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I *-V» DEMOCRATS! VOTE FOR ED 8. JOHNSON, Progressive Candidate FOR GOVERNOR On the Democratic Ticket Primary June 4, 1912 PLATFORM An (intendment providing for flint and second choice presidentinl preference primary. Klectlon of I'nited States wna tors by direct vote to the end that i he people and not the corporations may rule. In general, an economical and strictly buHiiu-sK dmintatration of •itiiie affairs, conducted for the best interests of ail tlie tax payers of the stHis. without extravagance or graft. «*#.-.»e .«.**»• fc-wWW-f 'JlStjafcl left me with ft fri'.Thti'ul c-uph u 11 very weak. 1 h:uispells when ]could hardly breatiie or e eak for 10 to L'O niinuti'i My doctor could not help me, but I wiis compleU Iv ourtMl ly DR. *'??iC'S New Discovery Mra. J. !•:. \\, .Juliet, 111. 60c /.NO *!.01 AT ALL DRUGGISTS. WANTED— Breaking, witli gasoline outfit. Prices reasonalfe and satisfaction guarantee^. Call on or write A. J. Olson, Ash creek, 8. D. 2 months pd See Your Engine Before You Buy WOULD you buy a hoist without seeing it? Of course not. Then why take a chance on a machine that you may know less about than you do about a horse The safe way is to go to your local dealer, ft man you know and can hold responsible, and buy from him an engine you can depend upon. y V*, «.$ WJ Gasoline Engines •re built on honor, from select ed materials, and are all thor oughly tested before shipment. You can rest assured that an I engine of a si^e suitable lor your work, will give full satisfaction for so long a time that you will come to consider it the greatest bargain you ever made. IH engines are made III every style and for every purpose. Sizes nm from 1 to 50-horse power. Kerosene gasoline tractors, 13 to 45-horse power. bmitarCoapuyifAmrtei IMC ureau G. E. Sperbeck's Candidacy The office of County Suuerintei dent of Schools is of vital concern to every resident of Stanley coun ty. It touches not only the voter and taxpayer, but every school patron and every child. This official more than an.v other helps to determine the welfare and pro gress of our county. Professor G. E. Sperbeck offers himself as a candidate for this most worthy and important posi tion. The voter has a right to know, and it is his duty to learn of the fitness of every candidate for this office. What has been Mr. Sperbeck's career as a school man? What was his school preparation for that career? What were his natural endowments previous to and connected with that training? Have these three factors worked together to produce a well round ed man of sufficient caliber to lead and direct the educational forces of the county For those who are acquainted with what this man has done, is doing, and desires to do, the answer will be emphatical ly yes. For fourteen years, Mr. Sper beck attended school almost con tinuously first in the district school, then in the graded school, and after that for a term of four years at a Wisconsin State Nor mal school. While in the district schools he was noted for his close thinking and independent action. More noticable were these traits in the higher grades, and very marked were they during the lat ter part of his college course. These qualities made him a leader in school. That he was a leader is proven by the fact of his serving as president of the senior class of one hundred members during his last year at the normal. Mr. Sperbeck entered the Osh kosh Normal in 1903, and gradu ated in 1909. During two years of this time he was engaged in teaching, one year in a country school of forty pupils, and the other year in the grades. All his work in the Normal was of a high grade, and he was graduated with honors. Near the time of his graduation I went to the Normal at Oshkosh to secure a young man as a high school teacher for the Fort Pierre school. Mr. Sper beck was pointed out as the one man they had who was certain to (ill the bill. lie was elected, came to Fort Pierre, is still in our high school, and be has more than tilled the bill. We have in Mr. Sperbeck a product such as only natural abil ity, careful training, and varied experience can give. He is the leer of any iu our county, and as a school man in particular, we can lay no claim to a superior. He has a record of things accom plished, but his best work lies be fore him. Stanley County may deem itself fortunate should it secure his services fur the im mediate future. 1 have tried to give What I fee) to be an unbiased account of one concerning whose work 1 have been perfectly familiar. J. E. Beckler, $upt. of City Schools. Fort Pierre, S. It Looks Like A Grime to separate a boy from a box of liucklen's Arnica Salve. His pimples, boiles, scratches, knocks, sprains and bruises demand it, and it's quick relief for burns, scalds, or cuts is it's right. Keep it happy for boys, also girls. Heals every thing healable and does it quick. Unequaled for piles. Only 25 cents at all druggists. M. E. Church Services Sundays Class Meeting Preaching ^1 Sunday School Junior League Epworth Leagee Preaching Serriee 10:00 a. m. 10:30 a. m. 11:45 a. m. $:00 p. m. ftqwr mmling Tharsday 7*0 Everybody weieome and i.