The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-03-06
Have You Read the Congressional
Record Of March Is, 1907 ?..Get
Copy and Read it Through
Proof That Crawford Paid Young Men
500 Each 10 File on Lands for
Zig Cattle Company
Department Chief Thinks Jury Vas
Tempered viii. "-lried TO Get Chief
Removed, but He was Promoted

Odd as 1T may seem, the CRAWFORD
campaign bureau is stu sending out
matter on the and fraud proceeding
which was twice brought against Coo
|. Crawford before the federal grand
jury, the governor twice narrowly e.
Gaping indictment for having hired
boys, some of them hardly of age. &c
file on land in WalWorth county, ad-
joining the property of the Crawford
Cattle ranch, in order that the cattle
company could get the land for use.
and in order that it might keep away
from these lands some Russians who
wanted it and who were alluded to by
h governor as Undesirable neigh
bors."
The facts have been printed time
and again, and the stalwart news
papers of the state are paying no more
attention to the matter. If there Is q
voter in the state, however, who is In
the slightest u about the facts,
and who wants to know what they
are, he should securc IA copy Of the
Congressional Rccord of March Is,
1907, and read the great speech OF
Congressman Mann OF Chicago, "
which all the facts are told.
The affidavits included in the speech
l. Crawford. the present reform" gov
ernor Of South Dakota, employed
young men of Huron to go to Wal
worth county, that h" paid their ex~
penses on the trip, That he supplied
them with a shanty in which to sleep
on the land for a few nights, that he
had an agreement to pay the young
men 500 for filing on this land, thas
it was fenced in and used by the
Crawford Cattle company, that MI.
Crawford actually paid to each tbs
500, and that the boys testified thaa
they did not make the filings In GOOD
faith, but only to get the 500 which
Crawford offered to pay n did pay.
These are the facts which no
amoun of adjectiVes and talk abous
plots" and "co~nspiracics" and "i1nps
Of help can do away with.
h'i was III P''' "hd . '""A"
be none. The Roosevelt administrA
ton started out to put an end to land
thievery. Many people in high places
were indicted. Trusted officers Of the
land department were put into ths
work. The trail in South Dakota ran
$500 - uy---
A'ioss 'he |ia"lo'o oea' IN "ai"ors@
county. The evidence was collected By
g ~ ~
ma,t said IN or o,o.d .na .,,
-, -. ~ 70"
all there Is 10 II. 10 charge that this
was done for political reasons is to
charge that the Rooseyelt aaministra
to- anou..a t.ao,.
'ioh ai'o"e" i'Seii 10 " useo making
criminal charges in order to injure q
man politicaIly-a charge which no
ono vi, holiaro ~ p,asiao,. pao..
i''
welt MI ''d"iofd docs not peleVe II
himself, but it is the only answer he
can make.
In a pamphlet put out in his W
defense and literally circulated over
the state, Mr.. Crawford prints an affi-
davit sworn to by Julian w. Blount-
who is one OF the young men hired by
him to work this graft, and who
is now in the office of the gov
ernor at Pierre. In this affidavit
which IS a practical confession of the
charge as made, Mr.. Blount says, un-
der oath, that The (CraWford) would
help US in a financial way as he did
not like to have more Objectionable
people get in there-something to that
effect. the objectionable people re-
ferred to We're Russians, who wanted
the land. Thomas ii. Thompson swor
that Crawford paid him 800 for fline
on the land and adds: my only idea
IN ming on the lane was to make
sdVo. henry {. Lamke testifies:
SHORTY after the second trip ] called
on MI. crawford In his law office In
huron, n II ne could let ms
nave the money on that homestead.
ne SAID he could and PAID Me $10e
THE EXPENSES OF THE TWO
TRIPS l HAD MADE"