Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-03-12

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50 POLITICAL VIEWS FROM A LOCAL VIEWPOINT
% The last legislature passed a law creating a game
commission, consisting Of the governor, the attorney
40 general and the state game warden, whose duties are
90 to not only enforce the game laws but to attend to
90 the propagation of game and fish.
- Up to the present time thousands Of dollars have
90 been expended by the commission for Chinese pheasants
90 but not o penny so far as the public is informed, has
90 been expended for the propagation of fish. The com
90 mission, it is understood, has, through the game warden,
20 Investigated the feasibility Of establishing a state fish
90 hatchery with a portion of the $4,000 in the game
90 fund now at its disposal, but, as we are informed, have
90 experienced some difficulty in agreeing on a suitable
90 location. The most satisfactory point, considering
90 railroad facilities, purity Of water and natural advan-
" tages, is Lake K~ampeska, but unfortunately for the
m development of the fish industry, Watertown and Lake
90 Kanpeska do not have a friend on the commission.
90 The governor is avowedly hostile to Watertown and
90 Codington county, while the attorney general and the
= state game warden, as a part of the Byrne machine,
~ are with him. So long as Byrne is governor of the
90 state and head of the game commission there is but very
90 little hope that a fish hatchery will be established at
90 Lake Kampeska. Nj. Byrne is a candidate for re-elec-
W ton. Mr., johnson, the attorney general, is a a can
90 didate for congress from this district. vii the voters
"a OF Codington county retaliate or will they r~epudiate
90 the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES machine?
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90 For years Watertown has put forth it's best efforts
90 to secure the establishment of a hospital for the insane
% on the state land adjoining the city on the south. The
Commercial Club has at considerable expense repeated
s.o " sent delegations to Pierre during the legislative ses-
90 sIonszto aid the county $ representatives in their efforts
10 secure the institution. Governor Byrne, when chair
90 man OF the senate committee on appropriations and
90 since as governor of the state has always consistently
81 % @ ~ Sicta np1nncaI fhiS a,rr,tpri tinn nt1pit 49,"
- standing It has been urged as q matter of great leces~
sitg both. by the board of charities and corrections and
SO the head of the Yankton asylum. The proposed Wa
90 tertown institution. has been looked upon as detraeting
90 from the prominence of the Redfeld asylum, as one
~ 4Nsf the coming great institutions of the state and Red
Z field i'll the home OF Peter Norbeck, the financial power
behind the Iyrne-No johnson machine Norhack
as . colleague and co-worker with Byrne In the leg
30 islature has prevented the establishment of the insti-
tuition in Watertown. Norbeck is now q candidate for
lieutenant governor and if elected will be the appoint
= ing power Of all committees OF the senate aud as such
- will WELD i still greater influence over that body.
40 What could Watertown. hope for with Byrne as gov
90 ernor, Norbeek as lieutenant governor. and johnson IN
oo ~rongressa
90 1t is the Observation-Disclosures interests which
90 own and control the Daily Public Opinion OF Water
90 town, The people of Waterfowl and vicinity BY con-
tributing to the support Of Public Opinion are con
- tributing= To the uphuilding of a political combination
90 with headquarters IN Kedhela. me apalaohnleht 9
OF $4,000 worth of improvements at Lake hanpeska ana
90 The establishment of the headquarters of the military
DC a.nar4roant 40 tha State At Reaheld was only one Of the
8DO -. .a..aas 5 a4a,4o Az Ills conh;n.
@no seSefal ploNs s'iueh s. y 49, 49, J. -.
90 alton. Ihe removal Of SloVsoVo worth = niii'sas
90 stores from Camp Roosevelt during the past summer
so and Che abandonment Of the encampment grounds was
oo not considered worthy Of mention by Watertown9s
"a daily paper. Why mott
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90 oeehs heia u 1 u. sNa.Ns4s
CO Sof the county poafas - reiaslns eo appoins -
90 county s only daily assone at the ofhclal papers not
100 understanding that paper presented a eut-throat bid for
soo the honor and was represented by eminent counsel.
ple board undoubtedly was influenced By the accepted
- Fact that the daily, instead Of devoting it's efforts TO the
100 upbuildings of Watertown' : political interests, ~ 1lea
100 fundamentally and otherwise, to 4 machine whose head
90 quarters and interests are at Redheld. One vote out of
@%@119 9# Sdivea rstwenfy per cent IN favor of the8daily u a much