«. MISS CHUF COWARD Y'S CE By KATE CLEVES Melinda Chuffy fastened the last window and locked the door leading to the side porch. Then she took her lamp and tiptoed softly upstairs very much as if she were afraid of awak ing somebody—all of which was quite unnecessary as she was all aloae in the big house. She scurried down the dark hall, her lamp flaring wildly in a draught from some unexpected quarter and she darted into the big north oham ber which she occupied In summer and slammed the door and locked it. She placed the lamp on the tall chest of drawers and It cast a small oasis of light in the big room. Me linda looked under the white-draped bed and arose relieved at the spick and span vacancy beneath the hand some mahogany structure she peep ed fearfully In the clothes press and screamed a little because a black shadowy something leaped out of the darkness and brushed her cheek —then It drifted back against the wall and proved to be nothing more than her best black china silk gown which had been drawn forward by the draught from the opening door. All her fears being quelled for the moment, Melinda Chuffy proceeded to go to bed although the olock on the mantel piece pointed only to half past eight. That was the way Me linda had done ever since her moth er's death a year ago. She had al ways been a timid little thing and in spite of her better sense and the re proofs and admonitions of her par ents and friends, Melinda went right on being as timid as a Utile White rabbit. If she walked In the woods every crackling twig, every flurry of dead leaves, every rush of bird wings sent terror to her heart. She was afraid of cows and horses and mice and snakes and she like parrots and cats and flowers and everybody said Me linda Chuffy was cut out for an old maid and Melinda really believed them and became more timid and shrinking than ever. One or two intrepid youths had ven tured to call upon Melinda prelimin ary to more serious attentions for Me linda was sweet and pretty, but their visits had not exceeded a half dosen before they decided that Melinda Chuffy was elher "struck-up" or too shy even to be amusing, so they stayed away and Melinda was much relieved and went back to her cats and her canaries and her flowers, quite contented to be an old maid. So the years had passed peacefully on until Melinda was now thirty-flve. Ernest Bruce did not eount in the list of suitors he had merely been Mellnda's playmate and next-door neighbor. It was Ernest who shield ed her from gigantic cows and helter skelter horses and wrigging snakes and creeping mice Ernest never laughed at her fears and when they went through the wood, and he was beside her, be would hold her hand In his and reassure her terrified lit tle mind until at the end of the wood she could look back and bid a quav ering deflanoe to all the bogles she had left behind. The Braces hsd moved out to Ohio while Melinda was small and so she had never seen her old playmate since but she always thought of hla with grateful tendencies. She opened her windows wide, feel lag secure In the knowledge that her shutters were (Irmly nailed to the sills, and she looked with confidence upon the newly-Installed telephone that was beside her bed. That was Mellnda's concession to llriag alone. With that instrument aft hand she could call for asssistance at any hour of the day or night So far, she had had no occasion to use the telephone except to speak to some friend or to transact her mar keting on a rainy day, and now she was startled to hear the sharp, Incis ive summons of the bell at her elbow. Melinda paused In the act of blow ing out the candle and looked at the telephone as If It was some Inani mate thing suddenly oome to Ilia. "For goodness sake-" she breathed hopelessly. Again and again the bell Jangled before Melinda went softly over to the Instrument and responded. "Hello!" she said In a weak voice. "Is this Miss Chuffy—Bliss Melinda Chuffy?" asked a woman's Impatient voice. "Yes—what do yon wantr Melin da was reassured. "I am Mrs. Peterson of Woodstde there has been an automobile acci dent in front of my house and one of the injured men has mentioned that he was on the way to your house. The doctor says his lnjurlee may prove fatal and It would be Just as well for you to oome at onoo Immediately If you want to see him alive." Melinda was gasping- "Bat I |«1 know any men man." As jrnlssisl MI certainly don't know a man who owns an automobile. Yoa*v» If yon :00 p. on. you moat know a at Brneot Bruoe— the way to year Pre est tiaae to era) tajaved KM* Mr. Bnas I ^jv^iOOp m. Midweek Service ur the receive and Melinda Chuffy, for the first Urn* in her peaceful life was forced to face a real situation. "Ernest Bruce!" she repeated help lessly. "I suppose be has grown to be a man—1 always think of him ss a little boy—but he was older than I— why was he coming here and what shall I do? At this time of night, too—yet he is dying and there le no one to go to him—not one of his folks is here and there is no one to call up on to drive me over ihere because they would talk all the rest