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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-05-26
THE PROGRESSIVE PLATFORM
CONDEMNED

Loyalty to the basic principles Of
the republican party, and support of
the Roosevelt policies.
Endorse the proposal to grant to
congress the power to levy a graduated
Income tax.
In favor Of Wrestling the control of
national legislation from special inter
sets i%ntrenched behind speaker Cannon
Of the house and leader Aldrich of the
ssnate and their supporters.
Favor the amendment and simplif-
cation Of the primary SO as to make it
more responsive to the will Of the
people.
Favor the adoption Of a party recall.
Favor the elimination Of the "per-
sonal spoils system.
Favor party nomination of postmas-
tsfs for presidential post Offices by pop
ular vote of the resident patrons Of
the Office.
Favor making the Office Of commits
sisner Of insurance. elective.
Favor keeping Of state expenses
within the state income.
Favor tax reform.
Favor the regulstion Of freight and
express rates.
Commends the conservative, upright,
businesslike administration Of Cover
nor Wesley and his associates.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-05-26
TAX PARE.

The charge of extravaganza raised
by the stalwarts is malicious and is
founded on falsehood.
The appropriations were kept as low
- it was possible without hampering
or destroying the usefulness of our
state institutions, and received the
support of the stalwart members of
the legislature.
Our state taxes are lower than in
surrounding states.
Our appropriations are lower than in
surrounding states. .e.
The insane and criminals must be
taken care of. Room must be provid-
Cd for the additional inmates regard
less Of expense. There is An increase
q 20% Of inmates at Yanktons and 61%
Of Rsdfeld - between the Elrod and
vsssey administrations.
A large increase in attendance Of
students at state schools has also in.
aroused expenses.
i We = not close the doors Of our
Uniyersity, Agriculture and Normal
schools against the young men and
women who are seeking to improve
thaqsslvessby getting an education.
The motive of Nj. Elrod may well
- questioned when he lsyssit to the
Skeats Naturalization that the local tax
= lave Increased. Out Of every $1,000
= lfssn9ad only about 4l.00' gces to
ssysigRsefsisYasAP -
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-05-26
nA rnWNn orr

George W. Egan, in. his tour of the
state, pleads poverty, appeals to the
more mercifully inclined for financial
assistance. And he is getting it. He
tells the people that he is financially
ruined; but has 3 good bank account.
How can a person with NO money carry
on the expensive campaign which Egan
is doingf The facts are he is making
money out of his candidacy. He does
not expect to win. He swears veng-
n against the agency that caused
his disbarment. and yet he is helping
the stalwart cause. His speeches are
entirely free from criticism of the stall
warts. His paper shouts itself hoarse
against Cannon and Cannonism while
on the stump not a word is said ag-
ainst Martin and Burke who have stood
steadfastly with Cannon and the In
~terests. MI. Egan is an actor. Will
he tell the people whether he favors
and Schrader for congress or
Martin and Burkeq He makes a grand
stand play for PRINCIPLE. There is
principle involved in the election of
q congressman and yet Egan seems to
favor the nomination of congressman
who are against what he processes to
stand for on National issues, and they
are outspoken in their opposition to
Mr.. Egan's state issues.
Mr.. Egan takes good care in his
speech to up his record, which is
assaulted from several sources. 1t is
high time that the mask was off. Ev-
cry man who dares refuse to openly
support him in his candidacy is a -
- or something worse. THINK
TWICE REFQRE YlII VOTE
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-05-26
TREASURER JOHNSON DREW HIS
paw

The Canton correspondent to the Ar
%gus-Leader gives it as a bit of news
"that State Treasurer johnson arrived
home from Pierre Saturday,
Treasurer johnson simply went out
to draw his two days. pay, $4,000.
He has "visited" the Capital City
about once a month during his term
OF office, remained a day or two and
carried away with him each time one
hundred and fifty dollars as his
months salary. Did he earn one hun
dred and fifty dollars a months Had
he been working for a private %institu-
zion, he would have had a successor
.ong ago. Long before the people put
forward MI. Ewert as a candidate to
oe his successor, his employers would
have fred nhim.O
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-05-26
R A CREDIT

