Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-30

THE REBELLION!
SOME REASONS WHY w. X
HEARST GOT HIS BIG
VOTE.
A Warning That Unless Great
Reforms Are Speedily Brought
About the Voters Will Resort
to Drastic Measures.

considered in no other light than as
an expression on the part of thou
sands Of their Indignation toward
public abuseS-toward braZen graft
toward corporate greed, toward in
etfectual laws, toward one-Sided legiS
lation, toward the partnership which
unquestiOnably exists between law.
makers and corporate interests, to,
ward the trusts, toward the advant.
ages which organized wealth has ovel
the individual.
Thousands voted for Mr.. Hearst as
the only means of registering thel
condemnation of existing social con-
ditionS. Other thousands voted for
him, not because they considered him
by all means fit, but because he had
administered more than one sledge-
hammer blow against the very abuses
from which the plain people have Suf-
fered and are suffering. They in
dorsed neither his methods nor his
personality, but they were in rebel
lion and, with all his faults, he was a
leader who had raised a banner under
which they could mass themselves for
blow at present day wrongs.
| Unless those elevated to power,
those intrusted with making equitable
laws, devote themselves most asSidu-
ously to serving the people as a whole
rather than favOring and strengthen
ing the Notifications of the million
are criminals who are fattening on
the general public, the next election
in this State-the next election in the
| nation will result in such an up
heaval as to destroy much that is good
along with much which is bad. 1t is
better to reform than to destroy, but
if reformation can come through no
other means, then must come chaos,
and after that the building up of an
entirely different social system. That
something of all this is appreciated
by the great newspaper editors Of
New York may be judged from the
following extracts from the editorials
published the morning after election:
The New York Tribune (Repub-
lican):
The Governor-elect represents the
highest type of our citizenship, the
kind of man whom it is the aspiration
of the most thoughtful men to draft
from private to public service. He
owes his election to the peoples rec
ognitiOn that he is the need Of the
hour. BY promise and performance
he stands for the sober orderly, non
sensational correction of those abuses
about which the vote for Hearst, de-
spite his character shows the intens-
ity of public feeling. We congratu
late Mr.. Hughes on his election and
the States upon it's election of Mr..
Hughes.
The New York World Democrat
ic):
The people of New York are tired
of corporation piracy. They are tired
of being robbed by the public service
corporations that are the creatures Of
the State, and of seeing this robbery
connived at by men who are supposed
to be the servants of the public. They
are tired of being robbed by Milk
Trusts and Ice Trusts and Coal
Trusts and Gas Trusts and Traction
Trusts. They are tired of the part
nership between corporations and
political organizations and they have
voiced their resentment at the polls.
By an unexpectedly small plurality
they have selected Mr.. Hughes to do
the work that Mr.. Hearst was clamor-
ing to do, but there can be no ques-
tion as to their demand that the
work shall be done. Had anybody
less clean and capable than Mr..
Hughes been the Republican candi-
date for Governor Mr.. Hearst would
have been elected by an overwhelm-
ing majority, in spite Of his demagog-
ism, in spite of his personal untitness,
in spite of his deal with Murphy, in
spite of everything. AS it was thou
sands Of voters who had no respect
for Hearst and none too much confid-
ence in him voted for him in the be-
lief that it was time to resort to dras-
tic measures and teach Incorporated
capital lesson. To them any kind a
club seemed better than no club at
all. They were not voting according
to reason, but they were voicing
their wrath, and wrath is passion
that always has to be considered in
republican governments.
The narrow defeat of Hearst and
the election of Hughes is a plain no.
tice both to Wall street and the Re
publican politicians. The people
want a new deal and square deal.
They want a housekeeping at Albany
and they want it to be thorough.
| The fight was won not on issues but
on men; for the World very much
doubts if there was great difference
of opinion yesterday in regard to the
abuses of government in New York,
or to the shameless excesses of many
great corporations, or to the alliance
between financial corruption and po
llitical corruption.