The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-02-11
HAIL TO THE CHIEF.
The Coming of w. j. Bryan to the
North Star state.

The Coming of w. j. Bryan to the
North Star state.
Democratic Press Reform Bureau.
st. Paul, Feb. 6, 1899.
The coming of our great chieftain, w.
]. Bryan, to Minnesota, as is ever the
case when he can be seen and heard,
easily overshadows all other topics at
the state capital. The facts are these:
The Ramsey County Jefferson club,
finding it impossible to have Mr.. Bryan
at their desired date Of Feb. 8 postpone
the same till Tuesday evening, the 14th,
for their banquet at the Metropolitan
hotel, st. Paul. Minneapolis seizes on
the presence of Mr.. Bryan to go ahead
with the Lind and Gray celebration,
contemplated since the November vic
tory, and make it a banquet at the West
hotel on the next evening, that of
Wednesday, the 18th. The Minneapolis
event is under the auspices of the State
League of Democratic Clubs, N. j. Bald
win, president, which is to be in session
at that time.
In selecting N. P. Olson and A. l..
Graves for assistant labor commission
ers, that department has been given two
of the best men who could have been
found for the department. Mr.. Olson
is editor and publisher of the Minneap-
oils Democrat, which he founded after
hn of ho
the editorial staff of which he was con-
nected. MI. Graves has long done her.
culean work with his St. Paul Broadaxe.
Thus the governor and Commissioner
McHale have secured good and able
men and followed the policy of reward
ing our editorial workers wherever
possible.
The few men still holding down state
jobs who would like to keep them, are
said to be studying the financial ques-
ton to beat the band. One not mile
from the governors office is said to have
read Coin Harvey half way through and
to talk single tax and double standard in
his sleep.
A Twin City G.. o. P. paper remarks
that this legislature is free from wood
chucks, while the writer Of the comment
possesses one such "chuck" in SIS day
job in addition to his regular pay as
reporter. Of course only the newspaper
man has the capacity of working hard
all day for his paper and all Of the same
day for the state.
! News of the national work is in every
| way encouraging. Hon. w. H. Harvey
who has been in charge of the ways and
means bureau, Chicago, has taken the
! field as lecturer to raise committee
funds, and the bureau is in charge of
Col. Sam B. Cook, formerly chairman of
the Missouri state Democratic commit
tee. Both are said to be doing admira-
BILE work. From such headquarters it
is learned that Col. Tom M. Bowers has
started a new paper at Austin, Tex,
with the significant name of Cannon.
Whenever it goes off it will be heard all
over the nation, and each shot will be
for Bryan!
This is the way reform is working,
in cutting off the customary newspaper
appropriation of $3.50 each for the "off1-
cial" reporters. A dozen such reporters
hitherto, would receive $1,000. Half the
number or less, representing the "loil"
(real reform) papers, get gratis of $3.50
EACH and the rest get nothing but the
meager pay for common newspaper
work, said to be as high, in some case,
as $1.5O per day, in these gold standard
times. AS matter of fact, only the Pho
neer Press, Minneapolis Tribune and
Journal have as yet obtained the $3.50
graft. These three reporters will thus
receive $3.50 of the states money, or
enough to give $3.50 each to nine just as
faithful workers. Great reform that
| does not reform.-G. S, c.,