Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-10-11

domination condemned in fact the
Sioux Falls platform is carried out
in every particular. They cannot
make a non endorsement OF Senator
Gamble a grievance for he was
endorsed by the state convention
and nothing that the Day county
convention would do or say, could
add TO or detract from that endorse.
ment. What then is their griev
anceY Are the men nominated for
the Legislature unfit? Nothing OF
the kind is insinuated. Are not the
nominees for county office fully
qualified? Again there is no insiu.
u%ation. Did not the platform meet
with their approval? Nothing "a
be said against it. Yet with a good
platform and a good ticket, a little
bunch of Webster politicians think
it is incumbent upon them t"
denounce the action of a convention
of the republicans of the county and
upon their own responsibility pace
another ticket in the field and con
tinue indefinitely a factional fight in
which they are fairly defeated. And
in this convention they participated
How will the voter view such tao
ticsS How long will the people
allow themselves to be misled b,
these peanut politicians who set up
their judgment in opposition to a
regularly selected convention by a
majority of the voters of the county?
What would have been thought oftbe
republican ~stalwarts. defeated at
Sioux Falls in the state convention.
returning home and saying ''our
judgment in the matter of candi-
dates and platform is superior to
that of the majority and we win put
up another ticket" Why, their
presumption would be laughed al
and that is what should be done
with this Prescriptions set in Web.
ster who do not wish to abide by the
will of the majority. Yet it stands
to the credit OF part of the insur-
gents, that they do not approve of
any action leading to another ticket,
In the case OF many, they have
taken an oath to support the repub-
lican ticket and intend to observe it
Others say they have fought a good
fight, been defeated and are content
to take their medicine as they would
have expected the regulars to have
done had they been defeated. But
the irreconcilables, governed by hate
and passion, bearing no love for the
republican party, declare they will
continue the fight and again involve
their fellow citizens in a political
battle. When Coe l. Crawford was
defeated in the state convention by
Governor Elrod, he Immediately took
the platform and announced his 10y
atty to the ticket nominated. When
Governor Elrod was likewise defeated
by Mr.. Crawford, he did the same
thing. That republication. Last
week, Judge Parker, nominee for
Congress, in conversation with a
Day county citizen, declared he was
not in sympathy with such actions
as threatened by the insurgent wing
Of this county and said it was the
duty of all good republicans to sup
port the nominees selected by his
party conventions, both state and
county, and that two years from now
it will be necessary to present a
united front againsta common enemy.
This brings us back to the point
made during the preliminary cam
paign-are these men republicans?
Certainly the endeavors Of that part
of the insurgent wing who want
another ticket does not speak repub
licanism and gives warrant to the
charge as made before that their
sympathies and votes belong to
Bryan and Bryanisn, and will be
found there in 1908. 1t certainly
looks that way. NJ !.