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

If the Northwestern
mile the Rock Island would
in Elkton that it does.
the Northwestern Brooking
same rate mile the Rock Island Elkton its total the
City of Bookings would be $3l357O than is
the Northwestern Bruce
the
be $64s0 greater than it is. This would help
If the Northwestern Aberdeen had
mile the Great Northern would
in the City of Aberdeen than it
the Northwestern Sioux Falls
rate mile the Rock Island its total in
Falls would be $2y37359 greater it
the Northwestern Valley
rate mile the
tax in Valley Springs would be $39505
the Northwestern
rate mile either the Rock
the of the Northwestern
1t is Take all through the the Northwestern
thousands of dollars by this avoritm The
better than other road except Northwestern.
looks though there compact
Coe Crawford for attorney the Northwestern
be YETI the political the
j. D. Elliott for the milwaukee, state
board of assessment who all bankers
cent reduction the assessment of bank sockBngs
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-06-04
TT77|7
cRAWFoRD's BLUFF CALLED.

did any one ever hear Senator Kilt
redge advocate any of the reforms
enacted into law last winter?"-Coe
l. Crawford.
Why bless your pulchritudinous
soul, he beat you to it, by seventeen
years on the double damage liability
lawl He also beat you to it, on each
Of these subjects:
Employers liability legislation.
Railroad rate regulation.
Pure food laws.
Anti-pass legislation.
Limitation OF hours Of service u
railway employees.
Investigation of the lumber trust.
Prohibiting interest on state funds
for private gain.
Two-cent passenger fare.
Reduction OF freight rates.
Revision OF tariff.
Removing the duty on lumber.
Protection OF hank depositors.
Taft for president.
Despite Mr.. Crawford's bombastic
assertions to the contrary, the records
show that in each OF the foregoing
Senator Kittredge has been In adj
vance OF Crawford. Senator Kilt
redege's course with respect to each
OF these. In so far as affected by ma
tional legislation, is to be found In
the Congressional Record. Each was
cordially supported by the senator;
The senator's activity In behalf of
such legislation and his vote to enact
1t show that he stood thoroughly com
mitted 10 remedial legislation OF the
character named before Mr.. Crawford
SO vocifercusly espoused the cause OF
reform.
II Mr.. Crawford had not been blind
ed by pride, envy and ambition, he
never would have asked the question
quoted above, or invited q comparison
OF his record with that Of Senator
ford Il Offering apologies and prom
ises In lieu Of his record and trying
to steal Kittredges thunder and make
the race for senatorship on Mttrodge's
record rather than his own.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-06-04

Secretary of State Wipf, after a
continued and profound silence, has
undertaken to explain why he held
up the Wolf Creek colony in Hutchin-
son county for $565 for Incorporation
to the state for fees and that the
balance he kept for services perform
ed In preparing the papers. The mem
bers of the colony know that any law
yer would have gladly performed this
service for SIS, and they believe that
Secretary Wipf has grated them for
an easy $780,. The fact that Mr..
Wipf Is a ''reformer" and Is trying
to carry Hutchinson county In behalf
OF reform. does not bring their money
back or solace their feelings. In the
Wolf Greek district, Mr.. Crawford
can count on the fingers of one hand
all the votes he will get, and he ought
to be able to count them on one finger.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-06-04

Last winter the insurgents feigned
20 make sport Of Senator Kittredge's
declaration for a two-cent passenger
lnfo, but now some Of them are falling
over themselves to get into line with
No senator. About q year ago Craw-
[ox1 eaid be would have vetoed . two
cant bin Il the legislature had passed
X. oxd Iast winter his Huron organ
pQin<ed to the Pennsylvania decision
|u(6 Dakota would jlo uncoustitu-
6aI But now comes Machine
1o1pr Shober screaming discordantly
I1xor Of h tWocont fare. The in
11x~ents have also ceased to see the
~ 1I1 aide Of tho interest graft and
I'm 1&cIaring that the election Of Cas-
HI fH6 Rraff8r means q cessation Of
1I26 r<ft{ what b holy show these fell
~o 1re making a themselves!
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-06-04

