Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-05

that Ge rge Wartin, the congress
mans private secretary, was in
South Dakota working for the cleo
tion of Mr.. Martin to the senate,
while he was drawing salary from
the United States government. The
falsity of this statement is easily
confirmed by the fact that Mr.. Mar
tins secretary is young man by
the name of McGeary, and that Geo.
Martin is not on the government
pay roll, nor has he been for some
three or four years at lie st. In this
connection a comparison Of the way
in which the members of the dele
CATION do business may not be out
of place. In the Argus Leader of
March End appeared the following
dispatch from Washington.
Senator Kittredge has system
which he applies to his official staff
here which is unique and commend
able. In addition to Tom Roberts
his private secretary, Mr.. Kittredge
has three young men as assistants in
bis committee room, all from South
Dakota. In selecting these the SEN
ator gives preference to deserving
young men in the state who desire
to attend school, but who have not
the necessary means TODD so. Wash
ington has excellent law, medical
and other colleges and their hours
of study are adjusted so that young
men employed in the government
departments and at the capital can
keep up with their classes and at the
same time attend to their daily
duties. At the present time the
senator has two embryo lawyers and
one doctor. just as fast as they
graduate they are succeeded by
other young men from the state who
also desire to go through college."
The Kittredge way OF doing must
commend itself to every one and il
is like the man in every respect, and
explains why he has SO many friends
who will follow him to death, il
need be, in order to advance his
interests.
| Now let us look at the Gamble
way of doing business and note the
difference which may explain why
the senior senitor from South
Dakota has so few friends who
stake their all in contest in which
his personal welfare is considered.
The report Of the secretary of the
senate from July LIST, 1902 to July
LIST, 1908 shows that r. A. Gamble, a
SOL OF the senator, was paid as a
page $4O7.5O; the secretary's report
from 1908 to 1904 shows that r. A.
Gamble, the senator's son, received
pay as a messenger to the amount
of STOP 65; that on February 9Th,
1908, Senator gamble had a resolu-
ton passed giving him mess enger
to his committee at salary of $500
month; the secretary's report
shows thst +. A. Gamble, son of the
senator, up to July LIST, 1905,
received $764, making the total
amount paid Mr.. CANDLES son
S1S74.15. That Senator Gamble
had a perfect right to employ his
son no one will question, but when
it is Termed that during all this time
his boy, r. A. Gamble, was attend
ing school in Maryland, and has
never performed an iota of service
for the government, either as folder,
page or messenger, to the committee
Of which his father is chairman, the
wrong done is plainly apparent
and specie Of graft exhibited which
is entirely new in the state and all
the more reprehensible, when the
wealth OF Senator Gamble is taken
into consideration.
As long as the search light is
being turned on to the acts of our
congressional delegation Il is more
than fair that it be turned on the
insurgents as well as upon the
organization republicans. If we are
to view the acts Of our public men
under the lime light, let's look at
them all and not signal out any one
Of them.
Il pv<1.