The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-05-26
IT IS UP TO THE PEOPLE

IT IS UP TO THE PEOPLE
The congressional race is now open
and the candidates are before the
people asking for support on two dis
tinct platforms.
Thomas Thorson of Canton and
John F. Schrader of Rapid City repre-
sent the peoples battle for a square
deal, while E. w. Martin of Dead
wood and Charles III. Burke of Pierre
represent Cannonism and the trust rob-
bing tariff interests, and it may not
be out of place to note how republicans
down east regard the issue.
The republicans down in old stand.
pat Massachusetts have shown their
contempt for the tariff and the men
who helped to make it a power to rob
the poor and enrich the millionaire in
~terests behind Cannon and Aldrich by
voting for a democrat, because the re-
publicans had to either vote for .
democrat or vote for a, Joe Cannon re-
publican, and about $4,000 republicans
preferred an honest anti-machine in
dependent democrat to a republican
who was recognized as an agent Of
the trust interests that have made
Cannonism and tariff robbery possible.
Since the Massachusetts republicans
repudiated Cannonism a similar case
came up in the Rochester district in
New York. There a republican con-
gresham died and a Joe Cannon,tarif-
robbing-trust-supporter was nominated.
An independent anti trust democrat
was nominated and here again about
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vocate of the robber tariff and elected
the democrat because they had no 9TH
er alternative. Those former rock
a republican because he was a sup
made tariff.
Out here in South Dakota the people
must decide between two factions in
the republican party. One faction
Burke and Martin, stand for Cannon
ism and the trust rorhing tariff, not
only stand for it, hut they voted for
it and supported Joe Cannon in all
his schemes to throttle those opposed
to the robber schedules. Their votes
on all questions denying the people q
square deal, or protection in any man
ner, are found in the Congressional
Record. At the latter end of the fight
Martin heard from home and he began
trimming, but it was too late. Burke
was so deep in his treachery to the
people that he knew no one would be-
lieve him if he repudiated Cannon who
gave him a committee Craftsmanship
for his manhood, and he stays bought.
Cannon could trust Burke but he could
not trust Martin and Martin whined
of mot roff;rr 80, cro,, A. -.
These conditions must be known to
every reader in the state for we be-
lieve every fair minded man in the
state has formed an opinion as to the
men who were guilty of helping the
trust tariff schemers fix up a fraud so
that the poor might be robbed a little
smoother under a so-called reduction.
Nothing in the long list of political
treachery to the common people stands
a comparison with this cowardly sur
render of republican congressman to
the demands Of the robber tariff bar
ons, and Burke and Martin stood by
the Infamous deal and voted for it,
and now they are asking you to ap-
prove their betrayal of the people.
The man who. will vote for Burke and
Martin under these circumstances is in
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vor of the rich robbing the poor and
and producers to a condition of serfdom.
Evade if you may this naked truth, but
YOU cannot escape responsibility in the
decision-you must be for or against
the people.
On the side of liberty, justice and
fair play stand Thomas Thorson and
John F. Schrader, men who will fight
the battle of the people against rob
Der combines and tariff plundcrers, be
cause they are republicans who be.
lieve n the republicanism of Lincoln
and Roosevelt, who believe in popu-
lar government and a square deal, who
are opposed to any system of govern
ment that robs the poor for the bene-
fit of the rich, and men like Thorson
and Schrader are deserving of every
republican vote in the state.
The republicans of Massachusetts,
and New York in two of the most 10y
al republican districts in the nation,
~repudiated two republicans who stood
for Cannonism and the robber tariff,
and so abhorant were these things to
them and they protested in thunder
tones by voting for democrats.
The anne robber tariff system with
%Cannonism comes before the republi-
cans of South Dakota and they must
pass judgment at the June primary.
Let that verdict be worthy of men
who believe in justice and a square
deal, who believe that the rich shall
not be permitted to rob the poor un-
der a trust made tariff, and while
looking into these conditions let the
voter not forget that Burke and Mar
tin helped to nail that robber tariff
on the backs Of the people and they
should be repudiated at the June pri-
mary for their treachery.
THE STATE ASKS THIS