The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-05-06
THE SMITH EMPIRE.

THE SMITH EMPIRE.
The American. the new weekly pa
per published in New York by DIR.
Miller, recently published q humorous
account of the rise and fall of the
Smith Empire in America, written by
Judge J. Kohn Gresham. John
Smith, the head of the movement, find.
ing that the Smith family had become
numerous enough to seize and fill near
ly all the offices, managed to have Dea-
con Smith, of Cincinnati, elected pres
ident. The Deacon was mere putty in
the hands of the ambitious John, who
took the reins out of the Deac0n's
hands, turned the government into an
empire, parceled out the territory into
dukedoms and earldoms, and made
Ben Butler his generalissimo. Butler
and Conkling, however, conspired to
blow John Smith up and establish a
military empire with Butler at the
head. Then there was a brief season
of conspiracy, rebellion, dynamite. ETC.
and the Smith and Butler empires
went down and Liberty and Uncle Sam
took control again.
This much by way.of preface to the
statement that Hon. G.. II. Smith of
WOrthingtOn is not a relative of John
Smith, and is not connected with that
imperial family. lie is an American
hn
tion with Deacon Smith.
Mr.. Smith is just now prominent
candidate for the congressional nomi-
nation in this district, and his name
is favorably mentioned throughout the
district, rs our readers have seen by
the articles we have copied from other
papers during the past few weeks. We
have preferred to let our exchanges
speak first and have laid their views
before our readers, 80 that by this
time they are we'll Informed as to the
names prominently mentioned for the
republican nomination.
Mr. Smith is certainly the choice of
this county and seems to be the choice
of this judicial district. His most
formidable competitors so far are
Freeman. Of Blue Earth, and Lind, of
Brown. Mr.. Freeman has Il rival ut
home in Mr.. Colester and Mr.. Lind
has one near home in Mr.. Tur,i i'll.
Mr.. Smith has been in the public
service for many years, and is one of
the best trained and best posted me,
in the state in all matters relating ia
such service. lie is not a speech maker,
but is an untirins worker and al adept
in securing legislation in the interest of
the people. Ills public record so far
Is without a blemish, and should he he
the choice Of the second district, we
predict that lie will make one of the
most satisfactory servants the people
OF the southern and southwestern por
tions Of the state have ever had.
We write this without Mr.. Smith s
''knowledge or consent.' We have
not had a word of conversation with
him on political subjects since our re-
turn, but we find on getting back tina,
he is prominently in the field, and We
desire to put in good word in his be-
half and to say that the present out
look is very favorable to his nomina
tion.
GEN: BAKER AND THE MANKAT0
BOARD.
At this writing Railroad Commits
sioner Gen. Baker has the best of the
Mankato controversy. He shows that
coterie of politicians in the board
manipulated the whole matter and
that they acted with duplicity, COW.
ardice and great injustice.
Without going into the merits of the
case, we will say that the first remark
we made concerning the matter when
1t appeared in the daily papers, was
that it was done for political effect
This was 80 palpable that child couli
see it on the run. The state and con.
gressional campaign is just about tc
open. Aspirants are at work every
where, and this matter was unques.
tionably sprung with hope of LAY
Ing out" Gen Baker.
We do not know that the General
Intends to enter the lists for any Of
fee, but we feel like saying that this
attack, sprung in the way it was,
ought to react and make him railroad
commissioner again. He has been, in
our judgment, the best railroad com
missioner in the United States. ha:
raised what was comparative sine
cure into busy, working, useful and
important State Office, and done it by
sheer force of his vigorous personality
and his wonderful aptness for any
thing and everything in the line O
public duty.
The Charleston Is. CO. News i.
somewhat alarmed at the sudden de
velopment of natural gas and think:
that if it goes on at this rate some
body may fire the whole business nnt
bring on the great final conflagratior
which is to consume the earth. ",
have no fears. The great enginee
who has this wonderful machine il
charge will pnt his hand on lever ant
'*turn off the gas" whenever it come
to that. Don't crv. Bro. News.