The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-08

| iNlNlltNEtt MS luNlChttN lUt Eull
that divides the two factions The
| Press processes to be independent In
politics and II is just as likely to sup
port Bryan or Johnson for president
| If either is nominated as II is Taft or
any other republican except, possibly,
| owned in part by the republican state
chairman. Surely party lines are not
calling in South Dakota AZ the present
Thomas A. Way, once Warwick
in Iowa, is playing the role off and
on in South Dakota. lr Iowa he was
for Cummns and IN South Dakota he
is for Crawford. Mr. Way Is said to
have furnished some OF the money
that is boosting the Crawford regime
| He helped To buy and equip a Water.
town daily paper and has imported an
editor from the progressive preserves
in Iowa TO run II, The Minneapolis 4
st. Louis road, with which Mr.. Way
is prominently connected, and the Chi
cago Il Northwestern for which MIR
Crawford was general attorney from
1897 to 1904, are said to be backing
| the Crawford candidacy for the senate
The progressives do not deny that they
are SPEEDING large sums OF money. Not
all of it can be accounted for by the
"sinews" furnished by Messrs. Rich
ards, Way ct al. Where then does
| the rest come from? The stalwarts
contend that money controlled by the
Mormon church has been sent into
the state to defeat Senator Kttredge
for the fight which he made against
the seating of Senator Smoot. The
IprOgreSSiVcs lT' q. ."u assertion and
the stalwarts have no means of proving
it, w. S. Bowen, one editor of the
Press and a Kittredge fighter, is now
holding an editorial position on former
Senator Dubois paper at Boise City,
Idaho and in recent editorial comment
contends that the allegations of the
Kittredge men are well taken. The
Mormon church, he says, makes ii its
business to interfere in just such in
stances and it has an abundance Of
money to spend to defeat its political
enemies.
The sincerity and consistency of
Governor Crawford are attacked by the
stalwarts in campaign literature. Not
withstanding the executive is more ag.
gressive than defensive and asserts
that the farmers are with him.
The governor made the primary a
stepping stone, just as La Toilette did
in Wisconsin but there was a time
when he was so hostile to the system
that he wanted to do away with the 10
cal primary in his own county of Bea
die. Mr.. Crawford's legislative career
began in 1889 when as member Of the
last territorial legislature he voted
against the double damage liability OF
railroads and for the gross earnings
measure which was prejudicial to the
home builder and helpful to the North
ern Pacific railway. In 1890, when a
member of the state senate he voted
against the antitrust bill, which was
supported by Mr.. Kittredge, who was
also in the senate and became law
1t is asserted that as attorney genera
and a member of the state board Of as
sessment Crawford was always active
in seeking to reduce the assessment OF
the Northwestern railroad and thai
sixty days after finishing his term as
attorney general he became the state
counsel for the Northwestern system
Crawford says that Kittredge was
and is opposed to the primary ant
fights him hard on that ground. Gam
BILE wrote from Washington to Pierre
advising members of the legislature tt
reject the primary petition, yet Craw
ford made an alliance with Gamble
and assisted in acquitting him and re
turning him to Washington.
The average stalwart is honest in hi!
belief that Crawford is two-faced ant
treacherous and toga mad. The gov
ernor, he says, is reformer simply be
cause he was kicked out of the innel
circle Of the republican party.
But by neat coup Crawford has
contrived to keep the opposition ex
planning and if it be true that the farm
ers are with him, as he asserts, he viii
be the next senator. His success vii
be the bitterest pill that the old-time
machine men have been called upon t
swallow
TEL ,FER APJY-I earn at ROyle!