Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1919-04-17
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GEORGE W. BURNSIDE

The reelection Of George W. Burnside to the mayoralty
OF Sioux Falls last Tuesday centralizes thought uponshim as
a possible coming man IN state affairs.
Comparatively few men can hold the job of mayor term
after term and still retain the good will of their felloW-nen
in the home locality. MI. Burnside has been mayor Of Sionx.
Falls, according to press dispatches, for about twenty years.
This IS q remarkable record for a town having upwards Of
five thousand voters.
If George W. Burnside can manage the affairs Of a city
OF this class 50 that, following such a strenuous campaign
as was waged against him in Sioux Falls under the leadership
of a man like former State Senator "A. HI. Sites, he is re-
elected by a substantial majority, it would seem that he ought.
to be big enough for the governorship Of a state.
Mr.. Burnside, we believe, may be termed a republican in
pohtlcs, but who also may properly be classed as independ-
ent. The badge of service stands higher in his estimation
than the party label. From the standpoint Of the party man
ayers, Mr.. Burnside might not make an ideal republican Of
tceholder, or one who would respect democratic traditions,
as the case may be, but We are inclined to think he would
make a mighty good governor.
Butwell wager thirty cents against a stack Of black cats
that no representative party newspaper organ in the state
would consider Mr.. Burnside in the light Of an ideal candi-
date for the party. ..a
The problem of what to do with the kaiser is not an easy
one to solve. Hanging wouldn't subserve any useful pur-
pose except to get him out of the war; exiting him to some
desolate island wouldn't bring back the boys, or restore the
devastated country, besides It would be a bill Of expense to
feed him. We offer to the peace conference the plan suggested
by a subscriber to this paper, namely, that the kaiser be
pul to work alongside some laboring man who wouldn't OBJ
ject to his presence and be compelled to labor, say, ten hours
a day for the balance of his life, living as the average laboring
man lives enjoying the same sort of recreation, eating the.
same sort of food, wearing the same sort Of clothes, sleeping
in the same sort of a bed, and turning over his surplus earn
ings, if any, over and above a sufficient amount to live on, to-
say, the Red Cross. That would beat hanging by a mie-be-.
sides, it might deprive His Satanic Majesty Of the pleasure.
Of the kaiser'ss presence in the Internal regions for a few
years, which would be a source Of satisfaction on the part
Of those who have it in for the devil.
The Aberdeen News says there is one thing that would
suit the republican managers better than to have Mr.. Wilson
as the democratic nominee in 1920 and that is to have Newton
ID Baker substituted The fact that the party organs are
pounding Mr.. Wilson very hard tends to contradict the view
Of the Aberdeen paper. # Mr.. Wilson would be such an
easy man to beat, why waste 50 much energy in trying to
annihilates him before. the nominations are madeg
Speaking Of prices, the probability is5shat if the govern
snents hadn't put its fingers on the THROTTLE 80 to- speak, the
price Of wheat would have been out Of sight during the latter
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