The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-01-09
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The minneapolis journal Re-
ceiyes Pithy Notice
From Uncle Jason.
Manchester College is son the
Rocks and No Money
Is Forthcoming.

Is Forthcoming.
Special Correspondence to the UNION
MINNEAPOLIS. Jan. 6, 1896. The.
daily organs of ex-Mayor William
Henry seem to have been directed to
begin their crusade in behalf Of the
man with a policy" in their first
Saturday issues Of January. The first
effort of the Journal is directed against
Governor Clough in a personal attack
couched in general terms, with great
care not to enter into particulars.
Realizing the strength of the governor
with the party organization through
out the State, the Journal calmly pro-
poses to overthrow the entire organiza-
tion. Editor McLain lets the wind
blowsthrough his whiskers and shouts
through his hat that he is going to
overturn the corrupt combination
which has had control of Republican
politics in this State for the'past seven
or eight years. If the Republican
Organization has been corrupt in Min
nesota ''for the past seven or eight
years, . why these six or seven years of
death-like silence? Seven or eight
years is long time for a mouth-piece
Of the people to get its mouth open.
1t is also a long period in which to get
ones conscience into working order.
The Journals political conscience may
be something like the handspring of
the old-fashioned Waterbury watch,
avery mug -long -drawn-ou affair, and
mig hty onsartin at that.
The whip-cracking role which the
Journal has again taken up after a
lapse Of a year will succeed about as
well in the coming gubernatorial con-
test as it did in the late senatorial and
mayoralty contests. Eustis, whom the
Journal was going to renominate for
mayor, got SO votes out Of total of
! 500, in the Republican city convention
of Minneapolis; and Washburn, for
whom the organs bull-dozed and bias
phemed for months well, everybody
knows how deep he was buried.
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/ Up to date n newsboys have re- 4
sponded to r. Fl. sPeavey's generous of
fer in regard to depositing their saw
ings, and it is likely to cost the liberal
doner several hundred dollars before
he gets through, and lead to the start
ing Of good many little savings ac-
counts
:. :. !.
When Utah was admitted as State,
the other day, the Utah asphalt paw
ing laid down in this city expressed It's
joy by cracking a smile an inch wide
the whole length of Nicollet.
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According to the account of the local
Presbyterian press this week, Macalas-
ter College is in danger of going into
the hands of receiver. Less than
$500 has been subscribed this year,
only % out Of 800 churches giving
monetary aid. Undoubtedly one Of the
reasons why the University of Mime
sofa has progressed so rapidly is that
there are SO comparatively few smaller
colleges. Iowa, Illinois and Ohio are
notable exceptions and have not uni
versity among them, unless it be the
Chicago University recently estab-
lished by the private subscriptions of
millionaires, that can compare with
our State University, and the Chicago
institution is way behind ours in. at
tendance. It is better that small col
leges drop out, rather than that the
college work of a State be so split up
that the State is unable to support one
frst-class institution
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The receipts of fruit at Minneapolis
in 1895 were q, 799, 900 pounds, or over
400 pounds for each man, woman and
child. Minneapolis has a keen eye for
fruit Of all kinds. There are several
hundred Of our citizens abroad at this
time after the gubernatorial and sena-
torial persimmons, and if they do not
get that they will be satisfied with
nothing short of sour grapes. Fruit
|. they will have anyway.
YOUR UNCLE JASON.