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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-03-06
$4,000
WHERE DOES 1T COME FROM?.

Pierre Capital-Journal: The Doodle
used by the refOr1ners suggests that
some one with a big NAV for collect
ing funds must be in the deal.
They are printing 100000 pamphlets
in one lot.
They are sending hundreds of hou
sands of circulars out.
They are using hundreds of cleo
trotypes and cuts.
They are spending SO in each pre-
cinct.
Who is paying for it?
No doubt the railroads..
one leading railroad man is in on
a S25, 008 deal to get a newspaper for
them.
BY undertaking railroads for as
sessment the state administration can
save the roads 500. 900 easily.
1t is therefore up to the railroads
to dig.
Then, too, the state agent of the
Mutual Life Insurance company is
stumping the state, Why?
Is there a d"al to fix The insurance
laws to suit the eastern bunch'
People have a light to my
thing when there is such II lavish ex-
pcniture OF money by people who have
not got it themselves.
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SENATE BILL NO.. 1873.

The legislature of 1903 passed a law
making 1t a felony to steal brass trim
mings and fixtures from a locomotive
journal, or waste from the journal
boxes.
The law was passed to prevent Junk
dealers from hiring boys to stealthese
hxings, the loss OF which might en-
danger the ives of the travelling pub
lie.
Senator Kittredge was in Washing
ton at the time. n knew nothing
whatever about h passage OF the
bill. He IL accused, however. OF av-
ing caused it to be passed" and n
editors talks lovingly OF the poor
wretches who are thus heavily penal
Ned for stealing things Of little value
n themselves, but of great value as
q necessary part OF h proper opera
ton Of a locomotive.
NOW READ THE FACTS:
The senate passed mis- bill by a
unanimous vote. Senator Dillon, who
voted for the bill, was h man who
put Gamble in nomination in the Sioux
Falls convention, and who moved the
adoption Of the Crawford resolutions
ct Huron. r. w. Lane, OF Gam VAL
ley, writing to the Argus-Leader, says
that the first man I spoke to after
the senate adjourned h day the bill
passed the senate was COE I. CRAW-
FORD, who said to me that he was
glad the bill had passed and that it
was a good measure. Any peanut
politician who doe not know the
danger the public would be placed in
by running engines robbed Of their
brasses by junk peddlers pes not look
very far into the traffic department Of
q railroad. 1 thing Mr.. Crawford will
not deny hat he approved the bill
and drew up a similar one himself"
And still this is given as one of the
reasons why Mr.. Kittredge should be
defeated and why Mr.. Crawford
should be elected. Is it not small, Mr..
Unkor9
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WILL CASSIIlL EXPLAIN?

