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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-08-09

WANTEB-A girl for general house
work. Apply Mrs: G, ". Wolbert,
Mandan avenue. 81. ,,..
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-03-05
THE INTEREST BILL
II was Killed by Reform Votes at a
Cost to the State Of $4,000
in -Four Years

The taxpayers Of the state should
be interested in the question of re-
tanning as treasurer of the state a
man who, if he is elected another
term, will by the end of thai term
have drawn 100000 of interest on the
state ~funds-money which is a clear
pickup for him and which should
rightfully go to theNState.
The stalWarts made a strong effort
to have this interest money go into the
state treasury as it does in most other
states, but were baked at every point
by the insurgents. Mr.. Bratrud, the
stalwart member from Minnehaha
county, introduced a bill to give the
state the interest on it's own funds.
It was opposed by State Treasurer
Cassill, Mr.. Crawford and other in
surgents, and after being held up in
committees as long as possible, it
commentator. Mr.. Bratrud moved
to amen the report AND recommend
the passage of the bill, and this
motion was defeated by a vote of SO
to 81. The insurgents voted against
the motion and the stalwarts for it.
Thus the reform legislature voted
for a graft which will cost the state
$4,000 in the two years Of Cdssill's
term, and 100000 If he be elected
to another term.
o. A. Rudolph, of Canton, comes
out on a platform in which he declares
that he will turn all this interest
money over to the state whether such
a la. is passed or not. Will the voters
of the state be willing to longer in
dulge In the luxury of such a costly
treasurer as Mr.. CasSill?
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-03-05

in the fight than the stalwarts will
spend during the entire campaign,
which ends Ii juno. They are end
ING fire" papers to any who will
take them from the %postoffice.
They have a horde OF paid speak
ers on the stump, attacking senator
k1ttredge, and praising reform meth
DDS. They are flooding the state
with rcula and folders prepared
at great expense by the Crawford
news bureau. 1t should not be
hard to guess whence most of the
money is coming. but the Argus
Leader as yet lacks the proof which
it desires, and probably will not be
able to get it.
Every state officer is scurrying
over the state. The state house is
neglected. The state is paying the
hotel bills at the places where they
stop. AT any rate. several Of them
nave been seen to take state
vouchers for hotel bills at
places which they visited only
on a political mission. The
the state at the expense of the peo-
pie of South Dakota distributing
campaign literature and making
speeches for Crawford. He is not
worrying about pure food. The ap-
preparation for this office is $500
more than it was under Sherwood,
and the work Is not done half so well.
h need of the big appropriation
now becomes manifest. The plain
and ~undfsputed fact is that the tax
payers of South Dakota are being
compelled to pay a large part Of the
speaking campaign in behalf OF the
reformers. The insurance commits
sioner is so busy collecting money
and writing campaign literature that
he is paying no attention whatever
to the duties Of his office. The state
house is run by clerks. while those
who were elected to do the work are
travelling over the state on
people to perpetuate this miserable
regime.
Can the people OF South Dakota be
fooled again?
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-03-05
212,00O
$4,000
WHERE DOES TT COME FRom?.

Pierre Capital-Journal: The Doodle
used by the refor1ners suggests that
some one with a big NAV for collect
ing funds mus be in the deal.
They are printing 100000 pamphlets
in one lot.
They are sending hundreds of thou
sands of circulars out.
They are using hundreds of cleo
trotypes and cuts.
They are spending So in each pre-
cinct.
Who is paying for it?
No doubt h railroads.
One leading railroad man is in on
a $4,000 deal to get atnewspaper for
them.
BY undertaking railroads for as
sessment the state administration can
save the roads $780, 900 easily.
1t is therefore up to the railroads
to dig.
Then, too, the state agent OF the
Mutual Life Insurance company Is
stamping the state. Why?
Is there a deal to AK the insurance
laws to suit the eastern bunch?
People have a right to suspect any
thing when there is such a lavish ex-
peniture of money by people Who have
not got it themselves.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-03-05
CAMPAIGN OF EPITHETs.

