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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-10-31
DANGER LIES IN
OVER-CONFIDENCE
Only One Thing Gov. Van SAINT Has to Fear in Com
ing Election Is That Too Many Friendly Vot-
May Stay at Home.
This Is the Peoples Fight and Every Man Must Do
His Share to Ensure Sweeping Victory for
the Antitrust Forces

Gov. Van SAINT has but one thing to
fear in the coming election. That one
thing is that two many voters who
wish to see him reelected will not go
to the polls next Tuesday and vote.
There is no question but that his acts
as governor are approved by the peo-
pie. They want him reelected, but
such has been the confidence that he
would have an overwhelming major
fly, that there is a feeling that he does
not need votes.
There is always light vote in the
years when there is not presidential
election, in the "off years" as they are
called. This is an "off year" and
there is danger that the voters, al
though friendly to Gov. Van SAINT, will
not take the trouble to go to the polls.
This supplement is published to show
to you plainly the issues that have
come up in this campaign. 1t is to
show you the tremendous power of
combined wealth that Gov. Van SAINT
is facing. The power of money in any
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-10-31

reads. IL this is true why did the rail-
roads move heaven and earth and
pour out their money to defeat the
passage of this amendment in the
legislature and so keep the people
from a chance to vote upon it?
The leading Democratic speaker in
the state, in an address at ST. Paul,
has sought to belfttle the anti-merger
suits, calling them buster and assert
ing that there was not then a single
case pending in the court on this sub
ject. Yet at that time three cases
were actually pending and being
pushed against this merger company,
and testimony in one of them was be-
ing taken in New York city. Which
side, let us ask, is shown to be inter-
ested in pushing and which in killing
these merger suits? If the people
could be convinced that not a suit
was really pending, how easy it would
be if Mr.. Rosing We're accidentally
elected governor for him to quietly
drop the Minnesota case, the one most
feared by the merged railroads.
Is, then, the merger out of politics?
Which candidate is the merger sup
porting? Which candidate is it op-
posing?
1t is time, we say. that the people
J knew that the merger railroads are
supporting Mr.. Rosing by every means
IN their power and opposing Gov. Van
SAINT. 1t is time that it was known
that the contest is between the people
and the merged roaos, and that a vote
against Gov. Van SAINT is not SO much
a vote for Mr.. Rosing as for the North
ern Securities Company, of New Jer-
sew
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-10-31
FALSE STATEMENTS.
JAMES J, HILLS ORGAN AGAIN
GRINDING.
Desperate Campaign Against the Rail-
road Gross Earnings Tax
Being Waged.

The st. Paul Globe, owned by James
J. Hill and operated in the interests
of the Democratic state ticket, has
opened desperate campaign for the
defeat of the railroad gross earnings
bill.
The bill was passed by the legislat-
ure of 1901, in spite of a powerful rail-
read lobby and is submitted to the
people at the coming election. 1t in
creases the gross earnings tax on rail-
roads from to per cent.
Now the organ of the Great North
eJn, which made such strenuous eff
forts to defeat the bill, says the amend
ment, if adopted, will save the Great
Northern money.
The situation would be farcical were
it not evident that the Globe is making
desperate effort to beat the bill by
misleading the voters.
The opening article is tissue of
mis-statements from start to finish,
most of them apparent on their face.
The Great Northern has shrewd at
tCrneys and good bookkeepers, and
when the bill was introduced it was
carefully analysed. The Great North
ern knew what was in the bill then as
well as it does now Yet it's lobby
fought the bill before the legislature,
and it's newspaper now opposes it be-
fore the people.
The Democratic campaign in the
state is inevitably connected with the
campaign against the gross earnings
bill. The Globe has turned over both
| its editorial and it's news columns to
| the Democratic state committee, who
| is using them for all it is worth. The
| Globes attack on the bill is evidently
| made with tho knowledge of the Dem
ocratic committee, and "tips it of" to
| the public that the Great Northern in
| fluence is behind the campaign against
/ Gov. Van .-Minneapolis Journal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-10-31

