The age-herald., 1898-02-13


 | see if I were loaded with dynamite Being | a high-class man, he supposes all visitors | to his office come upon missions of peace
 and not hunting for trouble. He said the | governor was engaged at the time but if would be patient I could soon have an audience with the chief executive.
 | took my turn just as the others did. I | was presently shown into the governors
 privaae room. I found there even more.
 democracy than was visible with the pri-
 vate secretary. The governor had been en-
 gagged all the morning in signing up sey-
 eral hundred thousand dollars worth of | bonds purchased by the state of Minnesota.
 I found him smoking pipe. True, it was | not cob pipe, but it was 8 pipe that may | have cost as much 50 cents. told the | governor I did not want to take up any | of his valuable time. That had no busi-
 ness to transact, but had come, like all
 other good citizens of the state, to pay my
 respects. I did not want office Was
 not interceding for any others who wanted l office, nor was there to present petition | for pardon for any one confined in prison. | I was perfectly willing rtllat all the people
 I know who in prisons should remain
 there. Perhaps in making the statsment | that I was not in search of any favor
 may have succeeded in placing me upon | better terms with the governor in less
 time than would otherwise have hap pened.
 | I found it one of the governors busy
 days. People kept on coming in the room | and he continued trasacting business for l them I amused and iOc ctY.iiot 111xnc l while he was transacting the business of | the state by reading a Bible which I | picked up from the window sill. It was not new Bible. It showed evidences of ', wear and tear. More wear than tear. l I was next shown into the office of the | secretary of state and there saw Alabama
 "boy wonder" Kirk Jackson, the head of | that department. Jackson does not look 1 unlike that other distinguished "boy won | der' James H. Eckels Jackson is not l large, yet he fills the secretarys chair
 fairly full. At first impression he might be
 mistaken for boy of 21 years. But he is | not I think he is older than he looks. | Anyhow, he is clever, does not bore you
 talking about himself. Jackson strikes me l as being pretty sensible kind of fellow. l I never knew until Friday that he was | private secretary to Governor Jones. Now
 I can understand the success of that ad-
 ministra ton. l remarked latter in the day | that Jackson was very young man to hold the position of score tary of state. | This remark happened to be made to
 member of the "Knocker club" O." he
 said, Jackson is not nearly so young as | he looks." Another spoke up venturing to
 wager a fabulous sum of money that Jack | son was nearly 50 years old." I think they | imposed on Jackson. Trying to take ad- | vantage of his apparent youth. Though he | may look youDg he does not need a guar | dian Jackson has filled the office two | terms, therefore he is not now candidate l for reelection.
 | One of the characters about the state | house is Walter s. White, the auditor of | state. Col. White has, ann told, made an | excellent officer and is a candidate for re-
 nomination. If he, gets what he deserves l it is very probable Col. White will be re- | nominated. Col White showed me all 1 through his office. am satisfied that Col. l White is hard-working man. His office ] is not large enough to accommodate him. | self and his clerks. What Col. White
 wants is an enlargement of the auditors l office. He wants more room. Cod. White | is large man and I'll venture to say one l of the best men in the state. He asked | me if I did not tlIink he ought to have larger office. Told him I did. He said his salary was the smallest of any of the
 state officers. Why the state should dis | criminate against tlie auditor is mys- | tery. The auditors office is one of the
 most important. of the state. Col. White
 talked at some length about the necessity l of an appropriation for ensarging his office ! and also for an increase of salary. I could l not help but notice while he was talking about an appropriation he never said word about the old flag. Did not blame l him for that. I believe in getting the ap- | propria tion first, and then do without the | flag. You can't buy anything with flags. I next called on MT. Ellis, the state treas | urer. He is the man that more people in tAe state want to than any other man in office. MT. Ellis is a fine-lookng gen.
 tieman who has a great dead of mordey in his custody. True, it isn't his money. It belongs to the taxpayers. He took me in
 to the vault. Showed everything in sight. Great piles of money put up in lit