The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1908-01-18
Announces His Candidacy in Op.
position to Senator Kittredge,
Giving His Reasons
STRONG, ~STATESMANLIKE PAPER
A Comprehensive Arrangement of
Machine Methods, and an Ap.
peal to the People

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In an interview here today, Cover
nor Crawford announced that he would
be a candidate for the office of United
States Senator to succeed Senator Kilt
redge.
He said: 81 shall appeal direct to
the voters and accept their decision
under the new primary election law
held next June. If the majority OF
the votes cast at the republican pri.
maries held throughout the state
under that law favors the reelection
of Senator Kittredge, that will end
matter so far as / am concerned, If,
on the other hand, that majority is
expressed in my favor, the members
of the legislature nominated through
out the state at the republican pri-
maries will be thereby instructed to
vote for and in good faith to support
me as their party candidate for this
high Office, at the following session of
the legislature; the obligation to res
pect the popular vote being as bind
ing in this case as it is in the case of
presidential electors. / am sure the
republicans of the state will expect a
public pledge from Senator Kittredge
that he will accept the decision c.
the majority at the primaries as bind
ing upon him.
The real issue in the coming con-
test is not personal. 1t goes far be-
yond the mere claims of candidates
and involves a difference of attitude
and conviction concerning certain
principles and certain political meth
DDS and practices.
Neither Senator K%ittredge nor my
self has any inherent right to the Of
fee of United States Senator or any
other office. Those who insist that |
shall be a candidate are not satisfied
with the attitude of Senator Kilt
redge and his partisans toward the re-
form measures that have been in
yolved in political contentious in this
state for several years. In the sharp
ly defined issues that have arisen be-
tween the people and corporations,
they believe that the Senator and his
special political friends and lieuten-
ants have been or the side of the cor
porations. They are not satisfied with
the position taken by the Senator and
his followers upon the measures urged
by President Roosevelt, granting
power to the Interstate commerce
commission to fix maximum rates for
railway corporations in cases where
the existing rates ale shown to be ex-
cessive and providing that the orders
of the commission become effective at
once and remain in force u~ntilreversed
upon appeal to the courts, and upon
other measures urged by the Presi-
dent for the supervision and control
of great corporations and trusts en-
gagged in interstate commerce.
They are not satisfied with the
Senator's action in opposing the pro-
poSal that the physical valuation of
the railway properties be ascertained
by the government for use in deter
mining the reasonableness of rates
charged by them. They holdithe Sena-
tor and his ~lieutenants responsible
for the abuse of the power which they
acquired in the party organization and
which they made subservient to the
public service corporations doing bust
ness in the state.
They believe that If Senator Kilt
redge is reelected and with his old
is placed In control of the
party, we shall go back to
the old political methods; the railway
influence will again dominate the legis-
and party conventions; the re-
form laws passed last winter will be
destroyed by repeal or amendment.
They do not believe that the Sena-
Tor is in sympathy with the aroused
Of the people which has
the political power of corpor-
atoms by means of primary election
avs, anti-pass laws, laws making Sc
ret lobbying for corporations and
interests q crime; requir-
Ing campaign committees and candi-