The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1908-11-19
Reed, Meers 2427: EstelIa Culp

Reed, Meer> 2427: Estella Culp
1887.
County assessor, Frank l.. Nor
man, Grindstone 1885: VIM. Wal
pole 1903.
County surveyor, II. II. Town
send, Teton 226l: w. G. Meyers
1862.
Coroner, G. G. Winter, kadoka
22l4: DR.. n. B. Gearbart 1649.
County commissioners, lst dist
G. ID. Mathieson, Wendte 2344;
2nd dist L. H. Tolton, TT Bennett
2242; Johnston Jetfries 1886; 3rd
dist Ed Jones, Hayes 2222; j. F.
McGulre 1921; 4th dist +. f.
Morrison, Philip 2257; w. f.
Harrell 1926: 5th dist w. q. Hop
kins, Cottonwood 2252: Frank
Coye 1888.
Herd law, yes 3O79, no 1920.
Representatives in congress to
till the vacancy caused by tho
death of congressman VIM. II.
Parker-Eben W. Martin 1924;
W. W. Soule 1917.
DO you want the four-mill limit
for state tax purposes stricken
from the constitution. Yes 2O77,
no 1916.
DO you want the attorney
general paid $1,000, instead of
- 900 per year as salary! Yes
2OS4, no 1913.
Then there are four laws to be
voted on under the provisions of
the initiative and referendum.
DO you want a person seeking q
divorce to have to live in South
Dakota one year instead of six
months before he can obtain itl
Yes 241O, no 883.
DO you want the quail of South
Dakota protected until 1922 Yes
1898, no $50.
DO you want the proposed law
preventing Sunday amusements
baseball, theatrical, etc., for pay)
sustained! Yes 1917, no 1895.
DO you want every voter in the
county to have the privilege of
voting whether or not there shall
be saloons within the countyl Yes
POOP, no 1866.
The socialist vote for president
was lO4, prohibition Is, and scales
of justice, 3.
An analysis of the vote in this
county shows several peculiar re-
suits. The total vote on the herd
law was 4O99, and this fairly
represents the actual number of
people who exercised their right
to vote in the forty-seven precincts
of the county. The total vote for
president was 391l, for governor
1881, and on the various laws and
amendments submitted somewhere
in the neighborhood of three thou
sand In no instance did the vote
for any two opposing candidates
run above 1895, that being the
total vote cast for state senator.
This means that almost two hun
dred voters who voted for the
herd law did not vote for anyone
for president and for governor.
1t means also that nearly a thou
sand voters, though keenly alive
to the Importance of the absorbing
local issue, expressed no choice in
regard to the various other laws
and amendments on the ballots.
The result on the propositions
submitted also illustrates the
tendency Of the average voter to
vote yes, if he does not clearly
understand the law, or if he does
understand the law and the reasons
for and against it are equally bal
anced in his mind. Nobody be-
lieves that the voters of this coun-
ty are overwhelmingly in favor of
removing the state tax limit as
fixed by the constitution, leastwise
no one who ever had any expert
ence with the average voter in the
role of tax collector. Nor do we
believe the voters of the county
are so radically opposed to base
ball on Sunday as their votes
would indicate. BY the way,
Philip precinct gave a strong ma.
jority against Sunday base ball, a
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