Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
ENDORSED By BATES


on . single complaint to overthrow .
show that the leader of that faction
has publicly declared that the com.
plant is unjust, there is not much left
OF it, campaign ammunition. Such is
the condition in which the Cannon-Kitt-
redRs faction in this state now fnds it.
self.
Hon. G. r. Bates Of Sioux Falls, was
q member Of the state senate in the
legislature of 1909. In March Of that
year, after returning from Pierre, Mr..
Bates summed up the work Of the legis-
lature in an article published in the
Sioux Falls Argus-Leader. In the ar
ticle the Argus-Leader gave Mr. Bates
the credit for being the "stalwart lead
or in the legislature" and quoted him
- saying:
go course members of the legisla-
turs always expect a fair amount of
: grilling,' but it is my opinion that
there has been undue criticism of the
last legislature as a whole, and of the
net result of the session of that body.
The appropriations were NECESSAR-
LILY LARGE. The total amount looks
big, and j, is big. The trouble is that
the state has IN THE PAST establish
ed too many state institutions WHICH
MUST NOW BE CARED FOR.
"NO MORE MONEY WAS IN MY
JUDGMENT APPROPRIATED FOR
THE STATE EDUCATIONAL AND
PENAL AND CHARITABLE INSTI-
TUTIONS THAN THE SITUATION
DEMANDED."
elm short 1 think the net result of
the legislature will be accepted as
quite up to the average for WISDOM
There you have it. The "stalwart
loader in the legislature" declares that
the appropriations were necessary and
lays whatever blame there was in the
situation on to previous stalwart legis-
lstures which he declares, Established
too many state Institutions
Mr.. Bates was recognized in the state
legislature as a man Of ability and fair
discrimination. He stood well with his
associates in the legislature without re-
gard to political affiliations. His state
men does not leave a shred Of an issue
for the fight against Governor Vessey
and the progressive legislature. The
stalwarts adopted the extravaganza is
sue because they could inc no other.
They forgot that their stalwart leader
in the legislature, through the leading
stalwart organ, had unqualifiedly en-
these very expenditures. They
forgot that he had said the stalwarts
themselves were to blame for the neces-
sity for these expenditures.
The honest stalwart republicans of
the state, who accepted with regret the
order of tho bosses that there must be
another fight within the party this year,
are realizing more and more every day
into what q ridiculous position Mr..
Kittredge and the Argus Leader have
put them.
Geo. w. Egan, independent candi.
date for governor, said at Salem that
hs was opposed to prohibition and to
woman's suffrage. This will no doubt
b . surprise to Sanborn county people
for good citizenship at Ruskin Park a
naturally inferred that he stood for ev-
erything that is good and noble and up
lifting, but not SO. But then he is a
candidate for office now, and at Salem
he was pleading for whisky votes! If
he had been talking before for a chau-
tauqua instead of a saloon community
Il would have been different. Sect
The stalwarts are publishing the rev
nuss of the Elrod two years side by
side with the probable Of the
vsssey two years. Do they mean to
represent to the people Of South Dakota
that if they are again intrusted with
state government they will turn back
the wheels of progress and attempt to
again run South Dakota on the same
AMOUNT they did six years agoi 1t
would be fair for them to say SO plain
~ now if they mean to do 30.
acknowledgements Martin did
some rapid stepping last week
when the upheaval smote the House of
Representatives. He took the plunge
with the Insurgents, going SO far as to
propose in a resolution that Mr.. Can
NON should become ineligible for the
speakership after the 3rd Of next
March. When Mr.. Martin was in HUI
ron = short time ago he classed, in =
speech to q stalwart conference, all In
surgent Republicans as imitation Re.
publicans. He has not wanted Insur.
gent votes. He has now forfeited his
claims on stalwartism. Where is he
going to get his votesi The Insurgents
have made other arrangements, not
knowing that he was about to flop.
Mr.. Egan who has been imposed upon
more than any other man in the state
II his grievances are all wool and a
yard wide, said in an address at Aber.
deem Thursday evening that "his plat.
form, original with him, had been stolen
from him by the progressives." If the
progressives have lugged off any Of the
blanks Of his creed, it was because they
recognized their own property and were
putting it back whore 1t belonged. Mr.,
Egans progressive ideas were mostly
absorbed in the Office of Dick Richards
while eonversing with their originator
Thu voters OF South Dakota are not
quite ready to nominate for their gov.
ernor q person who il q practical
| stranger, and who comes into the state
with a blot on his record, and who nov
asks the people of the state because Of
personal indiscretions to place him in
Q position where he can harass the mem
eers Of the Supreme Court Of this state
CONCLUSIVE ANgWER
The best way to answer . stalwart
Whs refers to the increase IN taxes un
der the Wesley administration il to ash
him why all the stalwart Legislative
members voted for the appropriation,
- spend the money.
George W.. Egan borrowed \ few
planks from Dick Richards and pro
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