The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-05-03

published for one year. This was In
tended to discourage the establishment
of new publications. Having secured
this law. the machine has labored as
siduously and quite successfully in
keeping a guardianship over all, OF
nearly all, republican country newspa
pers. To that end no newspaper can
get any state patronage such as the
publication of insurance statements
that does not support the machine. In.
%surance notices are usually furnished
at the ratio of about three to each
paper that gets them, and is a clear
gain to such paper of about $4,000 a
year, because the publisher of their
patent inside Will set up such notices
without charge. This amounts to a
small country office that has all it can
do to support itself, to a considerable
help, and there are any number of news
papers which are held in line with the
machine at this time because they
know If they did not stand in with it
the insurance commissioner would get
his instruct. ons from his chief not to
let any of them have any business.
1t will readily be seen that with the
law referred to in force, it is very hard
ana d~iscouraging work to start a new
newspapers in towns that have one or
more. This is a great disadvantage to
the Roosevelt republicans at this time,
and the people should know how it is,
that their newspaper is not supporting
the principles and policies they believe
in
ORGANIZE FOR INITIATIVE AND REF
ERENDUM.
Fortunately for South Dakota the
people, by the initiative and Refer
endum provisions of the constitution,
can tangle the wires of the machine
or machine legislation, as often as
it gets in its work against the people:
but all this constitutional advantage
counts for naught. For our purposes
there should be state, county and pre-
cinct organization. 1t should be a NON
PARTIZAN ORGANIZATION, because leg
islation asked for in that way would
be non-partiZan, in which men of all
parties would be alike interested, for
or against, regardless of their party
relations. BY such local organizations
pCJlIlOilo Ioii NC CIulS D tiiC iiCC-
eSSary names with but little cost and
i'm a short time.
The way the petition was gotten up;
that was turned down last winter
made it cost a large sum OF money TO
send men from town TO town to get
the names. a primary petition should
be sent in again tothe legislature: also
a petition for a law to be SubmittedtO
the people forbidding the giving or re-
ceiving Of free railroad oreXpresS pass
eS. Don't depend on the next legiSla-
ture for such laws, for if you do you
will not get them, and then the wrong
will continue for another two or four
years before it could be righted. Or
game at 0Hce and send the name and
postollice address of the president and
secretary to q. S. BaSford, state Secre-
tary. Redtield, S. ID. Let this be at
tended to without delay in every coun-
ty and precinct.
THERE SHOULD BE 40 HALT.
No matter what may be the result
of the June convention at Sioux Falls,
the Roosevelt Republican reform or
~ganiZatiOn must keep their fires burn
ing: let no machine man be put Oh
guard anywhere if it can be prevented:
see that every county OtiicernOminated
andevery memberOfthele legislature isin
favor of the Roosevelt league platform.
If the, people would wln there must
be no halfway work INDUCED in; those
who are not for us are against lis: the
contest should be continued straight
on from year to year if Unnecessary until
corporate machine politics is smashed
and made SO disreputable that no man
or corporation will again attempt 10
organize it. 1t is the peoples fight
for liberty, for the privilege O~felectlng
their own members of the legislature
and making their OWL laws Of
which the corporate political machine
has robbed them.
A FIGHT TO THF FINISH.
The corporate political machine will
fight for control of the majority of the
delegates to the Sioux Falls convention
in June next; and to that end corpora,
ton money and free railroad passes
will be furnished without stint and
the county agents and precinct agents
will be busy at the primaries. Machine
delegates to the state convention will
be supplied with railway passes and
board at hotels when necessary. Free
passes will also be issued to some
thousand of machine men from various
parts of the state to capture a lobby
to howl down and stamp down, and by
the immensely of its presence at ana
about the convention and hotels in the
city to intimidate the anti machine
forces. Already notice has been given
that celebrated public speakers from
abroad will be present and address the
state republican league during the con.
vention, though what need there can
be of republican speeches in a state
that gave $4,000 republican majority
out of less than $4,000 votes, at the
last election is not explained, except
upon-th theory | have already ad'
vanced, to-wit, to attract a great crowd
to hurrah in season and out of season
for the machine. But the Roosevelt
republicans will be there too, and have
their nerve with them. AS the grand
Old republican party | helped to or
ganize fifty years ago had no money
:. back it or spoils to offer for its ser
yiaa ca tha Roosevelt cnDuhlicaOS have