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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-05-07
CRAWFORD
2 Years as Governor

SUPPORTED the following measures:
To fix maximum freight rates.
To the home dairy.
TO protect the home creameries.
To protect people from fraud in
a%dulteration Of foods.
TO compel safety in hotels and inn
prove sanitary conditions.
TO protect people against m%anufac-
turers of worthless paints.
TO check sale of injurious drugs and
narcotics in patent medicines.
A law controlling telephone COM
panies and their methods of dealing
with the public.
A law giving added power to the
state railroad commission for the pro
lection of the public.
TO compel railroads TO put in con
meeting tracks between competing
lines Of railroads at junction points.
To make corporations liable for
damage through carelessnesS OF enI-
ployees-known as the fellow servant
law.
A law providing for a just and
equitable assessment for taxation Of
all railroad and other corporate pro-
erty.
The primary election law, for which
the people petitioned in 1905 and
which a stalwart Legislature refused
to enact.
The anti-lobby law, which destroys
the power of railroads or other in
by the old lobby methods-to
influence legislation by corrupt meth
DDS.
The anti.pass law to prevent rail
roads and other public service cor
porations from placing II Legislators
and the public servants under obi
cations by showing them favors, not
shown the people generally.
Besides amending many other laws
for the better protection and in the
of the public.
All of which are now in fall force
and effect.
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Easily Explained.

The Crawford machine says the
state taxes are one hundred thousand
dollars less this year than under stall
wart control but does not explain Why
the state was tire hundred and twelve
thousand dollars more in debt last
January under ineurgent control than
it was the year before under stall
wart guidance AXE Preston Times.
Had the stalwart board of as
sessment not attempted to mai" the
taxpayers believe shat the Elrod al
ministration was so economical, and
going so far as to leave a quarter mil
lion dollars of unpaid bills behind for
the Crawford administration to take
care of and pay off, there would have
no chance for Bro. Bates to
such a false issue and had the
Elrod board levied the tax they should
have. that administration would have
been the most ~extravagant of any
even year in the history of this state.
Roll over and take another nap Ly-
man.
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When you discuss finances, proper
and taxation you will get into trouble
If you attempt to evade treating them
in their entirety. The machine made
a band wagon exhibit OF one end of
the taxes and tried to cover up the
other end and consequently, lost it's
grasp of the issue and fell down inside
of a week. The machine could not
maintain itself on it's 1906-07 end of
the tax issue and nothing to stand up
on but to make the l%ugubrious pre-
diction hat taxes will probably be
dreadful at some indefinite time in the
future. Thus one more machine card
has gone into thin air like numberless
others of their paramount issues. But
never mind, within another week they
will bring on some other issue in
their forlorn attempt to avoid facing
the main fact hat he people of this
state are determined tina. non-resi-
dent corporation men shall no more
control the state government.-Pierre
Dakotan.
the state getting into petty quarrels
about this coming political contest.
The issues are perfectly plain. Craw-
ford stands for the progressive move
ment-the issues of the common peo-
ple-the primary election law-just
neutrality-suspicious. of corporations
a~nti.pass-in fact everything ROose-
welt stands for, while kittredge Is
by nature an aristocrat. his associates
in Washington are Plat, Aldrich. AL
lison and the old guard Of obstruc-
tionists. They are now opposing and
have opposed the progressive
policies. That is all right,
1t is their privilege and If they be-
lieve in those policies, their duty tnt
they should stand by their position
and be consistent. They will not fool
any one or gain any votes by claiming
they are progressive. Neither will
the subsidized press fool anyone as
10 Crawford's position. A man like
who has a frank. open
countenance and has been fought both
night and d~ay-winter and surmcr
by foul means and fair by Kit'redge
and all the corporation gang for years
IS a safe man for the people to follow.
Forum.
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Precocity and Deoeneracy.

