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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-03-05
A Review of WilSOnian
MaladminiStratiOn


dents in the history of the United
States during the past seven years
must wonder upon what basis any
Democrat can still look to Wood
row Wilson as a leader.
The first act of the Wilson adj
ministration was the enactment OF
tariff law which repudiated the
principle of protection, and the
country was assured that there
would be no injury to Legitimate
industry. During the period of
ten months that law was in effect
prior to the war, our imports in
creased and our exports decreased
to such an extent as to make a
difference of S260,000.00O in our
balance of trade. America was
losing $26,O00,OO0 a month in
world trade. American mills and
factories were closing and there
was an army of 100000 unem-
ployed looking for work. Only
the outbreak of war shut off i'm
ports and restored our trade.
Without any adequate reason,
President Wilson surrendered to
some unnamed power for some
unknown reason the right of the
United States to grant free tolls
to American coast-wise traffic
through the Panama Canal. The
argument that this would be dis
criminatory is untenable for the
reason that foreign ships were not
admitted to our coast-wise trade.
Although pledged to economy
and to a reduction Of the number
of government employees, as we'll
as to the maintenance OF the COM
petitive test in appointments, the
Wilson administration increased
the payrolls, ignored the Classified
Civil Service rules wherever pos
sible, and increased expenditures.
With nearly all the rest OF the
world at war and with Germany
beginning aggressions against the
United States, Mr.. Wilson de-
nounced'as nervous and excited
those who urged preparedness. He
dismissed from his cabinet a
Secretary of War who believed in
military preparation, and placed a
pronounced paci6st in that i'm
portant position. After the sink
ing of the Lusitania he proclaimed
the United States too proud to
fight" and on the eve of our en-
trance into the war he demanded
peace without victory.
By proclaiming "watchful wait
ing" as his policy in Mexican
difficulties Mr.. Wilson invited the
insults and injuries suffered by
this nation and its people. By
his repeated yielding to Mexican
diplomats, he acknowledged theil
superiority in the arts of inter
national diplomacy. He invaded
Mexico only to retreat in ignom-
my; he made threats only to ig-
more them to the humiliation oi
his countrymen.
By his utterances and his acts
he encouraged that socialistic and
paternalistic movement which un-
dertook government operation OF
the railroads. telephone and tele-
graph lines, and the ocean cables
and had its check only when in
it's natural development it pro
duced the '.Plumb Plan for 6
government bond issue to buy the
railroads and turn them over to
the employees to operate. By his
interference in behalf Of anarchist
Mooney and l. w. w. murderer
Hillstrom. and by his assurances
to the bolshevists of Russia, he
pandered to the lawless element
of this and other lands.
So far as he had the power anc
opportunity be strangled individ
ual initiative, discouraged private
enterprise, and approved policies
that tended to decreased quantity
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-03-05

Avoid the fellow who talks dis
trust as you would avoid the germ
of dangerous disease. His pur-
pose is to do you harm. He is an
outlaw in the game of honesty and
fairness. He breeds only trouble
and still more trouble.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1920-03-19
THE PRIMARY ELECTION

On Tuesday Of next week the
South Dakota State primary will
be held and each and every voter
should turn out to the polls and
cast his or her ballot for the cand-
idates that will represent their
parties at the election next Nov
ember.
In the republican primaries there
are four candidates for the pres
idential preference nomination,
and the names Of these four can
didates will be found upon the
ballot In the independent colum,
the first on the ballot will be
found the names of Miles Poin-
dexter of Oregon and Senator
Hiram Johnson of California,
While in the second or minority
proposal colum will be found the
name of Frank o. Lowden, the
only name appearing in this col
nmn. In the third column of the
ballot, the majority proposal col
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1920-03-19

umn, will be found the name of
Leonard Wood.
For the nomination of Party
State Chairman there are two
candidates. John Langstaf of
Pierre, independent candidate and
w. II. King of Mitchell the maj
ority candidate.
For National Committeeman
Philo Hall of Brookings Is the in
dependent candidate and Willis c.
Cook of Sioux Falls, the majority
proposal candidate.
For United States Senator Dick
Haney of Sioux Falls is the indep-
eDdent candidate and Governor
Peter Norbeck the majority prop
osal candidate.
For Governor X. o. Richards
appears as Independent candidate
and w. II. McMaster of Gayville
is the majority proposal candid
ate, and for Railroad Commiss-
ioner John l.. Burke of Rapid
City is the independent candidate
and Dawse +. Brisbine Of Dewey
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1920-03-19
WOOD, SPEAKER MAKES
INTERESTING TALK.

