The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-12-23
HEAD OF THE STATE GRANGE
DISPUTES ERRONEOUS
STATEMENTS IN
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH
Meeting at Whitewood Recently Not
Contest Between Standpat-
ters and Progressives.

4 Malone, Master of the State Grange,
with request that it be published.
1t will be noted that it verifies the
editorial comment which the Tele-
gram recently made in an article
which appeared in the Sioux Falls
Argus-Leader:
las the newly elected Master of
the South Dakota State Grange and
as one profoundly interested in the
welfare of all the people, farmers
and business men alike, beg small
portion of your space for the purpose
OF correcting one or two errors which
have crept into the daily papers
within the past few days, and for
the purpose of very briefly informing
your readers as to what the State
Grange hopes to accomplish.
From some of the associated
press reports one would suppose
that out state meeting at Whitewood
was principally contest between
'Standpatters" and "Insurgents"
and that the Standpatters won out
by electing me Master and thus re-
pudiating Mr.. Loucks the "leader"
of the Insurgents.
ut is true that Mr.. Loucks has
had some grievances against the ma
tional and the preceding State adj
minsitration which have been aired
more or less through the Argus
Leader and perhaps other state pa
pers. But it is not true that am
either a Standpatter or an Insurgent,
Or that there was any contest at our
State meeting.
II explained to Mr.. Loucks and
his friends at our first meeting in
the hotel that l was not a tool or
ally of the administration either
state or national and had never
made any pledges or promises to
either, nor had l been asked to make
any-that / was an absolutely indie
i pendent candidate, in favor of the
very largest development of the or
der, development which would if
possible carry our organization to
every nook and corner of the state,
(he had represented our national or
ganization as being restrictive in pol
1cy) but that was absolutely op-
posed to continuing a fight or even
an unpleasant feeling against the
national administration. He seemed
satisfied as to my purposes and poll
cy and later one of his warmest
friends nominated me after which I
received the vote of every delegate
present and l feel sure that / will
hav the support of Mr.. Loucks and
MS friends and also the support OF
the national Grange spreading our
order to every county and village
where a good strong grange can be
organized. BY thus placing our
state in the front rank with the lead
ing Grange States of the union we
! shall accomplish a work of immeas-
urable value to the farmers and bus
mess men in every locality where
we shall be able to organize.
Il am not only interested in the
Grange but primarily in the question
of scientific farming, more particu-
larly In that part of it known as
Dry Farming" and it shall be my
object through the Grange and by
hundreds of public addresses which
nope to deliver in all parts of the
state to so interest and arouse the
people upon this question, that in
the near future practically every far
mer, more especially those west of
the Missouri river, will by adopting
these scientific principles be able to
not only double but to quadruple
their crops per acre and so give an
unreasonable impetus not only to
the farming interest but to the BUSH
ness interest of every city and VIII
lage as we'll.
have had many years expert
ence as public speaker and organ
| ANSSA anu PlOpbSe5 LO uSVOC0 Two years
OF the best energies of my life, in a
work which will give the farmers
and the business interests of the
state 100 fold of value for every
ounce of effort which / shall be able
to exert.
This (Lyman) county is already
more thoroughly organized than
any other part of the state, and I
am sure that there are hundreds of
farmers and business men here who
will agree with all which am stat
Ing. In fact the business men OF
Presho and Vivian, where Oranges
have lately been organized are al
ready planning to make school
house campaign for a dozen miles
around with automobiles and good
speakers, teaching the hundreds Of
farmers who have lately settled here.
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