a correspondent writes to know
where it was that Mr.. Crawford used
the term "toads and rats from a foul
cellar in referring. to the stalwarts.
This was at a meeting III Huronshort-
ly before the legislature met. Thegov-
ernor was very angry and Incorporate
in his remarks and his defense of the
Gamble graft was the beginning II
his slide down the political tobog-
gan. 1t was at Oacoma that the gov
ernor called the Argus-Leader "a
liar" n he was roundly Missed by
the audience for it. The governor in
addition has called the stalwarts simps
of hell and yellow corporation
ours but it vas the lieutenant gov
ernor who coined the expression ma
chine whelps." The people of the
state never heard such abusive and
extreme language as that used by our
talkative governor up to about ten
days ago. He has suddenly taken a
tumble and in recent speeches is
tame enough to eat out of your hand.
He has discovered that Senator Kilt
redge's style of campaigning is a win
ner, and he is trying to copy it, only
he can't because he lacks two es-
sential qualities; he lacks the brains;
and he lacks the poise.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-03-05

being made to show that Senator Kilt
redge remained as the resident agent
OF the Milwaukee, road. after he was
that road. In several OF his speeches
appointed senator. and after he had
declined to take any more cases for
h last week.. h senator has made
complete answer to his charge.
On Thursday. July II, 1901. Mr..
Kittredge was appointed q United
United States senator by Gov
ernor Herreid. On the next Sat-
urday, Mr. Kittredge was In st. Paul
and notified the Great Northern peo-
pie that he could take no more cases
from them. He agreed to complete
Two or three cases, h e pending. pro-
videcs the litigation could be finished
by the first of October, as he did not
lake his seat in h senate until the
first Monday in December. A few days
later, the same arrangement was made
with the milwaukee people, n Mr..
Klttredge has faithfully and literally
kept his promise since to take M
cases for railroad or other public ser
vice corporations.
When MI. Kittredge was trying
cases for the Milwaukee, he was APP
pointed a resident agent of the COM
pany, and the appointment was filed
at Pierre. This was required by law,
SO that the company would IA a res
1dent agent upon whom papers could
be legally served. Mr.. Kittredge sup
posed that his retirement from the
trial of cases would cancel this agency
appointment, and he paid no more
attention to the matter.
In March, 1906, some one made
the charge that Mr.. Kittredge was
still the resident agent Of the Milwau-
kee. Mr.. Kittredge denied this, believ-
ing it to be an untrue statement. No
papers had been served on him, and
no duties, obligations or fees attached
to the appointment, and the senator
supposed that it had been cancelled
in 1901. h secretary of state in
answer to a letter said thai Mr.. Kit
redge's name still appeared as such
resident agent. The senator at once
caused the appointment to be ran
celled and this closed the matter, the
Milwaukee people admitting that the
failure to cancel the agency appoint
ment was a clerical oversight, and that
Mr.. kittredge had never been served
with a process under 1t, and could
have known nothing about 1t.
This is the little mole hill of which
he Ora wford' people are trying to
make a mountain, and it shows how
little real material they have for use
against the big senator.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-03-05
WILL CASSIIlL EXPLAIN?

We have been much interested in
an interview given by State Treasurer
Cassill to the effect that when Mr..
Crawford became governor he inherit
ed a deficiency of $4,000 in round
numbers. We have caused the books
of the state treasurer to be investi-
gated, and we want to ask the state
treasurer if the following statements
taken from his books, are not facts:
On January 1, 1907, when raw
ford became governor, revenue war
rants We're outstanding to the amoun
of $500 n on generalfundsto the
amount of $4,000. This made a to-
tai of $467, 900 as the total deb of the
state at that time. There was in cash
in the treasury to meet this the sun Of
$255,0OO. This made the net debt due
when Crawford took charge of $212,-
000. These are all given in round
numbers, the hundreds and all below
being omitted for convenience's sake.
On the first of January, 1908, after
Crawford had been governor for one
year, the $4,000 of revenue war
rants were still outstanding. Not a
cent Of them had been paid. In addi-
ton the outstanding warrants against
the general fund had increased to
$500, 900. The cash on hand had di-
minished to $26, 600, in the general
fund. Thus there was outstanding a
total of $550,O00 in warrants, with
$4,000 off for cash, which left a
net debt of $524,000,
Thus the outstanding warrant in
d~ebtedness on January /, 1907, was
$4,000 and on January 1. 1908. 1t
was 1924, 000-an increase for the
year Of 1912, 900.
Does the state treasurer AVE two
sets OF books or is the statement above
given correct. as shown by the books
In the Office at Pierre.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-03-05
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES CRAWFoRDr
Republican Scandinavian Organixa-
ton Adopts Resolutions Declar-
ing for Him for Successor OF
Senator A. II. Kittredge."
COMMEND REFORM RECORD.
"Gratitudc is Expressed for FulfImeit
of the Pledges Of the Progressive
Republicans to the Voters
OF South Dakota

