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

The Daily Public Opinion at Water
town. which became impregnated
with the Crawford brand of reform"
when its editorship was undertaken
by the political representative of the
Minneapolis & st. Louis railroad, re-
Gently. contained this paragraph,
speaking of progressive republi-
cSnism:
"They are headed bv such men as
LaFollette in Wisconsin, Cummins in
Iowa, Dineen in Illinois. Crawford in
81 nth Dakota, and Roosevelt of Am
erica"
Probably the paper which draws it's
editorial inspiration from a railroad
corporation is about the only one in
the state that would take itself SER
iously in comparing Crawford with
either Roosevelt or LaFollette.
When was Roosevelt ever contain
mated with petty grating schemes?
When was Roosevelt ever engaged
in whitewashing petty senatorial
grafters?
When did Roosevelt ever lend en-
enlargement to young men to violate
homestead laws or other federal
statutes?
When was Roosevelt ever handing
out railroad passes to the populace?
When did Roosevelt ever try to
round up those to whom he had is
sued railroad passes to get their
81 ccial backing for United States
senatorship?
When did Roosevelt ever go back
on a public pledge to stand for equal
taxation
When did Roosevelt ever work
land in glove with any one to permit
a great railroad corporation to es-
cape the paying of taxes on seven
thousand square miles of land?
Wien did Roosevelt ever set up the
whine that an investigation ordered
by the federal authorities was the
work of his political enemies?
When did Roosevelt ever refuse to
stand responsible for his own deeds,
either of omission or commission?
When did Roosevelt ever escape
indie tment by a grand jury on ac-
count of political pull?
When did Roosevelt ever plead the
statute of limitation for any Of his
public or private performances?
When did Roosevelt ever seek to
shoulder his deeds or misdeeds upon
those who have opposed him polite
allyf
When did Roosevelt ever charge
his political enemies" with doing the
things that he himself has done?
When did Roosevelt ever seek to
ride into public favor upon false
premises and broken promises?
When did Roosevelt publicly fout
the railroads and privately accept
tGeir help in political campaigns?
All his life Roosevelt has been
standing pat for the things that he
has been preaching.
All his life Crawford has been
standing pat against the things that
he is preaching.
All his life Roosevelt has been
preaching civic righteousness and
making his acts to conform there
to.
All his life Crawford has remained
silent as to these things while per-
scnally catering to corporate greed.
All his life Roosevelt has been en-
6eavoring to practice what he has
been preaching.
All his life Crawford has been prac-
tlc.ng the opposite OF what he is
preaching.
At no point in Roosevelt's career
has he ever remained silent when a
case of graft has been brought to his
attention.
At this very moment after a fla
grant case of graft has been brought
to Crawford's attention, Crawford is
supy orting the chief interest on state
funds CRATER for denomination.
Rcosevelts political asset is a life
lone record for answering fidelity
to public duty.
C,awfords political assets to dateis
a life long record for broken pledges
and a disregard for public duty.