New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-01-27
Senator French Of this district has
a;bill to prohibit Sunday

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1t possible that the senator has at
length concluded to mend his ways,
and that pious influences have SO TAX
en- possession of his soul that he can.
not even allow people to spend Sun
day after their own heart and enjoy a
theatre if they want to? Has he been
reading Mosdy's tracts or his prede-
cessor's position on anti-tights, that he
should thus seek to hand his name
down to poste1ity as a disciple of rigid
pietye His constituents will await
with breathless anxiety some >expla-
nation as to the cause Of his CONVEX
sion. -.s
The state senate has unseated
Frank Day and awarded the :honors
! to his fellow-townsman, Dunn. Mar.
| tin County hasn't gained anything by
the transaction, nor has the senate,
in adding to its Republican majority.
displayed anything like fairness or .ev.
en- good Judgment. Partisan adyan-
tage doesn't necessarily constitute
good law.
When all of the facts in connection
with the Minnesota Bank failure are
brought to the eye of the public. the
popularity of some of Minnesota's sup
posed great men will not be so WIDE
spread, nor will their financial stand
ing be considered gilt-edged. The
St. Paul papers may not publish the
"details, but the country press will.
Senator Teller makes the claim
that John Sherman has positively no
conception of foreign affairs and that
he IS the most incompetent man the
pressdent-elect could have named for
secretary of state. The senator evil
IDENTIFY didn't take into consideration
the present incumbent.
Ruth Ashmore in the Window Re-
porter suggests that there is nothing
so good in the world as belief in God
and hope in the future. Don't know
about that. When we consider the
times and the weather, a good supply
of flour and coal isn't to be laughed at.
Rev.r. Dewitt Talmage visited the
city of Minneapolis last week and de-
lvered a lecture. An excellent field,
no doubt, but we have not yet been
able to discover from the reports in
the daily papers that any of the ex-
city clerks or aldermen took it in.
From the way Senator Bert Miller
tackles the railroads and express car
riers, one might be justified in taking
him for populist. But just the same.
Bert Miller is honest and practical
and is making the right kind Of leg
islator.
What the matter now? The Hon.
VIM. Henry Eustis and the Hon. Hen
ry F. Brown aren't considered. in the
eyes of Hennepin's county attorney,
as worthy of going on the bail bond
Of City Clerk Haney. Are we soon
to have some more sensations?
Why is it that most people will
readily endorse or submit willingly to
rebuke administered by a church
paper, like the Rams Horn, when the
same kind of criticism, appearing in
their local weekly, will cause them to
| return the paper, secretly marked ere
fused?''
The Illinois legislature downed the
bosses and elected VIM. E. Mason
to the senate, When the proper time
comes, Minnesota should go and do
likewise.
If Frank. Day hadn't vacated his
position in the Republican party about
the time that he is alleged to have va.
Gated his seat in the senate, the vote
of Saturday, by which he was retired
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