We hav been much interested In
an Interview given by State Treasurer
Cassill to the effect that when Mr..
Crawford became governor ne inherit
Cd q deficiency Of $4,000 in round
numbers. We have caused the books
Of the state treasurer to be investi-
gated, and we want to ask the state
treasurer IL the following statements
taken from his books, are not facts:
On January l, 1907, when Craw-
ford became governor, revenue war
rants were outstanding to the amount
OF $3.50, 900, and on generalfunds to the
mount of $4,000: This mad a to-
tai Of $467. 900 as the total debt of the
state at that time. There was in cash
In the treasury to meet this the sum of
@265,OOO. This made the net debt due
when Crawford took charge Of $212,-
600. These are all given in round
1umbers, the hundreds and all below
being omitted for convenience's sake.
On the first OF January, 1908, after
Crawford had been governor for one
year. the $250.000 of revenue war
rants still outstanding. Not a
cent OF them Ia been paid. In addi-
don the outstanding warrants against
the general fund had increased to
$500, Gee. The cash on hand had d.
minished to $4,000, in the general
fund. Thus there va outstanding q
total Of $3.50, 900 in warrants, with
$4,000 or for cash. which left q
net debt OF $4,000.
Thus the outstanding warrant in
Aobtedness on January !, 1907, was
$4,000 and IN January !, 1908, II
Wi 9624,00O-an Increase for the
year Of $4,000.
Does the state treasurer have two
800 u hooks or IL the statement above
04yen correct, as shown by the books
the once Ct Pierre.
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being made to show that Senator Kilt
redge remained as the resident agent
OF the Milwaukee road, after he was
that road. In several of his speeches
appointed senator, and after he had
declined to take any more cases for
the last week, the senator has made
complete answer to this charge.
On Thursday, July II, 1901, Mr.;
kittredee was appointed a United
United States senator by Gov
ernor Herreid. On h next sat
urday, Mr.. Kittredge was in st. Paul
and notified the Great Northern pco-
pie that he could take no more cases
from them. He agreed to complete
two or three cases, then pending. pro
vided the litigation could be finished
by the first of October, as he did not
lake his seat in the senate until the
first Monday in December. \ few days
later, the same arrangement was made
with the Milwaukee people, n Mr..
Kittredge has faithfully and literally
kept his promise since to take no
cases for railroad or other public ser
vice CORPORATIONS.
When Mr.. kittredge was trying
cases for the Milwaukee, he was ap-
pointed a resident agent of the com
pany, and the appointment was filed
at Pierre. This was r"quired by law,
50 that the company would have a res
ident agent upon whom papers could
be legally served. Mr.. kittredgc SUI
posed that his retirement from the
trial of cases would cancel this agency
appointment, and he paid no more
attention to the matter.
In March, 1906, some one made
the charge that Mr.. kittredge was
still the resident agent of the Milwau-
kee. Mr.. kittrcdge denied this, bcliev-
ing it to be an untrue statement No
papers had been served on him, and
no duties, obligations or fees attached
To the appointment. and the senator
supposed that it had been cancelled
in 1901. The secretary of state in
answer to d letter said that Mr.. Kit
rcdgc's name still appeared as such
resident agent. The senator at once
caused the appointment to be can
celled and this closed the matter. the
milwaukee, people admitting that the
failure to cancel the agency appoint
ment was a clerical oversight, n that
Mr.. kittredge a never been served
with a process under it. n could
have known nothing about it.
This is the little mole hill of which
the Crawford people are trying to
make Il mountain. and it shows how
little real material they have for use
against the big senator.
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Voting THE
S%CANDlNAVIANS
Five Men In South DdkOtd Boast That
They Are Able to Control
"25,OO9" Votes

1t sometimes happens in the heat or
a political campaign that there is a
slight difference as to facts and fig
ures in the claims of the representa-
tives of the rival factions, and so,
perhaps, it should not be wondered
at that there is a difference Of some
thing like 5000 per cent between the
radical and conservative estimate OF
the endorsement of Governor CraW-
ford by the Scandinavian Republican
League of this state.
According to the claims of the
Crawford men, $4,000 scandinavian
voters of the state of South Dakota
were represented in person or by
proxy in the recent meeting in Sioux
Falls which endorsed Governor CraW-
ford, while the contrary claim Is that
there were just five, including R. O.
Richards of Huron, Mr.. Crawford's
campaign manager. Indeed, this five.
according to a still more conservative
view, should be reduced to just one,
as Mr.. Richards brought the printed
resolutions with him from Huron
and they We're duly published as ex-
pressing the views of $4,000 Scandl-
naVian voters of the state.
1t is likely that the four Sioux
Falls men who met with Mr.. Richards
in the Operating room OF DR.. klaVe-
ness office gave their tacit approval
to the resolutions. Now all that is ne
cessary Is to get the approval of the
other 24,495 to make it unanimous.
The extraordinary limits to which
yellow journalism car go in
alton is shown in the report of this
meeting of -four Sioux Falls men with
the Crawford manager from Huron,
in the Crawford organ of Sioux Fails.
1t is written under the following Sou-
ble-column headlines:
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a escape from payment. he Will 90
better than any of them have yet been
able to do.
The following additional facts will
be of interest
The appropriations for the
three legislatures preced-
ing 1907, under the stall
warts eraged. ....... $500, 600
Under o Crawford, the
insurgcnt legislature in
1907 appropriated, with
out including 100000 for
the capitol. .......... 2,225.O0O
The excess of the 1907 APP
preparations over the av-
erage for three prcct ding
legislatures is. ........ 5000
The taxes levied for 1907
with nothing in for Irvine
plant, will be in round
numbers ............. SOC, 900
This leaves to be raised to
pay appropriations made
as aforesaid, without con-
sidering the $500, 900 for
the capitol. 1,425,OOO
There will be, and must be. q -four
mill levy for 1908 which will make
taxes in 1908 as high as in 1907 within
one-fourth Of a mill and this for cur-
rent expenses and with nothing in
cludcd for the Irvine plant. There is
no escape from this.
Under the stalwarts from January,
1901, to January 1907, the entire bond
cd Indebtedness of the state amount
ing to ~$6l%.30O was paid and taxes
were not excessive.
on Jan. /, 1907, when Cow
ernor Elrod retired, the
net debt of the state was 212 900
On January |, 1905, after
one ear Of reform, h
net debt a 524 600
Increase of debt for first
year of reform ........ $4,000
1t is no Wonder that under these
circumstances state taxes hOuld be
high. 1t is true that the railroad
assessment vas increased, but the as
&essment of farm lands was increased
to a much greater degree while the
assessment of bank stock was lower
ed. Was there any good reason for
this? If SO, Mr.. era Wford has not
given it. State taxes will be as high
for 1908 as for 1907. Look at your
tax receipts and think.
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reform H0LD-UP Of TEN PERCENT MADE

