The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-27
SOUTH DAKOTA
IS CRAWFORD IN II?
His Home Papers Bring Him Out for
Governor as the Candidate Of
Republicans.
Mercurial Correspondent from How.
ard Believes It Is About AL Over
Except the Shouting.
special to The Journal.

Special to The journal.
Howard S.. D., Oct. PA contest which
promised neck and neck race, with q
dozen entries and half that many start
ers, is in danger of being spoiled before
the bell rings. The strong popular. senti-
ment setting toward Coe. l. crawford TOT
governor has been suddenly crystalliaed
by the formal announcement of his name
in the Huron Journal-World as Beedle
county's candidate
Strong as Mr.. Crawford is with the
voters, there is a large sprinkling of poll
ticians over the state who do not want
him. Some are 10th to accept his can
didacy only because it seals the fate Of
their own favorite: others because his
entry into the contest throws very ar
tistically constructed slate "up in the
air. and yet others object to Crawford
because he would be "a hard governor
to handle" -, o.. tss. s.s@ sE
\But the ninety and nine, in every hum
dred who have no personal axe to grind.
recognize the fitness of the man for the
place and the place for the man.
While everything is smooth on the sur
face, no politics and mo time for pol
itcs in South Dakota" the two or three
score of henchmen. who are always In
politics and always active, have been
working as they never worked before to
sidetrack the Crawford boom. Everything
has been done under cover, Of course.
not absolutely deaf can hear almost any
thing he wants to-, ...z.f r.. M :, ~
Some are urging upon the friends Of
Senator Gamble that it is his seat Craw-
ford is after and that he wants the gov
ernorship for base Of operations. while
the same men, talking to friends of Sem
ator Kittredge, are just as certain that
his scalp will dangle in the Crawford
teepee eff this boom isn't ditched.':4
81 Deductions Of an "outsider."
An outsider can generally comprehend
the 1arne better than the players. An
outsider, a retired politician-who has not
| been "out'' long enough to be out Of
touch with events-gave the most plausi-
BILE theory of the Crawford movement yet
| advanced. w. ..n
Said he: Crawford will be the next
governor Nobody can stop that but him
self-and he will not. He might have re-
| fused, tho the temptation to ride on a
tidal wave; when one sees 1t, IS strong
! to any man; yet he might have declined
! if the small bore politicians had not un :
dertaken to choke him off. But they did,
and their work was coarse. Crawford is
not a man to be stepped on with i'm
punity, especially when he can see that
he has only to consent to- win out. A
! few years back, when the insurgent
movement became dangerous, the ma
chine so-called laid down. Salt, and
An era Of good feeling within the party
followed at once. SrE@ IT, 3.
"A few Of you irreconcflables kept ham
mering away for awhile, but insurgency
gradually died out. ~, & ...,..
''IIad prosperous times anything to d.
with it?' ~ T.. IL =.
| "Not a thing in the world. g: A pros
porous man Is more tenacious Of hi:
.Irights than one who is hard up. 1t wa!
! simply a cha1fge of methods by the part!
; leaders. Now this demand for Crawford
is spontaneous. It comes from the PEG
!. pie. They have become suspicious tina
things are working back toward slate
and BOSSES and other follies and the,
; want to head it off by putting up a maj
: who is too big to be a factionist:"
: Whether the above theory Of the Craw
| ford movement is correct or not, it is bot
possible and plausible. Others beside
the theorist have noted the tightening O
} the wires. ~. ~
! -- Up to Crawford. .-.s~ss.s.-
It is reasonable to expect that the an
nouncement by the Jcurnal-W World wi
clear the atmosphere by eliciting from MI
Crawford definition of his attitude to
ward the nomination. II he responds t
i the call, it is all over but the shouting
Only such politicians as want to com
5 nit hari kari by the quick method wi
care to make open opposition. -
2 One happy feature of Mr.. Crawford
n candidacy is that it: would tend to kee
politics and the capital fight apart. Th
+ Pierre managers could not we'll oppos
5 him-if they wanted to-since, if it cam
to a showdown. he is probably stronge
r in Pierre than they are, and the Mitche
l. managers could not very we'll afford t
e make a fight or Beadle county's cand
il date. t$.'~. ~. H.. " ".
# Burke and Pierre.
d There are vague runors from :Pier1
e. Of a conflict of views and intiests be
y tween the capital managers and the pc
r. litical managers. It is very potent ths
II the capital contest weakens Mr.. Burk
e as a candidate, since partizans Of Mitcf
3 ell cannot feel enthusiastic over putin
" the patronage Of congressman at tt
disposal Of Pierre Nobody admires NJ
- Burke less for being loyal to his hon
S town, but there are many who think tina
In view Of the capital fight, it would /
- more delicate for him to step aside.
There have been suggestions of la
that for this reason Secretary Berg,
H. Mr.. Elrod, putative candidates for 10,
n, ernor, would do better as candidates f
til Mr.. Burke's succession, and especially