Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-01-04
An Honest Reuieb of
The Senatorial Situation
The Purpose of tine Machine assault
ON Senator Gamble and The Conse-
auences Resulting From His Defeat
sioux City Daily Trfogne

The attack upon Senator Gamble
which is clearly the inspiration Of his
distinguished colleague Senator Kilt
reasge. zEpears to Lag somewhat In en-
th7siasrs just low. Mr. kfCtredge
knowing tine spirit Of his colleague
probably anticipated an extended
newspaper controversy, and hoped for
a trade Of some kind % Of il which
would make smoother the KfEtretge
road III this were the anticipation he
has been Disappointed Senator fam
bic has 10 dignided the allegations
made with much attention
The suggestion thar Senator Kilt
resige IS oct for a bargain does n0s,
we apprehend, mean an Injustice TO
him In che eyes Of his friends IN South
Dakota The Tribune would not be
unfair to The Sioux Falls congressman
Tr IL notorious In South Dakota that
when IL YEAS clear last summer that
Senator Gamble was going TO carry
the state the Eirrrsdge people made
a bald proposition TO Senator Gamble
that they would Join with him ard
make his reelection unanimous il he
would east overheard Crawford and
his crowd Of reforrners. Instead Of
doing this, Senator Gamble made close
and frner alliance with Mr.. CraW-
ford and WAS rhereTpon given full
leadership OF the campaign
This bit Of history does not lend
much encouragement TO the present
Kittredge raid
Senator Gamble II not to be com
pared with the democratic leader In
the United States senate Bailey. Al
though Bailey Is perhaps the creates
lawyer and orator among all t
ators, IL has been discovered that he
lent himself secretly and for pay 10
the service OF q great corporation
with whom the people 81 his state
were In a death grappIe. Texas was
fighting Standard Oil. and Senator
Bailey, upon whom Texans had the
first claim, was accepting fees and
tttztECtft b6sofS Ito4E ClC EJG4AaA1f0 csf
manager. He has affronted thereby
the self respect of the men OF his
state and yet the chances are that
Bailey will be returned to the senate.
Texas has greater purposes than
Senator Bailey's defeat Just now At
some future time she may settle her
score directly with Mr. Bailey
There Is nothing In &he Kittfedge
charges involving the faitsgfuIness Of
Senator Gamble TO his constituents
The whole SUM and substance OF the
Kfttredge assault as this paper can
gather it from publication made, Is
that Senator CANDLES son as an en-
pIoye OF the senate I'm Washington at
tended school part Of the time he was
on the pay roll as an employe- There
Is some dispute as to the dates Of the
boys employment and some difference
in the amount Of money it IS alleged
that he drew without rendering full
service to the government. The boys
work may have been done by a sub
stitute.
Considering the large issues involv-
ed In South Dakota this appears to
be altogether q pueriIe and ineiec-
tive method OF campaigning. Senator
Kittredge can hardly be suspected OF
good faith in making 1t. He IS known
as a short arm fighter. He ~ a SulIi-
van rather than a Corbett- II Is not
like him to be running around the
ring just to make small marks on the
body Of Senator Gamble. He has a
larger purpose. He knows, as every
other intelligent politician in South
Dakota will appreciate II ne stops to
consider, that the defeat OF Gamble
would mean also tine humiliation Of
Crawford and the destruction Of the
whole insurgent 1t would
mean lowering the standard Of
R~ooseveltism; IT would mean the inn
mediate rehabilitation OF Kittredge,
and restoration Of the old railroad
domination Of the state: It would mean
continued interference with the pur-
pose Of the nation In building the
Panama canal, the obstruction OF the
investigation Of the absorption OF coal
lands and the control OF the fuel sup
ply Of the Unites States by the great
railroads; it would mean the doing Of
all those things for which the great
corporations are struggling and not
the doing Of those things which mean
the final lodging OF power In the peo-
pie.
Whether Nj. Crawford would accept
q seat in the senate treacherously OBJ
tanned from his friend Gamble is an
unnecessary question. The real thing
In that such a seat would be yaIueless,
not only to Crawford but to South Da-
kota and upon the latter theory alone
1t IS safe TO say that Mr.. Crawford
would reject a tender OF a seat II IL
were actually offered him.
The insurgent forces Of South Da-
kota in combination with Gamble
republicans, and perhaps modera ted
and balanced BY them In the estima-
tion OF the electors, have been given
but II was for larger. purposes
than oficeholding or ofiiceholdcrs
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