The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-05-08
PEOPLE ON trial
IN SOUTH DAKOTA

will grow stronger in the state from
day to day, and that he will win, as
he should, in the contest Of the 9th
of June.
Crawford's Broken Promises
Coe !. Crawford is a different man.
He began his political career by
breaking his solemn promise to his
constituents. He promised to vote
ea nings tax law, and he violated the
promise and voted for it. The rail.
roads got" him. He voted against
an antitrust resolution. He voted
against the double damage liability
law, for which Mr.. kitredge voted.
He was hand in glove with the or
~porations. Mr.. Crawford was for four
years the friend OF the railroads be-
fore the board OF assessment. He
made the motions for the reduction
of railroad assessments. He became
the lobbyist for the railroads. He
distributed its passes and lobbied tor
its bills. Then he became the paid
attorney OF the Northwestern, and
he held that position until in 1904,
on the reform ticket. Ever since then
MIR. Crawford has been a pledge
breaker and a betrayer OF the people.
He promised lower passenger rates
and helped to kill the bill introduced
to that end. He met railroad men at
midnight at the Owl restaurant at
Pierre and old them that every.
thing was coming lou way" He
helped to kill the bill whoch would
have put a stop to the interest graft.
He promised equality of taxation, and
gave the railroads much the best OF
it. He promised to build the capitol
out of South Dakota stone, and it is
being built out OF Bedford stone. He
promised good appointments, and he
named men like Basford, and
Wheaton. He has broken faith with the
people in every public relation. and
has played the whole matter for his
own personal advancement and
agrandizement. He was twice con.
sidered by a federal grand jury for
graft, and narrowly escaped ndict
ment. He made large talk about pur.
ity in politics, and helped to elect
Robert J. Gamble, the self-confessed
CRATER, to the senate, and has caused
the chief whitewasner to be made a
candidate for congress. Ee has
smirked about decent ~roli.ics and
invited Attorney Egan to speak
with him at Huron, snd LAD
Mr.. Egan on the platform at the state
Egan stroked his long hair a5Hi was
cheaply lionized by those who least
know him. He has talked about the
purity of the home, and the first nan
to be congratulated on Mr.. Crawford's
so-called success in March was Sen.
ator Reed Smoot, n OF the Twelve
apostles of the lecherous Mormcn
Worthiness of ~womanhood, and the
s~acredness of the American home.
Mr.. Crawford will lose ii the per
sonal question is raised. He has gene
back on his old friends, and has a new
set of friends each year. lie makes
promises and breaks them. He is a
glib talker and that is all. He wants
methods used. He is the kind OF man
who will make a deal with anybody,
if he can gain votes by it. Fl is
neither true TO a friend nor fair to Il
foe" said one who had known him
for over twenty years. Elected to the
senate. he would be ~concelted, I'm.
faithful and cheap. The state would
fectiveness. The South Dakota cit
izen who wanted to see CraW.
ford would have to send in an
engraved card, and cool his heels out
side while he awaited the pleasure
of his lordship. 1t would be quite a
different situation from what now ex-
lists when any citizen OF the state, no
IldtleI HOW HuiiUiS, Can ~ uHo
see Kit" and without introduction
can tell him what he thinks ought to
be done. Such citizen will not find in
kittredge a swell pompous chap. In.
stead he will find a worker with his
coat off, without any airs, with
a modesty which he will O over
come, with a clear eye, a high pur-
pose, an honoraule view of public life,
with an astonishing amount of de-
tailed information about public mat
tiers, always hard at work, always
clean and lair and right, never COM
PEELED to "explain'-a big-brained,
hard-worhlng, modest. right-minded
man, who has Deer an honor to the
state and of whom his friends are
proud.
Voters to Choose
There are the two men who seek
your votes. Turn down Mr.. kittredge
and you defeat the best man you have
ever had in public life. Elect MIR.
Crawford and you put a premium on
the yellow, the cheap and the unfaith.
full. The Argus-Leader has known
both men intimatei~ for more than
twenty years. IL knows whereof it
speaks. If the voters of the state
knew both men personally as this
newspaper knows them, the result of
the primaries would be such an over
whelming endorsement for the square
deal. for real MANHOOD, for actual
worthiness, for high-minded devotion
to public affairs as would hereafter
discourage the candidacy of men like
Crawford, w1o talk n thing and do
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.