Congressman Burke seeks to take
credit for the introduction and passage
of the bill extending the time of pay
ment on homesteads in Trip County,
and that the idea originated with him;
while as a matter of fact the idea orr
ginated with MI. Roscoe Knodell Of
Winner, and it required considerable
urging on his part to interest Mr..
Burke. Mr.. Knodell circulated the Pc
titions that made it impossible for Mr..
Burke to refuse. Give credit where it
belongs.
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EDooRn08IV1 RRPUBIloAN -
ORD n SOUTH DAKOTA m
1ou1 nAlB

A anti-pss law,
Al antilsbby Law,
= 1-ssat rate law,
q law to reduce express and freight
sntss,
a reciprocal aemurrags law,
4 law requiring Railroads to pay
taxes on terminals,
A law requiring standard forms Of
insurance policies,
a primary election law,
q law prohibiting Tie eevruptins Of
vstsrs,
a law prohibiting railroad and other
separations from s~ont5iouting 70 cam
paign funds,
a law requiring railroads to make
track connections ct functions,
4 law requiring the ascertaining Of
che physical valuation Of railroads Of
thssstats ~ . basis for making freight
and passenger rates,
q law placing the burden Of proof
en- railroads in actions based on orders
81 railroad commissioners,
sAn anti-discrimina.ionS law,
An antitrust Law,
Alaw requiring the state treasurer
% pay interest on state funds into the
stats treasury,
4 rigid divorce law,
The strongest banking law in the
saiea,
a Law providing for the commission
piaa for fovernment Of cities,
= Are protection law,
. law to establish juvenile! courts,
y railway liability law,
= Law cutting down legislative sr
t.aissy VS.
y law regulating express. eomp.n-
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Nor does Burke's record; by himself,
unlike the Record Of Congress, dis
close how well he has striven since to
deserve his Cannon favors. Why, he
even voted to maintain automobiles for
Speaker Cannon and Vice-President
Sherman at public expense!
He voted to retain to the Speaker
the power to stpack' the Ballinger-
Pinchot investigating committee, but
'Burke's record by Burke ignores this
vote.
Burke's record, by himself, does not
mention the House Rules or Cannon.
But in that long and eventful struggle
of the presen: session in which pro.
gressive amendments to the House
rules were forced upon the House ma
chine, and in which Cannon himself
was all but deposed from tine House
Czarship, BURKE STOOD FAITH.
FULLY BY, DAY AND NIGHT, AND
IN THAT DESPERATE CRISIS OF
CANNON AND CANNONISM, RE-,
CORDED HIMSELF ON EVERY ONE
OF FIFTEEN ROLL CALLS AL
WAYS AND WITH UNSWERvING
FIDELITY FOR CANNON, CANNON
ISM AND THE SYSTEM.
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upon you by the progressive repubN.
cans Of this state, aud which was not
opposed by every stalwart until after
you were defeated in 1906f .
QS). Will you name a law passed
by the progressives that you woul,l re-
peal if you were elected governor, with
a stalwart legislature to assist youl )
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-05-26
THE STATE ASKS THIS

Just what the people Of the state
want to know has been expressed by
the stalwart Deadwood Fioneer.Times.
What the people want to know il,
did the state get the interest on depos.
its for January and February, 1909. II
not johnson violated his pledges and
Is not entitled to. . renomination."
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Nor does he mention his vote to
table the Bristow report on official
wrongdoing in the Post Office Depart
ment.
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When Fizzgigg Told the Truth


