Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-10-23

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When Wiekre ran for county com
missioner Independence township,
his home gave him every vote polied
in that township.
When Wickre ran for representa-
tive in 1892 the year the pops polled
a four hundred majority, he lacked
only 80 votes of being elected thus
running ahead of his ticket three
hundred fifty votes, while in 1900
when Baltic ran for treasurer he
received the smallest vote Of any
candidate ON his ticket.
The World again in its last issue
gives a example of what it calls non
craftsmanship. Ii is urging republi-
can voters to be nonpartisan in their
choice, but is using every method
known to it and it's prompters to
secure the election of a partisan
ticket. Nonpartisanship should
work both ways, if republicans are
to be nonpartisan 80 should pop
dems, but that is not the kind of
nonpartisanship the World is look
ing for. 1t is looking for republi-
cans who will vote for pop candi-
dates but not for pops who will vote
for republican candidates. This is
hypocracy of the rankest kind and
SO gausy too, that anyone ear see
through it.
The Reporter and Farmer does
not claim to be a nonpartisan paper,
it is a republican paper; it is not
begging votes for any candidate but
is working for the entire ticket, 1t
has too much self respect to stultify
itself by claiming to be nonpartisan
and at the same time condemn every
candidate on the opposition ticket.
The Reporter and Farmer has no
harsh words to say about the pop
candidates, except where they may
be guilty of an absolute wrong, but
is is using its best efforts to secure
the election of the republican candi-
dates, because ID believes that the
republican party is the only safe
party to entrust with the manage
ment of this government, and
because It knows that success in
county and state politics is the safest
way to insure the country against a
democratic administration with it's
resulting ruin to farmers as well
as all other classes.
The attack in the World on Mr..
Wickre and Mr.. Rich shows the spirit
of nonpartisanship whibh is posses
sed by the management of that
paper.
Now what reason does it assign
why Mr.. Wickre should not be
elected. Does it charge him with
incompetency? No. Does it charge
him with dishonesty? No. What
does il charge him with? Two
things; with being a Norwegian and
with being a staunch republican.
The first is certainly no crime nor
does it indicate inability to conduct
the affairs of the office. The second
to our way Of thinking and we
believe to the way of thinking Of
every republican, is a recommended
ton. Mr.. Wickre is and for years
has been one of the hardest working
republicans Of Day county and he is
entitled to the vote of every good
republican of this county.
The World says Wickre is making
his campaign on the fact that he is
a Norwegian. We don't believe
this. We never heard such a state
ment until we saw it in the World.
Wedont believe the World ever heard
such a statement from any one: but
we know of a candidate on the pop
ticket who is pursuing just such
tactics-a Mr.. Frank Anderson
new conner to Day county a young
practitioner Of the law, who has his
life before him within which to
accumulate experience as a lawyer.
A man can't become a capable
lawyer in two years, it is an utter
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