The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-30
MINNESOTA POLITICS
Republican Administration Profits BY
VOTERS Irvine Plant Record-cordlaIs
Relations In the Seventh District-eov-
ernor's Silence Is a "Rlessng."
Henry SWolfers administration Of the

state prison Irvine plaIlts is5ene of the
ngests.recornraenda ions enSthe present
administration can point to, in bust-
ness way. The warden has adones some-
thing no other such official has been able
to do; he has operated a Irvine plant at a
profit, and at the same time made a
saving to farmers. No matter what t1uc
tuations in price of the: raw material or
the finished product; Wofer always turns
a profit and at the same time saves the
farmers. hundreds Of thousands The ca
pacity of the plant, is increasing, and a
new engine is being put in which will in
crease the speed of the spindles, and
make it possible to enlarge the output
Without additional machinery. In a few
years it is thought that all the convict
labor in the, prison will be employed on
the Irvine plant. Farm Implements, a
local monthly trade journal, pays Warden
Wolfer a high compliment for his bust
ness ability, and says:
:. If he has been able to build up, out of
a comparatively small beginning, a bust
ness which, pays SO Handsomely; and
which shows in twelve years a profit equal
to four times the original investment, he
has no business drawing a; salary of, $4,000
a year as warden of the; Minnesota state
prison. He. should be drawing ten times
that sum in position where his abilities
would rebound to the business - world
and his keen. acumen benefit honest
Workmen.''
According to the editor of the Browns
Valley Tribune: - 80 -
'"The friends of Frank Eddy and Ed
Young are not tscrappins' in the seventh
district. Both: candidates are right on the
important state issues, and both are pop
ular with the voters. 3. The. one who de-
velops the most strength outside sthe dis
trictr in their; respective candidates, will
In,,tN AZ r 1,nc> Ar 81
enth in the state convention, and there
will be no ill feeling -. ="
No, there are no. hard feelings at ALL
Each man is doing his level best to corral
the delega ties, that is all. =, -. r.
The Crookston Journal says. 80
eve hope that northern Minnesota will
retain the attorney generalship for an
other term. but if it must go south, what
is the matter with George w. Somerville
of Sleepy Eye. Frank e. Putnam of Blue
Earth and Samuel Lord Of Kasson? . All
good men, and. good lawyers as well.
All are good NJ en-, but being state SEN
state office until their terms have expired
in 1906.
R. W. Hitchcock, the new editor of the
Ben1idji Pioneer, observes:
by his silence Governor Van SAINT is
undoubtedly rendering both his party and
the state in general an important ser
vice. It is not believed that the governor
viii again be q candidate. for the high Of
fee Of chief executive of the state but sc
Ions as ne refuses to speak it is possible
and the governors silence is simply post
poning, the thick Of the fight. Both par
les and all candidates are waiting to see
what Van Sant4Will do. Long campaigns
are an unmixed evil, and anything that
shortens the contest Is a blessing to the
candidates. to the party and to the state. .
!, The governor seems willing to continue
bestowing this blessing for an indefinite
period. &. ,
The Hutchinson Independent. Time:
says:
William H. Eustis has declined to sue.
coed Castle as auditor of the postoffice de.
partment in the treasury. Mr.. Eustis' Is
wise. It is not q suitable place for him
He Is deserving of something better. Il
Minneapolis voters are wise, they will
Esend him to congress to succeed j ohr
Lind Eustis in congress would reflect
great honor on that city as well as on the
state Charles-B b. Cheney,