Representative Chester K. Davis
of Indiana, was in Kadoka Tues
day and that evening made talk
at the Scenic Theatre in the in
terests of the candidacy of Leon
ard Wood for President. The
theatre waswell filled and every
one present enjoyed the talk by
Mr.. Davis.
The speaker brought out his
points in a forceful manner and
that he took a deep personal in
terest in the success of the cand-
idate he was supporting was shown
by his earnest manner, and during
the entire evening not word
was uttered by him belittling or
casting reflections upon any OF
the opposing candidates, and by
his gentlemanly manner and dis
course he made friends of every
one attending the speaking.
Prior to the address by Mr.
Davis, the Kadoka Orchestra fur
aud isaee-
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1920-03-19
j. L. EDDY RESIGNS AS
TOWN Rustic.

At the meeting of the Boa
of Trustees on last Saturday eve
ning, Mr.. j. r. Eddy prcsentc
his resignation from that body rs
the Trustee from the third ward.
the resignation TO take effect i'm.
mediately upon its acceptance 10y
the Board The resignation was
accepted and Mr.. Niels p. Mel
sen was appointed to fill the vac
ancy until the city election next
month. Mr. Eddy was elected Il
member of the board last spring,
and since ! =. elect -" rs -. cl
rs itll'I 90, and durin, the ti,.lc
he has held the office he has been
faithful and conscientious in his
efforts for the best interests of
the town. He expects to leave
next week for Omaha where he
will consult a specialist in regard
to his eyes, from which he has
been suffering for some time
past, and from there will go to
Minneapolis, where he expects to
make his home, Nicls Nielsen is
well known to all of Kadoka
people and the Press does not
hesitate to say that he will make
an excellent member of the Board
of Trustees.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1920-03-19
JOINT DEBATE TO BE HELD
AT PHILIP

A short time ago Attorneys
Alvin Waggoner and o. X. Whit
ney of Philip issued a challenge
to X. A. Bielski of Philip and {.
n. Leedom of Kadoak, to meet
them in a joint debate on the
presidential candidates, the debate
to be held at Philip on some date
selected by Messrs. Bielski and
Leedom. The challenge of the
Philip gentlemen was quickly ac-
cepted by Mr.. Bielski and Mr. Lee
dom and they named next Monday
evening, the 22nd, as the date for
tho holding OF the debate
The challengers will take UP the
support of Colonial Lowden for the
presidential nomination. and the
gentlemen accepting the challenge
will support the candidacy OF
Leonard Wood for the Presidential
nomination, and quite a crowd
from Kadoka, knowing that the
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1920-03-19

county is the majority proposal
candidate.
For presidential electors Grace
y. Richards, X. w. Levitt, NJ. j.
DeWolf. Franklin ID. Jackson and
A J. Walterner are the independ
cnt candidates and Mrs. John l..
Pile. Elmer w. Anderson, Chas.
Boreson, J. b. GoH and A. O.
] RingSrud are the majority propo-
sal candidates.
For presidential electors, but one
set of candidates and one set of
alternates are named on the bal
lot The delegates are {. A. Kelley
Chas. A. Howard, ). X Way,
Helen s. Peabody, Allen K. Fellows.
John Sutherland, Chambers Kcl-
lar, c N Leedom, d. F. Myers and
c. h. Coyne The alternates are
Chas. A. Alseth, j. f. Sargent,
+. f. Guhn, A. G. Roberts, Fred
Litz, T c. Burns, r. Il. Stiles, O.
S Thompson, w. f. Bruell and
| William e.. Buell.
These are all the names that
will appear on the ballot in Jack
/ son County as the remainder of
! the officers have no opposition and
under the provisions Of the Pri-
mary law, they automatically be-
come the candidates of the party
The names Of no county candid
/ ates will appear on the ballot as
/ there is no contest for the nomi-
nation for any office and these
nominated at the proposalmen
meeting automatically becomes the
candidates Of the party under the
rrovisions Of the law
, The independent candidates
above referred to are the ones
nominated by petition, while the
majority proposal candidates are
those selected at the proposalmen
/ meeting at Pierre, attended by
! delegates from each Of the count
/ les of the state, these delegates
having been selected by the Cou-
nty proposalmen conventions, fol
/ lowing the precinct primaries TO
select delegates to the county
proposal meeting.
The Democratic Ticket.
The democratic party primary
! produces but little opposition,
the office Of party state Chairman
furnishing two candidates, J. r..
Bird being the minority candidate
for the office and John T. Heffron
running in opposition in the maj
ority proposalman ticket For
national committeeman John A.
Bowler is the minority and James
Nee the majority candidate for
this office For the presidential
nomination Woodrow Wilson was
indorsed by the majority meeting
Continued on last page.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1920-03-19
WATERWORKS CONTRACT LET
FOR INSTALLING SYSTEM
in kADOkA.

