The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-22

Days-Returns From the Buck
Counties Show Some Queer Con-
ditiOns - Yesterdays Political
Gossip.
Gov.-elect Lind went back to New
Ulm yesterday to look after the mail
Which has been accommodating on his
table, in spite of his industry, since
| twenty-four hours after the returns
showed his election. L. A. Rosing, who
was chairman of the state central COM
mittee, was at the Merchants. how
ever, which gave rise to the remark. by
a scoffing outsider:
Always the same. The winners stay
around month and the losers shut
up shop right away"
AS has been suspected daily infor-
nation is coming tending to show ir-
regular practices in the northern coun-
ties of the state during the election.
In Ransom precinct, in Cass county.
one of the Republican judges, a Fred
erlck Lupert, failed to appear at the
polling place on registration day The
! law being very explicit on this point
new judge was chosen by the voters
! present, under section "a, which saws:
II either OF the judges of any election dis
! Tfct in the state shall fail to attend at the
time and place appointed for correcting the
lists OF registers, or holding election, the
qualified electors present shall elect viva
voce, some qualified elector Of said election
district Of the same political party as the
judge SO absent Of only one judge in attend
ance belongs thereto, but otherwise IL Of
another party to act as Judge instead of such
Judge so absent
The judges in Ransom district held
that this superseded Lupert and he
was not allowed TO serve when he came
oil ion
1t is admitted by the Republicans
that three lumber camps had been es-
tablished in the Willow river precinct
which had been recently organized on
the petition Of ten legal voters.
One Of the first things that the leg
islature will be asked to do, if the
committee appointments made by
Lieut.. Gov. Smith and the new speak
er indicate disposition to put an old
machine crowd on the prison commit
tee, Will be to demand a full inVestf-
cation of the prison from top to bot
TOM and the investigation will be
moved for by a Republican, too. There
is not little feeling through the state
mat 1t is time the practice of levying
pontcal assessments and other things
which have been going on in that in
sututlon should be put a stop to, and
1t is proposed to cut 1t off
Another consideration that advises
the removal of the prison committee
from politics this time, and the placing
upon it of men who are sincere work.
ers for the good of the state is that
the committee on prison and insane
hospitals, with the addition of the
house committee on crimes and punish
ment, are this session to struggle with
problem Of more than usual import
ance, and that is the establishment of
an asylum for insane criminals There
is claimed to be a legitimate demand
for this. 1t is not a mere stock jobbing
plea from contractors and ringsters
who hope to make money out of the
building contracts or find places for
their friends in the new institution 1t
is Of daily occurrence that the manage
meDt of the prison. reformatory and
insane hospitals are brought to realize
very forcibly, only too forcibly in many
cases, that the criminally insane have
no place. either in the penitentiary or
in the insane hospital. There are some
of the viciously inclined who have new
er been convicted of any crime. and
there are those offenders against the
law who are plainly unbalanced who
have no place in either institution The
urgency of this want suggests that
good men be placed on both the insane
and prison committees
The Red River valley drainage
scheme will also get better consdere-
ton at the hands of the legislature
this year. Hitherto the district direct
| ly affected has been stability treated
| in committee places on account of it's
usual anti-Republican vote This year,
| especially in the senate, the Republi-
| cans have made good showing, and
| these counties are planning to have a
! hand in what comes off there. O. H
| Myron, of Ada, who has been a men,
| Der of the state drainage commission.
will probably be made chairman of the
| senate committee, and John ]. Ryder,
| of East Grand Forks, will get another
of the places. Ryder is scheduled for
! the craftsmanship of the committee on
! labor, from which R. S. McNamee is
barred from the fact that he is a
! Democrat.
A couple of successful candidates
! filed statements of their expenses dur
! ing the election with the county aud
| itor yesterday 1t only cost Frank
! Krayenbuhl $46 to defeat his opponent
! which makes the Seventh ward an
ideal borough to run in. Peter THAI
wald who had to deal with the less
! easily managed Fifth ward voter, con-
tributed the sum of SCI to the public
and his party supporters.
The returns are coming in very slow
candidates alike have to make the
statement within twenty days of cleo
| ton, there Will be something of a rush
toward the end of the week.
Henry Feig will not strain his lungs
on behalf of the suffering people Of
| Kandiyohi county this winter-and the
| tympanums of the members of the
I house will last some yenrs longer than
they might otherwise The news that
Henry was beaten out of the race in
his own county of Kandlyohi penetrat-
ed even this distance from that center
Of culture and home of craftsmanship
some time ago, but ii is only lately
that the specific cause of Henry's un-
doing has been teld. The gentleman
from kandiyohi was beaten by $50
votes or so. and he lost those votes for
himself by going up directly against
the gun and not knowing it. This was
the way of it:
Israel Bergstrom, once upon a time
the Reverend Israel Is an employe Of
the warehouse commission between
campaigns While the campaign is
on. he resolves himself into a SPELL
binder, and the voice that was once
lifted UP for the glorificatlon of the
lowly Nazarene is then given TO shout
ing for Republican doctrine. Israel
was sent to Kandiyohi to talk to the
Swedes for Israel's power in exhorta-
ton is greatest when il takes voice in
the tongue of that people. When the
spellbinder got to Feig's town, he was
approached by the gentleman with
the request that he, Feig, be given
opportunity to make a few minutes
+elI- n the crowd Israel said all