Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-06-17

tional motive, President Taft
Taft hastily withdrew it upon being
informed of the facts. At the same
time he served notice on the con-
gressional delegation that no patron
age fayors would be extended to
Kansas unless the delegation could
get together in accepting them
New comes similar example for
the enlightment of the South Dakota
delegation.
The authorship Of the interior
department is held by Robert S.
Person, appointed when the regulars
were in complete control of South
Dakota politics. Now that the
insurgents have captured both SEN
atorships. they are asking that Mr..
Persons Office be turned over to a
member Of their faction. This pro-
gram, Of course, has been opposed
by the two representatives, who are
affiliated with the opposing faction.
A good deal has been printed about
the probable outcome. The latest
information is that President Taft
has served notice that he will not
displace Mr.. Person merely to make
place for man prominent in the
opposing faction. Ii the South
Dakota delegation can get together
10 recommending some good South
Dakota republican for the place the
appointment may be made as a
harmony proposition. If they can
not do this, and if in time it shall
be deemed well to displace Mr..
Person, the appointment will go to
some other state, where its accept
ance will not work injury to the
cause of the republican party as
whole. President Taft is at liberty
to pursue this policy, because South
Dakota holds no warranty deed to
the office in question.
Neither in Kansas nor in South
Dakota has President Taft found
any reason to discriminate for or
against any local faction. In these
states, as in Iowa, republicans gen.
orally supported the Roosevelt Taft
program in the campaign preceding
the national convention. Republi-
cans of these states supported the
ticket Loyalty on election day, laying
aside their local differences in order
to do SO. Having all figured as
good republicans in the national
campaign President Taft does not
now feel warranted in singing out
one faction or another for preferred
place in the matter of patronage
distribution. Instead he prefers to
use the patronage as lever for
bringing the factions together, if
that be possible, to cooperate as
members of the same national organ
ization.
The presidents reported policy as
to federal appointments outside the
state does not, of course, effect fed
eral offices within South Dakota. As
to these, President Taft is rather
more fortunately situated than was
President Roosevelt, who had to
deal with two senator's seriously at
outs. Now the two senators are in
harmony, while the two representa-
tiyes are in the same relation, the
delegations in the two houses dis.
agreeing on common ground. In
this situation the obvious solution is
division of the federal appoint
ments within the state, the senators
taking what may be agreed upon as
the perquisites Of the upper house
and the representatives assuming
control of the appointments appor
toned to them. President Roose-
welt solved this problem by putting
the places into lottery pool, and
letting the deadlocked senators draw
from it in turn. An agreement Civ
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