The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-04-30
He IS A MAN
OF THE PEOPLE
Governor COe !. Crawford is Paid
High Compliment
FEARLESS, LOGICAL AND CONVINCING
Man the People Can Tie to With
out Fear of Betrayal

During the past week Governor Coc
] Crawford has been introducing sound
Progressive Republican doctrine in the
Black Hills country and the Deadwood
Daily Telegram an independent Demo.
cratic paper, which is supporting Andy
Lee. pays Mr.. Crawford the following
deserved compliment:
The causual observer cannot fail but
be impressed with Governor Craw-
ford at the first glance. A tall gentle
man attired in gray suit with IA
wiry frame and a silvery tongue. A
leader, politician and above all, a
man. He speaks with iorceful elo-
lessly. He attacks systems candidly,
assails men and records unreservedly,
boldly, but without bitterness. He
rips things up ,he back with a keen.
edged blade of caustic eloquence. He
is convincing
One can easily see why he Is a
leader. His personality is one that
commands. One of his epigrams will
express more than the lengthy Grafton
of the average spellbinder He fights
In the open. He avoids vain repeti-
tions and self conscience references
to his immortal record. He is not
hypocrite or a issue dodger. He
ocLr nnncttnnC hn
tions put to him. He conceals moth.
ing.
His speech Tuesday evening at Lead
was mastery summing up of the pO-
litical situation in this state from re-
publican standpoint. He is intell-
gently conservant with the paramount
national issues. He has the records of
senators and congressman on his ton
gues end. He has a keen eye for de-
tecting graft and rotteness in small
and large degree. He knows where to
flnd the niger in the political wood
piles He finds them and exposes
them publicly.
He does not indulge in vituperative
personalities. He is a fighter, but
not a back bitter He invades the en-
emy's country. he offers himself as a
target for the arrows, he bears the
piercing thrusts and tnen he buckles
on his armOr and goes forth to war,
but not to slay-his friends do that
at the ballot box. He meets slander
with logical and convincing denial
not with cowardly Indifference He is
a force. a power and an organizer
He is an advocate of Roosevelt and
Roosevelt policies. He heads a pro
gressive movement for regulation and
reform. not radical reform but sen
sible, needful and necessary reform
! He has no patience with the man who
| follows blindly the footsteps of poll
! tical masters in traditional rut for
the hope Of patronage. He advocates
the doctrines Of square deal for all
men under all conditions He looks in
to the future reads the trend of forth
coming events and prepares for them.
He is the dominant figure in the re-
publican party of this state. 1t is
quite as impossible to keep him down
as it is TO make a feather sink on the
ocean tide. He makes as great head
way against the surgng swells of op-
position as in the easy current of ac
! quiescent sentiment. ne requires no
financial life preserver to save him
from drowning in the political mael
strom He uses the straight stroke ol
principle and emerges from the whirl
pool dripping and fatigued perhaps
but safe and sane.
In short Crawford is a man of the
people, for the people and behind the
people at all times He is a pretty safe
kind of republican to get acquainted
with.