Somebody Is wrong about the NUM-
berof Scandinavians who were repre-
scented at this meeting but It would be
an insult to the 24,495 who were not
present to assume that each could be
led to the polls by the four Of Sioux
Falls, or the one from Huron. 1t is in
credible that our or five men in the
operating room of a local doctor "a
absolutely control the thoughts and
actions of $4,000 men of the sturdy
race which produced an Amundsen
and a Manson.
and you, and you, represented at the
Sioux Falls meeting If not, you ave
been lied aboue and held up to public
criticism as a man who can be led to
the polls to vote rs a sheep is led to
the slaughter. Mr.. Crawford's organ
is claiming that you instructed Mr..
Richards and his four companions to
adopt he resolutions which they did.
Is this true? Did you as a matter OF
resolution, or were they put out
at Huron by Mr.. Crawford's
himself? Supt. of Schools Hans
Ustrud boasts that he controls the
Norwegian vote of the state. We very
much doubt this. What do the sturdy
Scandinavian voters think?
The resolutions adopted by THE
League" were printed in Huron in adj
ance of the meeting urder date OF
February "a. They were not adopt
ed by The League" until February
Is, which shows c~onclusively tina
they were written by Mr.. r. O.. Rich
ard in Huron and that Mr.. Richards
is himself, the whole of the Scandi-
navian League of South Dakota.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-03-05

Iflye Nh n souih elk0ta Boast 1hliS
They lrs Able to Conirol
s25,0o0' Votes

nI5f&.SeI
It sometimes happens IA the hest ~
q political campaign chat there .
slight Inference as to facts and fg-
ures In the claims IL the representa-
tives Of the rival factions, end so.
perhaps. 1t should not Be wondered
Mt that there is q adherence 81 some-
thing like 5000 per cent between the
radical and conservative estimate "
the endorsement Of Governor Craw-
ford by the Scandinavian R~epubiican
League OF this state.
According TO the Claims cot the
Crawford men. rs 1000 Scandinavian
voters OF h state Of South Dakota
were represented ia person . BY
proxy In the recent meeting Ia Sioux
Falls which endorsed Governor Craw-
ford, while the contrary claim is that
there were just five, including r.. o..
Richards OF Huron, Mr.. sCrawfordsss
campaign Indeed. this fivs,
according to q still more conservative
view, should be reduced to lust ons,
as Mr.. Richards brought the printed
resolutions with him from Huron
and they were duly published as ex-
pressing hi views Of $4,000 Scandt-
navian voters of the state.
It is likely that the four Sioux
Falls men who met with Mr.. Richards
in the operating room OF DR.. Klave-
ness Office gave their tacit approval
to the resolutions. Now all that Is ne-
cessary is TO get hi approval of the
other 24,495 to make it unanimous.
The extraordinary limits to which
yellow journalism can go In exagger-
alton is shown in the report of this
meeting Of four Sioux Falls men with
the Crawford manager from Huron,
in the Crawford organ Of Sioux Falls.
It is written under the following dou-
ble-column headlines:
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-03-05
WOULD HAVE been EASY.

fare in South Dakota, it should be
remembered that the reform legisla-
ture refused to pass such a bill, and
that after the legislature adjourned,
Governor Crawford declared in an in
terview in his Sioux City organ, the
Tribune:
That he would a vetoed any
bill which in his opinion would have
been inimical to the true interests OF
the railroads, and that it would have
been EASY to W. passed a two-cent
fare bill, but that the LEADERS af-
ter careful consideration DEEMED
SUCH LEGISLATION UNWISE AND
NOT FOR THE BEST PUBLIC IN
TEREST."
This interview has never been de-
MED.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-03-05
SENATE BILL NO. 1873.

