Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-06-04

No wonder that the insurgents are so
we'll Supplied with campaign funds
Such sums are an excellent investment
when yielding such returns.
Since the selection of the prese mt
insurgent ticket have often thought
of Crawford's great Grafton at Webster
and of Row he dwelt upon the fact
that the primary election law has
done away with bossism. was an
insurgent but fellow citizens, did not
have any part whatever in selecting the
insurgent candidates and neither did
you unless you are one of the half
dozen who assisted Frank Anderson in
this important duty. 1t was truly
amusing to me when / read the COM
ments of the World upon the article
written by f. G. Palmer concerning The
primary law. l cannot but admire the
gall of these insurgent leaders who,
after exploiting how the primary would
give the selection of party candidates
directly into the hands of the people
themselves pick out our candidates. and
then expect us to be idiotic enough to
still believe in such TN utter farce OF a
law. Do they consider US absolutely
fools.
Under the caucus system we met and
selected delegates tn choose our party
candidates but under the present sys.
tenn the leaders or bosses either pick
out the candidates or themselves pick
the delegates for this purpose, we, the
common people must pay them increased
taxation for the privilege of allowing
the machine to take away from us all
voice in choosing party. candidates.
o consistency; thou art jewel.
The present county officials has been
most viciously assailed as being thieves
and grafters. The insurgents have
made capital out of that sheriff bill
with mileage of something over 900
miles. The men who published this of
course knew that the sheriff went to
the reform school at Plankinton 202
| hllCe AWAY loi ohC "ithSoS ohN thSh
took him back which accounts for S0S
miles, and they knew that the county
did not pay one cent of that mileage as
Block was beaten in the trial and paid
all the costs, but they didn't tell this
part of it. They wished us to draw the
erroneous conclusion that it was a
piece of graft on the part of the sheriff.
Then that ice zeal was another. They
knew that Judge Mccoy ordered the
ice for making lemonade and furnishing
ice water for the jurors, witnesses and
officials at the July term of court, and
not for cooling beer as they told us.
Then they have bounded and siandered
and abused one of our most esteemed
and respected citizens, David Williams;
and INSCRIPTIONS politician, and 80 on
all through the insurgent campaign, a
mans character and good name counts
for nothing. Nothing is too precious
for humiliation before these character
assassins if it stands between them and
, their selfish interests.
AS stated in the beginning of this
article, these. insurgent leaders and
their candidates have been until now
arrayed against the republican party;
but now they most bitterly denounce
those who have always been republic
cans aud who have upheld its standard
with undaunted loyalty and self sacrl-
ficing devotion when the party was
struggling for it's very existence and the
wisdom of its principles were being
questioned. But now that these prin-
ciples have been thoroughly tested and
vindicated, and the people as unit
have accepted them as sound and ade-
quate-thanks to the loyalty of those
old republicans-the insurgents come
forth and state that these stalwarts are
not true republicans but machine
: whelps" dominated by the railroad cor
porations, and that they, the insurg-
ents are the only true republicans, and
ask us to kick out these men who have
served the party so long and faithfully
and give the government Of. our county
and state into the hands Of these self
styled Performers.
Well am glad that at last my eyes
have been opened, and that l have
fathomed the real intent and character
of this insurgent movement. am
ashamed and sorry that ever doubted
the loyalty and sincerity Of these men
SO aptly designated stalwarts, and here
by declare my determination to here
after stand by the true republican party
and vote for the furtherance of its
great and glorious principles.
A Reformed Insurgent.