The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-30
Man FOR SOUTH OAK.
senator Kittredge Endorsed as Fast
as Conventions Are Held.
ALL OPPOSITION SWEPT AWAY
Election ut Pierre Next Winter q
FOregOne OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
in Congress Approved.
special to The journal.

opGCldl W lue JOuTQdl.
wooster, D. ", april 30.-The change
wrought III republican sentiment in this
STATE by Senator hittreage ana his
trends is mourning less tnan lemarkaDle.
II is not much over a year ago lnat MI.
Alttreuge was condemned as a .sDoss,.
ny large eiemnu IN MS party, and peace
mds mace only on the understanding mat
ne. was TO keep hands on. LESS Lnan a
year ago Coe. 4. Crawford Of huron, was
making splendid neadWay for Senator
tAyies seat Ill the senate and mad a
lolioWlng among the people that PROMISED
70 become lormldaDie. The contest at
,tnat stage was admittedly between MI.
Crawford ana Senator Kyle.
The death of the senator last summer
and the appointment or Mr. kittredge as
his successor by Governor Herreld
,Dr0ke the back OIL the Crawford campaign
and later look Mr. Crawford out or the
race entirety. No sooner was MT. kilt-
redge appointed than he went out to greet
his constituents. He visited the Hills
and almost every section OF the state. He
tosthe people, rney liked him, just as
they uiu Mark Hanna, Wnen they saw and
heard him, and became his friends.
8 Mr. Kittredge has been gaining daily
since Governor Herreid signed his COM
mission, The elements which disliked
and feared him and called him "a machine
boss are now with him heart and SOUL
Every republican eWspaper in the state,
with single exception, is for him. Every
republican county convention that has
been held has indorsed his candidacy for
election to the senate and practically all
will send delegates to the state c0nven-
tion at Sioux Rails bound by instructions
to make him the regular candidate of the
toA nff fn1
lowed by Mcpherson, McCook, Hughes,
Minnehaha, Grant, Douglas, Lincoln and
Lawrence. Kingsbury die as much yester-
day and there is no mistaking what the
other counties will do when their conven-
tions are held. Mr.. Kittredge will have
a solid party behind him and the election
T at Pierre next winter will be mere for
mality.
To Governor Herreid and the senator
himself are due in large part this change
of sentiment, this united front, in South
Dakota. The governor knew his man
and had the courage to make him sena-
tor in the face of some bitter opposition.
And accepting the office, the senator had
the tact and the ability to measure up to
itss4requirements. When he went to
Washington the opposition was disappear
ing. The few months he has been there
have sutiiced to prove to South Dakotans
that they have really big man in the
United States senate and they are going
to keep him there and become sharers in
the fame and prestige which they are
certain career in the senate will bring
him. They are proud Of him and have
confidence in him. They know he is
shrewd and careful and they see in him
a second Allison when he shall have be:
come seasoned. They are certain his
mind was cast in legal mold. and they
will not be surprised if he becomes 9
worthy successor of Davis They do not
expect him to speak often, but they know
he will be heard when he speaks. Ever!
republican in, South Dakota to-day is {
kittredge republican. This is SO. because
the party has faith in the man and feels
1t is honoring itself by honoring him.
One of the hardest and most consisten
machine fighters has been Osbon of thu
Howard Spirit. His paper is one of the
strongest and best in the state This il
| what he said last week of one phase o.
months in the senate. 1t indicates ir
goodly part this wonderful Shange in
sentiment noted at the beginning.
We have received and read with keen inter
| est, Senator KitHidge's minority report or
| the Panama canal title. 1t is a mastery pres
cntation of the legal history and status of the
company. The ex-parte assumption of the
majority OF the committee are not left a les
to stand on The senator gives in detail the
legal proceedings by which the propert,
passed through the hands of a receiver, from
the original company down to the presen
owner showing conclusively that every lega
! requirement was fully met, everything done
which should could have been done to pro
! tect all vested interests. Whatever may BIZ
said of the relative merits Of the two routes
he has set the question of title completelysa
| rest
| 1t was a daring thing to do in the face o.
the tradition that a member of that angus
| body must sit and suck his thumbs in silence
during ;his first session; but Mr.. Kittredg.
| annears to be one of the men who dare