ticles have been published in Chicago
and Milwaukee newspapers, and these
papers sent out by the tens of thou
sands to the voters of the state. Cir
culars and pamphlets have been sent
out by the. one hundred thousands. A
force of from fifteen to twenty stem
ographers and typewriters have been
kept busy for weeks. Expensive lith-
ographs have plastered the state, and
hired workers have everywhere been
sent out in the guise of peddlers, spec
tacle vendors, book canvassers, and
even tramps. These things are but a
few of the evidences of lavish use of
money. Where did this money come
from? The Democrats do not now
have the grain inspection department
to assess monthly. as two years ago,
and they have no state officials to
voluntarily contribute to the cam
paign. Where, then. do they get their
money?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-10-31

Again, every source from which the
Republicans might get active support
in the campaign has been cut off
wherever these railroad interests
have had the necessary influence.
Every Republican speaker, every Re-
publican committeeman and worker
travelling on these merged railroads
has paid his fare. Gov. Van SAINT him
self pays for every mile he rides on
their trains. Yet the Great Northern
Flyer which is supposed to stop for
no one, is stopped to accommodate
Democratic speakers.
The St. Paul Globe has for weeks
been filled with personal abuse of Gov.
Van SAINT and other Republican can
didates. The governor has been car
TONED in the most insulting manner
by that paper. He nas been accused
of paying no tax on his steamboats, in
Minnesota, when it is well known that
he personally does not own a single
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-10-31

It is time the people of Minnesota
knew who the real contestants are in
this state campaign. On the ballots
they will find the names of IS. r. Van
SAINT, Republican" and 81. A. Rosing,
Democrat" as candidates for governor.
But they are not the actual contest
ants, and it is time this fact was
brought right home to the citizens OF
this great state. The real contest to
be settled November 4th is not be-
tween Mr.. Van SAINT and Mr.. Rosing,
1t is not even between the Republican
party and the Democratic party, it is
between the people of Minnesota and
the Northern Securities Company of
New Jersey. The issue to be settled
is whether the people of this state are
to run their own affairs or whether
they are to be managed by this New
Jersey corporation; whether the peo-
pie of this state shall say who shall be
their governor or whether the North
ern Securities Company shall name
him. This is said not haphazard nor
for political effect, but advisedly and
the facts show the truth of the state
ment.
Mr.. Rosing, in his opening address,
said OF the anti-merger suits brought
at the request Of Gov. Van SAINT,
that while the governor had done
what was right, that this merger ques-
ton was now in the courts and was
not a political issue; that the court
would take care of it and that further
agitation of the matter would waste
time At that time IL looked as though
Mr. ROsing might be in a sense right.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-10-31

cause, however unjust, is well known.
AS we have said, there is no question
as to where the sympathies of the
people are, they are with Gov. Van
SAINT, and he needs the vote of every
friend he has in Minnesota. He needs
1T not only that he may be elected, but
that he may have such majority that
the great railroad interests and trusts
will not again try to dominate the
politics of Minnesota and dictate to it's
people who they shall elect as gov
ernor. This is your fight, and you
should see to it that you are at the
polls next Tuesday and cast your bal
dots.
There are 2,724 voting precincts in
Minnesota If but ten voters in each
precinct stay away from the polls,
that will mean 27,240 votes less for
Gov. Van SAINT, for you may be sure
that every opposition vote will be cast,
as they have the money to take the
voters to the polls. Every stay-at-
home vote will be a Van SAINT vote.
He cannot afford to lose them and you
cannot afford to have him lose them.
The following table of the Repub-
lican vote in 1898 an 'soff year" and
1900 presidential year shows loss
of twenty votes to the precinct or
over 41,600. Can you afford to have
Gov. Van SAINT lose that this year.
Let us urge you not only to go to the
polls yourself, but to take your neigh
bors and to make this indeed a
RiOriflIS victory
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-10-31

