St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-23
KNUTE'S KNIFE.
It Has Made a Lot of Good People
His Enemies

1t Has Made Lot of Good People
His Enemies.
Knute Nelson's knife has won him
many warm enemies in Minneapolis and
Hennepin county. The old soldiers, the
exposition directors and business men
Interested in the exposition. and the
people specially interested in the uni
versity are holland that expresses it
but mildly. Knute'S veto of 81, 800 of the
appropriation of $1,000 to pay special
exposition premiums is the one that
touches the town most The bill calling
for the $1,000 appropriation was eX-
planned to the governor before it Was
introduced in the legislature and he ap-
proved it. 1t was passed. the premium
list was prepared with the understand
ing that the appropriation would go,
and now Knute goes back on what he
said. The board will have to make IN
the 800 or rearrange the premium
list. General Manager Bracket says
of this veto:
Il cannot tell what arrangement will
be made in regard to the premiums
until after the meeting of the board of
directors, to be held next Wednesday,.
| expect that the $500 will be made ND
w lllC UOdlNs Outs IL II 10 nut VIC VIII
have to give up three Of our depart
mentS-poultry, the bench show and
floral exhibit. The veto will not affect
the other premiums, however. and they
will remain the same as at present.. We
cannot aScribe it to any cause excepting
jealousy on the part of the state fair
officials, and, of couse. we do not
know that it was due to that. Previous
to the presentation of the bill in the
legislature, s. +. Olson called upon
Gov. Nelson and asked his opinion
in regard to the proposed appropri-
alton. The bill was shown to him and
he thought it all right and agreed to use
any influence he might have to secure
its passage. For that reason the result
seems peculiar to US. There is no rea-
son why we should not have received
the amount asked for. The state fair
officials receive 81, 900 this year and no
show will be held. and this will be used
to pay premiums that should have been
paid out of the appropriation last year,
but which was used to promote horse
racing and gambling of that sort.
Every agricultural society in this state
receives an appropriation this year, and
yet when we ask for one for the first
time IN eight years it is refused. 1t
does not seem just TO US, but neveIthe-
less we will continue business at the old
stand in spite of Knute Nelson"
S. E. Olson cOrrObOrateS Mr.. Bracket.
The veto of the $1,000 appropriation
to buy a burial lot in Lakewood Gene
terry for old soldiers makes another
class mad. That case is like this: Sew
eral years ago the Lakewood Cemetery
association gave the &. A. X. organiZa-
tions large lot in Lakewood. When
| the soldiers home was established at
Minnehaha no provision was made for
a cemetery. The Minneapolis q. 4. r.
men allowed the old soldiers at the home
| to be buried in the Lakewood lot. Now
forty-Seven of them rest there, and the
available space for more graves is grow
| ing small. 1t was thought only fair
that the state should help buy more
ground. Of this veto AL Z. Pray, who
introduced the bill, says:
Gov. Nelson has killed himself with
the old soldiers in Hennepin county.
| This money was not intended for any of
us. but for the poor fellows at Tie home,
for whom the state has neglected to pro-