in the fight than the stalwarts will
Spend during the entire campaign.
which ends III June. They are send
ing FIRE" papers to any who will
take them from the postoffice.
They have a horde of paid speak
erS on the stump, attacking Senate
K~ittredge, n praisiug reform meth
DDS. They are flooding the state
with circulars and folders prepared
at great expense by the Crawford
news" bureau. 1t should not be
hard to guess whence most of the
money is coming. but the Argus
Leader as yet lacks the proof which
it desires, and probably will not be
able to get it.
Every state officer is s~currying
yer the state. The state house is
neglected. The state is paying the
mileage Of these men. n even their
hotel bills at the places where they
have Deer seen to take state
vouchers for hotel bills at
places which they visited only
on a political mission. The
pure food commissioner is going over
the state at the expense Of the peo-
pie of South Dakota distributing
campaign literature and making
worrying about pure food. h ap-
preparation for this office is $S,400
more than it was under Sherwood,
and the work is not done half so well.
The need of the big appropriation
now becomes manifest. The plain
and u~ndisputed fact is that the tax
payers Of South Dakota are being
compelled to pay a large Fart OF the
speaking campaign in behalf Of the
reformers. The insurance commits
sioner is so busy collecting money
and writing campaign literature that
he is paying no attention whatever
to the duties of his office. The state
house is run by clerks. while those
who were elected to do the work are
travelling over the state IN
state mileage trying to induce the
people to ~perpetuate this miserable
regime. =
Can the people of South Dakota be
fooled again?
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-03-06

all who were present at DeadWood IS
SIMPLY INDICATIVE OF THE PO-
LITICL SYMPATHIES OF THE
JURY"
Later an effort was made by Mr..
Crawford to have Chief McEniry re-
moved, and instead Of that Mr.. Craw-
ford got back a curt letter saying that
the chief was one of the best men in
the service, and almost Immediately
thereafter, McEniry was PROMOTED.
The people of South Dakota owe 1t
TO themselves to learn all of the facts
about this case. They can get those
facts out of the Congressional Record
OF March Is, 1907. and every voter
should get a copy Of that record and
read 1t before he votes to send a man
like Mr.. Crawford to the senate of
the United States. To elect such a
man to the senate with this charge
resting over him would be an indelible
stain upon the state.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-03-06

An assessment OF 10 per cent Of
of the Crawford appointees, and all
the elective officers. the money to
be used in making a fight within the
party. This is the first time in the
history Of South Dakota politics that
an assessment was eve made on Of
fiCials for this purpose. 1t is forcing
Officials to pay money to influence
the choice of members of the same
party Of their candidates. thing
which was never done in South Da-
kota until we went reform Be-
low we print the letter of Insurance
Commissioner Basford. who is en-
trusted with the collection Of the
campaign fund. It was written in
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-03-06

At Wolsey the mileage Of the Mil
Waukce and the Northwestern are the
same, and the depotS and terminal
facilities are of equal value. Still the
Northwestern is assessed at 81, 40S less
the Milwaukee. Mr.. Crawford wa,
for years the paid attorney and lob
bicst for the Northwestern. and so
desperately is MI. Crawford trying to
escape the charge of ~favOring his
former employers hat his personal
organ at Huron reversed the figures
given by the state auditor. How long
can such IL campaign stand before the
people?
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-03-06
A CORRECTION.

