Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-05-20

bill could only get out of the way
in time, as / feel sure that the
president will make a trip west
sometime this summer. Ii anything
can be done, Mr.. Burke and | will
do it, as he is one of the best work.
ers that ever saw. He has very
wide acquaintance here and knows
exactly how to go at things to
attain results" Notwithstanding
Mr.. Burke's experience, his recog-
nized ability, his service to the
state, little bunch of smooth bores
at Pierre last winter tried to legislate
Mr.. Burke out Of office. The readi-
ness with which voters signed the
referendum petition on the congress
sional district bill was rather dis
cour aging to the Ewarts aud Sho-
bers and their kind, who thought if
they could kill Burke off they might
go to congress themselves. Huron
lite.
The evidence of Mr.. Burke doing
things are heard on every hand from
Washington west and east. We
believe the people of the state begin
generally to appreciate the fact that
he cuts more of figure than the
ordinary congressman, and when the
"No" vote is counted next year on
that congressional apportionment
bill the poll books will be too short
in the tally list under the heading
of no.
CRAWFORD GAMBLE ALLIANCE
Senator Gamble will, at the expi-
ration of his present term, have been
been at the public crib at Washing
ton for sixteen years, and have
drawn from $1,000 to 81, 500 a year,
an aggregate of about 100000 in
salary, and never accomplished an
iota, as far as original legislation is
concerned, and very little routine
Legislation.
Two of his former colleagues
accused him of being lazy and deli
berately neglectful in his official
duties and that his seat was gener-
ally vacant; while he seldom failed
to 60 on dress parade and attend
the social functions to early hours
in the morning, requiring him to
sleep the better part of the day.
The Washington correspondent of
the Saturday Evenitg Post, pub
lished at Philadelphia, in writing
up an estimate of senate members,
referred to our senator in the fol-
lowing disparaging manner:
Gamble, of South Dakota, does
not count. He is occupied more with
petty, local politics than anything
else. He is country supervisor
who got into the senate by some
strange turn of politics"
This is the individual who is par
ticularly active in turning the fruits
of the progressive movement into
personal machine to perpetuate him
self in Office.
1t was indeed a backward stride
when Crawford made an alliance
with Gamble and Elliott and foisted
upon the progressives of this state
a Jonah to destroy the patriotism of
the movement for cleaner politics.
New wine should be placed in new
bottles to be preserved.
Crawford's Huron banquet speech,
in which he referred to all these
who opposed CANDLES reelection as
snakes and toads and lizards, will
rise like Banquo's ghost. There
was nothing in common, as far as
principles were concerned, between
the progressives and Gamble, and
our original friends in Yankton
county, who volunteered in the first
fight were sidetracked for him.
1t is significant that Elliott was
United States district attorney at
the time that Crawford made his
alliance with Gamble.
When the occasion requires it,
some further light may be thrown on