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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-05-01
FISHER
~ ta
Candidate for House Of Del.
egates Gives An Outline
Of His Platform.

Prof. r. ~ FISHER makes an
nodneement OF his candidacy for the
legislature. He says he has not been
identified with either faction Of the
party in the past and has loyagiy
supported the Repubiican Ticket.
Two years ago he received nearly
1000 votes for superintendent Of
schools and his name did not appear
on either faetiolai ticket, and as an
evidence Of his strength at the Gem
tral school building he received i've
more votes than the leading candi-
date for the senate. He ave Prof.
.S#iger, his opponent, a loyal sup
port. Prof. Fishers candidacy viii.
appeal strongly to the labor inter
est and the farmer in whose interest
he has been 4 dillgeat student. Be
ing a progressive teacher, his friends
in the teaching profession VIII. no
doubt give his candidacy hearty sup.
port. He is a strong man Of pos
hive convictions and some of his
views appear below:
Editor Herald:
In announcing my candidacy for
the House Of Delegates subject to
the Republican primary June 4, /
fee. It Is fair to myself and my Re.
publican friends that they know
what my nomination will stand for.
/ am sending You a few thoughts of
some of the important issues that
VIII be discussed in the campaign
and i hope to defend them in the
several districts prior to the pri-
mary.
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UNDERWOOD
Wins over Governor Wilson
in the Florida Primary
Election.

JACKSONVILLE, May Oscar
Underwood has won the Florida
presidential primary over Wilson, #
in the complete returns from yes
terday's balloting the results are not
changed.
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PASS THE HOUSE.

WASHINGTON 81, Nay Il
Bills have ba tie House grants.
ing pensions AndreN ]. Escus,
Wilson Abbot and William Il
Pierce ~ Or c~1aIieston.
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AND ROOSEVELT
GIVEN EXACTLY SANE
NUMBER OF DELEGATES
Bay State Gives Taft Just
One Half Of Its
Delegates.
DELEGATES AT LARGE
Go to Roosevelt Although
Taft Gets Majority of
Popular Vote.

BOSTON, Mass, May 1-Reyised
returns from the presidential pref
erenee primary election yesterday
brought results from 1,O40 out OF
1850 precincts as follows:
Taft s4,s4S, Roosevelt 1856,
LaFollette 1850, Clark 80. 972 and
Wilson 1859.
The result in the congressional
districts gives Taft sixteen and
Roosevelt ten delegates.
It Is expected that Roosevelt dele
gates who appeared on the ballot as
For Roosevelt" viii carry. out in.
struetions and disregard Taft's
preferential majority.
Practically complete returns at
noon show that the complete delega-
ton to the Chicago convention from
Massachusetts will be eighteen for
Taft and eighteen for Roosevelt,
TAFT getting eighteen district dele
gates and Roosevelt ten district del
egates and eight at large.
In both the Republican and Demo-
cratic campaigns the presidential
candidate Who won the contest failed
to secure the delegates at large,
Roosevelt winning the Republicans
and Foss, whose name was not on
the ticket. winning the. Democratic
delegates,
Many towns reported no votes for
DaFptlette.
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OYSTER BAY, N. Y, May II
Col. Roosevelt renowned all claim
todey}to the eight delegates at large
to- the Rspubiican national conven-
ti6n elected for him in Massachu-
setts yesterday. He telegraphed
them he would expect them to sup
port Taft, taking this action because
the president carried the state on the
presidential preferential vote.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-05-01
HQnEMAN
Adroufices Eha 81 VIII Vote
for Colonel Roosevelt
at Chicago