exuded in such circumstances has just
about as much chance as an aigrette In
Tartarus
Mrs. Fizzgigg ladled him out the old
line of sharp-edged recrimination the
nub and point Of all Of which was that
as a dstorter OF the yerities FizzgigS
had Messrs. Ananias and Munchausen
looking like pair of 1000 TO shots In
the Chloride OF Lime stakes for thor
ough-bred Liars. Mrs. FiZZgigg didnt
set the least store Of credulity by any
one statement or fraction thereon that
Fizzgigg uttered, and it took him four
hours TO cool her out sufficiently to en-
able him to creep into the shucks and
grab off q few sections of slumber for
himself.
Consequently. Fizzgigg canned the
truthful comedy. A few weeks later II SO
fell out, or in, or something, that FfzZ-
gigg was detained down town with the
bunch again: this time until nearly
O'Clock in the am.
Watch little Alcwyn, the narrator OF
gnome narratives. fix up something, said
Fizzgigg to himself as he wended his way
homeward
Yep, she was waiting for him again
with she lights all lit and her browning
glory done up In tight and aggressive
kids. as usual and this is the line of
strictly No. : southeast breeze Fizzgigg
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and best going rapidly. the others accord
ing TO weather; for folks always eat more
watermelons in warm, dry weather than
during a wet spell"
There are some giants in these days
among the melons that arrive. according
to the owner OF many boat loads
We got one the other day." he said.
from the farm Of Mr.. Bradley over at
Sharpton. on the eastern shore Of
Maryland. that edualed anything
ever saw in the melon line. II weigh
ed seventy-six pounds, and forty
pounds Is considered an unusually
melon ever grew
Didn't you send IL to the Smith
sonian Institution was inquired inno-
Gently.
mot much" replied Mr. White la
conically. that melon never got on
the wharf"
There are many odd characters in
the watermelon trade about the 18th
street wharf, but none equals Capt.
ship Gen. Logan. He is an old negro.
seventy-six years Of age, long. lean
and active as a cat. For forty-five
years he has been bringing watermel-
ons to Washington from the lower
country, and declares he IS going to
keep IL up for forty-fve more. For
an equal number of years he has been
engaged during the winter season in
bringing oysters to the same wharf
but the oyster business got too hard
for me last winter" he said, land / had
to give IL up. But give up watermel-
ons? Uh, not much, I'm goin to haul
em JUS as long as 1 stays 'bove
ground"
The watermelon men form a little col
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the man who drops i'm here from year to
year and who strolls down the BoArd-
walk to Chelsea and beyond-even 20
Nentnor-it certainly looks as * the sea
does gain a bit upon the beach right
along. Not a great deal, but enough TO be
noticeable. You find that the place that
you usually marked last year down below
there as the very innermost reach Of the
final wavelet of beach-breaking combor
al high tide with a high wind blowing on
shore-you find that the sea now reaches
quite little bit beyond that mark with
out any great amount OF effort, and SO
you ask the permanent Atlantic Cityite
about IL.
shes eating you up a bit-gradually
but surely-down yonder around Chelsea
and Ventnor. isn't she?' you say to him
The Atlantic Cityite scrutinizes you
carefully, keenly. as II to determine
whether you have been drinking.
Where'd you pick up that bug no
tom" he asks you, very coolly and con-
fidently.
Didn't pick it up anywhere" YOU
reply My own visual apparatus IN
structs me as TO the facts"
Facts. blazes" says the Atlantic CITY
lie then That's all imagination. A
lot of you landlocked lubbers spring that
down here. Pure insanity. Shows that
you can't see either straight or sideways
The sea doesn't try TO work any land
grabbing stunts on us down here IN
the first place. the sea doesn't want 20
In the second place. we wouldn't have It.
What. give up anything to the sea here
after the money that has been paid out
for riparian rights? Well. / reckon not,
We wouldn't think of such a thing! BUT
the sea knows its little book down here
Don't you worry about that. Why, man.
stead OF losing, we're gaining land down
here all the time. Why, shucks, I can
remember"
BY the time he gets through remem-
bering he has almost succeeded I'm con-
Vlncing YOU that instead Of losing any
OF its Chelsea or Nentnor beach front by
the encroachments or the sea the tine
probably VIII come-not exactly soon, but
coming, coming-when it'll be possibIe
Tor excursionists 10 walk right across
