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

South Dakota that he voted for these
measures: that he voted even for the
final additional million for the rail
roads, against which sven Cannon pro
tested. But his votes are spread large
on the pages of the Congressional Re
cord,
Burke's record, by himself, is like
wise silent on his vote in the 57th
congress to perpetuate the graft of
the asphalt crowd in the asphalt and
gilsonite lands Of the Uintah Indian
reservation.
Nor does Burke proclaim to the peo-
pie Of South Dakota that by the open
ing Of the 5Sth Congress he had so far
ingratiated himself with the Cannon
machine that he was elevated to a po-
sition on the important Committee ON
Interstate Commerce.
Burke's record, by himself, keeps in
the background his vote, so conspicu-
Gus in the official Congressional Rec
ord. in the 5Sth Congress, to give the
American shipping interests, over the
protests of the Secretary of War and
at a cost of millions to the people, a
monopoly of all ocean transportation
of government supplies, and in the
seth Congress-, on roll call after roll
call, to give millions of the people g
money in direct subsidies to the ship
ping interests.
Burke, in his record by himself, calls
no attention to his vote in the 5Sth
Congress, as recorded in the official
Record, to perpetuate the especial ia.
eilities' graft Of $4,000 a year for
the railroads in the postoffice appro-
p~riation bill-an appropriation which
the Postofice Department had consist
entity refused to recommend or en-
dorse.
Nor does he mention his vote to
table the Bristow report on official
wrongdoing in the Post Office Depart
ment.
The silence of Burke's record, by
Burke, upon the Congressional emil
cage grab" of the 5sth Congress gives
added significance to the roll call in
the official Record, wherein Burke is
shown voting for a scheme put through
the House on the night of March 1,
1905, to allow members of Congress
to "dip into the Treasury for mil
cage not travelled from Washington to
their homes and return, at the rate of
20 cents a mile both ways. Perhaps it
was lawful for Congress to vote itself
a "rake-of" of $4,000 in the name
of mileage, though they could as justly
have called it clerk-hire or stationery
allowance or anything else. But was
it honest7
Nor does Burke, in his appeal for re-
election, call attention to his vote in
the 59th Congress to preserve the
"cinch" of the Steel Trust on the
Treasury and the Navy Departments
by defeating an appropriation in the
Naval appropriation bill to equip a
foundry at the naval gun factory
at Washington, to enable the Gov
eminent to protect itself from the ar
bitrary charges and practices of the
Trust in furnishing gun castings to the
Department.
In Burke's record, diluted and ex-
purgated by Burke, we find no refer
ence to his loyalty, disclosed by the
Congressional Record, to Cannon and
%Cannonism when he returned to Con-
gress, after two years. absence, for
the tariff session. He does not call
attention to his votes for Cannon and
for Cannonism in the election of the
Speaker and the fight for revision of
the rules. He does not explain that he
got no further from orthodox stand
patism in the tariff revision than to
vote for Cannon's man Tawney's
amendments to the lumber schedule;
that on eighteen roll calls out of TWEEN
ty-four he voted with Payne, and that
some of his six votes against Payne
were for duties higher than Payne
recommended; that he voted against
Is motion to recommit the bill with
instructions to place t~rust-controlled
products on the free list; that he vot-
ed. for the Payne Bill when it passed
the House, and for the worse Payne
Aldrich conference bill on final pas
sage. Can it be that Burke fears that
a disclosure of his record on the tariff
would be received with less approval
by the voters in South Dakota than
by the leaders of the Cannon System
machine in Washington
Burke, for some reason, omits to tell
his constituents how we'll he "stands
in" with Cannon and the House sslead-
%ers;' how well he pleased them dur
ing the tariff session. He neglects
to mention that, although he had been
absent for two years, in the brief tariff
session he SO well satisfied them that
he was the sam "%reliable' Burke,
who had served the System machine
faithfully in the past, that at the close
of the session, when the time came to
"reward the faithful he was ap-
pointed to the Craftsmanship of the
important Committee on Indian AT,
fairs, which had become vacant by the
transfer Of Sherman to the Vice-Presi-
dency! Not. Burke! Other Cannon
ICongressmen have made the political
mistake Of Dragging to progressive
voters Of their preferment by Cannon
and have been defeated for re-elect-
ton. Burke would profit by avoiding
their example. :