Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-05-28
CURRENT EVENTS.
Clipped from the Exchanges Which
Come to Our Table.

Clipped from the Exchanges Which
Come to Our Table.
1t is not necessary to be rich in
order to be booster and it is easier
to become rich by boosting than it is
by knocking.
The political agent of the North
western railroad, Mr.. Alex johnson,
of Winona, Minnesota, was in Sioux
Falls few days ago looking after
the interest of Crawford and the
insurgent machine. Yet Mr.. Craw-
ford is bold enough to claim that he
is against the railroads, that is some
of them.
Reports come from over the state
that the insurgents have abandoned
all hope of saving any of their ticket
except Crawford, and all along the
line heroic effort is being made to
save him. Mr.. Crawford will not
hesitate to trade off everybody for
votes for himself for the senate.
The insurgents of South Dakota
are opposed to every leading repub-
rican in the United States senate.
They are opposed to Allison, Nelson,
Deliver; they are opposed to Vice
president Fairbanks. to Secretary
Taft, in fact they are opposed to
republican principles and masquer-
AIDE under the party name for the
purpose of getting chance to shake
the plum tree, and that only.
The case carried to the supreme
court by Coe L. Crawford, April IL,
1908, was brought for the purpose
of the Northwestern Railroad evad
ing taxes in Pennington county.
Honest voter, just think the matter
over and be convinced that vote
for this man as United States Sen
ator would mean a vote for a man
who is sailing under false colors.
The governor Processes to be an
admirer of President Roosevelt yet
he is abusing Senator Kittredge to
whom the president referred as a
man on whom he could depend to do
things, who knows how to do things
and who does things. The president
regards Senator Kittredge as one OF
the most active supporters of his
policies and has not hesitated to say
so, yet Crawford is attempting to
blacken the political character of the
man whom the president regards
with the greatest esteem.
The insurgents are circulating a
leafet signed by the state auditor
showing that the increase in railroad
taxes in 1907 over 1905 amounted
to 1921 900. From the same
records in the state auditor office
we find that the increase in the
taxes on farm land for the same two
years amounted to $751;, 900. Forty
miles of the Northwestern railroad
escaped taxation altogether, yet we
have not heard of single acre OF
farm land that has not paid it's tri-
butte to the extravaganza of the
Crawford administration.
"Kittredge should go back to
Washington and attend to his duties
there" shouts the subsidized Craw-
ford press. Just so. Senator Kit
redge kept silence for many years
under every form of malignant false
hood that jealousy and hatred could
hurl at him, believing that absolute
fidelity to duty would counterfeit
the efforts of even the most adroit
demagogues. Yes, Senator Kilt
redge ought to have maintained his
we'll known record for silence in the
face of unspeakaDle falsehood and
denunciation. But he didn't, and
the Insurgents know that his
speeches in defense of his record are
surely destroying every vestage OF
Crawfordism in South Dakota by