Saturday afternoon, n accord
ance with the advertised notice
the bids for the construction of a
waterworks system in Kadoka,
were opened as as were the bids
for the tower and tank, and con
tracts were let for each Of these
TO the lowest bidders.
For the furnishing of material
and installing the waterworks
system three bidders were present
and submitted bids for this work,
those bidding being Ellerman e.
McLain of Yankton, whose total
bid was S39,35400; f. M. Schehow,
whose total bid was S4S,32l 80;
Wodrich Construction Co., of Min
neapolis, Minnesota, whose total
bid was SAT, $500; Ellerman and
McLain Of Yankton being the low
est bidders were waarded the con-
tract for this work, on the proyis
ional circumstance Of the selling
OF the bonds prior to May |, 1920.
For the big sixty thousand gal
Ion tank and steel tower three bids
were presented to the Bo ira.
they being, the Omaha Struct-
ural Steel Works, of On1al.a, \ ~,
whose bid was Sll.45000; Des
Moines Bridge & Iron Co., Of
Des Moines, Iowa, whose bid was
$1l,375.00, and the Chicago Bridge
& Iron Works, Of Chicago, Illinois.
whose bid was $ll,l20.00, the latter
bid being the lowest a few changes
was made in the specifications and
the contract awarded to them for
2 sum Of $l0,66000, this contract
also being provisional on the sell
ling of the waterworks bonds
prior to the first of May The
two bids accepted by the Board
of Trustees brings the total con
tract for the system to the sum
Of S50,0i400.
E. X. Mathers of the Dakota
Engineering Company, of Mitchell
who has been employed as engin-
Ger by the city council, was pres
ent at the letting, and expressed
himself as well pleased at the
figures secured for the plant in
Kadoka, stating that the bids here
had run the lowest of at any of
the towns in which contracts had
been let duri ng the previous few
weeks.
Every effort will be put forth
by the Board of Trustees to place
the bonds voted upon the market
prior to the first of May, and q
number of buyers are now being
communicated with, and with the
placing of the bonds active con
struction work on the installing
of the system of waterworks in
Kadoka will be commenced by
the first day of June, and will be
fully completed in a period OF
not more than four months time
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1920-03-19

/ Ior Safe team or work
horses and harness. Cash or terms.
1 39-tr G. +. DaNccrt, Kadoka.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-01-16