Some days ago the Argus-Leader
stated that "of the six members who
said that Mr.. Gamble had done moth
ing rejecting on his official honor and
integrity, all but Senator Byrne had
been provided for"
It now seems hat there was no
need of making the exception. Sen
ator Byrne's oldest son was appoin
ed to a cadetship at Annapolis with
out any competitive examination.
thereby passing yer the heads of
every other eligible boy in the state.
Mr.. Byrne returned last week from
Annapolis.
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That is the Sta'wart Slogan In the
Present CampaIgn...Find Out How
Much CraWl0rdiSm Has Cost
Amounts Raised for State Purposes
Since l9Ol...StalWart Administration
Pays Debts; Crawford Makes Debts
Don't be Confused by Figures on "Lev-
ieS," assessments" and "DeduC.
ti0nS'. What Do You Have to Pay?

The tax receipt has become an is
sue in this campaign, and the stall
Wart newspapers everywhere are uTg-
ing the taxpayer to examine his tax
receipt. The taxpayer is not inter
ested in a confusion of figures about
assessments and levieS, and deduc-
tons for deficiencies, and improve
ments cut he is interested in WHAT
HE HAS TO PAY. Hence the stall
payer
No matter what figures you read
in the newspapers, no matter what
the campaign orators tell you: You
can figure out the truth for your self.
The tax receipt shows the total of
the assessment. 1t shows at the top
of the upper left hand corner. in
small type. the amount Of the state
levy, and what that levy is for. Null
tiply the assessment by the state levy
and you have the state tax. If the
payment is for a scmi-annual tax
paid on the installment plan, doubl
the product, and you have the annual
tax. Any one w h can multiply decimal
fractions can do it, and there isn't a
school boy II years of age in the
state who can not do it. This is one
thing in which you can not be deceiv-
ed. Find out the facts for yourself;
then you will find out WHO IS DOING
THE LYING.
here is another thing. A state
can not spend money unless the tax
payers have it to pay. We give here
with the amount of money which
have been raised by taxation for stat"
since 1901. The figures are
jpttrpStjno.-
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confidence" and the writer trusted
to the "discraAion" of the recipient,
but in some way the letter got into
the hands of the Argus-Lead"r and
is printed below.
How the republican voters like to
have their officials held un for the
prosecution Of a fight within their
own party, We do not know. we
suspect it will not appeal to them:
This may explain also why a lot OF
new offices were created by the last
session of the legislature. in order to
get more ~salaries from which to ex-
tact the sinews of war.
Some n is putting up a larse
amount of non for the Crawford
campaign fund. The Crawford peo-
lie have already spent more money
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-03-06
WOULD HAVE BEEN EASY"

With all this talk about a 2-cent
fare in South Dakota, it should be
remembered that the reform legisla-
ture refused to pass Such a bill, and
that after the legislature adjourned,
Governor Crawford declared in an in
tcrVicW in his Sioux City organ, the
Tribune:
THAT he would have vetoed any
bill which in his opinion would have
been inimical to the true interests of
the railroads. n hat it would have
been EASY to have passed Il two-cent
fare bill, but that the LEADERS at
ter careful consideration DEEMED
SUCH LEGISLATION UNWISE AND
NOT FOR THE BEST PUBLIC IN
TEREST."
n interview has never been de-
MED
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Thus the nearest approach to the
expenditures by the crawford admin
istration We're in 1903. In that year,
according to the report of the state
auditor, a tax of $1O5.329 was levied
for bond payment and $i21.316 was
levied for deficiencies. Tho next year
when the state tax was $64O,SS1. the
sum of $2l3.f21 was levied for debt
payment. Tn" stat" tax for 1907 con-
tains only $lS,2s1 for Deficiencies.
The legislator" Of 1905 appropriated
$11,61S for Deficiencies, and that of
1909 appropriated s2S,06S. This means
that the Crawford regime can not
escape behind the plea of inherited
deficiencies. hi fact is that during
the time covered by these figures the
people of South k paid off
nearly a million dollars OF debts. The
further fact is that during the two
years of era Wfordism we not only
pay off no debts under the highest
taxes ever known, but that if every
cent of the taxes are paid the state
will still run snugiS behlnd.
The appropriations of The last
legislature exceeded those of 1905 by
$631,929.22. If any of Mr.. era wford's
editors can figure out how "a legisla-
ture can spend one like a drunken
sailor, and how then the taxpayers
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-03-06
HEADQUARTERS COMMITTEE.
Roosevelt Republican State League So. OAK
Chairman. r. o. Richards, Huron.
Secretary, HI. c. Shober,
1raarurar q & Hutchinson.

