Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-01-09


put he couldn't have it as a bolter,
out he would.
Shouldn't a "blue sky law bar the
circulation of those Florida and Cali
sornia advertisements during such a
winter as we have Been experiencing
in South Dakota?
1t is reported that the president
elect will use an iron hand in dealing
out patronage. He will have to use
both hands if he hopes to come any
where near supplying the demand.
Yankton Herald: For the next two
months news dispatches from the
various state legislatures Will impress
upon us the folly of not electing
United States senator's by the direct
vote of the people.
II the coming legislature accom-
plishes anything in tax reform it will
be because it commences to back up.
Getting back to the simplicity of the
original system, with provisions to
insure more efficiency in the listings,
will do more good than putting on
patches.
Most of the big men who are in fav-
or of the shorter ballot have never
had much experience down where
the ballot is the longest. Their theory
about having most officers appointed
may be all right, but the average
American likes to vote on such things
himself.
j. N. Heskell, editor of the Little
Rock Gazette, has been appointed by
Governor Danaghey of Arkansas as
United States senator from that state
to succeed Senator jeff Davis, who
recently resigned his seat in the SEN
ate.
George W. Egan has announced
the suspension of his American Re-
public but none of the Egan griIlers
want to get gay over the incident as
he still has the plant and will keep
it for use later, unless forced to re-
sumo publication in self defense. -
Sioux Falls Journal.
President Taft is not in accord with
some of the jingles of his own party
in declaring in favor of the arbitra-
ton of Panama canal differences be-
tween this country and Great Britain.
He was outspoken in New York last
Saturday and is being sustained in
his views by some of the prominent
democrats of the senate.
Page after page of the COMPRESSION
al Record contain the nominations
for office by the President. The ex
PLANTATION is that for reasons politi-
cal most all appointive positions
have been held up since last spring,
and now they are being all turned
loose at once, giving to hungry Dem
ocrats splendid view of the pie
counter. Hold up those jobs" is
the slogan, and the Senate is obeying.
The hardest lesson the shipping
public has to learn is that it takes
special parcel post stamps nowadays
to carry any kind of parcel. Yes, even
the small parcel weighing only u few
ounces, that you used to put over
with ordinary letter postage stamps,
now requires the longer and wider
parcel stamps. The sooner everybody
learns this the less trouble will be
caused to senders., recipients and pos
tai employees.
Railroads are sending up an alarm
that they fear for next years crops
by reason of no snow up to the pres
ent time. The natives in these parts
J ave reached the conclusion that
snow in the winter doesn't cut any
figure with 2 crop the following year.
Spring rains after the frost Is out is
ailthey ask for, and such moisture
which always arrives fills up the
sIoughs and then it remains for rains
at the proper time during the sum
mer to make the crops. But this
weather cant be very good for the
winter whest. Of which there ia big
aeerags.