The legislature Of 1903 passed a law
making 1t a felony to steal brass trim
mings and fixtures from a locomotive
journal, OF waste from the journal
boxes.
The law was passed to prevent junk
n1ings. the loss Of which might en-
danger the lives of the travelling pub
lie.
Senator Kittredge was in Washing
ton at the time, and knew nothing
whatever about the passage of the
bill. He is accused, however, OF hav-
ing caused it to be passed. and one
Of Mr.. Crawford's yellow journal
editors talks lovingly Of he poor
wretches who are thus heavily penal
lied for stealing things Of little value
In themselves, but Of great value as
q necessary part Of the proper opera
ton of a locomotive.
NOW READ THE FACTS:
The senate passed this bill by a
unanimous. vote. Senator Dillon, who
voted for the bill, was the man who
put Gamble in nomination in the Sioux
Falls convention, n who moved the
adoption of the Crawford resolutions
ley, writing to the Argus-Leader, says
that the first man I spoke to after
the senate adjourned the day the bill
passed the senate was COE I. CRAW-
FORD, who said to me that he was
glad the bill had passed and hat it
was a good measure. Any peanut
politician who does not know the
danger the public would be placed in
by running engines robbed of their
brasses by junk peddlers does not look
very far into the traffic department Of
a railroad. l thing Mr.. Crawford will
not deny h a he approved the bill
and drew UP a similar one himself"
A nd GRILL thic iC oitnn DC ~,a .oF 49,
reasons why Mr.. Kittredge should be
defeated and why Mr.. Crawford
should be elected. Is it o small, Mr..
Voter?
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-03-05
REFORM HOLD-UP Of TEN PERCENT MADE

An assessment Of 10 per cent Of
a years salary has been levied on all
of h Crawford appointees, and all
the elective officers. the money to
be used in making a fight within the
party. This is the first time in the
history of South Dakota politics that
an assessment was yer made on Of
ficials for this purpose. 1t is forcing
officials to pay money to influence
the choice of members of the same
party Of their candidates. thing
which was never done in South Da-
kota until we went reform" Be-
low we print the letter of Insurance
Commissioner Basford. who is en-
trusted with the collection of the
campaign fund. It was written in
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-03-05

Thus the neareSt approach to the
expenditures by the Crawford admin
%istration We're in 1903. In that year,
according to the report of the state
auditor, a tax of $1O5,329 was levied
for bond payment and $421,316 was
levied for deficiencies. The next year
when the state tax was s64O,8S1, the
sum of $213,627 was levied for debt
payment. The state tax for 1907 con-
tains only s1S,291 for deficiencies.
The legislature of 1905 appropriated
$11,67S for deficiencies, and hat of
1903 appropriated 28,068. This means
that the Crawford regime can not
escape behind the plea OF inherited
deficiencies. The fact is that during
the time covered by these figures III
people of South Dakota paid off
nearly a million dollars of debts. The
further fact is that during the two
years of Crawfordism we not only
pay off no debts under the highest
taxes ever known. but that if every
cent of the taxes are paid the state
will still run snugly behind.
The appropriations of the last
legislature exceeded those Of 1906 by
~$637,929.22. If any of Mr.. Crawford's
editors car figure out how a legisla-
ture can spend money like a drunken
sailor, and how then the taxpayers
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-03-05

can escape rom payment, hessWilt sQ0Ei
better than any OF them have vet =
able to do.
The following additional facts viii
be OF interest
The appropriations for the
three legislatures proceed
ing 1907, under the stall
warts averaged /. $500, 900
Under Gov. Crawford, the
insurgent legislature In
1907 appropriated, With
out including 100000 for
the capitol, ... 2,226,0003
The excess Of the 1907 APP
preparations over the av-
erage for three preceding
legislatures s.......... 7c6,000i
The taxes levied for 1907
with nothing in for Irvine
plant, will be In round a
numbers ...... 100000
h leaves to be raised to
pay appropriations made
as aforesaid, without CON
sidering the 5000, 900 for
the capitol. .......... 1,426,O00s
There will be, and must be, a four
mill levy for 1908 which will make
taxes in 1908 as high as in 1907 within
one-fourth of a mill and this for cur
rent expenses and with nothing In
cluded for the twine plant. There is
no escape from this.
Under the from January,
1901, to January 1907, the entire bond
ed Indebtedness of the state amount
ing to $612,3O0 was paid and taxes
We're not excessive.
On Jan. 1. 1907. when Gov
ernor Elrod retired.
net debt of the state was 212,O0O
On January 4, 1908, after
n yea of reform, the
net debt $4,000
Increase of debt for first
year of reform $4,000
1t is no wonder that under these
circumstances state taxes should be
high. 1t is true that the railroad
assessment was increased, but the as
sessment of farm lands was increased
to a much greater degree while the
assessment of bank stock was lower
ed. Was there any good reason for
this? If so, Mr.. Crawford has not
given 1t. State taxes will be as high
for 1908 as for 1907. Look at your
tax receipts and think.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-03-05

