Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-03-05
r AND ROYAL.

90 PETER N ROYAL.
90 Peter Norbeck and Royal johnson are a precious
90 pair of political educators to be scurrying over the
no state in an effort to lecture the people on moral and
90 political ethics.
W 1T might be well enough perhaps, if these gentle
90 men believed what they are preaching, but, judging
90 from their own records Of achievement, they do not.
go When Royal dwells so eloqucntly upon McNulty's
80 disqualification we may rest assured that ne is not
90 rccomting the unconstitutional things that Peter has
90 done.
For instance, he is not relating how Peter, as a
90 member of the legislature, is disqualified under the
90 state constitution from becoming interested in state
80 contracts.
80 Nor is he saying anything about the thousands Of
90 dollars that Peter has improperly drawn, under the
90 constitution, for sinking an artesian well on the state
w house grounds.
no Nor is he mentioning Peters attempt to collect
600 nearly three thousand dollars for doing another state
% job forbidden by the constitution while Peter was
SO serving as a member of the legislature.
90 Nor does he say that Peter has thus far been pre-
DO vented from collecting pay for this illegal contract
~ only because in this case some one appealed to the
nc supreme court which has decreed that Peter is not en-
90 titled to the pay therefor.
90 And Peter-well, Peter believes in reciprocity
a. the kind that comes his way; consequently he isn't
90 saying a thing about Royals chief assistant being also
oG Royals law partner and while drawing a yearly sal
= Y AIRY from the state is also drawing a yearly salary
Ga from Hyde county and devoing his time to the duties
OG Of the office of states attorney.
600 Nor does Peter mention the fact that Royal has
soo another law partner whose domicile is at Aberdeen
toa and who is employed now and then by Royal at so much
VOC per day for performing services for the attorney gen
90 erals department.
49, Nor does Peter refer to the fact that Royals Aer-
no deem office employs a stenographer at a stated monthly
900 salary which is paid by the state.
So Nor does Peter forget to remember that he must
~ forget to- remark that Royals Highrnore Office also
er.n has d stenographer who is paid a stipulated salary by
no the state.
90 Nor does Peter fail to remember that he must for
~ get that Royals Pierre office likewise has a stenog-
SO rapier that draws a given monthly salary from the
90 states exchequer.
W. Nor does Peter overlook the fact that he must
a forget to remember that both Royal and his worthy
90 assistant rode all the way down to Charleston, n. G.,
% TO attend a convention when one Of them could prob
ably have carried away all the knowledge gained
so there for the benefit of the state.
90 Nor does Peter neglect to forget to remember that
% the steam ears run nearly thirty miles an hour and
~ that in iourneying on iunketing trips there's a net
90 profit DC three cents a mile for both Royal and his
90 worthy assistant on railroad fare, going and coming,
% OF approximately ninety cents an hour, rain or shine,
40 hail or snow, awake or asleep.
90 Truly Royal and Peter are q brace OF reciprocatlng
% cronies. They believe in mutually Of interest IN the
"A political game. They are standing together knowing
90 that etkerwise they would fall apart.
90 $500
) A LETTER FROM EDD r.
90 The following letter was found in the IIokah
90 fMinn ca;ef and rings 50 true that we couldnf net
7 sist.
90 iAlenos AIRES, Sos. ao, lsIs.
90 Ny Dear Wheaton:
90 Maai ,Ia amv Y,m hay;ns 4 hullv final Inst the
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90 Klnda III stylel iiRe, - 4 Nil 9 icy heio & " us
soo#Scenter of attraction and every word I utter ls taken As
90 III orasIe leliyer lectures and the people wave their
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