The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-22
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Let Us Reason Together

II Inc superintendent VI Il Iaiiil was
doing everything possible to destroy
the buildings, fences and land, would
you say the owner OF the property was
trying to ruin his farm because he
censured the superintendent?
If the manager of Il mercantile
establishment was driving trade away
by his narrow-mindedness and was
putting the profits into his W pocket
would you say the owner OF the estab-
ment was trying to disrupt his bust
ness by calling down that manager, or
discharged him?
If "a on, in whose charge every fam
lily afI.ir had been placed, had &, ne
wrong and had brought ridicule and
shame upon the family, would you
say the other members of the family
had nc business to offer protestation
against such proceeding?
The reader will, without hesitation,
declare that in every instance men,
toned, not only protestations, but an
GUST from position is deserved and
should be the penalty for such mis-
conduct as has been referred to in the
foregoing.
III this be true can We not make a
like application to the methods which
have been introduced by those who
have been managing" or misman-
aging, the Republican party of South
Dakota? During the past five years the
policy of the Republican party has
been the policy Ofthe State the Republic
al party has been the sovereign power, |
the power of the people, and as such
was duty bound to serve the whole
people with justice to all. As we I'M
""ttrstand the fundamental principles
of this republic they are that the
government shall be "by the people
and for the people," If this be true
and the Republican party has become
corrupt because of the misconduct of
it's managers, the party must purge it
self of unclean methods or the people
will be justified in resorting to meth
DDS which will relieve the management
from further manipulation OF public
affairs. No man can rightfully set
himself up as a dictator Of party
policy any more than he can properly
constitute himself a boss of the uni
verse. Leaders we must have and SO
long as those leaders follow the dicta-
ton of the people their constituents
just so long are they entitled to fair
treatment, but when the people their
constituents become convinced that
their leaders have become mis-
leaders and are in collision with those
whose interests are inimical to the
welfare of the people the people have a
perfect right and it is their duty to
protest and if pro~testations avail
nothing then they are justified in
ousting the offenders from office.
This is the position the Republican
party of South Dakota is in today.
The leaders have become dictators Of
the party policy; they have chosen a
king "K" boss. This boss has pol
luted the policy of the party with his
methods OF personal agrandizement
until conditions have become nause-
ating to the rank and file Of the party.
This boss has formulated a machine,
through the state and federal patron
age, and now holds every public posi-
ton subject to his caprices and any
public official who has declined, dur
ing the past six years, to acquiesce in
the demands made by this dictator, has
done SO with the absolute knowledge
tina, lis act Of independence would at
the earliest moment relegate him to
private life. Now this machine threat
ems the disruption of the party be-
of its corrupt methods. Are the
rank and file of the party to blame for
the conditions?
Thinking Republicans everywhere
are finging back into the, faces of
these corruptionists, these self.consti-
tuted bosses, the stigma of disruption.
1t is the machine that has already
created discord. 1t is the machine
methods that are responsible for the
unrest in the Republican party. There
is no use trying to throw the blame on
democrats, socialists, prohibitionists
or any other party. The blame rests
with the bosses or the boss of the Re-
publican party and the Republican
party will rue the day that they al
lowed these men to continue in power
if they so declare by their ballots.
What does party fealty mean? The
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