NEW2YoRK LIT D. HoftE4
man, deiegase 70 the RepubHeaa
national convention announced To.
day that ne would vote for Rocss
welt.
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Very truly,

several districts prior to the pri-
mary.
Very trnly,
r. NJ. FISHER.
State wide primary election law,
and one that will secure the greatest
amount of indiyiduat choice, include
ing a preferential presidential pri-
mary.
Equal and exact justice in our
uniform system OF taxation; the tax
commissioner office and the uniform
system of public accounting and SUI
peryision.
Legislation seeking to better the
social and Industrial condition of
lahor inciuding insurance against i'll
ness and accidents, will be most
cheerfully supported.
1 5eiieve the power to levy a
graded income tax law to be.used in
case of emergency should not be de-
MED the central government
Thesbest school system in not too
good for ourboys and girls and my
candidacy wifi stand for a school
system keeping pace with our indus
trial progress.
More power for the individual,
and less for combination in the func-
ton of government.
I endorse the splendid construc-
tive legislation of the Republican
party in this state in the last four
years.
Corporations are persons corpor-
ate; the creatures of the state by
law; a product of our civilization.
and are therefore entitled to all the
rights and privileges of persons, no
more, no less.
Il favor liberal appropriations to
the department of agriculture that
1.-THE teaching of scientific agriculture
may enable the farmer to supply our
growing markets in the industrial
centers.
u am q progressive in national pol
itics without the destructive pro-
pensity greatly enlarged. Ny 10y
atty and v~eneratiOn for the consti-
tuition are so strong that I could not
sanction the impairment of this
charter of liberty Iby %subterfuge or
hasty judicial Interpretation or a
popular, hasty Legislative enact
ment.
Since the people are the repository
of ali power in a real. representative
government / feel that the initia-
tive and referendum that we have
had since the foundry of our govern
lin a limited way, might be greatly
extended, to the end that the gov
ernment may be by the people and
for the people.
/ believe the protective principal
in our tariff law is cardinal, even
fundamental with u present ma
tional Industrial prosperity, and
THAT this principle should be retained
in every schedule against the COM
peting article of foreign import in
the interest of American labor and
capital. The tarin should be re-
duced only in accordance with the
tariff commissions report.
Capital has come to stay, and the
government has no right to invade
private enterprise, except to restrain
and regulate, that big business may
be a blessing and not a source OF
evil. The chief province OF govern
ment is to restrain the strong and
! Continued on page four.l
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David ". Kemper was here We'd.
nesday from Olive.
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CONTINUED on page four.)
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-04-18
THE PASSING WEST

1t makes one pretty sad to learn
that most of the cowboy hats which
are now worn in the west came from
five or six sombrero factories on the
east side in New York city. Mexico
still manufactures them very industri-
ously-and very cheaply-but she
finds it hard work to compete with
New York factories. In fact. she
tiEds it hard even to differentiate her
own output from the close limitations
put out by the enterprising Jewish
manufacturers in Gotham. And the
chaparrals, those fringed leather
trousers which adorn and protect the
cowboy, are now being manufactured
i'll Rochester and sent west for the
trade" Soon the west will have
nothing distinctive left save it's
natural scenery.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-04-18
LAND SELLING ENCOURAGING

Land Commissioner Brinker has
returned from the counties where the
public land sales have just taken
place, and reports the same to be the
most successful in the history of the
state. Considering financial condi-
tions, and the failure of last years
small grain crop, the prices that have
been received are most excellent. The
banner price was 800 per acre for raw
prairie adjacent to Emery. One piece
In Minnehaha brought $S4 by COM
petitive bidding, and Hutchinson
came third with piece going at
S76.25. The minimum for which any
tract was sold was SIS. In the Mis-
souri, river brakes in Charles Mix
county. The average for some coun-
ties, as sos for Minnehaha, $4,000 for
Dawson and $40 81 for Aurora is far
higher than the very best improved
property sold for only a few years
ago. These prices were for raw un-
broken prairie. Mr.. Brinker expect
the sales to go above 5000, 900 and less
than 81 1000, 900.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-04-18
THE RAIN CAME DOWN