P~recocity is not always a thing to be
desired. Indeed. it may. just as surely
as a pr~ematurely ripened fruit indi-
Gates decay and early death, mean an
early degeneration and loss Of mental
faculties. BY many biologists it is con
sidered an expression Of premature Sc
nifty. AS LOmbroso has indicated,
many of the men Of genius were sub
1ects OF degeneracy. There is a period
or antenatal growth known to scien-
lists as the senile period. embracing
the fourth and fifth months Of prenatal
existence. 1t has been found that a
slight arrest Of development at this pc
Rod is characteristic Of the class Of be-
ings known as degenerates. and pre-
cocity is recognized as one of the ex-
pressions Of this development defect.
Relief de la Bretonne, who composed
at fourteen a poem on his first tweiv"
loves. Is a remarkable ~precocity. "A
wit of five is a fool Of twenty" is an
adage founded upon the popular appre-
citation Of this unpleasant truth.-W.
A. Newman Dorland in Century.
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BLACkMAIL BLACK HILLS,

News from the Black Hills is that
Senator Kittredgc has been making
good in that section. His meetings
have been large, and everywhere the
senator is given assurance of sup,ol
which must give him pleasure. The
Black Hills will be all one way in
the June primaries, and they should
be, because the insurgents have set
the Hills country out, and have given
them practical notice that they do not
seek any votes from that big section
of the state: and it is a fact that
they will not get but a few.-Argus-
Leader.
We publish the above clipping to
show our Black Hills readers how
the Argus-Leader misrepresen,s
things. At Rapid City, with the town
full of stockmen. the large senator's
meeting was really a failure, while
here in Hot Springs he had ,ess
than ninety voters in his audience,
many Of them being progressive rep.
ublicans and democrats. At the State
Home, where Kittredge spoke in the
afternoon, he told the old soldiers
with tears in his eyes, how he loved
them. but the veterans just laughed.
No. Kit did not make good, here In
the Hills.--Hot Springs Herald.
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sentiments and similar to their ey-
preston as stated by us q couple +
months ago. It's going to require
greater effort to defeat Nessey at the
primaries that would be necessary
to eXpend in the case of any other
man who could have been presented
by the insurgent machine-U. II. Dill
lion Of Yankton alone excepted. Beg
Mr.. billions pardon; the machin"
never seemed very friendly toward
him.-Watertown Herald.
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Person the man from Miner county
who has been holding a fat job in
the department at Washington for
ten years, Is just now travelling over
the state telling the people that they
ought to send Kit back to the sen
ate, and incidentally give Person an.
other grip on the fat job. When you
get down to the bottom of the chip
pile every time you find a prominent
Kittredge man, you find one who has
will be, from a fat job-De Smet
Independent.
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!: journeys End :
. By Forbes Dwight. {
Copyrighted. 1908. by Associated ,
= Literary Press.
H/VyVN
By Forbes Dwight.

The mad gallop up the bride path
ended at the bridge across the little
pond. The girl drew rein close to the
stone parapet and, calming her FESTIVE
steed, whose every nerve seemed
a-Quiver with the excitement of the
wild dash, sat quietly on the saddle
staring with pensive eyes at the I'M
ruffied water below.
Dean ranged his own horse beside
the girls, smiling as he watched the
glowing color in her cheeks. All about
them the trees Haunted the gorgeous
tints of late autumn-scarlet, ocher
and more subdueG shades blending
into a splendid, %farreaching vista.
The crisp, clear air stirred the blood
like wine.
The girl laughed, a trife ureasily.
I'VE shouldn't be doing such
things" she said severely.
"Of course not" said Dean, with a
chuckle. 1--WE should have maintain
ed a staid pace. We should have con-
tented ourselves 1t the most with a
measured trot. It's tremendously
wicked the way we smash all the con-
ver.tions of this park. Wen have a
moante1 officer on our trail yet. Pleas
ant prospect that. A glorious gallon,
all the same, wasn't ii, and well worth
the risk of mourning the displeasure of
the law
Yes; ii was glorious" the girl ad-
mitted. Still, we shouldn't do It,"
THAT'S where half the fun comes
in" said he. Hang their old park
and its rules. DO they think we'll limit
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Opinion Changed.