The New Era. published at Pierre,
cornmenfinr on an article in the Can.
ton Leader, which seeks to justify
Cassill's interest graft, sorrowfully ex-
plains: mo one regrets this confess
sion more than the New Era, because
a holds the opinion that this state adj
ministration has about all the odium
It can shoulder" II has been desper-
afely trying to shoulder Its iniquities
upon others, but II won't be- able to
succeed. II will be routed out OF pow
Or for harm on the ninth day Of June.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-06-04

When Governor Herried went into
ONCE. the state owed q bonded debt
of $613, 900. When Elrod retired from
once all OF this debt had been paid
on, under q low rate OF taxation. The
debt was q mortgage on the state and
the mortgage was paid. Since Mr..
and 1t will be increased by still more
before his term expires. Do the peo-
pie Of the state want to issue anoth-
Or set Of bonds TO pay for the privilege
of reform" ADMINISTRATION II Is
Tor the taxpayers to say.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-06-04

"The Kittredge bin Is one OF the
the benefit or labor and the many
trades who are interested are DESTROYS
of seeing Senator Kittredge returned
to the senate. The union men Of South
Dakota should rally to his support
as we cannot have too many men of
the Senator Kittredge stripe in the
upper branch OF congress, '-Trades
Unionist, Washington, d. c., May 8,
1908.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-06-04

was sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary and Is now serving that
sentence.
Crawford escaped indictment, de-
ciared that the whole scheme was the
work of his political enemies" and
he is now candidate for the United
States senatorship!
Ware and Giles made the mistake of
not becoming great "reformers" be-
fore the United States government
got after theml
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-06-04

It looks as though Kingsbury. ad,
joining Beadle on the east. would
certainly swing into line for Senator
meetings in Kinssbury this week. and
It Ii reported that be assuredly made
votes ct each, while Crawford's Lake
Preston meeting Is reported to have
been somewhat frosty for tho manifest
poser. The fact Is that Crawford's
failure to explain his legislative re-
cord. TO explain his record as attorney
general. to explain HIS land-grafting
deal. 70 explain his favoritism to the
railroad interost9a failure obviously
out from under the Huron man. His
strength u waning while Kittrodge's
= fat gaining.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-06-04
RoosEvEL.T.TAFT TlcKET.


For United States Senator
ALFRED b. KITTREDGE
For Representatives. In Congress-
CHAS. RI. BURKE
EBEN w. MARTIN
For Governor
j. l. BROWNE
For Lieutenant Governor
JOHN f. SCHRADER
For Secretary OF State
JOSEPH J. WALTNER. JR.
For Attorney General
IRA II. BLEWITT
For State Auditor
G. Il. WARNER
For State Treasurer
GEORGE @. JOHNSON
For Com. School and Pub Lands--
MATTHIAS ID. EIDE
For Supt Public Instruction
MILTON NJ. RAINIER
For Railroad Commissioner
HANS o. WICKRE
For National Committeeman
HANS M. FINNERUD
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-06-04

II am In favor of fiat twocent
passenger uniform rate, making such
a law effective at once upon its pass
age" declared Senator Kittredge in
his Mitchell speech In January. The
''reforniers" In the last legislature, un-
der the leadership OF Mr.. Crawford
and Mr.. Glass, killed such bill.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-06-04

A pair of petty grafters-Gamble,
the senatorial CRATER and Crawford,
the land CRATER. Nice pair to repre-
sent South Dakota at the national cap.
itoll AS Hcr H. l.. Loucks suggest
ed some weeks ago, 1t hardly seems
probable that this state will send IAN
other Gamble TO Washington.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-06-04
FORGOT III.