of their lives about it!" As Melinda talked half hysterically to herself she was dressing rspldly, finally slipping into the ooolness of her black china silk gown. "If I am dressed In black no one oan see me for the woods are dark." she shud dered. "I must take my pink shawl —black would look awful to a dying man—It's so queer I can't think of Ernost as anything except a little boy!" Quite forgetting to arange her love ly fair hair which hung in two long braids over her shoulders, Just as she had fixed it for the night, Melinda Chuffy, timid as a rabbit, fearful of her own shadow, hurried downstairs, locked the side door behind her and plunged into the velvet blackness of the night. Woodslde was a dairy farm and it was situated at the other end of the long strip of woodland which had been Mellnda's dread in childhood. The woods bordered her orchard on one side and through the wood was a wide, well-made road much used as a short cut by automobiles in the daytime, but at night It was not light ed and had lost none of its terrors for Melinda Chuffy. Nevertheless, she made directly for the road, almost feeling her way until her feet were set on Its hard smoothness. Then, driven by terror mingled with pity for her old playmate. Melinda fairly raced along the road, her eyes fixed on the black darkness before her. As she ran Melinda Chuffy repeat ed over and over to herself a few words: "He never laughed at me when 1 was afraid-he always held my hand in thess woods—I mustn't forget." An owl hooted and a whip-poor-will uttered his cry close beside her in sects of the night added their chorus. Twigs crackled, leaves flurried, and the wings of night-flying birds almost touched her as they passed. Bats flapped around her unprotected head and Melinda alternately prayed for protection and repeated over and again her broken words about Ernest Bruce and his loyalty. At last she stumbled up the steps of the farmhouse and sank a crump led little heap of black silk, pink shawl and flaxen braids against ths door. There the Petersons found her and carried her inside, adding anoth er to the number of their patients. lng As they carried her unconscious form into the sitting-room a tall, broad-shouldered man with one arm in a sling, arose from the deep chair where he had been sitting. "Another one?" he exclaimed, and then coming forward and looking at Melinda s sweet pale face Intently be stared up at the Petersons. "That must be Melinda Chuffy!" he cried, .»,« .v w. ~v~ s e a k e s o n e a u i o n o k y e taking their slender burden and lay- It tenderly on a couch. "How came she here?" Mrs. *«terson, a stout falr-halred woman/ driven out of her few wits by th* unfortunate accident of ths vsnJfg that had made ber unevent- i ful '.tome a hospital, looked stupidly at him and shook hsr head. "Miss Chuffy—why I gusss 1 tele phoned ber to corns to you at once— I said you wsrs on your way to see hsr and dying and shs must corns without dslay. «ee, I made a mistake and got you mfie\P ftttl that othor gentleman who Is so badly Injured—your names were all strange to mo aad I did the host I could." "Of course you did. Mrs. Peterson and we are all more than grateful," assured Ernest Bruce as he leaned over Melinda Chuffy whoss whits eye lids were flickering. "Do you sup pose this llttls woman came all alone through those dark woods to see me?" hs asked in an awed tone, but there was no one to answer for the Peter sons had departed for restoratives. "Poor soared little Melinda," breath ed Ernest Bruos, kneeling besids his one-time playmate. "I wonder If you know that yon are a true sport after all?" Melinda opened her eyes and looked dreamily on the face so near her own, so like the face of the little boy she used to know. "I got here In time, Ernie," sho smiled tremblingly, contentedly let ting her hand rest in hie firm grasp. 1 cams all the way here from Ohio to ask you to marry ma Melinda," ho whispered, caressing one of her fair braids. "Somshow I couldn't fancy any girl but you after all these years aad I was afraid to And that you were married after all." Melinda Mushed and strange to say she felt none of the shrinking that sho hsd experienced with those other suitors. "I nsver—wanted—to marry anybody—before—" sho whispered shyly^ 1 guess 1 was waiting tar yonl* i Her are yon so sorry yoa him? Jsesls Ho aetad wit* ouch utter la difference, instead of throwfetg a At threatening soieffe Hang Words to I Hondlsanc was not alwayi as yo« see QUIT THE BOSSES Inside Report Of the Mitchell Meeting—Pettigrew Ex posed As Party Enemy. CLARION CALL SENT OUT Aim Of Special of Johnson Democrats Is To Free Party From Bosses Kxplained By One Of Them. SI'UIX Correspondence to Th City Tribune. The dispatches to the outside papers covering the meeting of the democratic Mate committee held at Mitchell n the pecond day of May did n«.t tell the In side story of thf: situation In the ranks that party. The meeting resulted In the complete pnd final separation of the young, pn grepslvt democrats of the st te from the old leadership under Pettigrew, Wlekhem. Bowler arid Lie. Heretofore, jnnd for year* Pettigrew