Editor IeMay. of the Worthwhile
Journal. Is one of the heretofore stall
warts who returned from the huron
convention with a changed heart and
now he is engaged in doing what he
can to live down the past. In his
paper in the succeeding number he
states that his action doubtlessly will
be a surprise to some of his acquaint-
ances and then he tells how ne came
to place the progressive ticket at the
head of his columns:
"The editor never met and never
heard the voice Of Governor Crawford
until last Monday evening. Our stall
wart brother had told us e was a
wind-jammer. TO satisfy ourselves
and be ii directly understood that the
Worthwhile Journal has been indepen-
lent because it knew that trust regu-
whether Coe !. Crawford or Senator
kittredge was the true reformer, We
attended the state convention as a low
private in the rear ranks. Went
where We pleased and when we pleas.
ed and no string attached. We heard
Martin and Burke speak, Heard Sen.
ator Kittredge speak for the stalwarts.
Heard Congressman Hall and Coe |.
Crawford speak for ,ne progressives.
We found Crawford, the reformer,
(reform breathing out of every pore)
a magnetic man, a nan of the people
the idol of the ~workingman's heart
not a wind TANNER, but an eloquent
speaker. So highly convinced are we
that Coe I. Crawford is sincere in
the matter of trust regulation that
the Worthwhile Journal will support
him. Having always been a strict
party man, the writer knows no move
ment a succeed without a hearty
cooperation In the work of the whole
therefore this paper will sup
port the entire progressive ticket.
Are you with us, Mr.. Voter.-Water-
Public Opinion.
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day as this and with such a pair of
steppers?'
I'VE really ought to-" said she.
Dean laughed. 1t was a pleasant,
almost boyish laugh. His big Shout
ders were squared defantly.
1.-THE things one ought to do are gen
orally unpleasant" he observed.
Come on. Wen let them out once
more"
The girl shook her head.
NO! Oh, no" she demurred.
"Afraid?" he questioned.
She nodded.
"Of the rules they are pleased to
hamper US with in this . by 4 plot of
grass
NO; not of that" she replied. Afraid
of you, | think"
lot me-! Oh. pshaw."
Again his laugh rang out. but the
girl turned to him with a sudden seri.
II
"Iou make me rather afraid of YOU
at times she said. You tempt me to
do reckless things, | don't know why
1t should be so, but it Is. | would new.
er In the world have thought of riding
here with any one else as | have with
you just now, and the strange part of
1t all is that | enjoy it so immensely"
Enjoy what"
Doing the reckless things you in.
spire."
Dean leaned toward her quickly.
IL wish it were So" be declared. 81
wish really might inspire you to reck-
less deeds. | wish l might
Now. please" the girl begged, with
frightening color.
"Oh. all right!!' said he good natured-
ly. II know the subject is tabooed.
III observe the conventions you've i'm
posed upon me and keep my tongue
to the funereal pace"
He sat for a time staring silently into
the water. AT last he Strengthened him.
self in the saddle.
I'D like another gallop," he remark
ed. "a wilder one. a madden one. I'd
like to get out of this little old park
and go somewhere where there's a lev
ell stretch Of road and no hampering
rules Of pace"
A light came into the girls eyes. She
threw back her head and gathered I'D
the reins.
$50 would l." she declared, a triie
breathlessly.
Dean swung about to face her. There
was a quiet smile on his lips.
Come, then" he said simply.
1--WE really shouldn't" she objected.
Come" be repeated.
I'm afraid when you speak In that
fashion,"
Come"
He turned the horse from the bridge
and headed for the gate at the farther
eide OF the park. The girl followed 81.
lently.
Where are you going?' she asked as
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-05-07

