Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-01-27
Thursday, January II, 1910.
THE HURON

The Reporter and Farmer has
refrained from keeping up a politi-
cal fight in this county for the past
two years, believing that it vas bet
ter for the welfare Of the town and
county for all parties to forget poll
tics after election and devote their
united energies to tide upbuilding Of
the material good Of the community.
Having realized that with factional
politics kept at the boiling point
there could be lever any unity OF
purpose on the part Of our people.
The Tins" were in and it could DO
no possible good to keep up a harp,
ing criticism of them all during
their administration. There was no
way of getting them out until cleo
ion or primary time came again.
Now that the call has been issued
Tor a meeting Of the steiwart repub.
leans to be held at Huron on Feb
ruary first, we feel that the time has
arrived again for discussion OF poll,
teal questions and that our readers
are interested in them. The call
issued for the Huron meeting is
plain and is also general. If you
believe that the affairs Of this state
have been economIcally administered
under Governors Crawford and Yes
sey, il You approve of Gamble and
Crawford IN the United States sen
ate, if you think reform was served a
good turn by giving Shober a fat
job in Washington and removing a
m%an.who had made good, If you
believe the state needed all the new
offices which were created by the
last two legislatures, if you believe
the vast increases OF expenditures
made in almost every department of
state, il you see that shining
example OF reform, James Elliott,
made the head Of the Milwaukee
%company's legal department in
South Dakota and not wink the
other eye, If you do not realize
when you pay your taxes this year
that both the valuation of Your
property and the rate of your assess
ment have been increased, hen you
do not want to 60 to Huron. If on
the other hand you cannot under
stand why the state which was prac-
tically out OF debt at the close of
the EIrod administration, is nov
plunged into debt nearly a million
of dollars, if you do not approve of
the extra expense Of $4,000 a day
now for the maintenance of the state
over the last year of Elrod's admin.
stration, il you think that South
Dakota could dispense with a lot of
hotel inspectors, bee inspectors, tele-
phone inspectors, fire wardens, scale
inspectors, state game wardens,
whose principal good seems to be
drawing funds from m treasury, if
you would have the paimary ticket
nominated by a meeting called pub
licly instead of a meeting to be die
tated to by Reformers Crawford,
Gamble, Basford, Shober, Vessey,
Elliott, all of whom are now holding
public Office, then you are eligible to
the Huron meeting and yourcounsel
and advise are wanted there to place
in nomination for the consideration
for the voters al the primaries a list
of candidates for the various offices
who will return to the safe and sane
methods in vogue in the manage
ment Of the affairs Of South Dakota
before the reform bug got in its
work on. the voters and persuaded
them that what they needed was
larger taxes, higher valuations on
their property to levy taxes upon,
more officers with nothing to do but
draw salaries.
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