The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-05-01
governor EXPLAINS
CAMPAIGN ISSUES
TELLS LIBRARY HALL AUDIENCES
SOME INTERESTING THINGS
IN STATE POLITICS..
Senator Vcscy Also Delivers II Brief
Address Insurgcnt Victory
Predicted.

hourS laSl frluay evening at Library
Hall to present few of the issues
involved in the present contest be.
tween the progressive and insu-
gent factions of the republican par
ty and he stopped then only on ac-
count of the growing lateness of
the hour.
Preceding the governor, Senator
Robert S. Vessey, the progressive
candidate for the post now filled by
Mr. Crawford spoke briefly.
Mr.. Vessey pointed out to his au-
dltors the good work of the legisla-
ture last year in making substantial
appropriations for the various pub
lie institutions throughout the state,
offering in corroboration of his state
ment the improved equipment at the
School of Mines which has just been
installed. This idea of DEVELOPMENT
had been carried on everywhere and
furnished a striking comparison O
the legislature of 1905, which among
other things side stepped passing
resolution commencing the railroad
rate bills fathered by President Roos-
eVelt and that at a time when the
president needed all the support e
could get.
Mr.. Vessey's address won him
many friends; his straightforward
businesslike ways stamping him a
man of avca11opt ..,,,,..,.
gressive ability.
Chairman James Boyd, following
Mr.. Vessey's address, introduced
Governor Crawford in a few we'll
chosen words, and the progressive
candidate for Senator llittredge's s
job lost no time in getting started
on the first campaign speech he has
maue in Rapid City for long time.
HIS words were convincing
and eloquent, and carried great
weight with them, the audience Civ
ing the speaker its undivided atten-
tion to the end.
the governor commenced by saw
ing that whatever he had to bring
before his hearers was not in the ma
ture OF a personal TRADE directed
against his opponents but simply a
resume of their actions in public
life.
MI Crawford mentioned the fact
OF the present tour Of the Hills
was his first attempt at campaign
ing in western South Dakota, re-
marking and now that he was here
he would take whack at the stall
warts-a sally which was greeted
with laughter and cries of"go ahead
Governor"
lie went ahead by stating knowl-
edge had come to him of the denial
entered by the Senator from Sioux
Falls OF the railroad attorney and
lobbyist charge which has grown to
be an important issue in the cam
paign. Mr.. kittredges denial of the
relation said the governor, he would
dislike greatly to characterize as an
untruth, in fact he would hesitate
long before making such a state
ment, but it must be at least said
the senator's memory was seriously
at fault in the matter. He followed
up the remark by throwing the lime
light on the famous railroad lobby
OF 1906, when certain important
railroad legislation was blocked by
the forces lined up to prevent its
passage. At the mead of this plan
of public service corporation defend
ers was A. b. Kittredge and A. C..
Johnson, the speaker declared and
they directed the work of the lobby
all the winter long.
Reference was made to the com
pact whereby Mr.. Crawford and his
associates were hoodwinked into be-
lieving they We're helping to hand out
federal patronage, when in reality it
was being done by representatives
of the railroads in accordance with a
written agreement filed at the state
capital
The relation of the attorney and
client was dwelt upon briefly to
emphasize Mr.. I>ittredges position
position as an employer Of the Mil
waukee road Answering the charge
that he too, had been railroad at.
torney, Mr.. Crawford said he did
not deny the statement for a momen,
but at the same time he was con.
Quoting the legal affairs of the North
western he was not holding a ma
lional committeeman job.
Replying to his critics who charge
the insurgents with raising the stat.
taxes, Mr.. Crawford demonstrate eG
the absolute necessity for every por
tion of it including the twine plan
levy voted upon by the people. The
speaker also called attention to tn,
practice of certain county treasurer
in Jumping all the taxes, includin,
state, county, town ETC., when draw
ing comparisons. This, said the gov
ernor was hardly fair. The Pierr,
line controversy was briefly discussed
and the proposition of the state il
the matter explained.
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