Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-06-12


dollars in value, nearly eight times as
much as the entire Louisiana territory
cost.
Citizens Oh South Dakota, | would
have you remember that truth in Amer
lea and especially in western -,merica,
is stranger tnan notion. Ii is u good
fortune to be living in South Dakota In
the foundation days of this fair young
commonwealth. Let us remember tnat
We are building for a FIGURE OF untold
DEVELOPMENT. The OF the Louis
lana Purchase is to be celebrated In
the city OF st. Louis in 1904. Our peo-
rle are prosperous. Under good repub'
li.an financial methods our state has a
full treasury and a perfect credit. Let
our legislature appropriate Tor an am
rle South Dakota building. Let every
Industry in all parts CT our state. and
the educational, political and historical
associations all unite in making under
one South Dakota roof an exhibit
worthy OF our enterprislng state and
worthy of the great historical event
which the St. Louis exposition Will
commemorate.
South Dakota Politics.
Populism has come and gone. De-
mocracy like the poor we always nave
with us. But the republican party In
South Dakota is continuing to do bust
ness at the old stand. The condition
of democracy in South Dakota at the
present time is adequately portrayed by
the description of the gentleman VINO
is said TO have one foot In the grave
and the other IN a banana peel. Our
democratic friends profess a horror for
trusts and combines, bat what they
really most need just now is a sort OF
political combine or merger on a much
larger scale than anything heretofore
attempted. opulism and democracy
do not fuse well except when welded
By the heat of discomfort, and discon-
tent is about The only crop that has
had a total failure in South Dakota
for the past two years.
The republican administration OF
state Affairs has been so admirable
that we have no important state issues.
1t is ascold day when u political oppo-
nents in South dakota have no serious
grievance in state affairs TO parade
before the sovereign people, but 1t Is
that sort of a cold wave under which
our South Dakota democracy are shlV-
ering just now. they have been heard
to complain that they cannot pl Mt the
names of their candidates twice on the
ballots instead of once. The de. locrat-
ic precept to vote early n often
seems to have taken a final stand upon
the. i%nalienaDle right to duplicate their
candidates in parallel columns on the
ballot, so hat if they should fail to
catch the voter in n column they
may catch him in the next. 1t is con-
tended that a device so simple and eff
fectual ought to have been left undls'
turbed in it's career of ballot demoraliz-
alton.
Republican Achievements.
! | congratulate you, fellow republi-
cans, that the party of progress still
! holds a governing hand on the destinies
OF the republic. We are riding on the
crest wave of me greatest material
! prosperity yet known in the history OF
human government. In our foreign re-
lations America is now enjoying the
popularity of success. The leading ma
! tons Of Europe are engaged In a splr-
| tied rivalry to demonstrate that each
was our first and best friend in the
Spalish-American war. naval and
! Porto Rico as American territories
, are enjoying a degree o. liberty and de-
| velopment never before enjoyed by
them. Cuba on the 2OlA of last month
, was launched forth or her career
among the nations. What a spectacle
is there presented! We found her
PROSTATE and bleeding under the
tyranny of three hundred years; we
left ner with wounds healed and the
fresh life of a new liberty coursing
, through her veins. We found her sick;
we left her in health. We found her
with fields devastated and industries
abandoned; we left her with industries
restored, her harbors cleared and a su
peior system of public works well un
der way. So long a. history preserves
a written page; so long as civilization
Is cherished among men, so long viii
the story of American intervention
for Cuba be told and adu imperishabit
luster to the American name.
The last vestige OF instruction is
fast disappearing in the Philippines
: The people OF those islands are begin
ming to understand the humane pur
poses of our government towards them
Republicans of South Dakota, heirs
OF much that is pest in our twentieth
century civilization, let us unite in q
victorious mort fer the material and
political betterment of our fair youns
state. Let us press forward from
conquest ven unto greater conquests
7 Let US keep bright our star of state
hood on the immortal banner of the re
publican. Let us uphold the hands o.
the administration while it defend.
the good name of the American soidie'
and maintains the dignity and honor o
the American cause throughout the
= world. ..
When the convention proceeded Il
the nomination of governor there was
not a candidate in the hall nor a visi
tor in the galleries who showed an,
disposition TO criticise Governor Her
reid's public actions or question hi,
mature Judgment in acting in an emer
: gency and naming for United State,
senator a man who though misrepre
sented has disarmed his enemies ant
made all men in the state his friends
'"