The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-01-16

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What Uncle Jason Thinks the
Political Situation Is in
Minneapolis Now.
How Can the Aldermen Live as
They Do on the Paltry Sal
airy Of $50 a Month?

AIRY Of $50 a Month?
Special Correspondence to the UNION.
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. ~, 1896. The
5ssWashburn lobby having failed in
its senatorial job, will now name for us
asgovernor. Let all small dogs keep
silence
Exc Governor McGill. of ST. Anthony
Park, has issued the sixth edition OF
the McGill gubernatorial boom, pocket
size, handy library edition, paper
cover, for sale at all news stands, spec
ial discount to the trade. Write or
see. Steve B. Howard, general agent
for the Minneapolis district, or Eli S.
Warner, retailer and broker, ST. Paul.
I. !. !:
Between the political bureaus of one
Vandiver and one Mannix, the people
of Minnesota need not trouble them
selves about a candidate for governor.
You pays your money and takes your
choice.
The city council maintains it's record,
and. delivers the lighting contract to
the hiig hest bidder again. The record
of the present board of Aldermen is
due notice to the public, that no firm
that makes a low bid for city paving or
lighting has any show to get the job.
Someone has been mean enough tC
suggest, that the firm which makes a
low bid cannot afford to ''come down.
with aldermannic persimmons.
81.
Alderman Snyder has been donated
a diamond stud by his loving col.
leagues, and Alderman Nordeen has
beensgiven a silver service and cane.
Such gifts are nothing for an alderman
to give, who supports his family on $50
a month salary. This city has demon.
strated that an alderman can donate
such little things as that and travel
half the time, with, no other means Of
sliva1 6ood inss ~,
Is The s'anti-C lough committee repre-
sents six wards out of total of thir-
teen, and stands; Five for Van SAINT,
four for Eustis, three for McGill and
one for Gibbs. That is to say, the
city of Minneapolis stands for governor
in the ratio of four votes out of thirteen
for Minneapolis man. That is the
way the Washburn lobby looks at it,
with Eustis as the Minneapolis candi-
date, and with that candidate they
may be about right. It is certainly a
big showing after two great attempts
to call a meeting of the people. y
When the people of Minneapolis do
get ready to meet and discuss the
gubernatorial question, something will
drop.
Those alleged popular loan" bonds
of Growers simmer down to this-if
you have million or two enter into
the scrap on the general bid on or
about February 1st, and if your bid
beats that of Morgan, Rothschild &
Co., and you handle as big block, and
have the gold to salt down at the
government subtreasury, the popular
loan" is yours.
Congressman Towne is not going to
let Grover get all the ANTI. Bull
glory. Charles has a Hunters Island
boundary dispute line which he is will
ling to put beside Growers Schomburg
line down in Venezuela
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The ST. Paul ice palace needs but
two adjuncts to make it a perfect sue
cess, and they are-an ice-cream
freezer and a refrigerator, the one to
provide the ice, and the other to keep
it from melting.
The Times fears that the ssanti-
Clough' attack of measles, superin-
duced by a relapse of Washburn-
phobia, may not get beyond the first
show of pimples, for the reason that
most of the leading ''antisO are them
selves candidates and prefer one term
for Clough to two terms for some
other s'anti.''
The financial stand Of Congressman
ToWne is all right. and represents the