crawford, and it
should be taken with a reasonable allow
arce of salt.
The foregoing, which appeared in this
column last week, caused something of a
stir at Huron and sioux Falls. AT Huron,
Mr.. Crawford denied he had withdrawn
from the contest, and authorized the cor
respondents to- so report to the metropol-
itan press. At Sioux Falls, the editor of
the Press threw a series OF fits and had
fun with this luckless writer in something
like "a column of space. On the broad
statement that THE Minneapolis Journal
says Mr.. Crawford has retired from the
field of senatorial aspirations in favor of
Mr.. Notwithstanding that was not
said at all--the Press thrashes away in
the best style of Mr.. Pettigrew's old
understrapper.
Well, Mr.. Crawford is still with US and
the report was an error. The Journal
gladly gave space to his statement, for it
admires him and knows that if elected he
would be every inch a senator-a good
man for his state and party, one who
would make his mark in congress. There
was a rumor that he would pull out of the
~,-n o,.I Ala Ia,rt ,N.II;1t,a1 ff-AEfnr
what il was worth"
AS for the editor of the Press, whats
Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba. that he
should weep for herr" The I'ress cares no
more for Mr.. Crawford than il does for Mr..
Martin, Mr.. Burke or FIR. Herreid, but it is
alarmed at the growing strength by Sen
ator Kittredge and the steadily multi.
plying evidences that the dc party in
South Dakota is in as close alignment
today, If not closer, than in the campaign
last fall. 1t has been and is the mission
of the Press to stir UP dissensions in the
republican household. 1t has seen it's
best laid plans come to naught; it had
hoped to foment trouble for Scnator Kit
tredge by encouraging Mr.. Crawford and
the so-calied 'insrrgent' element; it has
attempted to belittie the accomplish.
ments of Messrs. Kittredge and Herreid
in the railroad rates reduction matter,
fearful of the effect upon the political for
tunes of these two men; 1t has tried its
best to get the South Dakota senators by
the ears i'm order that its own side of the
house might have some standing in court
when another election rolls around. 1t
has failed as often as 1t has tried. Henc
these tears and this otherwise unaccount-
able interest in Mr.. Crawford.
Mr.. Crawford is not to be blamed for
figuring so largely in the calculations of
his would-be mischief maker. 1t is
rather his misfortune than his fault. As
he has not for several years been in offic-
ial life, and, now that he desires to re-en-
ter 1t and is pitted against one who has
always beer active in the party manage
ment, the Press assumes that he stands
for f~actionaiism and discord and is con
strained to cheer him IN. 1t would, of
course, be glad TO disrupt the republican
party. Its anxiety for Mr.. Crawford il a
makeshift and a delusion-a positive det-
rinient to him and his canvass. The
Press Is doing the best II can for its mas
ter, Senator Pettigrew II fears Kittredge
and the "machine." Hence, again, these
tears.
As The Journal said last week, Mr.. Kit
tredge has gained a lot of ground i'm the
contest for senator Because The Journal
said ii, the Press contends tina The Jour
nal was INSPIRED by the machine The
editor of the Press knows that kittredge
has been and is gaining. This is the fly
in it's ointment.
The Nermillion Republican well says;
THE lowering of railroad rates on South
Dakota lines, brought about through the
tact of Governor Hcrreid and Senator Kit
tredge, is the hardest proposition the
Sioux Falls Press, the Nermillion Plain
Talk and other allied opposition journals
have had to face for many "a day"
"A desperate effort has been made by the
nate the senator and the governor from
all consideration in the matter. but their
guns have been ~effcctually spiked by the
publication of the correspondence bctwecn
the state and railway officials. Toquote
again from the Republican, this remark
catches the Press In the short ribs and
causes intense soreness: 'Tbe reduction
will be received with unboundcd favor by
the people of tie state, aud they will rec
ognizc and appreciate the pronioteTs OF
the plan that more nearly equalizes the
relations existing between the railways
aud the public"