The Minneapolis Journal this morn
ing says hat President Roosevelt
called Speaker Cannon to the White
House Tuesday for a heart-tO-heart
talk with regard TO ule passage
Of needed Legislation which the Speak
the Presidents urgency program is
Congressman Philo Hairs free Woo
pulp and print paper bIlI.
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The "%stalwart" press has seen
fit t criticise Senator Gamble be-
cause his son, who was employed as
a low salaried clerk, drew a small
amount of his pay while he was absent
from his employment. Seems to us
that there are three men now in South
Dakota who are away from their post
of duty in Washington without leave
of absence and whose salaries are
being paid while they are Industrious
ly employed In the interest Of the
election of a certain u. S. senator,
whom the people declare they do
not longer want In Office. Refer
ence is made to A. b. Kittredge.
who draws a salary of $500 as U. S.
senator; r. S. Parson. auditor of the
national treasury whose salary must
be something like $4,000 a year; and
Tom Roberst. secretary to Senator
Kittredge. II there Is any way of
getting at 1t an injunction ought to
be secured upon all three of those
employees OF the national government
who are guilty of drawing a salary
while they are raining a campaign
against the principles Of the govern
ment-against the wishes OF the peo-
pie and In favor of the corporations
and trusts to whom they have sold
themselves, body, soul and panta-
looms.
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he turned through the gate and MAD.
for the road that led into the coun.
try.
ITO a place where we can let them
out to our hearts content" said he.
Up the road through the Afternoon
sunshine they went at a sober pace
but once the city was fairly behind
them Dean %quickened the pace. Faster
they went and faster until they We're
teaming along at a mad gait. Across
level stretches and over the low hills
they sped. The two horses had caught
the spirit Of the gallop and tore along
at their best pace. The girls cheeks
were glowing; Deans eyes spanked
with the excitement Of It.
They paused finally on the crest OF a
hill. Far behind them lay the city, its
position outlined against the sky by a
smudge of blue smoke. Ahead of them
lay a ragged line Of hills. behind which
glowed a sky red with the embers of
the sunset.
"Well. that was a ride said Dean.
turning to the girl.
Wasn't it?" she cried. But we
must be starting back. See. the sun
has set. 1t will be quite lark if we
don't hurry"
81 wish | might inspire you with a
thorough recklessness," he said.
you have" she said breathlesSly.
Then let's go just one more mile"
he urged.
She hesitated.
Come" she cried at last.
Down the hill they Numbered, across
a bridge that spanncd a little brook
and up the rise on the other side.
Again they drew rein. The gorgeous
twilight colors were fading. Below
them lay a little village. its lights al
ready beginning to twinkle In the
gloom.
Enough reCkleSsneSS:" said he.
Never! This is just the beginning
Now I'm afraid of you again" said
she.
"Oh, no, you're not afraid of me-" he
said. with a strange g~entleness. You're
afraid Of a few old. time worn conven-
lions. You're afraid of all those plans
that have been made for your future
afraid to answer your own heart and
go against them. You are afraid Of
yourself-that you may some time do
as you want and thwart your mothers
scheming for you. But you're no
afraid Of me"
She began to tremble.
1--WE must go back" she cried.
Look" said he. d you see that
spire with the cross on il? Well. be-
side that spire is a little rectory, and
in the rectory is Il gentle old clergy
man. He's watching this road down
hill! ever now. Dorothy. he's expecting
US"
OH she cried. turning her face
away.
Shall We disappoint him." he asked.
There was a long pause; then with
looking at him the girl started her
horse down the hill. At the foot Of it
she stopped and resolutely faced Dean.
Her cheeks were burning, but her eyes
never faltered.
IL an afraid of YOU she said. "be-
cause you will always have your way
with me. You will rule me as you like,
do with me as you please. even as you
have done this afternoon. Yes. | am
much afraid Of you-but-but-
take me to your gentle old clergyman.
am very happy even in my fear"
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State

For Governor
X. S. Vessey. washington Springs
For Lieutenant Governor
II. G. Shober. Hirhmore.
For State Treasurer
G. II. Cassill, Canton.
For Secretary of State
5. G.. Policy, Deadwood.
For State Auditor
John Hirning, Herreid.
For Attorney General
s. w. Clark, RedfieId.
For Com. School and Public Lands
q. G. Dokken, Toronto.
For r.. II. Com. End District
r. G. Robinson, Groton.
For National Committeeman
Thos. Thorson, Canton.
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While Congressman Hall is staying
by his duties in Washington and leav-
ing the campaign to a great extent to
his friends, there is no reaso to think
other than that he will be right with
the head Of the ticket, and there is
tnat I've is being sacrificed in the inter
est of a candidate Of the opposing
faction w Public Opinion.
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Soothing the Author.

