The Kadoka press. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1923-current, 1924-03-28
LEEDOM GETS I
BIG RECEPTION
ROUSING HOMECOMING STAGED
FOR FORMER TOWNSMAN AND
EDITOR SATURDAY NIGHT.

of local citizens, governor McMast-
er'S headquarters were prevailed
upon to send our former towns
man and Press editor {. N. Iced
ON. who has been the governors
right hand man for the last three
years as state highway commiss-
iOner. here for political McMast-
er rallv and a sort of a homecom-
ing for the former local man.
The governor Welded. LeedOms
speaking tour was rearranged and
a part Of it cancelled to give him
a chance to meet the home folks,
his former friends and neighborS
from the platform.
The hall was jammed with all
that could get inside. republicans,
democrats, farm-laborites and
what ever other shade of political
opinion NAV exist in the minds of
the free voters of this section.
They came from Cottonwood, In
terror, the reservation and large
delegation was here from Belvi-
dere. just to hear Leedom.
A rousing applause greeted him
the moment he entered, and he
felt at home right then and there.
Attorney Harold P. Gilchrist
aptly introduced him as the local
man who had put Kadoka on the
map as we'll as himself and who
was still a resident here even
though his family was held in
Spearish for the school year.
The highway commissioner strip
ped for action in behalf of his
chief the minute he arose Compar-
ing the banking conditions of adj
Joining states with those of South
Dakota. he proved that they were
as bad if not worse off than our
state and that hvsteria and not
the governor had done the damage
He defended his chief against
the charge of having employees a.
the proposal meeting and showed
where Sterling forces had done tho
very same thing.
On the oil question Mr.. Leedom
was nuite jubilant and showed how
the fight so nobly started by thc
governor was won through re-
cent decision of the attornevs
general of ten middle west states
How the state was taken all pre-
cautions against the octopus rails
ing it's head too high. by buying
twenty-five supply tanks for the
different parts of the state.
The speaker wildly and interest
ingly told the inside story Of the
governors oil fight as he had
witnessed it first hand. He showed
the artificially concocted conditions
which made the Standard Oil spill
their money lavishly in newspaper
ads to fight his friend the govern
or and to raise the price to the
consumer.
Then as he mopped his moist
brow from beads Of perspiration
he struck sympathetic cord with
our farmer friends by showing the
injustice Of the present tariff which
allows eastern manufacturers to
absorb from so to 1900 ner cent
profit and the farmer rot enough
to pay his taxes and int rest. He as
sured his friends that Mem ster
would work to remedy this sad and
unfair state of affairs if given thC
chance.
The following shows the taxes
for the various purposes for which
taxes are raised within the village
of Kadoka, also the part that goes
for each purpose out OF SlOO IN
taxes.
Valuation $311,266
State General Fund, levy 9 mills
tax $28O.14, port on for this fund
out of 500, S1.70.
State Mo. River Bridges, levy in
mills 4, tax S31.13, portion for this
fund out of 500, 10.
State Interest & Sinking. levy in
mills 9, tax S28O.14, portion for
this fund out Of 500. $l.7O.
County. levy in mills 1856. tax
$2,29O.92, portion for this fund
out of 500, $13.89.
City, levy in mills, N.26, tax
S6,3O6.25, portion for each fund out
of 800, $38.23.
School, levy in mills 23.47, tax
S7,3O5.41, portion for this fund out
of 800, $44. 90. oo
Total levy in mills 80 52.99
EdCn plVO toASo uiotiiD"@~N "s
follows: oo-o
Total State tax -------- 3.5s
Total County tax -----: $96.4l
Regarding the unfair criticisms
offered by their opponents Leedom
expressed his regrets that such had
to be injected into the campaign
by the opposition. He expressed
his respect and high regard for the
adversaries and refused to besmil
their good name, but only ask hi.
audience to be fair and impartia
judges. He then took up charge
after charge of mismanagemen'
made against the governor and BY
facts and figures taken from th'
state house records waited then
into the mythical world of pure
fiction and misrepresentation. Con
structively he then showed wher'
McMaster had saved and what n
had done for the state.
Upon entering the prohibition
question the speaker made NJ
apologies, not even for himself ant
in his own peculiar magnetic wa,
touched the hearts of his hcarer