Even the Democrats admit that the
Republicans did well when the extra
session of the legislature passed the
proposed tax amendment. This amend
ment prepares the way for a new tax
law covering personal property. This
is the hardest class of property to
reach for taxation, as all know, and I'M
der the constitution, as at present,
much of it cannot be reached. The
provisions of the amendment have
been fully explained by the Republican
press, and all voters are urged to vote
for it. 1t will permit an income tax.
provides for two methods of taxing
public franchises, for registry law on
mortgages, for tax on inheritances.
and, indeed, places Minnesota first
among all the states in modern meth
DDS of taxation.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-10-31

GENTLY along those practical lines
which will be of the greatest help to
the working man and most fully pro-
teet the rights of labor.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-10-31

. Gov. Van SAINT is one of the Z
. largest personal property tax
D payers in Winona county. The z
. boat company of which he is =
. president, however, was organ q
. ICED by his father under the laws q
. of Iowa, that being his fathers .
. home until his death a few &
. months ago, and naturally it pays Z
. its taxes there.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-10-31
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of recognized ability and Information
of this department without fear or
favor to any person or class and with
out regard to politics. This has made
Minnesota's bureau of labor so prac-
teal and so progressive alorg new
lines of Investigation that it has won
a national reputation. Moreover
every assistant employed in the de-
partment is practical workman in
some branch of labor and is in touch
with the needs and rights of his fell
low wage-earners. For the first time
therefore, the bureau of labor is fully
in sympathy with working men and Is
operating conservatively but eff-
on labor subjects. and he especially
instructed him to carry on the work
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-10-31
RAILROADS BACK OF IT.
Origin of Attack on Gross Earnings
Am endnneft

Origin of Attack on Gross Earnings
Amendment.
The Dispatch can only regard with
suspicion the origin of the attack upon
the amendment to increase the tax
upon the gross earnings of the rail-
reads. 1t so plainly comes from rail
way sources, whence came the opposi-
ton in the legislature. that the hypoc-
risy of the warning that the effect of
the law will be a great decrease in
revenue from that source, as John Ran
delphi once said of some act of Clay,
shines and stiniks, and stinks and
shines, like rotten mackerel in the
moonlight" There is a Pecksniffian
sniffie about such protes tations from
such a source.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-10-31

. The new gross earnings tax
. law is fair, lis constitutional, it
= is simple. It let's the state keep
o close watch that it gets what is
. its due, it stops all ieaks and will
q very largely increase the tax on
q railroads. That is why the rail-
. roads oppose it.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-10-31

= If you do not vote for the con- 4
= stItutional amendments which 4
= come first on the ballot, you will I
= in effect, vote against them. A 4
. majority of all the votes cast I
= must have cross (x) opposite 4
. the word "Yes" of each consti- 4
= tutionai amendment to carry it. 4
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-10-31

The proposed amendment has the
further merit of substituting certainty
for uncertainty, simplicity for COM
piexity, and removes both temptation
and opportunity for suppression of
facts and juggling with accounts by
which the companies might escape tax
es. Any other method demands ac-
counting for earnings made upon each
separate article carried over more
thap the State of Minnesota One has
Tut to contemplate the immensely of
tie work of such method, with the
impossibflity of detecting suppress
sions, to make desirable a simpler
plan, such as the proposed bill pro-
yides.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-10-31

. Not a Democratic speaker and .
= not Democratic paper has had .
. a word of fault to find with the .
. grain inspection department, the .
q states prison Irvine, the state .
= labor bureau, the department Of .
. public instruction, the food and .
. dairy commission, or any other =
. department under Gov. Van q
. SAINTS administration. q
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-26
NEWS OF THE RAILROADS.

Three thousand tons of new rails
nave recently been received and are
now being laid on various portions of
the Boston & Maine system.
Works beginning to assume a metro
politan rush at the Grand Trunk shops
at East Deering, Carrot Vliet has sew
eral different classes of laborers under
his direction and they are all working
hard to bring order out of chaos AL
ready the machinery which was sent
from the Gorham shops has been set
up, with the exception of seven
machines, and is in use. The new
machinery also which was bought for
this particular shop has been set up and
all that now needs to be done is to set
up some new shafting and facilities for
doing more work than ever before. The
blacksmith shop was set up and put in
motion first and already the establish
ment wears the air of long continued
industry. There are ten FORCES with
other implements and all of the modern
conveniences for handling iron. The
machine shop is we'll equipped with
compressed air which does many in
teresting things. For instance, it lifts
engines several inches from the rails SO
that men can go under them and work
without tstraining themselves into all
sorts of uncomfortable shapes to reach
their work. 1t also moves heavy
weights about in an easy manner.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-26