$2O8.35; Probation Officer R. C. Tuck
er, salary, $50; Mode Coffman, Supt.
Infirmary, $40; l. N. Threlkeld, As
sistant Prosecuting Attorney, salary,
$40; VIM. Marcum, relief, SIS; j. H..
Tetley, support of poor persons at
Pennington, $24; Mrs. Theo. Gottlob,
support Of poor persons at Flat Riv-
er, $25; Mrs. Geo. Houser, support of
poor persons at Desloge, $40; James
Lunsford, support, SIS; Mrs. Mary
Rock, support, $40; Carr & Thomp-
son, support of Mrs. Campbell, $40;
w. N. Fleming, support of Mrs. GRAY
elm, $40; Mrs. James Langley, sup
port, $40; j. B. Compton, support, $6;
Mrs. Emma Boswell, support of Mrs.
Ingalls,, $5; Hugh Stephens Printing
Co., printed material, 1884; Lang &
Bro. Mfg. Co., supplies for Infrmary,
$16.75; Bonnie Terre Star, supplies
for Collector Brewer, $3.50; Desloge
Sun, supplies for County officers,
$31. so; Mode Coffman, hay for In
firmary, $107.8O; Pennington Under
taking Co., burial of Mrs. Bean, $25;
Pelty's Book Store, supplies for coun-
| ty o11lcefS, Sl.4U; CnaS. Slzenoore
support, $40; T. H. Holman, salary
and expense as Highway Engineer
S12005; A. ]. Hawn, supplies for In
firmary, $3.50; Assessor f. M. Hor-
ton, stamps, 81; Drs. Braning & Rob.
inson, examination of Elmer Clemons
So; ]. H. Jones, Treasurer State Hos.
pital No. 4, 6 months support of Ell
mer Clemons, $108; Geo c. Forster
insurance on Infirmary, $199.10i
Pennington Undertaking Co., buria
of Belle Matkin, $25; Missouri State
Sanatorium, support of patient at Mt
Vernon, $13420; Sheriff Adams, care
court house and Jail, $15.60; E. j. Nc
Kinney, supplies for Intirmary, $29.
20; J. w. Beall, supplies for Circuit
Clerk, $40; c. H. Adams, board q
prisoners, $31.50; Circuit Clerk Heif
ner, box rent, telephone, etc, $1.35
Missouri Prison Board, support o.
girls at Industrial Home, $473.50
Pennington Laundry, work for laun
dry, $12.34; Farmington Times, pub
fishing notice and supplies, S64.45.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-01-16
Pronounced
Not Insane

A hearing that attracted considera-
BILE attention was threshed out before
a called meeting of the County Court
Tuesday afternoon. The hearing"
was the result of an application from
Mrs. "Bill" Anderson to have her hus-
band sent to an asylum, alleging he
was "insane and too dangerous to be
permitted his freedom" Everyone in
Pennington knows "Bill" Anderson as
sober, Industrious, hard working
man, whose principal fault appears
to be his difficulty to support con-
siderable family of his own, as well as
several of his wife's relations.
When the officer found him to
serve the papers, "BiIl" was at work,
as usual, hauling coal, which task he
relinquished at once and accompanied
the officer into the court room. Mrs.
Anderson later made her appearance.
She also appeared to he a hard work.
er. 1t soon developed that the pro-
ceedings were perhaps the result of a
family quarrel, Of which the evidence
indicated they have had many. 1t also
appeared, from the evidence produced,
that the high cost of living is primar-
| lily responsible for their disagree
merits. This has evidently caused
each of them to feel that the other is
the cause of their particularly heavy
burdens.
Drs. Graves and Weber were pres
ent at the hearing, and they refused
to pronounce the defendant guilty as
charged" The sentiment of those
present was that both were perhaps in
measure to blame for the lamenta.
BILE lack of felicity in that home, large.
ly due to long continued lack of man.
agement. The impression was thai
"Bill", with his habits of unending in.
dustry, produced enough to keep his
family in at least moderately goot
circumstances, with the exercise of ev
en- moderate amount of management
of the household Presiding Judge
Mitchell announced that their trouble
was of character with which th'
County Court had nothing to do, ant
dismissed the two belligerants, wht
left together, still quarreling with eacl
other. 1t is to be hoped that they will
both come to their senses, and worl
together, instead of in opposite direc
tions, which will in large measure dis
sipate their troubles and differences.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-01-16

Jasper county is carrying on its
campaign during the present week on
the same basis as that of Nodaway
county. There are more than dozen
counties already on the waiting list
to cooperate with the State Associa-
tion in putting on their membership
campaigns.
st. Francois County to Send Delega-
ton to Farmers Week at Columbia.
From present plans, approximately
ten people will attend Farmers Week
at Columbia, this year from st. Fran
co.'s county. This Is many times more
than have ever attended during past
years. One of the main attractions
Of Farmers Week is to be the Annual
Meeting of the State Farm Bureau
Association and the election of Off
GERS and planning of the biggest year
in Farm Bureau work that Missouri
has ever experienced. We are glad to
note that Mrs. Vera Busick- -Schuttler
one of our own loyal Farm Bureau
workers, will be on the program of the
Missouri Farm Bureau Association on
Wednesday of Farmers Week.
Other numbers on the program will
be given by Chester H. Gray, of Ne,
vada, Mo-, president of the M. F. B
A.; Cowgirl Blair, Oronoga, Mo-, sec.
retary of the Jasper County Farm Bu'
reau; w. X. Jones, st. Joseph, Mo.
member Of the Executive Committee
of the M. F. B. A.; D. o. Thompson
Chicago, secretary of the Illinois Ag
yicuI+ural Association. 6 t. Striyinps
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-01-16
Favors Weekly
Wage Bonuses