Pierre Capital-J ournal:-Mr. Craw'
ford omitted forty miles Of Northwest
ern road In Pennington county from
the tax list entirely, nine miles In
Huehea and Sully counties. and only
assessed the Stanley county line 81.
600 q mile while the Milwaukee paid
on $1,000. Yet they talk about his
not standing In like he used to.
The voters OF TIE state evidently do
not appreciate the efforts OF the pure
food commissioners, who 10 travelling
over the state campaigning for CraW.
ford, and charging his expenses to the
state. Mr.. Wheaton spoke recently
at Marion Junction, and his total audi
once consisted Of four voters and ten
women: Ana this y ~ the county
insurgeut county IN the state! Graft
dooa not seem To- be popular II Turner
county, even 4 4 4 accomplished IN
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-06-04

Remember that the legislature OF
1907 increased the appropriations for
the maintenance of state officers,
aside from their salaries, by many
thousands OF dollars more than the
total increased amount of taxes paid
into the state treasury by the rail
roads OF the state.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-06-04

II the net debt OF the state has in
creased 1912 ,000--as Ii has--under one
year OF Crawford's administration,
how long would il take for the state
to get out of deDt at that rate?
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-06-04

The debt of the state has been In
creased by $4,000 during the first
and perhaps that is worth all 1t costs.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-06-04

Just another stalwart shove from
each county will convert the thing
into an avalanche that will deeply
bury the CRATER ticket.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-06-04

The records show that for every
dollar of extra tax paid by the rail-.
roads In 1907, farm lands paid an ex-
ira tax Of three dollars and thirty
eight cents.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-06-04
CRAWFORD and THE NORTHWESTERN ROAD
Comparative Figures Showing Crawford's Fav0ritsm
to the Northwestern Railroad Company

Here comparative figures relation
Of the
men, of which Gov Crawford is Chairman
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-06-04

Progressive Grafters" would be a
better name for the bunch that Is try
ing to sail into power under the self
styled appellation of Progressive Re
publicans."
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-06-04

The Progressive Grafters have not
yet explained Mr.. Crawford's Wal
worth county land transactions.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-06-04

Don't forget that the Crawford adj
ministration defeated the two-cent
passenger rate bill. The records show
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-06-04

The Progressive Grafters are In full
retreat-keep them a'going, boys!
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-06-04

A TICKET OF CLEAN MEN.


The stalwart ticket presents a set
of candidates to the people against
whom no word Of reproach can be
uttered. There Is not a ldrllnkard on
the list; there Is not a land grabber
in the bunch: there is not a CRATER
among them; there is not one of them
who ever wrecked a home; not one
for whom the stalwarts have to apollo
g1ze, not one Tor whom the people
have to blush"
The Huronite could not have stated
the facts more concisely. The men
composing the stalwart ticket are
clean men, have led clean lives, have
rendered faithful service to the peo-
pie in so far as they have ever been
called to places OF trust and response
bility.
The public and private lives of these
men--their public and private records
will bear the most searching inves-
tigation. Any effort on the. part OF
the insurgent managers or Mr.. Craw-
ford's personal or political friends to
heap calumnies upon any member OF
the stalwart ticket must fall fiat when
subjected to the light of an impartial
scrutiny. as some of these attempts
already have proven to act as boom
erangs.
Not content with endeavoring to
SuoulueT upon OlnerS the SnOrt-cOm-
ings traceable directly to Mr.. Craw-
ford's door In an official capacity.
there has also been an apparently
concerted movement among insurgent
leaders to besmirch the private char
acters of some of the stalwart candi-
dates. but high-minded men, to whose
ears these fabricated tales have been
/ told, have insisted upon an investiga-
ton, and they have found in every
instance that such rumors were but
the work of lying tongues. The re-
suit has been that the cause of the
candidate whom the insurgents have
sought to injure has been advanced.
Knowing the reputation and charac-
ter of several of their candidates to
be such as to cast reproach upon even
pretended reformers, the insurgent
managers have manifestly sought to
divert attention therefrom by seeking
to attach suspicion to the good names
Of the Roosevelt-Taft candidates.
The most rigid investigation Is In
vited with respect to both the public
records and the private lives of the
stalwart candidates. Honest seekers
after truth will encounter no dificulty
in learning the facts, and, after learn.
ing the truth, will help to swell the
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-12-15
Green wood.

