The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-08-04

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ssROOsevelt Republicans"
The cheapest thing we have yet
seem in South Dakota politics Is the
sttsmpt being made by democratic
snd anti-republicsn newspapers to
show that the republican organization
- hostile to President Roosevelt. It is
cheap because in the first place there
Il no truth whatever in the pipe
dream of republican hostility to
Roosevelt in South Dakota, and it is
made still more cheap because the
great alarm is felt by men who ridi-
culed Roosevelt in 1900, who voted
against him in 1904, and who are
now trying to jump upon the Roose-
yelt bandwagon because they have
learned that Roosevelt is winner
and that the people of South Dakota
ere with him. Take the case Of Mr..
Pettigrew, for instance. The people
Of South Dakota have not forgotten
the ridicule which Senator Pettigrew
tried TO heap upon Roosevelt in 1900
They have not forgotten that Mr.. Pet
tigrew voted against Roosevelt only
last year, and declared in the demo-
cratic state convention that he had left
the republican party forever. and was
glad he had done SO. Isn't 1t then
Just bit absurd to have Mr.. Petit
CREWS former private secretary "de-
Tending" the president from the
ssplots" OF the republican state orga-
nizstion, and to be told that Mr.. Pet
tigrew himself is likely to be called
upon by the boxer republicans to or
ganize them in order to protect ROose-
velt republicanism in South Dakota.
It is not an easy question to discuss.
thought not to require discussion. The
republican organization was to man
in favor OF Roosevelt for president in
1904. The democrats and populists
and silver republicans who are now
trying to rally about Mr.. Pettigre0 =
were to . man opposed to him. There
has been no case in which the state
organization has not been entirely 10y
q to the president. There is not 9
\ usn in the organization, and there is
hardly republican in South Dakota
Who is not back of the president.
This does not mean that every repub-
lican will agree every time with the
president on everything, but it docs
mean that the republicans OF South
Dakota and the organization which
officially represents them are back OF
the president, believe in his policies
and are upholding his hand.
The present ontbnrst OF affection
for President Roosevelt on the part
Of those who only one short year ago
did not like him we'll enough TO vote
for him recalls the 1895 outburst OF
ssLincoln republicans. |" The same men
who sre now trying to ride into pow
or on Roosevelt's popularity were in
1896 claiming to be the only simon
pure Lincoln republicans in the land.
Abraham Lincoln they claim would
have been for free silver. Abraham
lincoln they claimed in 1900 would
have Z. .en II favor Of leaving tho Phil
fppinss Ia the lurch. The rank and
1le Of tho republicans Of the state
nook no stock In these cheap cam
paien cries Ii 1898 and in 1900. They
are not likely 70 have decreased in
discrimination since, and It will be =
hong time before the republicans Of
south Dakota will commit the man-
aesment Of party affairs to crowd
- men who have fought the party for
- last nine years, and who only now
ssek 70 change front because they
1rOw their case is Otherwise : hope
- ono.
Republicanism has been growing
some Ia South Dakota since 1900. In
that year Bryan carried the state. In
100 McKinley's majority WAS nearly
1900. In 1902 Governor Herreid va
slected By plurality Of 2o,800. In
1904 Roosevelt carried tho staee by
over $1,000. State administration has
bee0 . clean % : hound's tooth.
Oeher staaes have had scandals, bus
South Dakota has BEEN clean. An Of
1ort 80 made last year to get Lincoln
Ges6ens - como TO South Dakota and
Write up the shortcomings Of the Or
Ganiso&iOn. Hs looked the field over,
and did not come, and those who
ttiod - 81 him here dropped the1
whclo ma&1r Hiss hot potato. Barred
~ = lncreasing republican msjority
- - side, and clean State ID