The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-10-26
GOV. GIVES lie TO
CRILL'S CHARGES
Uses Affidavit To Prove That Cribs
Statements Concerning Rural
Credits Are False

Evidently wearying of his oppon-
! ent's campaign Of general statements
unsupported by detailed facts, tax re-
ceipts or other detailed records, Gov
ernor McMaster before a crowd that
filled Bohemian hall to the doors and
Overfowed into the entryway, threw
the short and ugly word at Louis N.
Grill at Wagner, last week.
The governor used an affidavit from
the executive accountant of the state
of South Dakota to make his statement
nor effective.
The incident came when the COVER
For was replying to Cribs oft repeat
ed charge that rural credits moneys
had been given to only twenty-four
banks in the state. The statement
was made and the affidavit used as the
most effective reply the governor felt
he could make to the attempts to
discredit the policy that had been the
keynote of the administrations hand
ling of the financial crisis for the
farmers of South Dakota in the last
two years.
The governor attacked as he has
never before attacked in the campaign
and as he seldom did in the primary
campaign, except during some Of the
hectic days Of that campaign. His
voice fairly rang as he stepped to the
front of the platform, pointed his fin
ger at the audience, held up the aft
davit and cried out, "Here is the aft
davit that throws the lie back into
the face of Grill when he says that
rural credits funds were placed I'm
only t~wenty-four Of the big banks of
this state"
He then read the affidavit which
swore that there were rural credits
funds In the following number of
banks on the following dates: On
January 81, 1921, there were funds in
229 banks: OH July 81, 1921, funds in
257 banks; on January 1, 1922, funds
in 262 banks; and on July 81, 1922,
funds in 260 banks.
McMaster did not stop there. He
had handled Grill without gloves dur
ing the afternoon meeting at Green
wood agency, and last night he tossed
the Democratic candidates the follow
ing challenge:
There are three weeks of the cam
paign left" said the governor in re-
marking that whenever they talk
against the rural credits system they
always go far from the scene of where
they are talking. There are three
weeks left. Isn't it about time that
Grill went down to your county seat
town and got the lists OF farmers who
have rural credits loans and OF these
who have been delinquent = their
interest payments and publish these
lists? isn't it about time he told you
right here III Charles Mix county who
these farmers are who have not paid
their back interest and about this bad
land in Charles Mix county who these
farmers are who have not paid their
back interest and about this bad land
in Charles Mix county that is not good
security for these loans?
He again challenged Grill to talk
from a tax receipt and at Greenwood
agency in tha afternoon he again Used
Crill's own tax receipt. Grill tells
you," he said there, that thirty-three
and a third per cent of your taxes go
to the state. l thought for a time that
possibly Mr.. Cribs tax receipt might
be different from the other tax re-
ceipts in the state so when l went
into Union county last week | got
Mr.. Cribs tax receipts and 1t shows
that he paid on one piece of land In
1921 a total of $103.36 in taxes and
that of that amount just $13.46 went
for state purposes, and S13.46 is a
long ways from thirty-three and a
third per cen of $l03. So, is it not9"
At Greenwood In urging that Grill
talk from a list Of rural credits loans
in the counties in which he is cam
paigning, the governor mentioned the
rural credits loan in Walworth county
which had been commented on by
Grill.
I'VE did just what you would have
DONE" he said. "in a similar land deal.
We sent that money to the bank with
instructions to pay 1t over when the
legal requirements had been fulfilled.
The bank did not follow instructions.
It defaulted with that money and we
are now suing to get the money back
and We will get II back