Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-07-13
Semi N DEADWOOD,

Over in Deadwood the friends. of Editor Sem of the Dead
aid to good government.
It is none Of The Saturday News business, perhaps, but if it,
Deadwood may attribute it it to its s' lack I2' Of S horse sense es s0o' people OF
Sem is very radical, at times, it is true, but if what he has been
eddy has not been hurting Deadwood. The conditions which he
that is good. 'N F" DSD"'s y any Hns So everything
,t.I If u there 3s, . is anything Myth g in the he vide world that Vice fears and
fall. back upon local pride-on the theory that publicity is hurt
ING" the city or community-to protect itself from exposure.
aitions can be- improved we'd by yI pusliehy s't there is IS 30 gola asnec;a Jn ahiec con- IN
continuing Pmt St to harp upon that which is bad
bst " now svd recall th from either ths,; personal observation or the perusal of
ms an;m Deadwood friends when we say that we think the general
dltlons have not been one whit worse in Deadwood than described
And if this belief be well founded, then Nj. Sem has not been
hurting. DeadWood one-half as much as Deadwood has been hurt
ing itself by allowing such conditions to continue long after the
city is presumed to have emerged from the backwoodisms Of from
Charles n. Day Day has just celebrated his thirtsth anniversary
somewhat . aai Intimate aten wo eaf hega asrangamen 4 u SfGu Tr f nax f. From . fa a
months during the summero Of zoos. the editor Of The Saturday News
is one Of the most prolific and versatile and accomplished COZ lpG au editorial
writer's in the northwest; Withal, he is independent and out
privilege. Charles N. Day has seen his city grow from five thousand
from less than one thousand circulation to eleven thousand a q day,
net h pad pan It is a paper of which South Dakotans may well be proud
editorial page.
~ republicans, declares Mr.. Bryan In his COmmOler. sshaye1
presented a ticket composed of men of high character, acknowledged
ability and large experience. No time will have to be spent in
defending them against personal attacks-they are immune Mr.
Bryan always has been a generous foe. Many democratic sbosses'
silently denounce the noted Nebraskan for being thus frank and
They would prefer that Mr.. Bryan stultify himself
by averring that the republican nominees are horse thievesl
Years and years ago the circus aggregation moved about in
caravans and conyas-covered wagons, showing in towns only twenty
IaIes or so apart. Now the circus is moved in trainloads and stops
/ few times n each state. The question is whether the circus is
|eyolu6ng forward or backward. Nobody but the small boy of those
days and the one Of today, by comparing notes, can determine the
point.
When Columbus sailed his old craft across the seas and found
a new continent he accomplished something that will forever live
IN history. When the old sailing vessel gave way to steamships. it'll
marked but another step in evolution. Today still another step
has been taken by the crossing Of the German merchant submarine
Old John Sherman used to- say that the way to resume il toi
resume, having IN mind the resumption of specie payment. Tie he
We're alive today he would tell Woodrow Wilson that the way to-
stay out of war is to say out-without shouting So much about
wanting to say out, but Just do il.
The political situation in the state is so serene as to render It'll
the campaign.