Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-03-25
POOLING TIME PASSED.

They have heard the dissatisfaction
that is expressed upon all sides Will
the kind Of reform handed out by
the Crawford administration which
has deepened into a roar Of dis
approval since the close of the las
session Of the legislature and ia,
people have come TO know what
reform has cost and what a gold
brick they have received in the cover
branded reform and We are again
being treated to the lumber trust
bugaboo, and the fame Of Anderson
as trust buster. Kittredge, the
emily great man South Dakota ever
had IL the United States senate, is
again advertised as corporation
tool, and the Clipper has resorted to
the old tactics OF calling everyone
who chooses to criticise the frauds
that have been thrust upon the
people in the name Of reform, as
thieves, disreputable citizens, etc.
The insurpent papers won with this
kind Of stuff in the last primaries
and evidently hope to fool the peo-
pie with the same falsehoods again.
But the fraud reform has been
worked out. The politicians elected
upon that issue have shown their
hands and the true reformers, men
who believed in the principles OF
reform. and who were sincere in their
desire to Tenoyate politics and get
away from boss rule are now awake
10 the fact that the Crawford
Gamble Elliott Basford Wheaton
bunch has bunkoed them in the
name Of reform. The people known
that they are now ia the hands OF
the closest corporation Of political
grafters that the state has ever
known. The true reformers realize
that the men they elected to Office
are now using all their efforts and
the political emoluments and appoint
ments that go with the offices to
which they were elected to build up
political machine which win keep
them and their friends in the Office.
for all time regardless Of principle,
reform and everything else. This
knowledge is state wide and the
desertions from the insurgent cause
are SO numerous as to cause greater
men than the editors OF the World
and the Clipper to set up and take
notice. We do not expect the Day
county reformers to admit that
reform is farce as it has been
practiced by the men they put in
Office. The Day county reformers
are not the reformers from principle
but are the reformers from neces,
sity, men who would always be-
reformers, democrats, populists, Oh
any other old ism or thing to get
Office or gather the omoluments ol
Office, we mean OF course the reform
leaders Of Day county, the men who
had been repudiated by all the othel
parties and got hold OF the reform
idea as the last resort. But the tru,
believers in reform in Day county,a
in all other parts Of the state, ar,
either wise or getting wise to thu
fact that they have been worked il
the name of reform to feather til,
nests Of bunch Of political grafter
and are further wise to the knowl
edge that the administrations OF tn
affairs Of the state by those CRATER
has cost the state immensely. The
hayeseen the appropriations increas
nearly half million year in tw
sessions Of the Legislature. The
reslize that many useless offices q
high ralaries have been created /
make places for professional reform
ers. Have seen the state which wa
practically out Of debt when the pre-
feesional reformers took contro
plunged into debt to the tune {
nearly million dollars. Have see
sndless schemes Of political gra
pracfiosd BY these profession
fsformers. and reform as she is pra
tiosd has been overworked in Soul
Dakota OF ooarsethe World 81
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irdios % hold ~ Day county vote