The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-06
MINNEsO TIA POLITICS

Lyndon A. Smith of Monteyideo former
lieutenant governor and a man whose
word carries considerable weight In party
councils, is In st. Paul for the opening Of
the supreme court 1.-THE state association
OF Gongregati onalists. He was asked
what the seventh district would do next
Year. and replied: 5
me situation Is simple in the seventh,
in spite Of contrary reports.sssIt looks as
tho Congressman Volstead would be re !
nominated without opposition. AS to the
state ticket, the district is for Judge
BroWn for the supreme bench, and Ed
Young for attorney general We don't
know where we are at on the governor
ship, and probably will not till the con-
Yentlon meets, as we will be for our own
candidates first Of ALL think I know
the sentiment of our district, and it is
for Brown and Young. 8
I. mat does not leave anything for Frank
5Efody IN MS own district. Funk has been
getting over the state at an active rate.
but has putin very little time in the sew
enth, and If Governor Smith, & view is the
correct one, Frank should be- looking after
the fences in his own lower forty
y. w Bath, editor of the Sleepy Eye
Dispatch was in the sixth district last wear
and he comes to the rescue Of Colonel Fos-
ter, who is getting some rough treatment
from ms own Meeker county papers. He
says EVERY one knows that Colonel Fos-
ter was honestly elected to congress at
the last election and should now be occu-
pylng the position held by Buchanan But
for eighty or ninety ballots cast by as
many buck Indians at Cass Lake for
Buckman, there would have been no uues-
tlon Whatever as to Mr.. Fosters election.
Inc republican voters Of the sixth district
know that the office rightly belongs to Mr..
Foster and should he enter the race next
year they will see that he gets majority
that Will leave no room for doubt :" M
Colonel Foster should get Sleepy Eve
annexed to the sixth district.
The Northf1eld News comes down hand
somely with this editorial paragraph:
ne state board Of equalization scored
IN favor of the people last Tuesday and all
who voted to increase the assessment Of
public service corporations deserve
credit" 7. IT ~ ~O~N''
;, OF course, Editor Sch Heatwole men
lions no Names 49, ~ 80. +.
A few of the democratic journals are
comm ending the board, The ST Cloud
Times says: i }s,ssls. -F 49,
The state board Of equalization is en-
titled to a great big credit mark. and
Inc Times awards it to the members
They have raised the Twin
Slty Rapid Transit company and the Du-
luth and other like companies, an agere-
gate of s3,462, 44O' .1.-
News: ~ - w. w: W 1lis
Increasing the valuat ton Of the r,u,,
City Rapid Transit company from S.. 500
ooO to $S,250,00Q the state board If
equalization thinks it has done wonderful
~ Well Under the circumstances perhaps
it has" IS -SF~esS -" ~ ~ p oi ops
Inc Buffalo Lake News chimes in:
:, Inc state board of equalization COM
~ p.e'eu us work tuesday. It's dealings with
me taxation of franchises, Of public SER
Nlce corporations will meet with public
approval = 1t raised Tom II owrv's street
railway line S.. ZOO, 900 and boosted the a.
sessment of %e twin city gas companies.
IN IN this the state board did it's plain duty.
lhere Is no good reason why a concern
~; ;lial - paying enormous profits and cIarg-
ing the public big prices for service ran-
dered, should escape with a. tax 1e1,iad
on only small fraction of its actual
A. j. Bernard says in his Cass lake
Voice: lass Lake
IT is reported that Judge Collins will,
at the end of the year, resign from the
supreme bench and enter the field as a
guDernatorial candidate If the iI,dea docs
resign, he will not enter the race for the
governorship, but will airy, for. the con
gresslonal nomination fkomf this district. -
Editor Bernard's huneh is. hereby re-
corded, and further developm ents will he
watched with interest. * - -, :
The st. Peter Free Press saws: aazg
- LUNGS Keep on at the present gait
IN the gubernatorial race for the next CON
Ventlon it will be an extremely one-sided
a1ralr and in all probability will result in
BOD Dunn,s nomination by acclamat ton
Editor Miller is postmaster at st. Peter
recently appointed by Congressman Davis
VINO e was nominated last year by the eff
a1l's % Oh the third district machine. Puz-
zie.f1gure out the attitude Of Joel Heat
Wole toward Bob Dunn's candidacy.
CHARLES 3. Cheney.