Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-09-13
South Dakota Hits The Trail.

SIOUX Cluy IrlDune. IHe MOOSE
velt club of South Dakota invites ''al
friends of the principles for which
President Roosevelt stands, and those
who are in favor of his nomination
for a second team," to meet with the
club in Huron during state fair week
The invitation accurately states the
imperious reason why Mr.. Roosevelt
should be nominated for another
term:
The enemies of government by
and for the people are secretly work
ing for the retirement OF President
Roosevelt in order that his great
work shall not be completed, there
fore it becomes the duty Of every pro-
greSsive republican in the state to
take up this work to the end that a
solid Roosevelt delegation shall repre-
sent South Dakota in the next nation
al convention.
When President Roosevelt made
his renunciation on the night when
the returns assured his election as
"a full president" as he once put it,,
he had outlined and determined upon
the leading policy which should dis
tinguish his full term. Previously
he had twice urged upon congress
consideration of the tariff, but he
found in the speaker Of the house a
more powerful one than himself in
directing policies and the speaker had
told him bluntly that there would
be no "tinkerng with the tariff"
The president then centered his eff
forts upon establishing the principle
that the federal government, acting
by the interstate commission, could
fix rates for transportation. He
measurably accomplished this.
But his experience with that con-
test and reflection convinced him
that this was but the beginning of a
much larger and wider movement for
which it was essential that the cor
pOratiOnS which the states had Great
ed must be brought under the con-
troll of the United States through re-
Incorporation under a federal law
which would condition the terms of
operation, provide for supervision of
capitalization, and eliminate the con-
tlicting and hurtful interferences by
states with what was purely a nation
al interest His Indianapolis speech
indicated this widening of his vision
while the Provincetown speech indi-
Gated that experience had still far
ther enlarged his Judgment of what
is essential to complete and har-
monious arrangement of the relations
of the great producing corporations to
the federal government and its peo-
Pile, the entire citizenry of the Unit
ed States.
The conditions under which the
president made his statement Of No
vember, 1904, have entirely changed.
The battle he brought on Immediately
after has not been half fought. Only
an outpost has been captured. The
main lines are still held. The enemy
is vigilant, adroit, resourceful. They
have partly exposed their tactics.
They have committed states to the
candidacy of "favorite sons'' so as to
prevent not only denomination Of
the president. but the choice of any
one holding his views. They have
secured some of the strongest state
delegations. They are concerting
plans to secure others, Iowa's and
states which have shown identity Of
opinion with the president. They af-
feet a support of Taft under cover of
which they hope to secure delegates
whom they can swing for anyone
whose chief quality Is that he is not
Rooseveltian.
Under these conditions the renomi-
nation and reelection of Roosevelt is
a national, an imperious necessity.
He cannot but realize how conditions
have changed; how absolutely neces-
sary it is that the man who began the
battle shall stay for it's victorious fin
ish. And unless the common, every
day republicans Of the country, who
have gladly followed him, now arouse
themselves, "the enemies of govern
ment by and for the people" will
name his successor and demolish all
that he and they have accomplished.
If the mass of the voters make mani
fest their desire we doubt not Presi-
dent Roosevelt will obey their call.