from here TO Lisbon or Barcelona or
Naples on sand bridge formed NV the
rapid and accommodating recession OF The
sea CLARENCE l.. CULLEN
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really hot days bob up when the land
breeze Sits along.
In this connection 1 have noticed and
kept careful track this summer of q pc
culiar circumstance or chain Of 'em in IL
lustration of the natural depravity of the
weather.
Here is the positive fact: The land
breeze has blown and the ocean water
has been ice-cold every Sunday through
out the present bathing season save one.
You may easily ina CINE how this brutal
fact works out and how and why the pro-
prietors of the bathing establishments
grind their teeth in rage in consequence.
The on-shore breeze, I've carefully no.
ticed, blows with beautiful cool serenity
during all of the work days, and on these
days the strollers the Boardwalk have
a glorious time for themselves and the
bathers in the sea luxuriate in water that
feels as soft as warm wool to the skin.
But, presto! Just as sure and as soon
as Sunday comes round, why, ~the wind
veers to the west or northwest, and We
get a land breeze that makes the Board
walk as hot a wide thread of lava run
ming down from the side of Mauna LOa.
and at the same time makes the sea
water about nineteen thousand times as
cold as charity and twice as hard to en-
dure
The early birds in bathing on Sum
day mornings, therefore, quickly come
out of the water, their teeth a-chattering
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here said Mr. White, as he sent a
pushcart man across the wharf to where
a schooner lay with load OF small green
melons, and told him to load UP at 8
cents apiece The highest price we get
is about SD a hundred: that Is for the
Cuban sweets, the big round melon with
background OF pale gray and wide
jagged stripes of deep green. The lowest
price Is about S. hundred. These are
for the small. inferior melons. 1t is an
odd thing in this business, but the poor
est melons we sell off first: that is, equal
~ fast as We sell the big Cuban
sweets. The latter are grabbed UP as soon
as they arrive by the high-class grocery
men who want the pick of the market.
The poorest are eagerly bought up by the
men OF the pushcarts. who are nearly
all Italians, to he peddled about the
streets I'm the poorer sections of the city.
The intermediate grades are purchased
by the different middle grade grocerymen
and commission men doing a general job
bling business uptown. There are prob
ably 500 wagons a day that drive in here
on the wharf to carry the sales away.
THE season commences in a lazy sort
middle of the month. after a sluggish
fortnight. IL suddenly wakens up and the
last week of August sees US at the height
of the season. This climax holds until
about the middle Of September. when the
arrival of watermelons begins to drop
off, falling away gradually TO the LIST of
October, when the season Is considered
at an end.
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the river to Washington One would
think that the captain and crews would
revel in feast OF watermelons. sur
rounded rs they are day and night by the
heaps of fruit. Do they? Listen to what
the captain of one OF the largest boats in
the trade says about 1t:
i've brought about 25.0OO melons TO
Washington this season. and during that
time I've only eaten a small piece out or
the heart of melon that was acct
dentaliy broken on the boat one day. My
crew is the same way. l don't believe we
have eaten altogether q whole melon this
summer The reason? Why, yes. we are
all fond Of watermelons: who isn't? But
we have them around us so much, by day
and by night on deck and in the hold,
from stern to bow nothing but watermel-
ons, we can't wake up without seeing q
watermelon first thing nor reach for
rope without humping into one. The re-
suit Is we stick to bacon and potatoes"
Thus testified Noah ]. Messick, the skip
per OF one of the largest OF the melon
boats, as he stood at the rail Of his
schooner. watching the long line of pass
ers whisk their green burdens from hand
to hand from the deck OF his vessel on to
the great wagon that stood backed up on
the wharf. He had just come in from the
Nanticoke country with huge cargo OF
Cuban sweets" the latest and most
luscious of the watermelon tribe. BY his
side stood men Of all descriptions in
search OF melons. On the wharf stood
more than a dozen wagons. loading up
for the days business. and as fast as one
drove away another came rafting In for a
fresh load.
I'VE sell them at various prices down
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Charity Covers, Etc.

