Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-05-10

The insurgents principal stock in
trade consists OF condemnation Of
the machine for its alleged habit Of
slate making. But the primary
reformers have perhaps uncon-
ciously, and perhaps not fallen into
the same undemocratic error. Some
weeks ago handful of leaders met
in secret conclave and decreed the
following ticket: For United States
senator, Robert j. Gamble, Of Yank.
ton; governor, Coe |. Crawford, of
Huron; lieutenant governor, Howard
&. Shober, of Highmore; congress,
Philo Hall, Of Brookings, l.. H.
Bentley, of Milbank; treasurer, Chas.
ii. Cassill, of Canton; superintend-
ent OF public instruction, Hans A.
Ustrud, of Sioux alls;commissione
OF school and public land, James ID.
Mclaughlin, of Watertown; railroad
commissioner, Geo. III. Rice,o Elan
dreau. Not an insurgent delegate
to the state convention will be
expected to vote for any nom inee
aside from those named in the fore
going list.
The following refers to l.. III.
Bentley, the Crawford. Parks -Levoy
candidate for congress-: "Last jan
uary there appeared in the Mime.
apolis Journal an autobiography
with a two-column head entitled,
Young Self Made Man Tells Story
of His Life The article was embel
lished with pencil portraits of one of
Milbank's eminent citizens in three
different Bentleyan attitudes. The
story as it was written by the sub.
ject himself, way the story of the
rise of young man from poverty
or at least from being as he put it
himself--a chambermaid in livery
stable at $6 per month and board,
to affiuence and position where he
didn't have to keep track of his
salary as attorney as he had made
land sales that aggregated $S,OO0,-
600. The sequel of this interesting
and breezy story came this week
when the sheriff was compelled to
commence suit for the payment for
the publication of the article. Such
is the story of the sky rocket fame
and fortune which we sometimes
exploit as models for ambitious
young men to pattern after"
Mr.. Crawford can't remember
whether he voted to reduce the rail
road assessment or not. If he will
look up the auditors record, and
refresh his memory, he will find that
he did. Then perhaps he will have
the grace to stop abusing Sam Elrod
as tool of the railroads, and land
ing himself as the only true reformer
Tor the records show that Crawford
voted the way the railroads wanted
him to, and that Elrod didn't, and
further that the present railroad
in the state is ST. 700 per
mile higher on an average than it
was when Crawford thought it was
too high. Perhaps Mr.. Crawford
has also forgotten the record he
made on the gross earning tax in
the territorial council, but those
who served with him have not. As
a forgotten Mr.. Crawford is getting
TO be good bit of success.
Since E. G. Torrey toured South
Dakota and reported to his paper,
tae Minneapolis Journal, the insur-
gents would have but little over 400 1
delegates in the republican state
the Journal has exhibit
ed failing interest liz the insurgent
in this state, devoting
much space to the Iowa campaign
and comparatively little to South
Since the sudden retire
ment of the Journal as South
Dakota insurgent organ, the Sioux
City Tribune is left as the only
exponent of the insurgents of this
state in any outside state. If the
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