Actor-In the first act last night,
when Roderigo Is to shoot me, his gun
didn't go of. This sort Of thing spells
my play. Manager-It doesn't make
any difference whether he shoots you
or not. The audience appreciate the
situation. They know you are not
worth the powder It would take to
shoot you and find 1t very appropriate
that the u misses lre.-Liverpoo!
Mercury.
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Out of the Ordinary.

Say queried the high browed man
as he entered the drug emporium,
have you Bighead's balm for bald
ness!"
NO replied the druggist, but
"Oh. yes" interrupted the prospec-
tive customer, ''of course you have
something just as good. but l want
what l want. See."
You are mistaken, my friend" said
the pill dispenser. Il haven't anything
just as good, but l have something
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-05-07

OF what benefit has it been 10 South
Dakota, or the United States, to lave
Senator Kittredge in office the past
year? OF the peoples money, $500
has been needlesly spent, not for the
public, but by the Senator himself i'll
his vain attempt to pursuade the vot-
ers of South Dakota hat tney are not
able to get along without his valu-
able (D services.
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This week a young man of the city
was arrested for using abusive and
indecent language on the street and
fined ten dollars by Judge Matson.
This should be a sufficient warning to
him and to others who have the same
eriig this offence and a fine of 500
and Il thirty day Jail sentence can
be given.
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Not So had,

Mr.. Subbs (after engaging cook)-
There's one other thing I suppose you
should know, Miss Flannigan-my wife
Is a chronic invalid, confined to her
room.
Miss Flannigan-Thats fine. l wor
afeerd she might be wan " thin
chronic klckers that ARE confined T
IN kitchen, begobs!-Puck.
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Good Words For vessey.

If the stalwart press continue to
throw bouquets at the Progressive
Republicans choice for governor. In
the person of r. S. Wesley the ex-
pected contest for that Office will not
r1aterialize. The Progressive Rep
ublican bunch are fortunate in their
candidate for governor.-Vermillion
Republican.
The insurgents could not hare
chosen from their ranks a stronger
candidate, or better, than Senator
Robert s. Wesley of Washington
Springs. who has announced his can
daGy for the nomination for Govern
or."-Salem Pioneer-R Register.
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The city elections throughout the
Black Hills show an awakening in.
terest which BODIES no good to the
staiwarts. The voters have got clear
away from the politicians-Hot
Springs Herald.
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Hits Them Auain.

Ever since Hans Ustrud and his
Scandinavian friends downed the
fat senator in his home county the
stalwart editors have had it in" for
the Scandianavians. This fact has
cropped out at various times and in
various places. But the latest insult
the kittredge press has thrown at that
class was by the Howard Spirit, which
i'll its remarks regarding the pro-
gresSiye delegation from amer coun-
ty to the state republican convention
said:
1t is a Scandinavian league
delegation. Dick Richards and
his tool Osbon will lead them
around by the nose when they
get to Huron"
There are $4,000 Scandinavians in
South Dakota who belong to the
Scandinavian State League and when
kittredge's paper refers to them as a
class of people that anyone can lead
around by the nose they have GER
tainly made a mistake but such re-
marks are in keeping with the Kit
tredge-Railroad press bureau methods.
The Parker New Era, a local stalwart
paper recently said of Supt. Hans
Ustrud:
He is the fellow who is now
by accident rafting around in
the seat in years passed filed by
Crane, Nash and Ramer. *** His
grammar was 50 poor and his
talk so disconnected that even
the eight graders blushed with
shame for the injury and dis
grace the state was getting from
so incompetent an official"
Everything goes to snow that Kit
tredge realizes that a liberty loving
people, such as are the Scandina-
vians, would of course be against him
and he therefore turns the mud batter.
les of his press against them evidently
in hopes to discredit their represen.
tatives upon the state ticket, Hons.
Hans Ustrud and O. c. Dokken.-
Parker Press Leader.
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The ground Is rapidly caying away
from under the large senator.-Hot
Springs Herald.
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WHICH DO YOU PREFER?

The following parallel is presented to the Republican voters OF Brookmss
co,ntv and If % have been unjust O either Mr.. Kitredge or Mr.. Crawford
those gentlemen are a liberty 10 call m Registers atueh'ioh 10 NE ACT
and the correction will be made gladly:
- RECORD
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How did Kit" vote on the Lem
mon land Office bill?