Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-02-13

can during the nix year term OF your.
office. II you are elected to the United
States senate ~ what was his answer9 !:
Listen, II viii give you his answeIss
have been a republican; am q.
republican and expect to remain u
republ blican.. !. Was that the answer d. I
an honest republican? Whist member
|of the legislature who voted against
Mr.. Sterling would have hesitated IN
instant to have stated, Il am q re-
publican now and viii remain q menaA
bers OF that party during my term of
|oflce. do not believe there 10 onss
who would have refused to answer
tho question In that manner. WhensA
candidate for the highest Office In the
gift of the people Of the state refuses /!
tosdeclare his position ON 30 important
a subject, there is something radically
wrong with the man and In my opin-
ion the near future viii reveal to the
people OF the state that those who NJ
manned loyal to their party and refuA-
ed to do the bidding of a few cheap
politicians, will have Just reason TO-
be proud Of the position they took
and Of the manner In which they cast.
their vote.
am proud of the fact that / am.
numbered among the friends of Con-
gressman Burke, Congressman Mae.5
tin, Hon. A. G. Johnson and others
whom you so basely assail. They ara
| men whose past record and history
are as bright as the MONDAY sun as
compared with you and your vacilat-5
Ling course. 81 3s 8
Your attack upon the Northwestern.
Iroad and the Homestake Mining Com
pany is interesting, and it lis not hard
to go back but few short eyars, when,
l you were fawning supplicant at the
4 fleet OF these same corporations. Those
present at Pierre when you received
a telegram from Deadwood, rendering
the position of attorney to the Home
4 stake Mining Company, remember
i how much you were elated and how
happy you were, and when the North
q western Railroad stepped in and out
bid the Homestake and secured your
services, you cup Of joy was running
4 over. That you were servile took
4 of the railroad company and earned
! your salary, no one denies who ever
visited the legislative halls during the
time you were in their employ and
saw you lobbying for measures which
the railroad was Interested In. appear
ing before the state equalization board
II and fighting for reduction in taxes for
, the railroads, pleading elOquently and
t with tears In your eyes for the cor
pcration which now you SO bitterly
I assail. The lavish manner IN which
, you distributed railroad passes Is also
7 fresh In the minds of those who were
8 on the ground and saw the masterful
= way in which you served the company
j So, we say, 1t is interesting to now
a see you in your cowardly way stick a
8 knife into the friends who picked You
T. up and placed you on your feet and tn
r a position where you could SO basety
}. betray them. "
u There is but one suggestion to make
d to you, Mr.. Crawford. Your troubles
g have but just begun, and two years
q from now, when you again come be
g. fore the people, you will have to gel
right and square yourself with the
l. voters of South Dakota, who have
n fully determined to retire you from
9. public life, for your slippery, abusive
It tongue will get you nothing in the
), future. F ~
Al M. Fl. Baskerville.
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