The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-02-03

! for petition to remove a county
seat or a petition to the legislature
To enact the jack abo.t bill.
The list ut names also show many
Indications Of having beea tempered
with. Under the Law he personal ad-
! dl.!on II the residence, business and
postotilt address is as much Il part
Ui the petition as the signature as
/ the name. In very many instances
the signature are in different hand
writing than the words designating
the Slgners' business etc. In many
more Instances the residences. etc,
are designated by ditto marks, On
page after page it is plain that these
marks were inserted by one person to
cure defects in the petitions after
I they had been slgned.
There is absolutely nothing affixed
to the petitions to show that the
Signers are legal voters save the re
cItal on the ngst sheet Of The pack
age, which was especially written for
insertion in that position when the
l~ehage was made up, There is
nothing on or about the petitions to
show that thew We're signed IN behalf
ui 4 primary election law or anything
else save the recital on the second
sheet OF The package, which was es.
prc!ally prepared for Insertion i'm that
position when the package was made
/ up.
(, The lists of names could as we'll
have Teen attached to a petition for
the hanging of the governor of the
state us for anything else. There IS
nothing to show that the signers de-
sired the enactment OF any particular
kind OF primary law, or OF any law
at all, or Of anything
The whole thlng IS farcical ana
''"'' uiouH. III III no way complies
with the requirements of the law
This states the case conclsely and
clearly and il is hard to understand
how the bill can pass.
Pierre, jan, al The first real
break IN the nnnotouy of hitherto
quiet session occurred last Saturday
when the committee Cd elections, of
which Hon. L. c. Toy is Chairman,
submitted IT'S report on senate Joint
resolution No :, wllch was Il reso.
luton applying to congress 10 call Il
/ constitutional convention for the pur-
pose OF Submitting TO the states for
idt!t!fat;on, an amendment to the
eaefal constitution providing for the
election OF L. =. senators by direct
vote of the people, and the committee
reported that the same "do moi, BASS :"
ms gave tbs insurgents and demo
crats III the senate a chance to test
their strength and no sooner was the
report read than Senator Shobert,
went up in the air feet first and be-
gan 20 Dark at the scenery. The re-
suit was that the opponents and adj
nf hf
| time heating the senate with steam
coated oratory. lisa moral that the
insurgents hadn't figured on getilno
up against that kind OF a ghuSt-daucc
They had thought that the commit
zee would MT report on tic Iesolu-
ton so that they could MAKE u hulla.
0aloo about II, but they had figured
without = g. Toy, who during the
de3ate did not mincc matters, but SAID
| that he didn t believe In beating the
devil about the stump and as Il mem
hal Of :. republican senaG@ he did not.
propose 70 help pull any democratic
or popuIistic chestnuts out Of the tire.
and Lawson Of Aberdeen said they
could make his the same.
y vote for the adoption of the re.
| port resulted in 30 for and against,
as follows: Apderson, Dl Cassiu,
Cooke, Cardiff, Rice, Sholer and
Young VI. The senator from Rob
crts county being excused. This
seems TO have placed the insurgents
and the democrats squarely in the
llme-lisht of publicity.
ran across the following little
gem written by G. Il. Holmes aud as
it has never been published give 1t
4 to the world:
WHoor 'ER rr FOR SOUTH DAKOTA.
Where the skies in beauty Sleep
! And the coyotes chase the sheep