Touching meteorology for the benefit
of those who live far away, will remark
that we have had three zero mornings
and as many snow storms, the last one
being on Monday, when six inches fell,
ending in rain storm of short duration,
but enough to turn the snow into mess
of slush. This raised the small streams
little for the time being, but of short
duration so that practically the drouth
is still on, and a neighbor told us yester-
day that his well had been dry for three
months, and he had been obliged to haul
all the water used long distance in
barrels.
The man who went on visit and hunt
to West Bethel last Monday week, re-
turned the following Thursday and re-
ported what Uncle Scion would call
good easy hunting so far as big game
wss in it, since they had nothing to do
but to go right along without having to
stop and take aim. Put into plain
English, they travelled over hills and
through swamps for two days, and yet
the nearest they came to seeing what
they were after were their tracks made
some time previously.
Thanks to the Hendricks brothers for
three-foot picture, entitled "Destruc-
ton of San Francisco by Earthquake and
Fire, April 18th, 1905" 1t is printed in
cOlors, the names of the buildings on fire
being given, thirteen in number, and
says that "every building shown in the
above picture was destroyed" by the
great fire. 1t is hardly necessary to add
that it is a doleful looking scene and
gives one good opportunity to ask the
question why, if so disposed
Also to Mrs. M. w. +. of Rumford
Falls for another postcard, the picture
being the NJ. E. church of that place.
1t is fine looking building, and here's
hoping the true God is worshiped there
| instead of Mammon or creed.
Again we have looked upon death, 1t
being the remains of Kilbon Perham,
whose funeral occurred Wednesday at
Bryant's Pond. We visited his home
more than a year ago and found him
then so feeble that his death brought no
surprise. he was distant relative, his
grandfather, Rouse Bisbee, being a
brother of my grandfather, who was
John Bisbee.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-12-15
BslcIIl1old.

Bonney Chaffin has gone to Norway to
work in the shoe shop.
Isaac Jordan Of Brockton has been
visiting his father and brothers here dur
ing the past week.
r. R. Dyer, Esq, went to Rumford
Friday to try case. Mrs. Dyer visited
friends In Auburn Friday and Saturday.
Paul Brigham, son Of the late DR..
Charles B. Brigham Of Cohasset, Mass,
has been visiting relatives here.
C. G. Wilmington has been In Portland
and vicinity on business trip this week.
B. E. Gerrish shipped Q carload OF
live stock Thursday.
Merritt Parsons still continues quite
feeble and is confined to the house most
of the time.
Miss Laura Dean is quite seriously Ill,
having been threatened with pneumonia.
The long heralded minstrel show given
by the local Eastern Star fraternity oc.
CURED Friday evening. The circle was
composed of q mixed chorus of seven.
teen voices with Mrs. F. P. Wilmington
as interlocutor; Mrs. Belle Nulty, Mrs.
Emma Davee with tambos; Mr.. Arthur
Peaslee and j. G. Wilmington with bones
as ends. During the first part solos
were sung by Mrs. Arthur Hall, Mr.
Arthur Hall, Mr.. Peaslee, Mr.. Warren,
Mr.. Irish, and a duet by Mrs. Rawsor
and Mr.. Warren. The second part con
sisted of a stump speech by Mrs. Annie
Wilmington, which was most excellentlJ
done, banjo solos by Professor Allie
Barrows of Sumner and character song!
by the same artist. A personal song b.
Professor Hall proved great hit. The
entertainment closed with a minuet II
costume by four couples, which was thu
| finest thing of the evening. The enter
tainment was followed by an oyster sup
per prepared by Chef Crockett, and
dance. Music was furnished for thu
evening by the Swastika Orchestra o
South Paris and was much enjoyed b.
all.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-12-15
East Sumner.

