The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-03-05
Have You Read the Congressional
Record Of March Is, 1907 ?--.Get
Copy and Read ii Through
Proof That Crawford Paid Young Men
500 Each TO File on Lands for
Big Cattle Company
Department Chief Thinks Jury Was
Tempered with-.-Iried to Get Chief
Removed, but lie was Promoted

Odd as 1t may seem, the Crawford
campaign bureau is still sending out
which was twice brought against Coz
I. Crawford before the federal grand
jury, the governor twice narrowly e@
Gaping Indictment for having hired
boys, some of them hardly of age. to
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 wins
wanted it and who were alluded to by
the 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 8
! voter in the state, however, who is In
the slightest doubt about the facts,
| and who wants to know what they
are, he should secure a copy OF the
Congressional Record of March h.
1907, and read the great speech OF
Congressman Mann of Chicago. In
which all the facts are told.
The affidavits included in the speech
Of Congressman Mann show that Coo
I. Crawford. the present reform" gov
ernor Of South Dakota, employed
young men of Huron to go to Wal
worth county, that he 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, thai
it was fenced in and used by the
Crawford Cattle company, that Mr.
Crawford actually paid to each the
800, 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 and did pay.
These are the facts which no
amount of adjectives and talk about
plots and "conspiracies" and "imps
Of hell" can do away with.
There was no plot" and there could
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 the
work. The trail in South Dakota ran
across the Crawford deal in WalWOrth
county. h evidence was collected by
agents Of the department. The depart
ment said to go ahead, and that was
/ oil <Hnrn Sc "a - n "a ~o-o tLo@ +LN,
was done for political reasons Is to
charge that the Roosevelt ADMINISTERS.
ton allowed itself to be used in makins
criminal charges in order to injure Q
mar politically charge which nc
one will believe of President Roose-
welt. Mr.. Crawford does not believe ii
himself, but it is tho My answer he
can make
In a pamphlet put out in his OWE
defense and literally circulated over
the state, MI. Crawford prints an affi-
davit sworn to by Julian w. Blount
him to work this graft. and whs
is now in the office of the gov.
ernor at Pierre. In this affidavit
which is a practical confession Of tn
charge as made, Mr.. Blount says, un.
del oath, that "he tCrawford) woult
ASAp AS III lAhiitSltl way DIS he OlS
not like to have more objectionabl,
people get in there-something to tina,
effect" The Objectionable people re-
ferred to were Russians, who wantet
the land. Thomas H. Thompson swor.
that Crawford paid him 500 for film.
in filing on the land was to max,
800" Henry G. Lamke t~estiies
Shortly after the second trip / callet
on Mr.. Crawford in his law Office II
Huron, and asked If he could let m,
have the money on that homestead
AND THE EXPENSES OF THE two
TRIPS I HAD MADE"
Special Agent McEniry OF the LAM
department, who has since been pro
NOTED by the Roosevelt administra
tion, wrote to the department thai tn,
case against Crawford was a clea
one, and that he failed to be indicte,
because of political influences. 9Th,
only reason l can give for this mis-
carriage of justice" writes Chief Mo
Entry to the department, under dat
of April II, 1906, was that Crawfor,
or some Of his friends GOTsIN THEFT
WORK WITH THE GRAND JURY 81
Friday night or some time before tn,
jury convened on Monday. Last even
ing and this forenoon three or tn,
grand jurors have said to me thai tn,
evidence in case was as compile
~ III any case before them at thi
term. and that as soon as the cas-
been submitted to them q coupl
o. the jurors began talking polite
q SAID that this case was a politica
scheme
the chief added that he did no
believe that because Of Mr.. Crawford
sociai n political standing III cas-
ought to be allowed to drop. !
Y was again brought up before tn,
session OF tbs grand jury at Dead
g vote of IL to Z. There is no auea
ton" writes Chief McEniry, "as /,
the quality and quantity of he eyt
dence IN this case and the result d