bus been ser\ed bv the young democracy, head ed by Ed Johnson, and others, who tiave responded to ills every call with a fortitude and loyalty seMonr equalled, hut these yu'ing ^latins aTtUude democrats i have determined to mobilize their forces Into new and greater deinoc- 1 racy which shall mean something bet I ter than subserviency to u few out-of- i date leaders who have marstred find still desire to manage party affxlrs for their personal ends. Lee was the Idol cf this young element In former years Vccirse *hoy believed him rlncere. but I within the last three months he has been first for Bryan, then for Wilson and now, us a result of a midnight i trade with Pettigrew. has become a Clark candidate for delegate. His appears to have lost him the confidence and respect of tho*e who were his former friends and supporters and h1n late humiliating surrender to the dictation of Pettigrew, brought about through his unaccount able conversion to the Wlckheni-Bow ler faction and agitated by his ambi tion to become United States senator if Pettigrew Is chosen a member of the Clark cabinet, has plaoed him firmly In the ranks of his former foe* Pettigrew Called the Meeting. The committee v an called top ther on the peremptory order of Pettigrew who paid for the 11th hour telegrums suit out by Chairman Lyons Pettigrew had neglected to make arrangements lo get a set of straight Clark delegates fllud. presuming that he could command either block of delegates pievlou6ly se lected when he was ready. He de manded that a preferential primary of the democrats be called to settle the is sue between Wilson and Clark. This, however, was a makeshift to save Lee the humiliation of flopping, for It is well Itr.own that before the committee meeting was called Pettigrew had ths pledge of Lee to flop to CHirk If the committee failed or refused to fur iiiSw Hie luriaor governor' a means of scape from the fatal mistake of de claring for Wilson before he had heard from the boss. On the floor during the committee meeting Pettigrew placed himself and the power of the lleitrst political ma chine with its money, literature and daring twice that he would support 1 lh# who wuld renounce Wll- son for 'lark. It is doubtful If a more brssen piece of political merchamdls lna was ever before witnessed. It was not done with the expectation that the Wilson men would ^ome to him, for Pettirrew himself was responsible for the Inception of the Wilson movement In South Dakota. He wrots letters to many of hie old eupporers, after his visit to Wilson last November extoll ing the virtues r,{ the New Jersey gor- •rnop, and expressing gratification that Ills old friends in South Dakota had taken up Wilson's causa. Later he suffered a change of heart at the call of Hearst. His discovery of Wilson's alleged unfitness was an after thought for It does little credit to his intelli gence to say that he was not familiar with Wilson's writings and speeches until after he had announced his In tention to support Wilson. No sooner I had hf. taken his Job with the Hearst machine than he began a campaign In South Dakota for an unlnstructed dele gstlon to Baltimore. At the Pierre conference his strikers worked consist, ently to that end. The motive for this inev be explained bv the fact that Pettigrew for the last eight years has been Hc.irst's walking delegate. An un ln.«tructcd delegation from Bouth Da kota mlxht therefore mean Clark if H-nxet desired It. or Hearst himself if tout were wanted, but It would be at all times s trading delegation to be med for Pettigrew and tne Hearst ma chine. The present situation shows that it FORT PIERR^ I* **ettigTew*s Intention to elect a dele! gation which he oaa uee. A complete revelation of his wholly selfish attitude could have only one result: the In stant separation from him of all those who hive been his supporter*, and the' accession to Ms standard of the Wick hem crowd of traders who have been his constant •nemles for the last 12 years. The lineup now appears to be clean-cut and definite. Pettigrew, Bow. ler. Wlekhem, Klrby and Lee on one plde: Johnson and his friends on the other On one s1d» all the old reaction ary lenders on the other the young, progressive democrats of the state who will make a stand for the Integrity of their party and strive to divorce It from fie Influence of the boeees The of them who snid after the meeting We weloome the conteet For rear* We have been hauling wood and water for Pcttlcrew. He han always asked, and ai«kei) always for hlniwelf Wi gave. We fouirht the old *anis and whipped them for him Now thai he can no lonser use us he goes with them. We now ruLV« all the old worn-out statesmen and ex-stataamen in a bunch and we Khali proceed to whip them collectlvnly and In detail aad have done with thr buflnece forever. The Real Issue. We will not haul down the Wilton flag at the behest an alien boss, but the Is sue Is not so much whether South Dakota will vote for Wilson or Clark or any oth er man who hus had Bryan's approval. It Is whether the democracy of Houth Da kota sihall mibmlt to tlie dictation of Pst tlgfew, who Ins been .