AS rule country ministers and ply
sicians earn their money and are en-
titled to all that they get. Their work
is more strenuous and calls for greater
exposure to the weather and road con.
ditions than the city profession, while
their salary is usually much less. Take
for example the work put in by Rev. S.
C. Eaton last Sunday, Dec. g. At 10: 80
he supplied his pulpit as usual. At ~
attended the Sabbath School. At2 p. M.
he preached at Hartford Center, causing
a five-mile trip. As soon as he returned
home he had only time to eat piece of
pie when he had to 60 nearly five miles
to the north part of the town to perform
a marriage ceremony. Returning home
he had just time to conduct an evening
service at the vestry. Five services and
nearly fifteen miles travel in the cold.
Then take the case Of the physician.
After a long days work and exposure to
the cold weather he finally arrives at
home tired, and hopes to enjoy much
needed nights rest. He retires, gets
fairly to sleep, when he Is suddenly
aroused and called to 60 several miles
into some back country over poor roads
in the darkness. and maybe In tough
storm, to visit some poor family in need
of his services. he goes without COM
plant, ministers to their needs, and
finally at a late hour returns home to
find another message to hurry to another
place where he Is much needed. Think
of the weary hours In the darkness, over
dangerous roads, and tho danger of be-
coming iii himself. And sometimes bis
only comfort (?) is the sweet reflection
that he may never get cent for his
labor. We are OF the opinion that the
richly earn their pay and
should be considered as noble bene-
factors to the human race. Give them
their due cheerfully.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-12-15
West Bethel.

Full knee deep soon will lie the snow,
And winter winds will wall and sigh,
While waiting maidens mourn and cry,
As they behold the old year 60,
Leap year, you must not die!
You came to US 30 lovingly,
We looked on you approvingly-
Leap year, oh. please don't dief"
There's something wonderful about the Ice so
thin and white
Across the narrow little rut that dried up in the
night
It's criss-crossed In hundred ways with stresks
and veins and lines.
And sparkles out Ike diamonds when the sun
spunks up and shines,
And when you break Il with your heel you
corldnt hardly tell
Its rattle from the Jingle OF little silver bell"
Albert Littlefield Of Stoneham was in
town last Tuesday.
Charles A. Durham is working in a
blacksmith shop on Bethel Hill.
II. p. Dennison Is beginning to make a
display of Christmas goods in his store.
Miss Gwendolyn Stearns of Grover
Hill is teaching the West Bethel village
school.
Devil wagons are housed for the win
ter and horses are once more enjoying
life without fear.
Francis Mills and Susan Tyler enter
Gould Academy this week for their sec
ond term.
Alanson Tyler is on the road this
week delivering pictures and frames,
and soliciting more orders.
Six men employed 10 cutting birch for
ID. r. Hastings are boarding at II. b.
Lowelps.
The snow and rain which fell Monday
covered the frozen earth with crust,
making shedding on smooth roads.
II. p. Dennison now has three girl az
sistauts in the post Office and store, aud
all are kept busy.
Edward Mason and family moved from
their farm in Northwest Albany to this
village last week.
The season for the Staying Of deer Is
over for this year, but the sleighing OF
dears is just beginning, and may be con-
tinued for the next three months.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-12-15
Frank h. Marshall Found Dead.
PORTLAND MAN LOSES LIFE ~ ACCI-
DENT WHILE HUNTING.

Frank II. Marshall Of Portland. fire
man on the Boston and Maine Railroad.
who was AZ Gilead for the purpose OF
hunting deer, started out alone on the
morning Of Monday, the 18th. He had
hunted In that region during several
previous years, and was familiar with
the woods. He did not return at night,
and the next day a search was instituted
for him. About fifty men were engaged
In the hunt, under the direction of Wal
ter p. Judkins, his brother-in-lsw, and
George L. Marshall, his brother, of
Portland.
ON Wednesday the body of Marshall
was found, about three miles and half
from Gilead in the direction Of Hast
ings. There was an ugly knife wound
in the breast and hunting knife clasp
cd In his right hand. The blood had
flowed freely from the wound and the
clothing was saturated with it.
Marks on a tree beneath which Marsh
all Law indicated that he had been cut
ting bark from the tree, and il is
thought he slipped in doing this and
fell upon the open knife in his hand.
The wound made, IL Is thought, need
not have been fatal il it could have been
promptly attended to.
Coroner II. C. Packard of Bethel was
summoned, but after being in full
possession of the facts, he decided that
Ii was so clearly case of accidental
death that no inquest was necessary.
Marshall was 80 years of age, and
leaves a widow and one daughter.