The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-06-18
To TIL i CITIZEN-RFPUBLICAN
AND OTHER FRIENDS:

contrary NOTWITHSTANDING, lnefe may
be n h-ll somewhere, if you stroll
down State street, between Adams and
Jackson, you may see a young fellow
with a tray filled with cheap jewelry
on his arm and occasionally hear him
shout at the top of his voice, Glow
would you like to be the ice-man?:u
face SO that there is immediate danger
of his being flooded III of his boots. A
few days ago | read OF II Boston preach
er being overcome by heat in his pull
pit, and yet in the faceof these fact, we
are shivering with the cold in the ey,n-
lug until we light IL fire to warm our
selves by. Delightful California! The
thought reminds me of an expression of
the poet Byron in a letter to Il friend
describing the place ''where he was att
as "This damned delightful town " Do
not imagine that | am tired of Califor-
mia! There is toe much that is fascin-
ating in both climate and country to
admit of that.
A friend sent me a newspaper the
other day which contained Il letter from
my esteemed friend "Tom Thorson, of
Canton, i'll which he refers t. the Nit
chell republican state convention of ten
years ago and gives Joe Green "a dig'
for his work in the interest of the sue
cesstul crowd. | think | remember
that convention. 1t was there hat |
thought | might be nominated for Con-
gress instead of Robert j. Gamble. The
result proved that ! was cleaning on a
broken reed" Joe had assured me be-
fore the convention that he was for me
as against Gamble, and gave him the
ame OF my campaign manager, the
counties | expected delegates from, and
the number of delegates. Joe and | had
been fast friends for a long time. We
served together in the last territorial
legislature. he vas in the state senate
while / was Attorney General, ] cam
palgned the state under his leadership
as chairman Of the state republican
committee in 1902. and we won back the
STATE legislature. In addition to that
Joe said he wanted to do the best work
for me he was capable of aud | guess
he did it from his standpoint. He
probably thought more kindly of my
personal welfare when the convention
was about 10 be organized and conclud-
ed that il was best for me to remain in
private life, while lie helpep TO sacrifice
tie ller fellow with his support, and
when read the hard thiogsthe news
papers are SAYING about the South Da-
kota candidates for the United States
senate ana think how they must feel
when they wake up III the stiffness of
the night aud consider how they stand
if all that is said about them is true, I
am inclined to the belief that Joe's f.
nal conclusion was better for me than
a sestin Congress at such a terrible
cost
saw Joe out here a few weeks ago.
He and some other capitalists at Nit
chell are interested in real estate near
here. They have a one hundred acre
addition to this town about two miles
east of where | live and, while it is now
a barley field, it promises well not only
as a town site addition, but also as an
oil, gas, and an asphaltum producer of
stnpendous proportions. The sherman
OIL field which is between Santa Monica
and Los Angeles, about twelve miles
from here, is thickly studded with der
ricks and is extending westward to
WITHIN six miles of our town and point
ing towards Joe's land. Only the 9th
er day a we'll in the newest part of the
field tapped the Pacific ocean at depth
OF two thousand feet and with its flow |
is n large per cent of oil and asphaltum.
Should the miracle occur of Turning
the Pacific into such producer as I
have suggested through explorations for
oil deposit, what a blessingit will be
20 mankind! 10 requires no vivid i'm
aglnation to see the approach of the
when the industry Of maj wilfre-
that great ocean tn snch shallow
that if will no longer be a high
way for the ships of all nations and the
monsters of the sea which are yearly
building at an expense of millions BY
the most civilized nations to blow each
other of the earth, like Othelo. will be
without an occupation, and my friend
Joe Green will look down on the days
Of Rockefeller like d man on Wash
ington monument Of today looks down