The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-04-02
KELLER'S DEMOCRACY.

W.-B. Mitchell. who visited St. Paul,
Tor the purpose of lobbying for his bill to
coerce Judge Bruener into making orders
for the publication of probate notices in
the Journal-Press, telegraphed to his as
soc1ates the same evening that the bill
had passed both houses. In making this
attack on Judge Rruener, for the benefit
OF a republican paper, Senator Keller
shows what sort of democrat he is.
As before stated, the legislature refused
to pass general bill of this kind affect
ing all counties. 1t was regarded as
an unwarranted proceeding for the legis-
lative branch of the state to say to the
Judicial branch what decision it should
make, or what orders it should issue.
In this county, but one man man asked
for the passage of this bill, which the
rest of the state would not have-and
that was the editor of the Journal Press.
To accommodate him. Senator Keller
passed this bill. 1t has often happened
that republican legislators have enacted
laws to coerce or control democratic of
fcials in the interest of republican pa
pers, but we never before heard of DEM
ocratic senator introducing and passing
an obnoxious bill for the benefit of a re-
publican journal. AS arule, democrats
are not built that way" But Keller is a
queer sort OF democrat. For instance,
at the opening of the session, when both
parties were scheming and plotting as to
alliances by which they could secure the
organization OF the senate, it is said that
Keller made combination with the re-
publicans, which might have resulted in
the election of republican officers, had the
scheme not been checkmated by the alli-
ance-democratic combination. The SEN
ator from Stearns was told that unless
he Immediately "got into the band
wagon" he would get left, and he took
passage at once. We would be glad to
know that these reports are untrue, but
our source of information we regard very
reliable. Indeed, the Sank Centre HER
AID at that time indicated that there as
something in it.
Rosebud Senator's should be made
OF more reliable material.1[St. Cloud
Times.
The Times will find it difficult matter
to read Senator Keller out of the demo-
cratic party, however much it would like
so to do He is power in that party,
and as such the editor of the Times has
no use for him-tor he has no desire to
see the sceptre fall from his grasp. The
Times was the political boss of Stearns
county under the late democratic admin
Istration, and with the delusiye hope
that democracy will again rise to power
the idea of a rival is very nauseating.
Senator Keller is a democrat, but not
so completely and tightly hide bound as
the Times woul have him. The HERALD
did intimate, and does now, that he did
not favor the outrageous barter and
sale which resulted in the unhoIy "com-
bine" which organized the senate-and
the event has shown how much superior
Senator Keller was in Judgment to the
majority Of his party. The leading DEM
ocrats of the senate have openly denounc-
ed the illegitimate results oft upon the
floor of the senate. Senator Mayo said
that the republicans had to eat crow,
but the democrats have had to eat dog.
and very dead dog at that, as the result
of the combine. Surely Keller's de-
mocracy cannot be questioned upon that
score.
As to the merits or dement's of the in
dividual bill referred to the HERALD has
had no means of forming an opinion,
as it never saw it-but it is only a cover
at best for the above attack upon Sem
ator Keller.