The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-16
Mr.. BURKE NOT HURT
Capital Removal Agitation Has En-
~ HANGED His Chances Rather
= Than Impaired Them.
The Republican Leaders Nowise In
volved-Correspondents at S. D.
Capital 'Perniciously Active
Guecfal to Tho Journal.

Pierre, S. D., Jan. 16.-The talk that
republican leaders have become dlsas-
trously involved in the capital removal
proposition is utterly without foundat1on
On that matter every citizen mas peeh
left free to use his own judgment and TO
subserve his own interests with the clear
understanding on the part of everyone
In a. position to speak for the party that
no honest effort put forth In the capt.
tai matter should be rewarded or re-
buked by the party. The simple 1act IS
that capital removal has been or vital
Importance to only few persons WINE
to the great mass Of the people the mat
ter has been regarded with sentiments
ranging from mild enthusiasm to total
Indifference, and by far the larger mum
her have belonged to the indifferent class:
Affairs here are Of the most hundrum
and commonplace character, and some OF
the correspondents have attempted to in
1ect interest into their columns by en-
tirely unwarranted assumptions regard
ing the attitude of republicans.
This talk of course is intended to afect
particularly the tenure Of office Of Mr..
Burke, because Of the manly light ne
made for his home town. The talk that
Mr.. Burke Is serving his last term Is
perennial, but it may be emphatlcally
asserted that he never stood better with
the people or the party leaders than he
does at present and his loyalty to Pierre
under circumstances which might have
led weaker man to occupy an eQulvoca
position, has added to the respect felt fol-
him, not only at home, but by the party
and the managers of Mitchelrs interests
To Be Killed by Ridicule.
~ The long expected anti-football bill is
O. stem wnder, according to the dehnl'
ton of the school boys. 1t was received
by the senate with grin, which broad
ened and deepened into a. roar OF laugh
ter when Lieutenant Governor Snow re-
ferred it to the committee on pubic
health. It is impossible to get any one
to treat it seriously, and when it comes
up again an amendment will be proposed
to make it cover ping pong and check
ers It is doomed to interment in a grave
dug with the spade Of ridicule
Representative Carroll of klngsbury i
m old teacher though for many year
a successful banker He believes it lit
tie short Of persecution to subject sue
cessful teachers to annual examinations
He has a bill authorizing the state SUI
perintendent to extend certificates iron
time to time for successful and practl
cal teachers His bill contains one ex
ceedingly important innovation in TIL
SCHOOL law Of the state. 1t provides in
short clause attached to the last sec
ton that when any pupil has complete
the eight grade as prescribed by the stat
course of study he may enter a con
venient high school and complete tn
course there, his tuition to be paid b
his home district. This provision is meet
ing with the hearty cOnmenda ton
many of the states leading educator
who hold that every boy and girl is Ell
titled to a, complete high school cours
and if his district will not provide