1t was a.glorious rain that covered
most of the state of South Dakota
Friday night. The foodgates of Hea-
ven opened and all night long the
we'll charged clouds yielded their full
ness to replenish the earth. There
was an old-time energy about this
visitation that has been lacking dur
ing the past couple of years, in which
nature has bestowed it's aqueous
favors with niggardly hand during
the growing seasons.
Saturdays advices stated that, east
of the Missouri, an average of an
inch and half of water was deposit
ed, while west Of the river there were
generous showers. SO the entire state
enters upon the crop season under
the most encouraging conditions.
Last fall and last winter brought
enough moisture to fill the soil to a
depth of three or four feet, but wind
and heat had dried the surface in
which the seed terminates and in
which its young growth must be sus-
tanned while the roots are being sent
into the lower depths.
The rain that has fallen during the
past week came just in time for the
development of the seed and the
small grain that is in the ground, OF
may be yet sown, will speedily cover
the fields with the verdure of spring
There has been no more promising
crop outlook since the Dakotas were
peopled than than the one now con
fronting the producers of this agri
cultural belt.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-04-18
BYRNE is BADLY BEATEN

The Dakota Republic, one of the
Oldest and strongest republican news
papers in this state, mas this to say:
Some of the Byrne editors are re-
iterating the stale stereotyped sheer
Gull is practically out OF the
race" Funny, if this be true, that
Byrne should feel it necessary to
spend his entire time and energy and
any amount of perspiration besides
as he breathlessly stumps the State
in his own behalf. The cold fact is
that Byrne is badly beaten mot 80
much by reason Of his politics or.
personality but because the people
are thoroughly tired Of the company
he is in and the influences behind
him. Byrne may mean we'll. but HIS
Bosses are dose too bitter "a oonr.
.knsns rtnka - - #
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-04-18
HUNDREDS LOST AT SEA

The civilized world is shocked and be-
wildered by the news that comes over
the wireless telegraph to the effect
that despite modern ship building meth
DDS, heretofore assumed to be so nearly
perfect as to make ocean travel safer
than staying at home, two-t thirds of the
passengers on board the liner Titanic,
most complete specimen of modern ship
building, have found watery graves,
and the huge vessel itself rests at the
bottom of the Atlantic ocean. Man
has accomplished much in the effort to
conquer the forces of nature, but some
thing occurs. every little while, to re-
mind him that nature still reigns SUI
preme whenever the elements choose
to exert their strength.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-04-18
BEAUTIFY CAPITOL GROUNDS.

The work of parking the state CAPT.
tai grounds is being pushed as far
this spring as the appropriation for
that purpose will allow. The work
is being shaped toward the carry out
of the general plan proposed for
lake on the eastern end of the grounds
and while that will take several years.
considering the appropriations of the
last session for the purpose 10 be
basis of what can be expected. In
fact the appropriation barely allows
the beginning of the work, and while
the foundation is being laid for fur
Their improvements in the future, but
little can be done in the way of trees
or shrubbery until more funds are
available
While the beginning is being made
on the grounds, the city is beginning
to take heed and pay attention to the
natural park owned by this city,
which has been in a state of neglect
for several years. The weeds and
underbrush are being cleared out,
and gravel roadways taking the place
OF the mud roads which cover the
tract every spring.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-04-18
PRECINCT CLERKS TO REPORT

For three years the state has had
law requiring precinct officers to
make unofficial returns to the county
auditors in special envelopes outside
the ballot box returns; and the coun-
ty auditors to make unofficial returns
of the votes Of their counties to the
secretary of state Immediately after
they secure the unofficial returns from
their precincts, This was intended
to hasten the securing of returns fol-
lowing an election without waiting
for official counts. But as no penalty
was imposed, many precinct officers
failed to make the return, and q
bunch of county auditors made no ef-
fort to get in reports. In one case
the precinct officers sent back their
blank forms with the words, mo
cigars, no returns" written across
the face of the blank. The last SEES
sion has attempted to make the law
little more effective, and to this end
has provided that any precinct off,
GERS who fail to make the unofficial
returns to the county auditor shall be
deprived Of their pay as such precinct
officers and that in case of the failure
of county auditors to make the return
within three days after the election,
the secretary of state is instructed to
send a messenger to the county after
such returns, and the expense Of such
messenger shall be charged to the
county, and the county commissions
ers are instructed to deduct the same
from the next salary voucher for such
neglectful county auditor. This will
mean that the unofficial returns will
come in more promptly from this
time on or lot of precinct officers
will serve the public without pay,
and some county auditors will pay
for their neglect.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-04-18
VALUE OF ONE SETTLER

