Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-05-07
The Matter Of Personal Equation to
Have a Test In The State OF
South Dakota
KITTREDGE VS.. CRAWFORD
Brief Comparison Of the Personal
Characteristics Of the Two
Senatorial Candidates

Senator A. B. Kittredge will be tri-
umphantly re-nominated In the June
primaries for senator of the United
States, and he will get this endorse
ment because the people OF the state
have learned that he is fair, able and
worthy. The big senator has been
subjected to vicious attack from those
who have a personal reason Tor IL,
but the plain and well known fact
is that he is gaining every day In
the state because those who study
into his record, and who investigate
Mr.. Kittredge as a man, become his
friends. IL is well understood that
the best friends of Mr.. Kittredge are
those who have longest known him,
and that the best friends OF Mr.. Craw-
ford are those who have known him
for the shortest time. Every year
Mr.. Crawford has a new set OF
friends; the friends of Mr.. Kittredge
are those who have known him for
many years. This is fact which no
one denies, and which means much.
In the opinion of this newspaper,
the people are on trial to greater de-
gree in the present fight than are the
candidates. 1t is for the people of
the state to determine the kind of
man they want to represent them in
the senate. This brings in the per-
sonal equation and that is tie thing
which is likely to determine the out
come of the fight
Twenty Years in LimeIight
Mr.. Kittredge has been in the lime
light of South Dakota politics for
twenty years. He has been state
senator, a member Of the national
committee, a successful attorney and
successful United States senator.
He has made good in every relation in
life. He has been loyal TO his friends
and faithful to the people. He has
been patient under vicious attack,
and level-headed under political sue
cess. He has attained to the highest
position ever accorded South Dakota
citizen, and still he is today the same
modest, almost bashful man, he was
twenty years ago. No one is big
enough to brighten him, and no one
is too small to be counted his friend.
Mr. Kittredge has been careful to pro-
tect the good name of the state, and
it has not suffered at his hands: In
point of fact, the observers on the
outside can not understand why Mr..
Kittredge should be compelled to fight
for his reelection. He has won a high
place in the senate, he Is chairman
of the great committee on interocean-
ic canals, he has prominent place
on the judiciary committee, he is
classed as one of the fifteen or twen-
ty men in the senate who do things"
and he Is believed in most ardently by
those who know him best. No charge
OF graft was ever made against him.
No personal charge OF any kind was
ever made. In A. b. Kittredge, the
state has a man who has brains and
industry and integrity and who has
brought high honor to the state, and
if continued, will bring more. Al
ready his name mas been mentioned
in connection with cabinet position
which may be rendered, but which
would probably not be accepted. Ii
South Dakota believes in her talent
ed sons, and wants to put them at
the front and keep them there, the
state will show it in June when they
have a chance to give their endorse
ment TO the brilliant work of one of
her most brilliant citizens. Mr.. Kilt
redge is a slayer; he does not shift
about from pillar to post; he stood
pat in 1896 and made the fight for
for the party against big odds; he
has since made a record of which
thousands are proud; and most of
those who today oppose him are men
who do not know Mr.. Kittredge, and
who do not understand his superb per-
sonahty and the credit he has been
to the state. Between now and next
June, many hundreds, not to say
thousands, of citizens will meet him.
and this will mean that Mr.. Kittredge