Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-05-03
Doc KlavenessL iberates
Twenty-Five Thous-
and Scandinavia
ans.
AN EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
Hereafter all Scandinavians
Will be Perfectly Free to Act
Politically just as Do:
Desires, and Support
That Great Scandi-
navian, MIR.
Crawford.


Sioux Falls Press the eye
caught the following sensational
set in double column
poster style!
scandinavian Emanicapion from
the rule of the republican state
machine voiced in ringing resolu.
tions at the Brookings meeting.
Twenty FIVE thousand voters enlisted
in body, under the leadership of
Coe l. Crawford, to fight against
political demagogry."
Reading on, under a Brookings
date line, we find the following
labeled as Especial to the Press"
The executive committee of the
Scandinavian republican state league
of South Dakota has been in session
here this afternoon and most of the
counties east of the Missouri river
were represented in the meeting.
The important business before the
committee was the committal of the
league to policy in connection with
the differences between the two
factions OF the republican party in
the state. The matter was fully
discussed and the resolutions were
unanimously adopted committing the
league to the interests of the Roose-
welt republican league and pledging
its support to the cause SO ably
advocated by Coe /. Crawford and
his associates. The members of the
committee were of one mind on this
proposition, their opposition to the
machine being pronounced"
This great political vancouver was
carried out right here under the
nose OF our news gatherer and the
first intimation had of the great
meeting was from the Sioux Falls
Press when it arrived Monday even
ing. Our reporter was 'jacked up"
for his negligence in allowing SO
stupendous an event to escape his
notice, and he was turned loose with
instructions to run it down. He
naturally visited all the prominent
Scandinavians the first thing and
inquired about the affair, but could
find none who knew anything about
it. In fact when shown the "dis-
patch" some laughed and others
were Disguised.
But the reporter preserved and
finally discovered that meetin g
was held, which was attended by
Martin Berg, secretary of the league
of Sioux Falls, Editor Hildahl, edi.
tor of the Sioux Falls Ekko: L. S.
Haugen, of Wilmot, state senator OF
Roberts county; G. X. Leite, oil
Volga; and E. Klavenes, OF Brook
ings; which constituted the repre-
sentation "from most of the counties
of the state east of the Missouri
river" Our reporter also found a
man in the city who was at Sioux
Fslls last Saturday ard who read
the dispatch" and the resolutions
several hours before the meeting
was alleged to have been held al
Brookings, and who informed him
that the article was in type in the
Sioux Falls Press Office before the
meeting was held.
The whole affair seems to be a
coarse political fake, and will have
no influence whatever among the
Scandinavians, if we are to Judge by
the situation in this county, where
the Scandinavians comprise large
per cent of the population. Nearly
every prominent Scandinavian in
this county is supporting d. H
Campbell, and they do not take
kindly to half a dozen men getting
together and passing resolutions in
the name Of twenty-five thousand
scandinavian voters in South
Dakosa. They point out that the
league is not a Scandinavian orRan q.