o. C. Harm, advertising manager of
the National Lead Co., of New York,
in a recent speech to the Advertising
Club at luncheon at the Statler ho-
tel in St. Louis, urged his hearers to
have a definite purpose in mind, and
to stick TO that purpose. He also ad-
vocated weekly wage bonuses for
workers and employees, as of greater
value and benefit to the recipient thah
annual bonuses.
The st. Louis Smelling & Refining
Co., of the st. Francois county lead
belt, is an auxiliary to the National
Lead Co., so that what Mr.. Harm ad-
vocates may be taken to apply tc
their holdings in this field. The Times
joins the thousands of workers
throughout the lead belt in hearty
best wishes for the more liberal man.
agement of those great mining prop
critics and congratulations that is just
now becoming apparent.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-01-16
Greatly Pleased
With Hospital No. 4

Lee Williams, a prominent business
man of Dexter, Stoddard county,
stopped off in Pennington the first Of
the week to visit his sister-in-law, who
is an inmate of Hospital No. a. After
his visit to that institution, Mr.. Will
liams called at The Times office to
have his name added to our subscrip-
ton list, as it is his desire to keep in
touch with this community, and es-
pecially with the progress of Hospital
No. A, with the unexampled manage
ment of which he was simply amazed.
He, like all others who visit there,
thinks it must be the best managed
institution of it's kind in the State.
He left for home thoroughly i'm
bued with the idea that it would be
impossible to give to such institutions
too much assistance, in view of the APP
parent happiness and contentment so
noticeable in the faces of the hundreds
of satisfied inmates in Hospital No. a.
But he also spoke of the crowded con-
dition of practically all of the cot
tages, which he thought should not be
permitted to exist-that new buildings
are needed there. He said he was 60
/ ing home with the determination to
be a booster for such institutions,
such as hepever had been in the past,
and if necessary he would be willing
to work extra hours in order to pay
| increased taxes for the support of
such institutions, which are doing such
a, humanitarian work for the uplift Of
the human race.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-01-16
WomanS Speaker On
Issues of the Day.

Mrs. W. w. Martin, of Cape Girar.
deau, will lecture on the ISSUES Of
the Day" in the court room on Friday
evening, Jan. 23rd.
This will be the first time Farming
ton has had the pleasure of hearing a
talk from woman's point Of view.
Mrs. Martin is well known to most
of our Pennington people. She is not
only lecturer but also writer OF
no small ability. A number of inter
esting stories in the Ladies' Home
Journal and other magazines have
been written by her. She is State
Chairman of the Press Department OF
the Federation Of Wonaan's Clubs, and
also Democratic Chairman of the Dis
trict in which she lives.
Everyone isfcordially invited TO
hear this interesting speaker.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-01-16
Hot Lunches in
School Welcome

For the first time in the history OF
the Pennington Public Schools, hot
lunches are being served to the pu--
pills of the High School building and
the Washington school.
This very excellent work is being
carried on by the ladies of the Parent
Teacher Association under the super
vision of the president, Mrs. o. w.
Bleeck. Mrs. Bleeck, assisted by Mes
DANES G. B. Snider, o. ]. Mayberry,
G. N. Baker, w. L. Johns and Miss
Mayme Guessing, prepared and served
the lunches, consisting Of hot soup and
sandwiches, at the beginning OF the
week. They will be relieved by other
helpers later in the week and when the
work gets we'll under way it will be
put in charge of some competent wo-
man employed for that purpose.
Soup is being served for five cents
per bowl and sandwiches for three
cents each. These remarkably low
prices will be continued so long as ex-
penses are amply met. The pupils
are delighted with the service and the
only trouble experienced is to supply
the demands of the pupils. The la
dies in charge of the work are very
favorably impressed with the demean-
or of the pupils and their enthusiasm
in the lunch room. About one hun
dred pupils were provided with a full
lunch, or in part, the first day and the
number to serve is increasing as its
popularity grows.
This is an excellent service for the
school, and doubtless more beneficial
to the pupils than most people realize.
1t is no small undertaking to be all
voluntary work and financed by the
Parent Teacher Association, and those
in charge deserve the support and
commendation of the public.