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The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-25
THE SAME OLD STORY
AND SAME OLD LIE
Republican Managers Resortins
To Rank Deception

This is All extract from the re-
ply written by Robert Baker, Pres
ident of the Austin Engine COM
pany, Brooklyn, New York;
AUSTIN ENGINE COMAPNY
Office: Second Avenue and
Eighth Street.
BROOKLYN, n. v, July IS, '08
New York Leather Betting Co.,
81 Beckman St., New York.
Gentleman: We have yours of
July ED offering us copies of cards
posted in your factories, which
you say read as follows:
Believing that the election of
Taft and Sherman means safe and
progressive business administration
the day following their election we
shall start this plan ton FULL
TIME and KEEP GOING.'
Permit us to say we do not I'M
derstand. Why have you stopped
your factories? Why is the FULL
TIME and KEEP GOING" plan
not now in operation? Why has
there been any shutting down by
YOU and the other members of the
National Association of Manufac-
turers, the American Hardware
Manufacturers Association and the
numerous other similar associations
to which you say you belong' Did
Won not assure us that Mr.. McKin-
lev would insure a full dinner
pail' to all who desire to work.
Was not this assurance renewed
when your several bodies endorsed
Roosevelt and Fairbanks? Then
what has emptied the dinner pail
of millions of men who are willing
to work? What greater reliance
can be placed on this assurance
than on the other? If you were
false prophets before, how do we
know YOU will not be AGAIN.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-25

time to elect a congress hostile tc
him, a congress which under the
influence of partizan leadership
would be certain to thwart and baf-
file him on every possible occasion.
TO elect Mr.. Taft, and at the
same time a congress to support
him, is the only way in which tc
perpetulate the policy of govern,
ment as now carried OH. l feel
that all the aid that can be given
to this policy by every good citizen
should be given; for this is far
more then a merely partizan mat
ter.
Both your committee and the
national committee, of which Mr..
Hitchcock is chairman, are endeav-
oring to secure the executives CO.
operation on the stump of senators
and congressman, party leaders
and independent citizens generally
l most heartily join in your urg-
ing the importance of such CO.
operations. I hope that every dis
interested private citizen, whose
sole concern in politics is to have
the right kind of a man carry out
the right kind of policy, will join
in backing up your committee as
we'll as the national committee in
this movement. No service is as
effective, as valuable, as the dis
interested service given in such
manner by men whose one concern
is for the triumph of the prin-
ciples in which they believe, and
appeal with all the strength
there is in me to such men to give
support.
Sincerely yours,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT. y
The above appeal. coming as il
does from the President, will most
thoroughly disgust thousands OF
American voters who have grown
tired of his dictation.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-25
REPUBLICAN PRAYER
CALLING ON TAFT
lmplore Him to do Something
And do it Quick

Or moust scientifically made VIM.
Howard Taft: thou whose political
construction was most ingenio usly
architectural throughout by our
own Adorable Theodore; it is to
Thee, whom the democrats call
'Teddyphone,' that we come
tumbling down before in order to
catch a few strains of political
music which we can no longer
catch directly from him. the IT.
of us all.
Gracious Leader, but you are
not our real leader. Teddy art
that and more too. You, Great
Bcllied Sir, are only his carefully
selected bunch of substitution
But, nevertheless, we come to
Thee, being very much troubled
about our troubles, which are as
numerous as empty dinner pails'
in Our panic.
In the first place the democrats
have us skinned on a comparison
of platforms; secondly, they have
us decently stripped on the per-
sonal tickets; 3dly, this is demo
cratic year; and 4thly, the panic is
also helping to throw us down into
the ditch of defeat; filthy, sixthly
and so on up to twenty filthy, the
ringers" are not going to vote
with us this time. Boo, hoo, 90,
oh! When our colored brothers
fail to go with us, we are beat, dear
Master, as sure as you are Ted
dyphone. The idea of losing the
niger vote is enough to grow wild
hairs of despair in our broken
hearts of hope. Boo hoo, 90, oh!
We do love the kindly kind, and
dear Master Taft, what has thou
and Teddy done to sicken the bile
on their dear ink-like stolnachs?
We love the niggers as always (for
his vote). We love the Kindness
of his head and conscience; we love
his vote, though, better than all,
and boo hoo, 90, oh! he has found
it out at last. We have stood in
the rain and voted niggers from
sun up to sun down. We have
Rugged and almost kissed their
inky majesty, and we are anxious
to do 50 again. Dear Master, cans,
Thou or Teddy do or say some,
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-25
interest in the result Of the coming