The Northwest Developm emit league
has been dabbling in mathematics
to some purpose. 1t finds that the
states of the northwest have increas-
ed in population about 100000 per-
sons during the past ten years and
that, during that period, the land of
the same states has increased in value
to the extent of $2,S12, $50, 1872
The league therefore concludes that
every person settling in these states
make real estate worth ST ,4o6 more
than it was and that each family adds
an average of s3,5l5 to the selling or
producing value of the land.
In these figures there is an unan-
sWerable argument on the side of
liberal appropriations by the states
for advertising purposes, and our own
state could be exposed to the argu-
ment with great possible benefit to
itself.
In the absence of public aid in the
competition for immigration, the
South Dakota Development league
has undertaken to show to the mi
gratory portion of the population of
the country that opportunity awaits
those that come this way.
The executive committee of the
state Real Estate Mems association,
an auxiliary of the league, recent
ly concluded a session in Huron, at
which preliminary steps were taken
to enter upon an advertising cam
paign.
If every new settler adds so much
to the permanent value of the proper
ty OF the state, these workers are en-
titled to the enthusiastic financial and
moral support, Of all the people of
the state.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-04-18
THE ONLY CANDIDATEn

From reading the newspapers OF
South Dakota one is almost led to
think that Geo. w. Egan is the only
candidate for the nomination of gov
ernor. Nearly every paper has some
thing nice to say about Mr.. Egan.
and few are very enthusiastic over
the efforts of either Gull or Byrne to
land the nomination. There are few
pie eaters who are still hollering for
Byrne. but their reasons are general
ly understood and what they say has
little bearing on the situation. 1t is
the whole souled support Of most Of
the papers who are fighting for Mr..
Egan that the voters approve and one
little squib in one of these papers is
worth more to Egan than a whole
page of the vilifying stuff that ap-
pears in some of the papers of pie
eating "yaps, is to Byrne. Greg
DRY Times Advocate.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-04-18
FLOOD TAKES SAND BAR

The high water appears to be "eat-
ing" large chunks out of the sand
bar which has spread over SO much
of the stream between here and Fort
Pierre. and if the current holds at
about it's present location after the
river falls, the Indications are for .
much narrower stream, and the Gil
ing in along both ahorea by new haxs.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-04-18
INGERSOLL ON LAND HOLDING

l am satisfied that the time will
come-and | have long been of this
opinion when no man will be allow.
ed to own land that he does not use.
Some people, and they are the oppon-
ents of Henry George, say that the
idle should not live on the labor of
the industrious. And yet that is ex-
actly what happens in nearly every
government in the world. There
is something wrong when those that
do the most have the least. y
The time has come for the world to
be controlled by kindness guided by
intelligence.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-04-18
WANTS MORE USELESS OFFICES
Candidate Byrne is Bidding Strong
fol- Support of Office Seekers.

Dakota Republican,: We notice that
Candidate Byrne's long suit in his cam
paign speeches is defending the numer-
GUS and in some cases useless new Off
ces that have been created by the insur-
gent administration Which would lend
color to the inference that he, if elect
ed, would be in favor of creating few
more in addition, and thus build up a
still bigger machine with big boss as
chief engineer.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-04-18
BISHOP IN SOUTH DAKOTA

New York, April 13.-The Rev.
George Biller, Jr., of Sioux Falls,
formerly of New Jersey, was elected
bishop of South Dakota, and Rev.
Herman Page, of Chicago, was elect
ed bishop of New Mexico at the CON
GLIDING session of the Episcopal house
of bishops in the Cathedral of st.
John, the Divine. The meeting was
presided over by Bishop futile.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-04-18
NEBRASKA PRIMARIES NEXT

Nebraska has been political caldron
most of this week in preparation for the
state wide primary Of tomorrow. A
dozen men of national prominence have
crisscrossed the state in speaking tours
in the interest of President Taft and
Col. Roosevelt on the republican side,
and for Champ Clark and Gov. Wood
row Wilson on the democratic side. A
special train has carried Col. Roosevelt
himself, another has carried the chief
advocates of Speaker Clark.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-04-18

