Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-12-12

AS usual, the popularity of civil
service protection is limited to those
protected. Rank outsiders continue
to believe that the rules should be
suspended or revoked until the outs
become the ms.
1t is always politics to declare in
favor of carrying out platform pledg-
es. 1t is not always politics to carry
out platform pledges, because as
rule feasibility is the last thing
thought of in framing a platform.
Lieutenant Goveror Byrne is now
acting governor, during the absence
from the state of Governor Vessey.
AS Lieutenant Governor Byrne will
become Governor Byrne shortly after
January /. He might just as we'll
be getting his hand in at this time.
The first move in the preparation
of the inaugural reception, the 18th of
next month, was made Saturday at a
meeting of the statehouse officials
and employees to appoint committees
for decoration and other arrange
ments preliminary to carrying out a
program.
Nothing was done at the Washing
ton meeting of the governors of a
dozen states and several members Of
congress in behalf of the reorganiza-
ton of the republican party. The
belief prevailed that it was too early,
although the advocates of reorganiz-
alton were of the opinion that a ma
tional convention should, be held in
1913 for that purpose.
The Ohio State Pharmaceutical as
ISOLATION has just presented a petition
to congress for the enactment of
specific and defnate laws regarding the
wholesale and retail drug business in
the United States. This movement is
the result of the indictment of some
seventy proprietors of drug stores
made in connection with the arrest of
many physicians in various parts of
the country for violations of the postal
laws.
That ships will be going through
the Panama canal By next fall is the
prediction of President Taft in his
last message to congress. This will
mean that the big ditch will be open
ed to commerce full year before
the date set several years ago. There
is no brighter page in American bust
ness history than that which tells of
the construction of the Panama canal
which has been carried to completion
without dollar of graft.
Colonel Roosevelt, in his address to
the bull moose conference on Tuesday
clearly indicated his intention of keep
ing the new third party alive, if it in
power to do SO. The evident belief of
some of the colonel's followers, in some
states, that the third party movement
was merely campaign affair, and not
designed for permanency, is evidently
not shared by the colonel himself. 1t
will be interesting to watch the course
pursued by those followers of the col
one who maintain, and no doubt honest
ly believe, that they are still republi
cans, if the colonel persists in the course
of action laid down in his speech at
Chicago.
1t does not appear to the Sioux
Falls Argus-Leader that the dumping
in to q gravel pit near Elgin of
Thousand car loads of potatoes was
justfiiable when SO many people are
suffering for food. The potatoes were
thrown away because the price was
too low to warrant their transporta
tion to market. The associated
Of Chicago 10 able to show
that 1s 600 poor Chicago families are
in need Of from 1oO, 600 to 15o, 600
bushels Of potatoes and have not the
money with which to purchase them
Il 10 sisted that potatoes are low on
account Of overproduction, but the
Sioux Falls paper sanely concludes
hat there fs no overproduction when
people are starving because they can
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