interest in the result Of the coming
election.
Probably the soundest explana-
ton vet offered for this condition
of affairs is given by former Sena-
tor Thurston, of Nebraska, III a
recent talk with a newspaper inter
viewer, in which he said: What
some people have termed apathy
among the voters of the country is
not that at all. 1t is nothing more
than universal contentment with
conditions as they are with the
present administration of affairs
by the republican party There
is an acute understanding of
human nature displayed in this
diagnosis. s."
If we were called upon to give
reason for the political apathy
existing in the republican ranks,
we certainly say it was because of
a very unsatisfactory and unpopu-
lar national ticket, and very gen
eral dissatisfaction with the way
and manner in which the republi-
can party has thwarted the will of
the people and the deception prac-
ticed by those in authority of that
party.
The apathy of the democrats can
be accounted for because of their
general independence. They be-
lieve in the principle of men and
measures party being an after
consideration. Heretofore in many
of the past campaigns the demo-
cratic party has been hopelessly
divided, and now that it is united
it is hard indeed to make many of
it's own members believe it, which
also contributes very much to the
apparent apathy.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-25
MORE ABOUT THE
DIRECT PRIMARY
Some Suggestions Made That
Seem to Fit the Case

The first trial of the direct pri-
mary system in this state has DEM
onstrated several things. Perhaps
the most important is that the peo-
pie are fully capable of selecting
their candidates. The tickets
named are fully as strong, if not
stronger than would have been
placed in the field by nominating
conventions. But it is also appar-
ent that the law should be amend
ed in several particulars.
The date of holding the primaries
must be changed to June or the
early part of July in order to Sc
cure a full vote by the farmers of
Eastern Washington. Owing to
the unusually earley harvest this
year many farmers were through
with their work and had time to
attend the primaries who in an
ordinary season would have been
in the midst harvesting, yet, not
withstanding this fact, the vote
was light in all of the agricultural
counties.
The second choice provision
should be eliminated from the law.
1t is not satisfactory to the people
generally aud they justly complain
that it takes away from the voter
his right of selecting his choice
among the candidates and forces
him to vote against his own judg-
ment. If four men should happen
to be running for the nomination
of governor only one of whom was
fit for the position in the honest
opinion of voter, he would be
forced to nullify his support of that
one by casting a second vote for
one of the three to whom he was
opposed. Under such circum-
stances he might just as we'll not
vote at all.
The law should be amended so
as to give to every one the right of
a secret ballot and to the independ-
ent voter an opportunity to parti-
cipate in the selection of candidates
regardless of party lines. 1t is
very evident that the present sys-
tenn does not prevent members OF
one party from calling for the bal
lot of another party and voting on
its candidates. A blanket ballot
should be used with the names OF
the candidates for nominations on
all tickets printed thereon and then
the Independent voter will be able
to use his own judgment in select
ing the best qualified ones, with
out regard to their party affilia-
tons.
With these and a few more
amendments the law would give
much more general satisfaction,
but even in it's present form it if
far preferable to the old system OF
allowing the machine politicians
to select the candidates. -Ritzville
Times.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-25
MUST ELECT TAFT
ROOSEVELT SAYS
Likewise a Republican Congress
That Will Support Him