A Rockland man and his good wife
distinguished themselves one day last
week by picking So quarts of blue
berries.
Someone estimates that Bath mer-
chants are spending $500 week to
buy trading stamps to give to GUS
toners.
Bessie Adams of South WATERFORD
went to Portland last week to have a
bone removed from her throat, that
accidentally lodged there while eating,
several months ago. 1t penetrated the
side of the throat and caused much
inconvenience and pain after time.
1t was finally removed without great
difficulty.
At a special town meeting held in
Kennebunkport recently it was voted
to macadamize Water street, which
thoroughfare leads from the village to
the sea. The highway will have to
be filed in a foot or more, as it is
submerged at high tide at present.
The street is nearly a mile in length.
The expense of matchmaking the road
will be considerable.
Two men recently came to Belfast
and arranged to put new drop cur
tain into the Belfast Opera House.
1t was to have on it a local landscape
and local advertising, and the ad-
vertisers were told it would remain
ten years, and paid for their adj
vertisements accordingly. The curtain
is now in place. The landscape is
labeled owls Head" but no one
would recognize the spot. The water
resembles the Lachine Rapids in
Canada. and the lighthouse, by COM
parison with other objects in the pic
ture. is more than 200 feet high. The
painting is a mere daub, and the
framework is very slight. No arrange
ments have been made for keeping it
in repair, and theatre men predict a
short life for it. even with the most
careful usage.-Belfast Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-26
MAINE FRATERNITIES.

Nelson Dingley Lodge, I. o. G. T.,
Rockland, has As applications for men,
bership pending.
Arrangements are being made for
the formation of an order of the
Knights of Columbus in Eastport at an
early date. A number of PASSPORT resi-
dents are now members of p. ellis
council of Lubec.
/ The recent meeting of Hercules lodge,
No. Sc, A. o. u. W., Bath, was one of the
most successful in it's history. Twenty
two new members were taken in,
twenty by transfer from Brunswick, one
by initiation. The total membership
of the lodge is now 100, it having been
doubled in five months.
A move is being made by the head
officers of the Improved Order of Red
Men to increase the interest in the Or
der in the southern section of the state.
A wigwam was recently instituted in
Lebanon with a membership of 26.
This has so increased in number that
the wigwam now has nearly SO. The
members of Squando tribe of Bidde-
ford are taking a great interest in the
move to establish a wigwam in Saco
and are doing all that they can to
boom the move to promote the IDEA.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-26
Personal Notes.

Horace White, editor of the New
York Evening Post, has been made
trustee of Beloit College.
Mrs. Humphry Ward, the English
novelist, is planning visit TO this
country for the coming autumn.
The Kaiser is reported to have re-
fused his third son, Prince Adelbert,
four horses for his carriage on the
ground that that was too much state
for one of his station.
Major General Lord Dundonald, who
was at the head of the Second Cavalry
Brigade in the relief of Ladysmith, is
on his way to Montreal, where he will
assume command of the Canadian
militia.
Mrs. Nelli Natthers Horn of Ports
mouth, N. H., has just finished a por-
trait of John d. Long, which will be
presented to the library Mr.. Long gave
last year to his native town of Bucks
port, Me.
The State Department has received
word that Prince Chen, who went to
London to represent the Chinese gov
eminent at the coronation, with his
suite. will sail from Europe on the
steamer Philadelphia on the 26th in
slant for New York. The party will re-
main in the United States for ten days
or two weeks, and will be in Washing
ton about the 1st of August. at'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-26
MAINE PEOPLE.

