Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-02-26

Fourth Regiment Band-the Honorable Peter Norbeck,
". g. E has been seen hanging around.
Essex has changed horses twice since his little army
attempted to ford the political stream. 1t is q sign Of
weakness when you see q fellow changing horses in the mid
die OF a stream
e JOIN IN TIL ORU
Ourscamp ground lies over at Redfeld,
Our camp ground lies over In Sphinx.
Bring back, oh, bring back our campgrounds,
Or your s progressive boat we will sink.
WATERTOWN ONCE III IT-BUT
Wright Tarbell will now rise and sing that good old
song, Are Camping Tonight on the Old Camp Ground
at Redfeld Beside the Raging Jim He will also read
an essay before the MONDAY Club, explaining why Gov.
Byrne removed the camp ground to Redfeld and appointed
q Redfeld man as adjutant general and permits him to
make his home and headquarters at Redfeld instead Of at
sARY.
A man shouldn't try to tell the truth all the time unless
he is a champion fighter or a champion foot racer. Espec-
iany Is this 50 if he happens to be an editor.
Some fellows are SO contrary that it is a safe bet you
are wrong when they agree with you.
The poor married man Will discover the beartracks in
the: buckWheat when his mother-in-laW gets so she can vote.
You can wager your sweet existence on that
There is an old adage which says, THE way to raise
a boy is to raise him often
The democrats smile while. the republicans proceed to
eat each other up IN the state.
Oh yes, the farmers will vote for Byrne, Norbeck and
Crawford-but they will vote to retire them. They are
no good things for C~odington county. # they had their.
way about it Waterfowl and Codington county would not
even be allowed on the state map. AS Bll#Nye once said
down over a preciplce and saw about ten thousand Indians
all logged out in war point: - know dn well they are
no friends of mine
Many a good fellow who is a candidate for a county
office in Codington county will fall by the aWay-slde. 6
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Therei some sure thing and that is that the state taxes
in South Dakota are getting too darned progressive
The pastor of the sSharps and Flats would prefer not
to have his taxes progress quite so fast as they have
under the Byrne administration, The way taxes have
jumped in the pastfeW years under this progressive re-
gime is enough to make a farmer go out in the barn and
shed tears. Il is worse than the hog cholera.
The Byrne administration is a ..progressice cneh
game \ Al you have to Dc is get IN with your ''ante.
The dope that Crawford is handing out to the unso-
phissticated voters isenough to give e rnanth s. jim jams
Glass says he knows all about it as he has been on the
inside Of politics for a long time. We don't believe he
ever got very far In the inside, he kind % fingered
around the edges for a spell-but he never got any further
than Gunder Stuuerud.
Glass, the old Roman gladiator, has it i'm for Char
ley Burke because he would not step aside and let him
wallop that man Curtiss for congress In this district. Mr..
Glass innagines that if Burke had kept out Of the fight he e
could have given the big white hope the sleeping potion
However, Burke stayed IN the game and beat both Of them
hence Wilbur can forgive him
Why not believe the best about people as readily as
the worst?
The only thing that will 50 without pushing is interest
and taxes.
The weak man holds his grudges. The strong man.
while he may not forget, masters them.
Do you remember what Wilbur said about Byrne in
the court house bandstand a couple of years ago? You
also remember what Byrne said about Wilbur. That must
have been "a ssbandstand'' play as they are both In the
Oh! where was Goyer when the light went out2 W.
mean the political light Of Geo. ". Egan.
Pete Norbeck never said a word about why he took oul
camp grounds to Redfied. Pete has got lots of nerve tt
come over here and ask for votes to be- nominated lieuten
ant governor after robbing. Us Of the only state institution