The headquarters for the reclama-
ton service is to be moved from
Belle Fourche to Newell May l.
Valley Irrigator.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-04-18

Every vote cast for Geo. W. Egan
for governor means new deal in
South Dakota Politics and the elimin-
alton of machine rule.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-04-18

AS there are forty-eight governors
one may still be found willing to &C
cept nomination as vice president.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-04-18

Reports that will vary largely de-
termine the drift of things in nationa
politics will pour in from all quarters
of the country during the present
week, and it will be we'll for the aver.
age onlooker to brace himse elf for all
possible surprises; for what would
politics be we're it not for theaep
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-04-18

Wolf hunters have been very active
in Fall River County, the auditors
records show that lab coyote pelts
have been presented for bounty dur
ing the three months of 1912 Just
closed. The total since August /,
last year, when the current year be-
gan, is 2,245 coyote skins and two
wolf hides.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-04-18

ton service Is to be moved from
Belle Fourche to Newell May l.
Valley Irrigator.
Every vote cast for Geo. w. Egan
for governor means new deal in
South Dakota Politics and the elimin-
alton of machine rule.
The naval bill as it will be report
ed by the house committee will ap-
propriate 81, 100000 for maintenance
of the navy. This provides for sew
eral torpedo boats and destroyers,
but no battleships.
There is almost certain to be a de-
mand for the application of the re-
ferendum and recall to the campaign
song The initiative seems to have
been taken when the masses of the
people were not looking.
The Walker, Mimi, Pilot says
"The time is passing when the ma
jority of the farmers can be depended
upon to vote for Norwegian for
governor. just think what the Irish
potato is doing for them today"
Thirty thousand persons homeless;
1000 square miles of country inundat-
ed; thirty persons drowned and f.
nancial loss of $40, 900, 900 constitutes
the result of a two weeks flood in
the Mississippi valley.
The Mexico & Northwestern rail
way bridge spanning the Rio Grande
river between Ell Paso and Jaurez,
known as the Corralitos bridge, was
blown up by terrific dynamite ex-
plosion on the night of April 5.
The state auditor has made an
extra tax call upon some twenty-nine
counties, their returns from March
1st, call showing considerably less
than the prescribed one-half of the
taxes for the year had been collected.
The opening of the headquarters of
the republican national committee at
Chicago about May LIST, has been an
nounced by Secretary Hayward. He
and Victor Rosewater of Omaha, act
ing chairman, will then assume charge.
Campaigning will be drug on the
marketfrom now on-the farmers are
going into the fields, and interest now
centers, not on one who is going to
be nominated IN June, but upon the
prospects of regulation South Da-
kota crop this year. -Salem Pioneer
Register.
The hunting season is now over,
and the hunters who have been work
ing up to the last minute to ge game
enough to stock up their larders and
those OF their friends, for a few days,
have returned to the city, the ma jor-
ity of them with we'll filled game
sacks.
The poultry growers of this city
and Fort Pierre have united in the
organization of the Central South
Dakota Poultry association, and
are shaping up program which will
have for its purpose the building up
of the poultry interests in the central
part of the state.
The twentieth annual report Of the
state railway commission has been
received from the printers and is
ready for distribution. 1t contains a
complete statement of the work of
the board for the past year, including
list of licenses, warehouses and
very detailed accounts of the work :
ings of the different railway com.
panies.
| The state auditor is sending out the
railway blanks" to the different
companies operating in South Dakota
in which they are required 20 give a
detailed account of their valuation
for each civil division for the guild
ance of the state board of equaliza-
ton in legying their annual assess
| ment.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-04-18

The naval bill as it will be report
ed by the house committee will APP
propriate 81 100000 for maintenance
of the navy. This provides for sew.
eral torpedo boats and destroyers,
but no battleships.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-04-18

The cost per capita of the state
governments of the states adjoining
| Minnesota is az follows.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-04-18

The Mexico & Northwestern rail
way bridge spanning the Rio Grande
river between Ell Paso and Jaurez,
known as the Corralitos bridge, was
blown up by terrific dynamite ex-
plosion on the night of April 5.