The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-04-23
THE POLITICAL QUESTION.
Voters Of Minnehaha County Asks
Some Pertinent Questions.

Andrew Hamre of Minnehaha coun.
ty in reviewing the political situation
strikes some telling blows at Senator
Kittredge and the re-actionists of this
state as follows:
Crawford and Kittredge have both
been railroad attorneys. History tells
us kittredee was elected to the senate
at a time when the railroads domin-
ated our politics. Kittredge changed
from a railroad attorney to a United
States Senator and have failed to
see single public utterance of his
to prove that he did not go there to
serve the railroads. who did more to-
ward his election than any other sin
gle force.
Have You, voter, every heard of Kit
tredge working for our interests
against the railroads before the last
year or so and then only in his cam
paign for reelection?
Crawford resigned his railroad at.
torneyship several years ago and has
been cnampiOning the cause OF the
common people against the corpora
tons ever since.
kittredge prior to his campaign for
reelection not only did not publicly
champion the cause of the common
people, but he has fought Crawford
at every turn during Tie last six
years.
Study the records of the two men
for the last six years and decide which
one has been hewing in the line of
our interests.
You all know the struggles of the
masses against the corporations during
the last six or seven years. You all
know Of President Roosevelt's fight for
a square deal. OF Roosevelt's messages
to congress urging them to pass legis.
latiOn in the interests of the common
people
Where i'm Kittredge's campaign
speeches do you hear of his referring
to any utterance lie ever made while a
senator in defense If the common peo-
pie? What do you honestly think of a
senator who has not during his term
as a senator lifted his voice in our
defense, but when his seat in the sen
ate is at stake can come out here and
make speeches in his own defense
that can make the very stones of
Rome to rise in mutiny" against Craw-
ford?
Let us not go back prior to Kit
tredge's senatorship to decide which
one was the most devoted attorney of
the railroads, but let what each has
since said and done decide between
the two.
If the stalwarts are such friends of
reform why did they fight the pro-
gressiyes at every turn two years ago
by their fruits ye shall know them.
Mny did they embrace the cause of
the common people before the progress
sives forced the issue before the peo
pie. if they are sincere in what they
say?
Kittredge claims that the progress.
sives accuse him of voting against
Reed Smoot. II | remember correctly
kittredge in his Mitchell speech gave
that vote as reason why he should be
reelected. Kittredge voted against
seating Smoot kittredge said he did
so in the interest of the American
home. Kittredge's relations to the
Sioux Falls Brewing and Mailing CON-
pany you all know. If it was all right
for him to own shares in it, why did he
sell his interest short while ago?
We have stalwart officials in this
county under oath to enforce the law.
At every rural railway station we have
a blind-pig operated under the super
vision of the breweries. They are de.
moralizing the country youth of today.
winch Is running the most homes to-
day in this state, the Mormons or the
grog-shops? If they stand for the
American home, why did they not
enforce the liquor law in this county?
Birds of a feather flock together.
If Kittredgc was sincere in his mani
festations of virtue he certainly would
cut out some of his chums in this
county.
Lincoln said: Be with the man that
is right; stay with him while he is
right; part with him when he is
wrong"
A majority of the voters of this
state decided that Crawford was right
two years ago. Let us stay with him
while he is right.