The Redwood gazette., 1899-07-26
Between Agent Brdmm6r and
Auditor Campbell Sat.
urddy Evening.
Differed on Rates Between
Here, Morgan and St.
Paul.

is. Brammer of the Northwestern
railroad, in this city, and Ex-Gov-
ernor Campbell of Iowa, added
whole lot of spice to the railroad
meeting in front of the court house
last Saturday evening. The COLO
guy was not on the boards, like the
circus announcements, but the
interest manifested was intense,
and inasmuch as the, meeting was
strictly Gulf & Manitoba railroad
meeting, the willy little local agent
was forced to consider himself
crushed by the crowd, if not by the
weight of arguments.
The colloquy happened in this
manner. Gov. Campbell had been
talking for ten minutes or more, and
he was touching on freight rates of
eastern and western lines, where
north and south lines did not inter-
fere, and also on rates in towns that
were not competitive points. The
governor had spent day or two
around the Northwestern tracks,
and had broken open a fresh egg
to the extent that the Northwestern
made it very difficult to ship eggs
out of here on Monday, and hence
dealers were obliged to ship on
Friday by freight to Sleepy Eye,
and there reload into a refrigerator
car. The governor also learned
that a member of a local produce
company had been buying eggs
around Morgan, and was paying
more freight to have them shipped
from Morgan to Sleepy Eye than
from Redwood Falls to Sleepy Eye,
simply because the St. Louis made
this competitive point.
"That sir, is not so, quickly put
in Agent Brammer before the Gov
ernor had hardly finished his SEN
tence.
The lie was so emphatic that the
Governor replied that the statement
was made to him by member Of
the company, and he asked the
member, if in the crowd, whether
he had been quoted right.
eyes sir, l have, SIR" was the
reply of Frank Curtis of the Curtis
Produce Co., who was sitting near
by. Every word is correct.
''It is not so, retorted Mr.. Bran
mer running up to Mr.. Curtis, and
pulling out a wallet. Mr.. Curtis
did likewise, and the crowd, which
was distinctly anti-Northwestern
cheered Mr.. Curtis on, and made an
effort to hush up the agent, all ol
which did not seem to effect him in
the least. While the two were
pulling out $40 bills a member o1
the local railroad committee called
them to order and Gov. Campbell
proceeded.
"And sir" proceeded Mr.. Camp
bell, Il want to ask the agent of the
Northwestern road whether it is
not fact that the passenger rate
from Morgan to St. Paul or Mime.
apolis, is not more than it is from
Redwood Falls to those two cities.
Mr.. Brammer said that it was not
but the crowd Immediately jumped
on to Billy by saying that as 8
matter of fact the rate from Sleepy
Eye to those two cities was ter
cents more than from Redwood Falls
simply because the St. Louis com
petitive short line forced the North
western into making the same rate
or lose all of the passenger traffic
from this city. We're it not for the
St. Louis short line the people o.
this city would still be paying the
high rate of about $43 for passen
ger fare from here to St. Paul and
Minneapolis, where now they are
only paying fare of 1920.
Later in the evening the North
western agent got into another dis
pute with Gov. Campbell over tariff
rates, and schedules effected by the
interstate commerce law, but the
crowd wanted to listen to Gulf &
Manitoba Railway talk, and while
Billy was given a chance just tc
get word in edgewise, the crowd
hooted him down, and the North.
western was obliged to conside,
itself badly crushed.
THE ROUTINE MEETING.
| The meeting Saturday evening