New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-12-29
State
Scandal.
The Albert Lea Papers Discuss the Work
of the New Ulm Dairy Con-
venti0n. =.
The Standard Refers to Hackers Defeat
as q State Scandal.
The Republican Times Insists that the
Association Has Been Prosti-
tuted to Politics.

mems convention, by the leaders who
were anxious to oust Prof. Hacker, that
the dairymen of the southern part of the
state were dissatisfied with his work.
Frank Dean of the Owatonna Journal
was one of these leaders and was posi-
tive that he represented the sentiment of
all Steele county. Just how much of
Steele county he carries in his pocket
we DO not know, but certain it is that if
the dairy industry in this state were left
to such practical dairymen as Dean and
Lawrence it wouldn't be bowling sue
cess. Again there are other counties
besides Steele, where dairylng is a lead
ing industry, and from these we have
heard no complaint. On the contrary,
| Prof. Hackers defeat is almost univers-
| ally regretted. Freedom county, espec-
| ally, is interested in the work, and here
! is it's sentiment as reflected through its
two leading papers, the Albert Lea
Standard and the Albert Lea Times, the
latter as clean Republican Taper as is
conducted in the state of Minnesota. The
Times of Thursday contained the fol-
lowing editoria:
The dairymen Of the state are forced
to acknowledge that the association,
which has done so much for dairying in
| Minnesota and the Northwest, has passed
into the hands "f an INSCRIPTIONS clique
| of ring politicians, who will prostitute
the great society and It's machinery to
| the purposes of politics. The fountain
head of the political cabal is the State
Dairy and Food Commission, whose COM
missioner and assistant commissioner,
| Anderson and Lawrence, the appointees
of the governor, are as notoriously ln-
competent as members of the commits
sion as they are political intriguers of
| the most vicious stripe. Crickmore and
| the entire Steele county clique with Sen
! ator Sperry at the head, state game and
| fish wardens, and even our own John L..
Gibbs, who accepted the nomination of
the ring to the position of lieutenant
governor, all were parties to the shame
| less proceedings at New Ulm, and the
Minnesota State Dairy Association, the
most useful organization of the kind in
the United States, must now founder
along under the guidance of an unedu-
| Gated and inexperienced man till it is
| again wrested from the control of the
politicians by the real leaders of dairy
ing in the state. And we must own this
band of political bandits and vsndals as
| prominent members of the Republican
| ring which till now has ruled the party
in this state. But let Republicans ask
| themselves how long the majority of de-
cent men are to endure this prostitu-
ton of all the best interests of the state
| to horde of dishonorable, corrupt, in
competent, and entirely dlsreputable set
of political pirates.
The Standard, edited by Mr.. Day,
is equally strong in its criticism Of a
shameful political action. It says:
And now another institution, fos-
tered by the state and heretofore con-
Quoted for the impartial benefit of the
people regardless of politics, has been
seized by the gang that rules Minnesota
| and is hereafter to be used as part of
the most leprous lot of political rascals
that eve- stole their way into the offices
of state.
1t was the state dairymen's associa-
ton that was the object of their last
raid, and they swooped down on it last
week like wolves onsthe fold and com
pletely made it their victim. The raid
was led b; score or more officials of
the state dairy and food commission. by
the game wardens, by state boiler inspec-
tors and other whelps OF the gang, By
men who are in no way connected with
dairYing, but who had been summoned
to the convention to capture it away
from the real dairymen in order to be
able to use it in the next campaign. The
chief object of the attack was Secretary
Hacker, the most able, efficient and em-
lnent dairy instructor IN the northwest
Charges trumped up against him we're
soon exploded, but the gang had deter
mined on his overthrow had voted