Confidence" and the writer trusted
to the discretion of the recipient,
but in some way the letter got into
the hands of the Argus-Leader and
Is printed below.
How the republican voters like to
nave their officials held up for the
prosecution of a fight within their
own party, We do not know. We
suspect it will not appeal to them.
This may explain also why q lot Of
new offices were created by the last
session of the legislature. in order to
get more salaries from which to eN-
tract the Sinews Of war.
Some one is putting up a large
amount of money for the Crawford
campaign fund. The Crawford peo-
pie have already spent more money
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-03-05
A CORRECTION.

Some days g the Argus-Leader
stated that 'of the six members who
said that MI. Gamble had done Moth
ing rejecting on his official honor n
integrity, all but Senator Byrne had
been provided for.
1t now seems that there was no
need of making the exception. SEN
ator Byrne's Oldest son was appoint
ed to a cadetship at Annapolis with
out any competitive examination.
thereby passing over the heads of
every other eligible boy in the state.
Mr.. Byrne returned last week from
Annapolis.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-03-05
that IS The StalWart Slogan In the
Present Canpalgn-.-find Out How
Much CraWfOrdiSn Has Cost
Amounts Raised for State Purposes
Since 0l--.StalWart Administration
Pays Debts; Crawford Makes Debts
Don't be Confused by Figures on 'Ley-
les" assessments and "Deduc-
tIonS". What DoYou Have to Pay?

The tax receipt has become an is
sue in this campaign, and the stall
wart newspapers everywhere are urg-
ing the taxpayer to examine his tax
receipt. The taxpayer is not inter
ested in a confusion of figures about
assessments and levies, and deduc-
lions for deficiencies, and improve
ments, but he is interested in WHAT
HE HAS TO PAY. Hence the stall
wart papers simply say to the tax
payer
in the newspapers, nc matter what
the campaign orators tell you; you
can figure out the truth for your self.
The tax receipt shows the total of
the assessment. 1t shows at the top
of the upper left HAND corner, in
small type. the amount of the state
levy. Inc what that levy is for. Null
n you nave the state tax. II the
payment is for a semi-annual tax
paid on the installment plan, double
the product, and you have the annual
tax. Any one who can multiplydecimal
fractions can do it, and there isn't a
school boy u years of age in the
state who can not do it. This is one
thing In which you can not be deceiv-
ed. Find out the facts for yourself;
then you will find out WHO rs DOING
THE LYING.
here is another thing. A state
can not spend money, unless the tax
payers have it to pay. We give here
with the of money which
have hoan raised nv 70 yofjnr for Sfa 70
purposes since 1901. The figures are
intereSting:=
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-03-05

At Wolsey the mileage Of the Mil
waukee and the Northwestern are the
same, and the depots and terminal
facilities are of equal value. Still the
Northwestern is assessed at $2,4OS less
than the Milwaukee. Mr.. Crawford was
for years the paid attorney and lob
best for the Northwestern. and so
desperately is Mr.. Crawford trying to
escape the charge of favoring his
former employers hat his personal
organ at Huron reversed the figures
given by the state auditor. How long
a such a campaign stand before the
people?
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-03-05
Senator Gamble complains in Wash

Senator Gamble complains in Wash
ington dispatches that Senator Kilt
redge, who is now in South Dakota
fighting his detractors, is still power
full enough. thong 1900 miles away, to
kill CANDLES measures. We should
hardly think that Mr.. Gamble would
like to make UGH admissions. They
simply mean that Mr.. Kittredge is
stronger in the senate when he is 1900
miles way than Mr.. Gamble is when
he is on he ground: and his we be-
lieve to be literally true.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-03-05
LENN6X is s7ALwAQT

Lennox Independent: j. f. Cooley,
the Canton correspondent of the Sioux
Falls Argus-Leader, cites State Treas
urer Cassill as saying that Lennox
will sen strong Roosevelt-Taft-Cas-
sill-Ustrud republicans to the county
convention. 1t is all we'll enough to
talk that way, but when the Lennox
delegation lines up it will be found
that the Crawford supporters arc
minus. Some time ago the Sioux Falls
Press stated thai there was but one
Kittredge man in Lennox. If the
statement had been reversed it would
have been nearer the truth.