-eat here to crab 10 vote* to he used as {.awns at Haltlroore for himself and the Infamous Hearst ma ohitie. On that Issue we shall app«al te the democratic voters of the state and try the oa±.e. We are determined to have a d» legation that can be rel eii upon to serve the Hryun democracy of South Dakota la every crUls during the deliberations ef the convention. The noin nation of Pettlijrrw for United State"! senator by thf conference held at P^eiit* in January the result of a frame-up by :he old n*ng with Andy L«e as tl? tool for Its accomplishment, and Howler as !i' second. At this time, ee heretofore, Loe received the glad hand and when he took the floor to make the motion to request Pettigrew to file his pe tition he was well received because Ks nurpu-e was not then known On the spur of the moment, without previous dlsous ti'on or consideration, the motion was un wittingly ah ed to slide through. If It had !een discussed. It could never have pas.-ed. because for years '.here has been a s lent, but constantly (frjwlnj hoatlUty to Pettigrew among the young element 0t the party. If he nad then been known as opposed to Wilson this fact would have been enough to arouse open hostility be him at that tirr" so overwheln ilng wee the Wilson sentiment. TPs well known close relations to Jim Hill, hla 11 msill refusal ta snpport any program not his own, or candidate not subservient to hlea, his connection with the scandalous North ('anillna Bond deal which has nev« satisfactorily explained, and hie cent service to the Taft administration ta finally selecting James D. Elliott fer I'nlted States 1udge. have caused of his former supporters to hv'inability for Vnited States maesr w h6 When his petitions were circulated aeSLfl|r every place in the state showed Stsaffso tlon toward him among democrats. In Mitchell alone. ?0 representative pregveee c« democrats refuard to sign. In meet places democrats feigned with heettattasi or reluctance. The fact that hs opanty declares he will not put up a fight anises Taft nominated ajid Gamble ta Ma op ponent in South Dakota, has caused demo crats who sacrifice their time and meney for purty success to grow sick at the spectacle of his monumental eelflshnees. The success of his professed princtples ts •xnd has alwavs secondary to lus per °onal aims, and his activity his unlfora ilv depended upon rewards to his poofeet, his pride or vengeance upon his e^ppo 'lents A career so singularly selfish oould have but end, and that end Is now In sight. If he can succeed in brow- sari as or fooling the domooats of South Dalsela Into endorsing his delegation ts Baltimore Ms last flght will have hee-i mn i ssefaDi made. He will have no further uso fee tai democrnt'c organisation of the state and will fall to the lot of those who weqld make the partv a vital fighting rcond government to rejair ths which will reault fram allowing him te use our voters In this final attempt *e serve himself. In promptly making Pettlgrvwtass the Issue, the Wilson men are I Northern Trust Co,i $25,000.00 Paid up Capital $'25,00000 Bond Deposited with Secretary of State 110,000.00 Bond Deposited with County Commissioners Bonded Abstractors Your abstracts should be made by the company with the largest resources. Abstracts made by t» are backed by $60,000,00. Huecesaors to Stanley County Abstract & Loan Co., and Young, Philip & McPhersoo Loana insurance Bonds! IIIIIII tftely to score a victory. Pettigrew** eld popularity Is gons, his organlzattoa ef prior year* dissipated. Wilson Is pap ular in Pouth Dakota among the demo crats, partly because ho has the in dorsement of Bryan, whose recommen dation they regard as more honest and quite as Intelligent as that at Htarsfs manager. He is also regarded as the •candidate likely to get the most repub lican votes. It Is well known that Che [Pettigrew-Wlekhem forces have no Organization and that Pettigrew |iow striving frantically to get ene, aad It Is presumed they will flood the state \v(t'h TT"rrrt'« papers and speakers ae they did In Nebraska and Illinois. If, however, they are met with the Issue alien boFaism they may reap dis appointment. Pettlgrsw's suppwrt. In stead of being an asact may prove a llal lllty to the Wlekhem crowd. George Fred Williams was defeated for dele gate In Massachusetts and Wllltaraa, •with Pettigrew, has made the cam paign for Clark In most of the northern etates. The outcome of this new alignment will be watched with Inter est by every bouy. To Pettigrew de feat means his annihilation. He oould not recover. It Is his last flght. It is also Lee s last flght. If they lose they are gone forever, and wtth will go the old crowd whose company they have so recently Joined. The young South Dakota democrats are trying to get away from the de feats and the men who have led them to defeat for years past. They want to meet new Issues and become a vital part of this great government. They are tried of merely maneuvering to get glory or office for a few selAah men who persist In putting their own in terests ahead of the Interests of the rank and file who are primarily con cerned in good government—Tribune SOUTH DAKOTA: 4