Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-23

United States District Attorney Will
lam NJ. Wheelan of Wisconsin has re-
signed Office to become Wisconsin attor-
ney for the Chicago and Northwestern
Railway.
1t is reported that Gov. Smith, of the
Philippines, will resign his executive po-
sition and sail for San Francisco May Is,
to resume the practice Of law which he
abandoned when the Spanish-American
war began
In a Chicago interview William J. Bry-
an said that the fact that Nebraska had
adopted the Oregon plan for electing Sen
ators had no connection with the candi-
tdacy of any one. He had urged it's adop-
ton, but did not know yet whether he
would be a candidate for the Senate or
not. He said I'm many ways it is at
tractive. 1t is the position to which l
aspired when a boy, but l had rather do
the work that has fallen to me as a pri-
vate citizen than to hold any Office, even
that of Senator" At the same time at
tention has been drawn to the new cam
paign begun through Bryan's paper, the
ComInoner, which is sending urgent let
tiers signed by Bryan's brother, Charles
w, to persons willing to undertake the
work of organizing local clubs. Each
letter contains several posters headed,
Mr.. Bryan's Plans" and naming the vi
tai issues, as the tariff, postal savings
banks, Imperialism, State rights, primary
laws inheritance tax, initiative and ref
erendum and recall commission form of
government for cities, regulation of rail
roads and other corporations, popular
election Of Senators and income tax.
A big drought was heralded in nineteen
of the twenty-seven counties of Michi-
gan where local option elections were
held the other day, and 500 saloons, to-
gether with ten breweries, were voted
out of existence. On the same day, one
more county in Kentucky joined the dry
column, Boyd, making the total of nine
ty-six prohibition counties in the State
famed for it's distilleries. The rural sec
ton of Long Island, New York, voted to
license the saloons for the next two years.
The Alabama Supreme Court has upheld
the State prohibition law, unanimously.
this being the second decision in favor of
the Statewide law. Its enforcement will
now be begun vigorously. Gov. Shallen-
berger has signed the daylight saloon
BILL" under which the sale of liquor will
be forbid except between Z a. m. and 8
p. m., after July 6. Two more counties
pOleu WEI III uulhH NaSS anu bidSh
ford, but by a close majority, and the
drys claiming Cass. Official vote to de-
eide.
Republican supremacy in the Chicago
City Council will continue las a result
of the recent election in that city. The
Democrats increased their humble of
seats from twenty-SiX to twenty-nint.
The Massachusetts Legislature. in
joint session. had a hot fight over the
choice of a successor to Treasurer Cha
pin, who had been made savings bank
commissioner. Senator Stevens was the
choice, Notwithstanding the fact that it
was pointed out that the constitution di-
reefs that the choice must be from the
people at large The seating of Stevens
is to be contested in the courts.
Several of the prominent Socialists
nave made replies to the Roosevelt at
tack in the Outlook on their political
faith, these generally appearing in the
Socialist papers. But one, that by Joseph
Medill Patterson, the wealthy Chicago
an. appeared in the Chicago Record
Herald of recent date. As to the charge
that Socialists preach free love. Patter-
son replies 'They do-in this sense:
That they believe woman should me eco
nomically Independent, so that when the
time comes for her to marry she may
give herself to the man she loves, not sell
herself in married prostitution to the sui
tor with the most money"