The Minneapolis journal., 1901-10-04
MINNESOTA POLITICS

| The proposition to select postmasters by
| popular vote is being generally discussed. II
! was put forward In a recent news article In
I'll he journal, as possible reform by
| the new national administration, and judg-
| ing from the way the country press Is indors-
! Ing the idea it must be universally popular.
| The Albert Lea Times says the change is one
that should be favored by the congressman
| themselves. The Wells Forum says:
The suggestion is made that the postmasters
be elected by the patrons of the Office and IN
| this we fully agree. The people would then
nave no fault to find, and nobody to blame
| but themselves for the selection Of their post
| masters. The giving out Of the postofices
causes more fights and bitterness between
neighbors than anything else on earth. The
congressman is hampered In the work he
ought to be performing by having to listen to
the different applicants and their friends, and
1t takes more than half his time to attend
to this work. A congressman may be ever so
able and he is liable to be turned down by his
constituents because he has not been fortu-
nate in the selection Of the postmasters. Slow
ly but surely the appointive Offices are being
made elective, and the office of postmaster is
one which should have been made elective
long ago.
The st. Cloud Journal Press says:
II Congressman Morris desires an appoint
ment as federal judge, he will have no more
enthusiastic hacker than j. Adam Bede. II
Minnesota Is TO be given another judge, no
better man could be named in the state for
the office than Page Morris, and none better
qualified.
J. Adam is for Morris for anything but
congress. For the latter position he favors a
distinguished statesman from Pine City.
The Aitkin Age says:
With view, perhaps, to sidetracking him
In the next legislative fight, some one has
brought out Representative w. H. Noyes OF
Barnum for congress. Don't think that NOyes
is foolish enough to be caught in such a trap.
he knows that he has cinch on his present
place for another term, while candidate
for congress, with Duluth and the iron ranges
combined against him, he would have no
more show than would paper man in a
gale.
II newspaper reports are veracious, Mr..
Noyes is himself responsible for the side
tracking act. He announced himself can
didate for congress when in st. Paul recently.
Under the primary law, man can't be forced
on the ticket. He has 10 file his own affidavit.
The Window Reporter, an anti-McCleary
publication, makes the following frank ad-
mission.
1t seems now as certain as anything human
can be that McCleary will get the nomina-
ton without contest, and in that event his
election is sure. Nobody has the courage to
attack him; and 1t is not certain that if such
contingency should arise that such a can
didate could be nominated, for somehow, for
some reason which nobody has explained,
McCleary has very strong grasp on the re-
publicans and won't let CO.
The foregoing is an unwilling tribute that
! Mr.. McCleary will appreciate. McCleary has
beyond question strong grasp on the repub-
Hcans Of the second district, and the ex-
planation is not difficult. He is a big man,
and his constituents are wise enough to see
| it.
| 1t isn't often that one gets a chance to
! hit two birds with one stone, but Sam Lam
! gum in the Preston Times embraces an oppor-
| tunity as follows:
! A head-on collision at Washington, between
the Bixby and Merriam cabinet booms would
awake fesounding echoes away up here in
ADMINISTRATIONS Republican and Herald.
| Yes, and if the collision should result in
the smashing of both booms the mourners
would not be very numerous,
Granville s. Pease says in the Anoka Union
| Already, there is a movement on foot
throughout the state to bring out a new man
| for the republican nomination for governor.
| 1t is being talked whenever two or three
republican politicians come together.
Especially when one of them is G. S. Pease
| of Anoka &C. B. c.