OYSTER BAY, \. y. sept. ~. -
President Roosevelt, i'll a letter to
W. B. Mckinley, chairman of the
renublican congressional commit
tee made public today, appeals to
disinterested citizens to Join with
the national republican committee
and the congressional committee III
a movement to elect w. H. Taft
as president and republican con-
gress to support him. The letter
follows:
SYCAMORE HILL, OYSTER BAY,
". Sept. 2+.-My Dear Sir: l
have received your letter OF Aug.
%. l agree with all that you say
as to the amount of affirmative and
constructive legislation for the So
cial and economic benefit of our
people which has been accomplish
ed bv the congress during the last
seven years.
The law establishing a national
system of irrigation was of vital
Importance and stands in its line as
second only to the homestead law.
The interstate commerce law
has been amended so as to make it
new law, with three fold the eff
6ciency of the old law.
The enactment of the pure food
law was of almost or quite impor-
lance.
The creation of a bureau of
corporations, which marks the be-
ginning of federal control over the
huge corporations doing all inter
state business the employers Ii.
ability law, the safety appliance
law, the law limiting the working
hours of railway employees, the
meat inspection law, the denatured
alcohol law, the anti-rebate law,
the law increasing the powers Of
the department of justice in dealing
with those, regardless of wealth and
power. who infract the law; the
law making the government liable
for injuries to its employees, the
law under which the Panama canal
was acquired and is being built,
the Philippines administered and
the navy developed, the laws
creating permanent census bu-
reau and reforming the consular
service and the naturalization, the
law forbidding child labor in the
District Of Columbia, the law pro-
vlding commission under which
our currency system can be put on
a thoroughly satisfactory basis, the
law for the proper administration
OF the forest service, laws for the
admission of Oklahoma and the
development of Alaska, the great
Propositions for the development
OF agriculture, tina legal prohibi-
uon OF campaign contributions from
corporations these represent
put portion of what has been
oone by congress, and form a
record Of substantial legislative
achievement in harmony with the
oest and most progressive thought
OF our people.
!" IS urgently necessary, from
'ne standpoint of the public inter
$751; to elect Mr.. Taft and a repub-
nean congreas that will support
nlnl; and they seek election on a
pla''orm which specifically pledges
we party, alike in IFS executive
ana legislative branches, to con-
unue and develop the policies
winch have been not merely pro-
,ssseo but acted upon during the
.as' seven years. These policies
Saa De successfully carried through
vnly by the hearty cooperation Of
,ue president and the congress ir
c0'n its branchas, and it is there
.,'e peculiarly important that there
should obtain such harmony be-
. " them. To fail to elect Mr.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-09-25

will bring back will get the nlgger leaders we
prodiga of will the balance OF and
Hrouusvie DO dead Radicals i'll
Thy election will Pennsylvania tor good measure
things Thy
defeat If the all
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-12
LAW LIMITS FUNDS.
County Commissioners Must Draw No
More Than State Allows.

"NSNN - -
Members OF boards of county com
missioners in South Dakota who have
made a practice Of overseeing road
work in their districts and performing
other special services which run the
amounts drawn by them from the
county treasury in excess of the limit
fixed by law, will exercise more care
in future in view of the opinion which
has just been rendered by S. w. Clark,
attorney general of South Dakota.
The question arose in Jerauld coun-
ty, where charges were preferred with
States Attorney Bradford against a
member of the board of county com
missioners, who was accused of hav-
ing drawn from the county funds
more than was allowed by law. The
matter was submitted by the states
attorney to the attorney general. who
holds that such payment by the COM
missioners was illegal.
Toe attorney general contends that
a county commissioner can draw only
the amount specified by law and that
he cannot receive ] cent more for any
work or service.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-12
DAKOTA DIVORCE DENIED.
Boston Merchant Falls to Prove Wife
Has Deserted Him.

Boston Merchant Fails to Prove Wife
Has Deserted Him.
1t is seldom that a divorce is refused
an applicant in this state when any
kind of a showing is made in the
courts, but Arthur II. Wilkins, former.
ly a w~elLto-do merchant OF Boston
Mass, has met with that disappoint.
ment. After a bitterly contested suit
against his wife, which required three
days for a hearing at Deadwood, Judge
Rice denied Wilkins petition.
Wilkins went to Deadwood more
than a year ago from Boston. When
he had been there the required limit
he commenced suit for divorce in the
circuit court against Mrs. Grace l.
wilkins, charging desertion and cruel.
ty. Mrs. wilkins retained an attorney
and fought the case, asking merely
that the divorce be denied, as she was
living apart from wilkins on a verbal
contract entered into with him -four
years ago whereby he agreed to sup
port her.
Judge Rice Held that the contract
was being lived up to by the wife and
that since she had been guilty of nc
other grounds, that desertion was not
proved.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-12
Has Bio Nuqqet of Gold.

