The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-10-30
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DOWDELL OR CHRISTOPHERSON,
WHICH?

On November s you must choose
Legislative record. On that record
they should be judged. Our COM
mittee has gone carefully over the
pages of the House and Senate Jour
nails. and here submits its findings.
1t found that Mr.. Dowdell wrote,
introduced or championed the follow
ing laws; affecting railroads and
railroad employees:
The law defending railway en-
ployes against the charge of contrib
utory negligence in cases of accident;
the 16-hour law; the electric head
light law; reciprocal demurrage law;
compulsory putting in of transfer
tracks; the a~nti-pass law, and the
law compelling railway companies to
pay double damage in case of failure
to offer fair settlement for stock
killed or property destroyed, within
80 days. Also a law providing for
free and uniform school books, good
in any county of the state at a cost
of As per cen now being paid the
school book trust.
The committee found that Mr..
Christopherson failed to introduce or
champion any bills in the interest of
the common people, but did intro
duce and support several bills in the
interest of his profession, that of a
lawyer.
IL also found that he championed,
and left his chair as speaker, to take
the floor and lead the fight for the
School Book Trust Bill, House Bill
81. That bill subjected the parent
to buying an entire change of books
whenever the children changed from
one district to another Books are
now good anywhere in the county,:
and ii permitted a change of books
at any time a book company abridged
a book; also added Is per cent to
the present trust price.
Pages 402-403 and 416-417 of the
House Journal of the dates of Feb
ruary 5 and 6, 1917, prove conclu-
sively the above statement. For
further proof of MI. Christopherson's
betrayal of his constituency, and his
subserviency to the book trust, the
committee will refer you to the fol-
lowing sea- mates of Mr.. Christoph-
erson at hat time: Representatives
Weller, Solem, Widlon, Patterson,
Malm and others, who were deceived
by the speaker into voting for the in
famous bill, and who tried to reverse
their votes, have the vote reconsider
ed and the bill killed, will testify to
Mr.. Christopherson's bad faith,
wherein he sought to deliver them in
to the hands of the book trust.
Reader, you are going to choose
of these men to defend your
rights, and the rights of your pos
terity in the next congress. There
will come before that congress the
most important bill ever introduced
in that body in Americas history, a
bill that will have more to do with
the veal or the woe of the common
people for many generations to come,
than any bill before presented.
Under that bill will be collected
the money TO pay the interest and
principal of our hundred billion dol
lar war debt. Special privilege is
shipping out campaign funds, buying
newspapers and publishing false
hoods to secure the election OF con-
gressmen and of senator's, who will
vote to place the burden of the war
debt on the n~ecessaries of life, on the
backs of labor. on the returned SOL
dier and his children's children for
generations to come.
President Wilson does not agree
with special privilege. He believes
that incomes. inheritances, excessive
fortunes, and profits should bear the
heft of that burden. The democratic
nominee, Robert e. Dowdell stands
~squarely with President Wilson.
Voter, which Of those two men,
Dowdell or Christopherson, will you
trust?
Wilson Campaign Committee.
L was a member of the House of
Representatives from Minnehaha
county In 1915, when C. A. Chris
topherson was speaker. 1 hereby
testify to the truthfulness Of the
above report of the committee on his