The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-28
Amount of Advertising
carried by the Twin City
Papers for September:
Van SAINTS Reply.

Governor Van SAINTS reply to the dis
graceful personal attacks made upon him
by the democratic state central commit
tee, aided and abetted by Mr.. J. J. Hills
personal property, the ST. Paul Globe. Is
short. pointed and effective. The answer
Of the democratic state central committee
to the governors demand for a. retraction
is very lame and, to say the least, equivo-
cal in part.
The charge made against Governor
Van SAINT that he was tax dodger. He
shows that he IS not tax dodger, and
that the only foundation for the charge is
that the corporation Of which he Is the
president does not pay its taxes where the
democratic committee thinks it should pay
them or where 1t alleged that it was said
that he paid them. but in an altogether
different place The Van SAINT steam
boats are engaged in Interstate trade and
are taxed. where they are registered, in
Muscatine. Iowa. the con1pany's home.
Interstate comfy in the matter Of steam
boat taxation upholds the rule Of taxing
steamboats, where they are registered. and
not elsewhere or twice. This rule applies.
for instance to all the boats registered at
Duluth. The only reply the democratic
committee can make to this Is some pitiful
dust raising regarding the assertion Of
the assessor Of winona that the Van SAINT
steamboats, were alleged to be taxed in LIE
Claire Iowa. and the accompanying state
ment Of the LIE Claire assessor that the
steamboats, were not assessed there.
The committee said Van SAINT was a tax
dodger.
He has proved that he is not.
The committee is not courageous enough
to retract.
Having answered the personal attack
upon himself, Governor Van SAINT very
pertinently asks:
Why do you not discuss on their merits
the real issues In this campaign? Why do
you say nothing about the republican ad-
ininistration Of the grain inspection, or
of the binding Irvine department, or Of the
state board Of control, or Of the tax
amendments offered to the people by the
republican party, instead Of resort1ng to
wllful and malicious abuse Of the can
didates?
The silence of the democrats on these
vital matters is significant. The truth
Is they can find nothing in the record Of
a splendid administration to attack, ex
cept the governors stand on the merger
question, and that they do not dare to
attack directly, but try to realize the
same end by personally attacking Gov
ernor Van SAINT and maintaining the ST.
1ence which their close affillation with
J. j. Hill enforces when they dare not
condemn. The fact is the democrats Of
Minnesota are as wanting in issues as the
national party is. Nothing that they ia
b., vor, such as Mr.. Hills railway monopoly,
for example, Is popular and the record of
the Van SAINT administration leaves them
without any faut-finding issues. They
have therefore, descended to deceitful
personal campaign.
The nearest they have come to valid
and legitimate criticism on Governor Van
SAINT is their claim that he ought to have
supported 100000 assessment Of the
Twin City Rapid Transit company, in
stead Of s5,573OOo. The governor did vote
to increase the assessment very substan-
TALLY, but even assuming, for the sake Of
argument, that he should have voted to
make it s1.5oo,00o more, would that justi-