Willmar tribune., 1898-10-05

Of tie republican party has been called
upon to again fry the fat out of the
trusts and corporations to save the
country.
Even Senator Davis, the attorney
for the Great Northern and Rockefeller
interests in northern Minnesota, tries
to explain the frost which he received
in Minneapolis by stating that the
people are all too busy in these boom
ing times to attend political meetings.
Possibly that may be true, but we
should prefer to wait until after John
Lind speaks in the Exposition build
ing before we believe it. Corporation
attorney Davis is certainly remark
able man and it is fortunate that he is
able to carry as a side line a United
States senatorship. 1t was this same
Davis who a few years ago, in a
speech at Crookston, admitted that
the decentralization of silver had
worked greater hardships on the pro-
ducers of the northwest than all the
grasshoppers, chinch bugs and potato
bugs, but that was before Mark Han
ma and Tom Platt had settled the mon
etary question for the G.. O. P.
In the meantime searching party
has been organized to scour the woods
and prairies of Minnesota in quest OF
hn nct lot
tracks are discovered, due notice will
be given by "Jerry J.'' the political
prophet of the Journal. Readers of
North Star politics who are PERSONAL
ly acquainted with Jerry find his
gnostications very amusing. 1t
must be borne in mind that Jerry the
Man, and Jerry the writer are two
different persons. Jerry has to fur
nish such stuff as is wanted by the
Journal and stands in the same rela-
tion as the attorney to his client.
Personally Jerry is a very reason
able and sensible fellow, in fact he
does not always even vote as he
writes.
But refer again to the lost, strayed
Or stolen Eustis boomlet. Who has
it hidden away? Possibly the old
soldiers who we're insulted and turned
down by an inflated official, or pos
sibly the tax payers are nursing it
somewhere in hiding out of gratitude
for the S100, 900 hospital site deal, Or
possibly some of the Guaranty Loan
| investors, who were induced to invest
their savings on the strength of the
report of the wbitewashed committee,
headed by Eustis, who reported the
concern solvent and the securities
ample. when according to the supreme
court the old thing had been insolvent
for three years. Before the search is
entirely given up, would advise the
state committee to make a thorough
hunt among the colored men, Of whom
it is said Eustis never recognized one
even with a janitorship, Or possibly
the little boomlet has been hidden away
in their knapsacks by some of the SOL
dler boys OF the 18th regiment: who
are wearing John Lind buttons, or
perhaps it is lost in the woods of
northern Minnesota where the loggers
and lumber jacks are still carrying
the scrip Of Eustis, Neal g. Co., con-
Germ which many a, hard working man
will never forget, or possibly it may
have been stolen by the Ministerial
Association, who love Eustis SO dear
ly on account Of his high moral policy.
If it cannot be found among any OF
these people, it is barely possibly
that the seven or eight travelling men
who met one vening to organize a
Eustis club, after having been dined
and wined at the hotel by the ex-
mayor, may have it snugly slowed
away in their grips, but in any event
it must be found and blown up again.
H. L. CHAFFEE.