MFRS. GEORGE McFADDEN. the
AVA beautiful Philadelphia. who mad
the Spanish dance OF The Roses the
feature OF the Newport season, said a,
dinner. in answer 10 a compliment on her
success with this waltz:
Yes. | had better luck than a friend Of
mine in Philadelphia. My friend gave
charity concert I'm the ballroom OF her
country house, and the piece de resistance
or the concert was the Spanish dance.
performed by six young bachelors and
debutantes.
AT the entertainments end my friend
shook hands with a group OF little OLD
women from one of the homes to be
benefited
And how did you like our Spanish
dancer she asked
The old women looked at one another
in some embarrassment, and finally IN !
soothing voice one replied:
Wen. nam. least said soonest mend
ed. and, besides, the object was SO de-
seryin'.'"
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The One to PAY.
KTas. GEORGE coRNwALLIs-wEs

kTS. GEORGE WEST,
AVA in black gown. was one of the
most beautiful women present at the re-
cent marriage In London OF the prime
minister's son and the Hon. Sylvia Char
terfs, Lord Elcho's daughter.
The presence OF this beautiful Ameri-
can woman at this political wedding re-
calls an anecdote Illustrative OF her wit
in politics.
When she was Lady Randolph Church.
Ill. she consented to electioneer for MI.
Ashmead- Bartlett In his first paliamen-
tary campaign. Mr.. Ashmead-B Bartlett
was married to the Baroness Burdstt
Coutts. a very rich woman, who was
nearly forty years his senior. Lady
Randolph. with her beauty and charm,
did splendid work for the candidate
To a group OF farmers she said one
day:
won't you promise me TO vote for
Mr.. Ashmead- Bartlett?
My lady, said a red-faced farmer
with a chuckle, well all vote for him II
every vote'll be paid for with kise.
THANK you very much, said Lazy
Randolph. Your ofyer is accepted. TN
send for the Baroness Burdett-Coutts A.
once.
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RaRZzQYQF WE MEUCW FLEET

For there were brought into town just
about 100000 melons and not single
one of them got away. 1t is a saying
among the watermelon men of Washing
ton that no melon that ever got into the
District of Columbia ever escaped. Bat
timore ships them north and west. but
Washington eats EN-.
And this great army of 100000 melons
comes into the city through the 18th
street wharf IL Is there that the boats
from the watermelon country congre-
gate in the season. schooners ana sloops
and bugeyes. hugging the landing with
their fat loads or waiting eagerly along
side the nearer craft. loaded down 10
H. mark. holds full decks piled UP and,
in many cases. an extra railing puilt up
above the deck rail to hold the great
heaps Of these fat fellows that are
swarming up against Il. everything y
busy on these boats, every body worklnS
and energetic-everyhody except the
placid melons that repose-yes. seem even
ia sIumber amid all this restlessness
that means their destruction.
A visit to the wharf during the past
week showed nearly score OF these
fruit-Iaden boats lying there with their
cargoes, some just arrived with their
bulky freight, some unloaded ana hasteh-
ing TO hurry away 10 the melon GROUNDS
for more and some in the act OF discharg-
ing their luscious burden 1t was on the
last that the scene was Hveliest. Ihe
watermelon, while imposing in appear
ance Is delicate in health and has to be
handled like six-month-old baby.
Wherefore. instead of being hurled rudely
out upon the wharf by the crude hand of
a boatman, it is passed delicately from
hand TO hand from it's berth in the boat
until IL arrives safely in the waiting
wagon There are sometimes eight or ten
men in the line passing the melons out.
swinging back and forth like pendulums
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FIFTEEN Miles of Water
i melons Eaten by Wash
ingtonians Last Week-One
Hundred Thousand Striped
Beauties" Were Landed at
the nth Street Wharf
Fruit Laden Boats Come
From All Parts of the Melon
Country-One Skipper Has
Been Bringing Melons Into
the City for Forty-five Years
Method of Unloading and
Selling Melons.
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and reminding one wildly Of the bucket
brigade of the village fire department OF
his boyhood days.
Most of these watermelon passers are
negroes, and the owners of the melons or
the merchants to whom they are con-
signed. understanding the African predi-
lection for the watermelon. provide be-
forehand for an ample feast on the part
Of the passers, that they may not be
tempted to drop their burdens. In the
center Of the wharf is a space boarded off
with upright planks about fourteen feet
square, much like the old-fashioned NOR
tar bed. Here the going-to-be handlers
of the melons congregate and eat their
fiji: eat until they can eat no more and
watermelon hath no further attractions.
Then they are ready. in the eyes of their
employers. to handle their melons. not
before. This boarded-off space which is
in area about the size of an ordinary bed
room. is solely for wastebasket purposes.
Into ii the would-be workers are com
PEELED 10 throw the rinds after their feast.
This i mandatory on the part of the
wharf owners otherwise the whole place
would In a short time be impossible with
watermelon rind. Some idea of the
amount that these lusty fellows eat may
he gathered from the fact that three times
a day a two-horse garbage wagon calls at
the wharf and removes the fragments
from the wastebasket.
-
The handling of the watermelon bust
ness OF Washington is almost exclusively
in the hands of one firm. All the boats
lying at the nth street wharf last week
held cargoes consigned to 1t. Here on
the wharf owner and his employees drive
bargains with the purchasers for any
amount OF melons from ten up TO two
thousand in number, which latter is a
large sale.
The purchasers are made up OF several
classes-the big market man who buys
in big lots and takes his melons away In
two-horse wagons, the groceryman who
comes ~own in a small one-horse wagon