Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-05-28
CURRENT EVENTS.
Clipped from the Exchanges Which
Come to Our Table.

road were omitted from the assess
ment rolls of the state by the Craw-
ford board of equalization. Mr..
Crawford explains this by saying
that he did not know the road was
completed. Still, six months before
the assessment was made, the news
papers of Rapid City were printing
the time tables of the completed
road, and on the very day that the
forty miles were omitted the officials
of the road went through Pierre,
where Mr. Crawford was, to make
an inspection of the. line. The
county auditorof Pennington county
had reported this property and the
road itself had fled its own state
ment. Every voter in the state who
thinks Crawford did not know this,
should vote for him; and all others
against him. Mr.. Crawford for
years was the paid attorney for the
the road which was thus favored,
and he hopes to be again, after he is
defeated for the senate. All through
the state Mr.. Crawford's road has
been favored on assessments. In
the country west Of the river, the
Milwaukee was assessed at $4,000 a
mile while the Northwestern, which
is better road, was assessed only
81 900 mile. 1t is no wonder that
the Northwestern looks on Mr..
Crawford as friend, and is doing
everything it can to secure his cleo
tion to the senate.
Chas. FL. Burke, of Pierre, who
represented this state. in congress for
eight years and who is a candidate
for congress at the June primaries,
has the most enviable reputation as
a practical legislator aud as a man
who is capable of doing things and
who does do things, During his
eight years service as congressm an
from South Dakota, no republican
ever criticized Mr.. Burke for failure
to perform any act which would be
OF benefit to his party or to his state.
In the June primaries the voters will
have an opportunity Of again sup
porting Mr.. Burke for congress and
10 remedy the wrong done him by a
horde of political trieksters who
gathesed at the Sioux Falls conven-
lion two years ago and who under
the lash of Mr.. Crawford defeated
Mr.. Burke's denomination. The
people must decide at the June pri-
maries between Hall and Glass or
Martin and Burke. They must
choose between these men and deter.
nine whether they wish to be repre-,
'ented in congress by men of respect
ability, responsibility and ability or
and tricksters. Mr..
Burke received an increased majority |
every time he ran bor congress, show
ing the growing confidence of the
people in his congressional career
and it is safe to say that this conf
dence will be again expressed by the
people just as soon as they have an.
opportunity of sodoing which will be
1t the republican primaries June, 8.
A group OF insurgent candidates
held meeting at Warner May 20.
five farmers were in attend
ince. j.. l. Erickson, Gov. Craw-
lords official secretary, was the prin-
cipal speaker and he devoted his
time to personal abuse of Senator
Another speaker was A.
W. Kruger, of Groton, insurgent
candidate for the state senate from
Brown county. Mr.. Kruger said he
favored Crawford for the senate
because of the wise laws Crawford
ford had enacted last winter. As
an illustration of his beneficial legis-
iation Mr.. Kruger said that prior to
last winter farmer could not collect
damages for live stock killed or
injured by railroad trains. Now he
said, it was much different. He him.
self, he told the audience, had per-
sonal experience in this way. The
present summer a Milwaukee train
struck one Of his mules. A claim
agent came to him and asked what
the damage amounted to. He said
$50. The claim was paid forwith;
he had the $50 in his pocket and the
mule was now blowing, the only
damage resulting from the collision