Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-05-06

Sam BLYTHE dosn. think that the Japs really want to fight Am
erica. Sam has been dining with en-.
We don't predict it, but stranger things have happened than the
election OF Editor Sem to the mayors chair IN DeadWood.
The last of the progressives have passed away from the senate
in the announcement that Senator Poindexter will seek reelection
as a republican. ~
The boy who raises a good field of corn is a better citizen than
the man who is but a poor governor, or but a poor senator, or but
a poor president.
Down in Texas the political issue is whether a governor may
have the state pay for the punch and salads which the governor
serves on state occasions.
If the next republican national convention selects a man salts
factory to Colonel Roosevelt, the democratic candidate for the presi
dency will have no walkaway.
Senator LaFollette is quoted as saying that President Wilson
isn't as popular as he was when he was elected. It's true, he isn't
but that does not necessarily follow that he will not be chosen again.
Teddy has managed to make himself talked about during the
past ten days more than any other man in America. What a won.
derful press agent Teddy would have made had he really set about
-
England is crying out for peace! SO is Austria. So is Ger
many: So is Russia. So is France. 1t depends, however, in what
loudest calls for peace.
Editor sullivan babe farewell in the last issue of the Henry In
dependent His successor ~ as editor and %anager is W, B. A.
brother into. the Codington county newspaper fold.
Ii anything were needed to indicate that the Saturday News
was right some time ago when it stated that Roosevelt will be a
considerable factor in the next presidential campaign it may be
found in the press dispatches to the metropolitan papers.
Some fellows think that if Teddy should have much influence
with the nominating Of the next republican candidate for the pre$i
a dsasy z the T.p party tga would . surely .d 60 down to i asfeaa, while 4he Others TT think hi <
stand a ghost Of 9 chance to win. So Teddy is still a factor.
The st. Paul Dispatch calls attention to the fact that the great
outcry against the exportation Of arms on the ground that it has re,
eight months We have exported but four million dollars worth
more than for . corresponding period prior to the outbreak of hos
Single takers insist chat in building a railroad in Alaska the
government should get the benefit Of the rise in land values which
the construction Of the road will bring about That's the chief
have no Legitimate right to. derive profit which the public itself
produces. >
The Iuronite and the Pierre Capital-Jonrnal don't see that
the legislature needed to have submitted the proposed constitutional
amendment permitting the Legislature TO fix the salaries of state
officers. The legislature has already usurped such power, and, hav-
ing II IN its possession, what's the sense in asking the people to per-
init it to do thing which it is snow aoing9
The Aberdeen American, whose town went dry on a tie vote,
did the place go wet at the recent election, but now the city com
b aHs' games VIZ Our aa'l northern Il &c eon ten, @ary & sewn svine Inc some anmM genuine pM1s
concern for one of such recent reformation, sure enough.
we are glad to see ! test of the question At Huron, i say. the
Sioux Fails ArgasLeader, referring to the suit brought by Huron
peal I'D initiated law. Ii adds. tsWe should also like 10 see a real
sssl. a e. ! p fsns e 81 sas isgisl'' Ths, e tbs asf f@srs sas Fsi e @ang i hy
stances Is faxed IS obvious. The wonder isl that members Of the leg
islatures presumably in their right minds, have the temertg thus
to Violate the spirit of their oaths Of office.
ssA crook Is j crook 40 matter what his party utilization, de
clarss the Argus Leader, commenting on the fact. that certain demo
era cratic lea S ]; , g aerre 1aaate J. nase rs besa ] aaasa ao aaa e Tha ns asPao 4
they live long enough will learn that q good man who is q democrat
d that j good man who Is u republican is 4 better man for public
office than q had man who is 9 democrat We realize that party
true, but experience has time and again shown it to be 50 and will
continue 50 f. show throughout human history
i've take sf our ht Il Mcleod, /, declares the democratic
q hss CONTINUES u s Ill las turned sae more d al tri pias'i q encompass O. i Ill lis ! selfish s1is
ends fnn en- l. . .an ass s Wsa e. LYING LYING alaaart t nss se, s. man aan,
inso n the Aberdeen situation hut, having knewn Mae for the
past quarter 81 Y eenturys we'll wager y cast of subscriber against
Aberdeen as d business Institution ~ would De well managed, econ