The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-09-28
Will Advocate Govern
ment Ownership
of Railroads
OPPONENTS
Says Gamble, Burke and Ster-
ling Are All Stand
patters.

Huron. S. D.-Mr. c. n. Cooper
Of Lennon, a lifelong friend of Mr..
X. o. Richards, today
that MIR. Richards will be a candidate
for the United States Senate to sue
coed Hon. Robert j. Gamble. Mr..
Cooper states that he is not author
lied to announce Mr.. Richards plat
form; but knows his views on public
questions.
Mr.. Cooper says:
The fact is that today there are
three stand-pat candidates for Mr..
Candles seat-Mr. Gamble himself,
Mr.. Burke and Mr.. Sterling. These
three men are ultra-conservatives.
we know this beyond the p%eradven-
ture Of a doubt. Messrs. Gamble and
Burke by their records in congress-;
MIR. Sterling by the platform of gen
eralities he has put out and by his
record u%p-to-date, and his hestita-
ton to take a stand for La Toilette
for president, as we'll as by the very
nature of the man. Should any one
of these three candidates declare
themselves as a progressive at this
late date, the motive for such de-
claration would be too apparent on
its face to be accepted as genuine by
the real progressives Of this state.
This being the case, Mr.. Richards
friends feel that he is the one to
lead the anti-monopoly in this state.
Mr.. Richards is a real progressive
and possesses constructive ability.
Great economic questions Will come
up for determination before the
term for which he is a candidate ex-
rires. Mr.. Richards is not an enemy
to honest capital. He recognizes the
fact that capital is necessary to the
development Of this state, and the
United States; but he is an enemy Of
fictitious capital in the shape of
water and which, under the power
of monopoly, robs the American
people in what they both produce
and consume. The citadel of the
system of monopoly is the railroads
of the United States. Government
control is not effective. Instead of
the government controlling the rail-
roads, the railroads are in control Of
the government. There is but n
remedy for this, and that is govern
ment ownership. For this Mr.. Rich
ards will labor, if he is elected, to the
u. S. Senate.
Eighty-tve per cent of all the
railroads of the United States are
groups, and dominated in one group
by Mr.. Wm. Rockefeller and in the
other by Mr.. j. Pierpont Morgan.
Mr.. Rockfeller's froup controls the
Milwaukee railroad, and MIR. Nor
gan's the Northwestern railroad.
These are the special interests in
South Dakota. These two men. hav-
ing no aim but the accumulation of
more millions, are the bosses of
South Dakota politics today, through
their hirelings. A vote OF a senator
from South Dakota counts just as
much as the vote of a senator from
New York, and. therefore, South Da-
kota has not been, and will not be
overlooked. While the railroads
have not in the past hesitated to use
money in this state to corrupt the
electorate the most inexpensive
bride since the pass has been done
away with is the state anG, federal
patronage. This since 1896 has been
flagrantly used to bride into silence
a large portion of the workers of all
factions of the republican party.
MIR. Richards proposes by his
primary law to clean this up and
force United States Senators and
Congressman to come back to the
people for reelection on their records
in Congress, and not with appointive
Offices to peddle for support.
The time is here for a great
change in American politics. Even
Judge Grosscup, the reactionary
judge, who reversed the 100000 600
fine of Judge Lands against the
Standard Oil Company, has resign
ed his seat on the U. S. bench to
enter the fray, and states that this
is the last presidential election that
will be fought out along old econom.
ic lines. The question is not whether
Messrs. Burke, Gamble or Sterling
are good fellows or will Go as they
agree in peddling spoils; but the
question is, whether ninety million
people shall be fleeced by the few
who control the monopolies of this
land. and this with the consent, con.
tinually, of II u. s. Senators and
Representatives We elect to Congress
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