The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1913-01-03

sure the republican members OF the
legislature that he is a really and
truly republican and that they can
depend on him to act with the re-
publicans if he is electad to the
senate.
1t is no wonder that most OF the
republican members who have re-
eeived these assurances hesitate to
accept them. They recall that
Dean Sterling attended the last
state republican convention ana
that he was q member of its com
mittee on resolutions. They re-
member that as such member Ofsuch
commiaee he signed a report re-
pudiating the national republican
platform, and voted against an en-.
dorsement of the republican ma
tlonal administt alton. Thev can
not overlook the fact Dean Sterling
in the fight which followed was an
out aud out advocate OF the bull
moose ticket They know that h
used his influence to deny To re
publicans the right to vote for the
national candidates of the republl'
can party and forced them to choose
between supporting tie democratic
candidate or the bull moose candi-
date. They know that he gave oul
many newspaper interviews dec ar
ing himself outspokenly in favor OF
Colonel Roosevelt, who was seek
ing to kill the republican party.
and who thinks he has done so.
So far as the deans published ut
terance go, he is still working III
harmony with the Roosevelt party
whose chief business is the utter
destruction and humiliation OF the
republican party.
1t is reported that Dean Sterling
lis sure of enough votes to put HIM
over. There are not enough bull
moosers in the next Legislature to
elect him senator. If he gets tn
election he must get it from re-
publicans. Hence the effort just
now being made to convince these
republicans that the dean is a re-
publican, though in the last cam
paien he did all that man could
do to destroy the party OF which
he now claims to be a member.
The lines are Tightening. Re-
publicans are beginning to see the
efforts being made to complete the
destruction of the republican party.
They know that one move in the
game is to get as many bull-moOsers
into the senate as possible. Dean
Sterling is one of the men the bull
m oosers want to elect. He is al
ready listed by SO excellent a journal
as La Follett's Weekly as a men,
ber of the new bull-moose party.
If Sterling goes to the senate, it
will be a bull-moose victory and a
republican defeat.
1t is no wonder therefore that
members of the legislature who
still retain their allegiance to the
republican party and who do not
believe that the survival of the
grand old party is a matter of in
Difference" hesitate to help elect
to the senate for six years a man
who fought the party in the last
campaign, and who will no doubt
fight it in the next. 1t is q ques-
ton of the survival of the party,
AID it is beginninO to soak in on
the people of the state that a real
republican IN the Uuited States
senate from this state would help
in the work of rebuilding the party.
The senatorial election is at this
hour in great doubt with the GER
tainty that at this time, Dean Sterl,
ing has not enough votes to put
him over. If he does not get the
election on the first ballot, and the
present Indications are that he will
not, he is not likely to get it at all
The bull-moose chickens are now
coming home to roost.
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