A piece of quartz about the size Of
a hens egg, was brought to lie Beau
from the country west OF there by Pc
ter lie Beau, a mixed blood, and has
been sent to a government assay Of
flee for a report. The specimen show
ed samples Of free gold and is consid-
cred valuable, but lie Beau refuses to
say where he secured it.
Several years ago Narcise Narcelle,
another mixed blood living on that
reservation, brought to Pierre several
small gold nuggets which he said he
had picked up, but refused to tell
where. Several attempts to learn the
location Of his find failed, and he has
kept still about 1t ever since.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-12
WILL DEMAND LOWER RATES.
Business Mems Federation 70 De
Heard by State Board.

The matter Of preparing q new
schedule of reduced rates for that por.
ton of South Dakota lying west Of the
Missouri river was considered to some
sxtent at the regular monthly meeting
Of the state board of railroad commits.
sioners, which has just been held at
the headquarters of the commission in
Sioux Falls.
The commissioners decided that the
board should hold a special meeting at
Fort Pierre on March IL for the ex-
press purpose of considering the mat.
ter. The railroad commissioners have
been advised that the executive com.
mittee Of the State Federation of Bus.
mess Mems clubs will meet with the
board at that time and submit data in
support of the demand for an adjust.
ment and reduction of freight rates
west of the Missouri river.
The railroad commissioners on
March Is will hold another special
meeting, this time at Huron, for the
SOioANCl liz VI lohpS oh III dhu
cream.
One hundred and seventy-five Of the
business men of Flandreau, together
with Bert J.. Francis, president and
Jesse A. Smith, secretary of the Com.
mercial club of Flandreau, filed with
the board a petition asking that the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail.
way company be required to improve
its train service on it's Southern Min.
nesota and Sioux City & Dakota di.
visions.
1t is set forth In the petition that
under the present train service it is
impossible to go from Flandreau to
any point along the Southern Mime.
sofa or Sioux City & Dakota divisions
and return the same day either by
passenger or freight train.
The South Dakota board, in connec
ton with the Minnesota board, will
take up the matter of the desired i'm,
proved train service at once, and will
endeavor to secure the improvement
desired by the residents of Frandreau
and the people of other towns along
the line who would be benefited by an
Improvement in the train service as
suggested in the petition of the Fran.
dreau people.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-12
PASTORS TO URGE FUND.
Superanuated Preachers Will Be Aided
by $3.50 o0 to Be Raised.

by $4,000 to Be Raised.
A half dozen presiding elders Of the
Methodist Episcopal church held an
informal meeting in Mitchell to lay
the foundation for the plan of work to
start raising the fund OF $3.50 for
the superanuated Methodist preachers
of the state.
At the conference session held in
Vermillion last fall the movement was
started to raise this amount of money.
and it's starting was left with the pre-.
siding elders, with President NichOl.
son of the university as the chairman
of the committee. The presiding ED.
ers will call to this work of raising
that $25, 1000 the pastors Of the Metho
dist churches all over the state, which
will be received in the form of a sub.
scription, a bequest of money, the Civ
ing of real estate and of a life estate
The pastors will continue this work
until the next meeting Of the confer
ence, when it is expected that a finan
cial agent will be placed in the field tC
work the ground more Systematically
There are not many superanuate6
preachers in the conference at the
present time, but the pastors are
looking to the future and hope to have
a large fund raised by the time that
It will be of greater use.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-12
MONTANA NEWS
BEST OF WINTERS FOR STOCK.
Cattle and Sheep Thrive and Little
Hay 10 Fed.