DR.. Cecil p. Brown of Cambridge, a
graduate of the Philadelphia Dental
College has opened an office in Hart
land.
Edwin S. True of Portland, grad
uate of the University of Maine in the
class of 1902, has been named by Pres
Roosevelt as one of the young men IN
civil life who will be privileged to take
the examinations for appointment as
second lieutenant in the regular army
Mr.. Truewas major of the cadet bat
TALON at the university during ms
senior year and all through his course
attained high rank for military pro-
ficiency.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-26
IN THE scHooLRooM.
What is Being Done in Maine for Il.
Advancement of Education.

l MISS Margaret c. Hunter of Cherrv-
ieid' mas been elected principal of the
grammar school in that village.
Miss Grace B. Bicknell of Norway
mas been chosen assistant teacher Of
Latin and Greek in the WILLIAMSBURG
Mass. High school.
Miss Josephine B.. Neal of Lewiston
mas just been elected to the position of
assistant teacher in the Newcastle
High school.
Miss Charlotte Dorman of Harr;nr-
ton, has been elected superintendent of
drawing in the schools Of Northbridoa
and Uxbridge, Mass.
Miss Mabel L. Abbot of WATERFOWL
Mass, has been engaged as assistant
for the Camden High school. Mics
Abbott is a graduate of Radcliffe and
taught last year in the Newton High
school.
Miss Nettie E. Hamlin, who gradu-
ated from Orono High school last June
will enter Smith College the cominr
fall. Miss Mabel H. Hooper and Miss
Marion NJ. Hooper, also graduates in
the class of 1902, will enter Vassar Col
lege in September.
Miss Mary Milliken of Pennington
has received an appointment as teach
er of the intermediate school and as
sistant in the High school at Strong
for the coming year. Miss Milliken
completed the Normal school course
with the class of 1902.
The trustees of Berwick Academy
have elected as principal of the acad-
envy, Mr.. John c. Hull of Bowdoin, '92.
Mr.. Hull has taught very successfully
for the past ten years, from '92 to '95
serving as principal of Fryeburg
Academy and since '95 as principal of
the High school at Adams, Mass.
Perley Walker, a graduate of Arson
Academy and later of the University of
Maine has been called to the chair of
professorship of mechanical engineer
ing in the latter institution. Mr..
Walker goes to Orono from Newport
News. Va, where he has had valu-
able position for long time.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-26
Fifteen Years Ago.

wandered to the grog shop, Tom, stood
And drank a bowl of lemonade and
smoked a bad cigar;
The same old kegs and jugs were there,
the ones we used to know,
When we were on the roundup, ION,
some fifteen years ago.
The barkeep is a new one, Tom, the one
who used to sell
Corrosive Tanglefoot to US is roasting
now in-well; 49,
The other has a plate glass front, his
hair is combed quite low.
And looks just like the one we knew some
fifteen years ago.
Old Soak came up and called for booze,
he had the same old grin,
While others burned the lining from their
throat with Holland gin;
And women stood beside the door, their
faces scanned with VICE.
And wept Just as they used to weep some
fifteen years ogo.
[ asked about our old-time friends, those
cherished sporty men.
And some were in the poorhouse, Tom,
and some were in the pen;
And one the one we liked the pest, the
hangman laid him low;
The world is much the same, dear Tom,
as fifteen years ago.
I asked about that stately chap, that
pride marked for it's own,
He used to say that he could drink or let
the stuff alone.
He persisted of the James H. Jams, out in
the cold and snow
All. few survive who used to booze, some
fifteen years age.
New crowds line up against the bar and
call for crimson ink;
New hands are trembling as they pour
the stuff they shouldn't drink;
But still the same old watchword rings.
This rounds to me, you know!
The same old cry of doom we heard some
fifteen years ago.
/ wandered to the churchyard, Tom, and
there saw the graves
OF those who used to drown themselves
: in red fermented waves.
And there were women sleeping there
where grass and daisies grow,
Who wept and died of broken hearts
some fifteen years ago.
And there were graves where children
slept. have slept for many year,
Forgetful of the woes that marked Their
fitful sojourn here.
And meath a tall white monument, in
death there lieth low.
The man who used to sell the booze some
fifteen years ago.
u. S. Holden.