Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-10-10

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shorter.
1t isn't so much question of the
the high cost of living as it is of hav
ing any living at all.
1t is comforting to reflect that most
of us have lived through whatever has
happened politically.
Good luck sometimes goes after a
man with search warrant, but the
hustler is usually the man it is look
ing for.
The Milwaukee road has filed with
the railway commission tariff ad-
vancing the grain rates from South
Dakota points to all terminal mar
kets.
They tell of cornfields in Brule
county that will yield sixty bushels
to the acre. One farmer has two
hundred acres in one field that will
average over fifty bushels per acre.
After all, the torchlight procession
with all its foolishness, came nearer
the people than big campaign con-
tribution from a trust which is look
ing for special privileges.
Bill Finn admits it cost him $144-
900 to finance Roosevelt's Pennsvl-
vania primary campaign. AT this
rate the colonel's canvass the country
over must have cost several millions
of cold cash.
Sioux City Journal: What enviable
distinction it will be if, when election
day rolls around, South Dakota is
found the only state in which the
Roosevelt electors actually tried to
make away with the stolen goods.
Senator Crawford assaulted the
proposed primary law in his Canton
speech. Naturally. Under the pro-
posed primary law it would not be
possible for the boilers to commit the
atrocity that now stands to their
credit.
The bull moose organs have already
counted 1000 Republicans in this
State who will support Woodrow
Wilson for president. They should
add another cipher and the figures
will be below the mark k-Vermillion
| Republican.
So far it has been a real golden
/ October. No chance here to weave
| rhapsadies over nut brown woods
but these dollar producing grain
stacks and smoking threshing rigs on
every section are worth a towns hip
| of haZelnuts.
\ Never has it been truer that vote
for democracy is vote for the great
masses of the people and this applies
equally to both state and nation in
the present campaign. The issues
never were more clear cut or the re-
wards for the people more definite or
important. Trust regulation means
a government by trusts. Don't lose
; sight of this point
1t is given out on good authority
that Senator LaFollette will come in
to South Dakota before the close OF
the political campaign and deliver
several addresses. He may have
something interesting to say in q
state where he was tricked out of g
convention delegation by dirty poll
tical conspiracy as ever disgraced q
gang of INSCRIPTIONS manipulators
That there is no bull moose party
South Dakota-this was the EN-
| phatic declaration of Senator Coe |
| Crawford, made in Sioux City las
; Saturday. State Chairman Sherwood
declares there is bull moose part,
and that he will not support or ad
vocate the election of any, candidate
who is not an acknowledged and &C.
cepted bull moosies.
Every Republican in South Dakot,
who believes in the Republicanism O
the Republican party will vote fo
Woodrow Wilson-not because b.
wants to but because he is compe llet
to, having been denied the privileg
Of voting for w. H. Taft by the trick,
machinery set in motion by Bos
Basford and mis- assistant bullmoos
engineers.
The colonel said, in one of his har
angues, that Thomas jefferson was