OH0rHAaTp
Secretary, II. C. Shober,
Treasurer G. S Hutchinson.
Huron. $. D.. Feb. 5, 1908.
Dear Sir: In the conduct Of the campaign on behaH IL NE a-
ministratiOn it is, IS you know. necessary that pe pToVloeo h'
the expense of literature, postage, speakers, etc.
/ am ar 1 know YOU well enough to ave confidence IN you"
scrcti hence 1 do not hesitate to write o a follows:
About went of the elective and appOintive officers OF Inc 10
ninistration have assented t. a contribution of ten r cen Oh oe
years alary withw which to conduct the campaign through % IN
nj convention. Should this eel o much OF a onLr1Dutl o.
ynm part bear in mind that it is only a voluntary CONTRIBUTION
which we desire, and hence should you contribute lei 1t be a n
amount a you can cheerfuly give.
It is not necessary that the full amount o a subscription pc
RENTED 1t once but let it be divided into three o four payments
should so prefer. We would like m instalment a as
possible which can be. RENTED to Geo. 5. hutchinson, treasurer
Huron, South Dakota.
Should you feel yourself free to make a contribution, with your
first letter # transmittal Of any amount please nnalca.e Inc .6a a
amount that may be depended upon from you. during III campaign
as W e r. loath to incur bills without a reasonan m assurance xL zee n ,n
money to pay them is forthcoming. trusting aI ms Will De re-
cnycd In the IN honorable confidence in which 1t Is sent, l m
Secretary Finance Committee.
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In his speech at Oacoma. Governor
Crawford called the editor of the Ar
Leader d "Iiar,' and he was
roundly Kissed by the audience for the
unmanly assault. He reiterated it, but
ne failed to prove it. and the effectup-
on the audience was Eurtful to the
cause of the irritable governor. who
thinks every man is a liar" who
doesn't agree with him.
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The taxpayers of the state do not
care anything about the taxes for past
years. They are concerned about
the taxes for 1907. which are double
what they were in 1905, and they
want to know what their taxes for
1908 are going to be.
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Senator Gamble complains in Wash
ington dispatches that Senator Kilt
redge. who is now in South Dakota
fighting his detractors, is still power
full enough. thong 1900 miles away, to
kill Candles measures. We should
hardly think that Mr.. Gamble would
like to make such admissions. They
simply mean that Mr.. Kittrcdge is
stronger in the senate when he is 1900
miles away than Mr.. Gamble is when
he is on he ground: and this we be-
licye to be literally true.
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LENNOX Is STALWAaT

Lennon Independent: J. F. Cooley,
the Canton correspondent Of the SiOux
Falls ArguS-Leadcr, cites STATE Treas
urer Cassill as saying that LonnoX
will send strong RoOSevclt-Taft-CaS-
siil-Tstrud republicans to the county
convention. 1t is all we'll enough to
talk thai way, but when the Lennox
delegation lines up it will be found
that the Crawford supporters are
minus. Some time ago the Sioux Falls
Press stated that there was but one
kittredge man in Lennox. If the
statement had been reversed it would
have been nearer the truth.
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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

The petty character Of the cam
paign being waged against Senator
Kittredge is shown by an effort now
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If the insurgent view is to be ac-j
cepted the primary seems to be valu-J
able only Is an issue. There are noneE
now to do It reverence. 1t would cosd
the taxpayers Of the state $685. 900 til
send eight delegates to Chicago IL the
primary were used.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-03-06

There must be a good many insur-
gent editors in the state who have
nothing but contempt for the limita-
tons of George Washington who
couldn't tell a lie.