Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-10-31

The allies are getting after the Turk
with a businesslike bravery that makes
one wish there were some way of let
ting them pluck the fruits of victory
free from the interference of the great
powers
The extremities to which the Moose
Welt press has been driven in their eff
forts to find some argument for the
election of the bombastic colonel from
Oyster Bay for third term as presi-
dent would be pitiable were they not in
many cases so ludicrous.
During 1905 and 1906, the tax for
state purposes was ST 1922 1913 49, For
1909 and 1910, So, 1924 ,9l7 Sc. The first
named figures were under the Gre
form machine, in which Byrne is a
prominent spoke.
The A berleen American says that
all of the democrats are not for
Johnson. Does the American think
that all of the republicans are for
Byrne? Where Johnson loses one
democratic vote Byrne will lose
twenty republican votes.
Those bull moose papers that have
been criticising Charles NJ. Day of the
Sioux Falls Argus. Leader and George
W. Egan because of their present po-
!. litical association, after their former
bitter enmity, should take it all back
Hash t. the local bull moose paper ex-
arnined the record of Mr.. Egan and
found itspotless? Mr.. Day appears to
he in extremely good company.-Ab er-
| deem News.
If the Bull Moosers should elect
every congressional candidate they
have nominated they would not con-
stitue one fifth of the house. of rep
resentatives. In view of this the
voters who really desire reform can
readily see that Roosevelt does not
care rap who controls congress if
can get third term in the white
house.
Aberdeen News: It's pretty shrewd
tactics on the part of, the democrats to
have Pettigrew and Andy Lee "bolt. y
Andy and PettigreW may not realize it,
but the shrewd democrats who are rum
ming the South Dakota campaign this
| fall know the former senator and the
former governor are worth more TO the
party they oppose than they are to the
party they support.
Woodrow Wilson has escaped an
obligation to the harvested trust. by
returning to Cyrus H. Mccormick
S12, 800 contributed to the Wilson
campaign fund by that trust repre-
sentative. Meanwhile the other mem
bers of the harvester trust family,
Medill Mccormick and Geo. w. Per
kins, continue to contribute cash and
labor to the Roosevelt cause.
1t is. wisely stated by the Pierre
Dakotan that the republican party is
confronting a choice between. death
and defeat. If the Roosevelt defec
tion terminates in victory, the repul
lican party will rise no more as a
factor in the affairs of state and na
ton. Ii the democrats win the cleo.
tions it will'be only a temporary de.
feat of republicanism. ~
/ Ed S johnson, democratic candidate
for governor of South Dakota, is being
opposed bysex Governor Lee, the. only
democratic governor the state ever in,
dulged in. In this issue of the Free
Press, Mr.. johnson takes up the char
ges made by MIR. Lee against him .ant
smashes them into ragments. 1t; APP
pears from the rejoinder that Mr.. Lee
based his allegations upon unsub stant
lated reports that prove to be entirely
untrue. Nothing has therefore beer
gained by the attack.
] Mentioning it as evidence that Ed
/ s: johnson was standing in with the
railroads, ex Governor Lee related
4 that, while Mr.. Johnson was state
| senator, he voted for bill to provide
for the condemnation of land for
warehouse sites. The ex-governor is
not as loqacious since he found out
that the aforesaid bill was opposed by
railroad interests and promoted by
independent warehouse men. He was
trying to work the farmers and it
didn't work
The voters will have an opportunity
to annihilate our present party" pri-
mary law by voting for the proposed
one which will on the ballot for your
consideration. Also the proposed cleo
trio headlight law which provides that
all railway companies operating in this