The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-20

The insurgents claim that the rea-
son The stalwarts all over the state
are insisting ON giving the primary
law trial next month IL that they
wish to make 1t obnoxious to the
people. II the enforcement Of q Inv
makes 1t obnoxious the sooner it is
repealed the better. 1t is poor pol
ley to try to evade 1t because It Is a
poor law.
There 10 no man In the United
States senate In whom President
Roosevelt aud Secretary TAFT have
more confidence than Senator Kit
tredge. II Kittredge is such a friend
OF the corporations that Roosevelt
10 waging war against, it seems
strange that men Ike Roosevelt and
Taft cant tind 1t out They both
class him ~ q friend but the insur-
gents say he isn't.
Two yearp ago, one Of the princi-
pal rsasons put forth by the insur-
gents why the stalwart adlninistra.
tiOn should be retired from power.
was that they had failed to pass u
primary law. The insurgent legis-
lature passed a primary law last
winter and now almost every insur-
gent paper In the state. In counties
kwhets where the insurgents have =
lnHt6rity of the county central com.
|bnittee, Ave urging that the primary
PIE dispensed with and the central
committee appoint the delegates to
the STATE convention. II their pyi.
mary Law Oils such long islt want.
Why Don't they want is used?
Some Of the republican organs
who probably mean we'll but know
no bsttsr-thiuk they are tying the
they cite tha fact from tbe state aud
itnr's report that the state board Of
equalization at it's August meeting
aid not raise the valuation f farm
LANDS eyond the fiRIres returned by
the respective county assessors ex-
cspt In the case Of elk counties 1t
| was at the March meeting. In con-
nsctiop with the meeting OF the
county auditors at Pierre that the
trick VAS turned. The ak counties
were raised at the August meeting
because the assessors Of those conn
! tiea dii not follow Instructions de-
tsrmined on at the March meeting.
The receipts show. anyhow. that
somebody raised h-l.-K N b a | |
Graphic.
When the republican state central
comNittee met In Huron three weeks
ago. a res0luti ton WAS passed by the
linsnrgent members endorsing Craw.
ford for the senata and Taft for Pras
ident The staiwnrts on the COM
| and wanted to have the Taft reRol,I-
tion voted on seperatrly, as they
| wanted to endorse him. but the in
surgents had q majority and wonld
not allow the stRiwarts to vote for
the Taft endorsement unless they ri.
40 voted for the Crawford endOrs-
m~nt. Down In Minnehaha county
last week the republican county Gen.
tral committee .passed resolutions
Ivndorsing TAFT for President and
Senator Kittrcdge Tor reelection.
The insurgents. who were in the MI
noYity there, refused tn vote isv the
Taft endorsement. hecause tn do so
they would also have had to vote to
endorse Senator Kittredge. Now 1t
would he Just as truthful for the
stnlwartS to claim that tho insur-
gents OF kinRebaha county were op-
posed to endorsing Taft as It waa
Tor the insurgents to aay that about
the etalwaYt members of the state
lcommittee. AZ a matter of fact tho
endorsennsnt OF anybody by COM
mittces that were elected two years
ago when conditions were different
from what they are now carry no
l -,ot.rht ot ali