Cattle and Sheep Thrive and Little
Hay 10 Fed.
Stockmen of Montana say that the
present winter has been remarkably
favorable to their interests; in fact,
with only a single exception, just
twenty years ago. has there been so
universally mild weather. Only once
this year has the thermometer gone
below zero in a marked degree, and
the 'spell" lasted only a few days. The
result is that cattle. sheep and horses
are in excellent condition, and it is
confidently expected that the lightest
losses on record will be recorded. This
is in great contrast to last year. when
in February and March, after an UNI
usually long and severe period Of
three months, horses, cattle and sheep
fell victims by the score to the rigor-
Gus winter.
iNPoA 20 Nlipl bSlAS DAa NAiNbAlN
every section of the state, ii is learn
ed hat less than 25 per cent of the
hay crop has been fed, while at this
time last year it was being shipped
into the state and at fancy prices. The
grass or the winter range continues
good, the light SHOWS having enabled
stock to feed to splendid advantage
throughout the winter months. This
month will witness the first shipment
of cattle for the spring market. and
because of their unusually good condi-
ton splendid prices will be realized.
Stock for the spring market has been
fed on alfalfa and upland hay, of
which there is an abundance.
The percentage of loss is remarka-
bly, light, according to reports from
the leading sheep sections. For many
years it has been the custom of ship
pers to have one season of lambs in
February, in order to raise the prod
uct for the early market, when lambs
bring fancy prices. AS a general rule
it is necessary to have these lambs
under sheds, and it is often found a
requisite to take the young lamb into
The herder's cabin until it is strong
enough to stand up and take nourish-
ment.
This season It is entirely a different
proposition. The weather Is quite like
summer. The sun shines all of the
time. and it is seldom that it freezes
during the night. The season is far
the best sheepmen of Montana have
enjoyed for a decade or more, and the
percentage of lambs saved is little
short of marvellous.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-12
State News of Interest
STATE SOCIALLY HEALTHY.
Prisons and Poorhouses Are Little
P~atronized in South Dakota.

vi SoNosc
w. E. Upton, a member of the state
board Of charities and corrections, and
corresponding secretary of the Nation
al Conference of Charities and Correc-
tons, which holds it's next session in
May at Richmond, Va, has secured
some interesting facts relative to the
social conditions in South Dakota,
which he will present at that time.
The showing Is remarkable for a
young state with 500, 600 population.
From the records of the institutions
of the state it is ascertained that on
Jan. l, 1908, there were 1875 men and
two women doing time in the state
prison at Sioux Falls, twenty-four OF
whom are serving life sentences. A
majority of the convicts, however, are
short-time prisoners. 1t is shown that
in the various county jails of this
state there were % men and not a
single woman serving short-time SEN
fences, and that there are seventy
four men and one woman being held
in the jails awaiting trial.
There are fifty six boys and seven
teen girls being educated in the state
training school at Plankinton. One Of
the most significant facts shown is
that of the entire population only ITO
men and los women are being cared
for in the poorhouses and almshouses
in the state, and that a mere bakers
dozen are receiving public aid in their
homes. These figures do not include
the inmates of the soldiers home. In
the insane hospital at Yankton there
are 452 men and 255 women. This
makes one insane person to every 700
of the population on the average. The
usual average is about one in every
$50 or 500. This is an exceptionally
good showing in the insane class.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-12
MARKING. THE PAPERS.

State Board Busy Looking Over Ex-
animation Papers of Teachers of the
State.
The state board OF markers on the
papers of the late teachers eXamina-
ton in the state is in session, and is
this time largely composed of county
superintendents of different counties.
Among those officers who are here are
Myrtle B. Farmer, Chamberlain; Stella
Kolb, Vermillion; Mrs. Josephine An
derson, Hot Springs; Hattie Pickles,
Clark; Rosa c.. Moran, Clear Lake;
Ida s. Williams, Salem; f. III. Griffiths,
Alexandria,; A. Fl. Seymour, DeSmet;
o. II. Jones. Sisseton; c. l.. Fillebrown,
Armour; Charles ]. Anderson, Oacoma.
Others assisting in the work are
Misses Katherine French of Elk Point,
and Nellie Steady of Pierre.