Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-06-27

'sAnd There's More to Follow"-The
Weeks Roundup Of State and National
Politics-The County Democratic and
the State Conventions-EveryI Indication
of Enthusiastic and Harmonious Out.
come-Now for Kansas City and Next
for Victory.
Reform Press Bureau.
St. Paul. June IS, 1900.
Step by step administration of state
government in the interests of all the
people of the state goes on at the hands
OF Governor Lind and those entrusted
to state duties under him, of which the
state supreme court decision, sustaining
the railroad and warehouse commits.
sion, in their action known as the New
Olm coal rate case is the latest incident.
This letter recently quoted Governor
Lind as entirely confident that the state,
IN that case, would be sustained, and
the decision fully confirms his view.
This case, in brief, was the result of
efforts to obtain fair and equitable
rate for hard coal for the people of the
southwestern part of the state, where
for years and years exorbitant rates
have been enforced by the railroad CON-
panles. Action originated in the city
OF Governor Lind's home, New Ulm, on
complaint to the railroad and ware
house commission by the Commercial
union OF that city against the prevail.
Ing rate of 49, so per ton, Duluth to New
U1m. The roads being cited to hear
ing, such were held Nov. and Dec. II,
1898. On Jan. 10, 1899, very soon after
Governor Lind's inauguration, the COM
mission made an order reducing the
rate to $1.95 for New Ulm, and other
points In proportion, on fixed sched-
ule OF places and distances, a very ma
terlal average reduction, which rates
being all that the companies could
charge in the aggregate from Duluth to
the said points, was known as the "joint
rate" that the roads could divide be-
tween themselves. The companies in
terested made every possible legal de-
tense on test case by the Minneapolis
and st. Louis road and were defeated,
first in the Ramsey county district
court, and now in the state supreme
court: The latter finds clearly and I'M
mistakably for the people, sustaining
the commission. The company an
nounces that it will still further con-
test, however, which means the slow
length of the United States supreme
court, possibly, before the people will
come into the actual benefits of the eff.
forts made in their behalf.
The railroad and warehouse commits
sion is about all the machinery pos
sessed by the state for protection of the
small interests which the people in the
past have not voted away in franchises.
The people are, therefore, more inter-
ested in it's administration than in al
most any other department. That they
are pleased with the present board is
conceded on all sides.
There was opportunity last week for
only the merest mention of the states
"No," uttered by the railway commits
sion, against the proposed consolida-
ton Of the Northern Pacific and the St.
Paul and Duluth railroads, which Wall
street and railroad and business men
had accepted as accomplished fact un.
til the state stepped in. The state holds
that those roads are competing lines in
the sense that brings them under the
same inhibition that was successfully
maintained against the Northern Pa
cific and the Great Northern, and has
taken the firm stand that the consolida-
ton shall not be carried out except it
be shown that the state is wrong. At
the moment the game is blocked, and
the Northern Pacific and the Wall
street interests concerned are looking
around for some way out.
And speaking further of the commits
sion, it has ordered stations maintained
at Wylie, on the Great Northern's St..
Hilaire branch, and Crow Wing, on the
Northern Pacific. A commission that
commishes is what the people have now.
The state Democratic convention to
select the Minnesota representation for
Kansas City, will have been held before
this letter reaches all it's thousands of
readers. There is every indication of
that enthusiasm and harmony which is
marking like conventions in other states
all over the Union. Such certainly have
been reports of the county conventions
OF last week, and certainly it is true of
the Ramsey and Hennepin county &C.
ton. Harmony and enthusiasm have
great big capital letters this year with
the Democrats and those cooperating
with them.
Let all of our friends bear in mind
that nobody should stay away from
Kansas City who can possibly go, and
the opportunity, as to trains and low
rates, was never equalled. You can 20
with either the official Democratic train
or with the Silver or Lincoln Republi-
cans. The full particulars are widely
published and are obtainable from
either Secretary T. R. Kane. St. Paul,
for the Democratic, or of E. S. Corser,
Minneapolis, for the other. The best
way to do is to remit to either, imme-
diately, the advertised COST, thus MAX
ing sure of accommodations, and that
you will go. The round trip transpor-
tation cost is 1886 by chair car, $l6 IS
BY tourist sleepers, or 1885 by Pull.
man sleepers, the sleepers in both cases,
being also used for beds at Kansas City
during the stay, without extra cost.
Band Of music with each train.
tE -------- &is55 h $780,