The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-10
Crist Of the
Political Mill

IiOullldltu next year, anu lldl as Ill
the past their geographical locations
will have no effect on the makeup of
the ticket. Justice Lovely comes from
the First congressional district, JUS
tice Brown from the Seventh and JUS
tice Lewis from the Eighth.
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Both the First and Eighth districts
have candidates for other offices, and
the Seventh district woods fairly TEEN
with patriots willing to serve. If it
were not for the fact that the Repub-
lican conventions have paid little at
tention to the geography of supreme
court nominations, fine complications
might result, and, indeed, may as it is.
There is no assurance that the present
associate justices are to be renominat-
ed without opposition and there is
rather more than a possibility of a
change in the judiciary ticket
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Justice Lewis is the one whom
the politicians seem most to fear. They
have it all figured out that the Eighth
district must consent to the loss of
either it's railroad and warehouse COM
missioner or it's justice Of the supreme
court. On this basis it is rifle for
the delegation between Miller and
Brown If it is true that the interests
that backed Miller four years ago have
deserted him it would at first blush
appear that Justice Lewis might have
it pretty easy. On the other hand,
majority of those interested in poll
tics win remember that Miller was
nominated as representative organic
ed labor man. 1t has become recog-
piza6 1ncacSitu n oiya nreranizn6 lahnr
one place on the ticket. If the union
men come out for Miller it's a fairly
safe wager that he will be renominat-
ed.
1t appears to be the general consen-
sus of the practical politicians that
Justice Lovely will have the whole of
Southern Minnesota solid and whoop-
ing for him. Justice Brown may have
to divide the western delegations with
Attorney General Douglas. who is per-
sistently mentioned as a candidate for
the supreme bench, and it is not i'm
probable that Judge Jaggard, of the
Ramsey county district court, may be
induced to allow his name to go before
the convention.
1t Is believed in some quarters that
Gen. Douglas will not be a candidate
for the supreme bench, but rather that
he will find it advisable to be a candi-
date to succeed himself, as a result of
the expected complications in the Sew
enth and Ninth districts. The rumor
that Ed Young has decided to keep
out of the attorney generalship race
lends color to this theory Rumor
oh N IF hQ
were to draw down the Fourth dis
trict is still on deck with Oscar Hal
lam and William Donahower.
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The Globe gratefully acknowl-
edges receipt of proof of an extract
from the Fourth of July address de-
livered by former Congressman Frank
Eddy at Dodge Center. The extract
has to do with politics and is couched
in terms indicative of a platform for
gubernatorial candidate. Eddy
handles the existing tariff. civil serv-
ice, tax. monetary and administrative
evils without gloves and, pleading for
curative legislation, says emphatically
he has no use for the stand "patterS."
The whole is rich brown roast Of the
governmental system which has grown
steadily but surely and disastrously
for quarter of century, and is partic-
ularly interesting coming from man
who will ask his fellow partisans to
give him a chance to practice his
theories from the state executives Of
flee. Some of 1T is colored higher than
other portions, but it is all good from
both the tragic and humorous stand
points. The following abbreviated ex-
tracts are indicative of the whole,
which seems to be a sort of challenge
to the whole Republican party:
This government spends millions of
dollars every year to preserve our tim
bered territory and reforest our lands
that have been denuded and 1t places
a tariff of 50 a thousand on imported
lumber 1t maintains an extrayagantly
expensive fish commission that spends
immense sums of money in preserving
and renewing our almost exhausted
fisheries, and 1t maintains half cent
pound tariff on imported fish. Such
contradictory legislation is incompar-
ably silly, the people don't believe In
it. 1t is as senseless as it would~be
for surgeon to sew up a wound with
one hand and tear it open with the
other. No man in Minnesota, candi-
date for an executive or legislative Of
fee dare state in plain terms, at the
beginning of his campaign, that he Is
in favor of the retention of the tariff
on lumber and fish: If he did he would
always be a candidate and never an
officer
Certain industries enjoying the ben
eft of tariff sell their wares in the
markets they are protected against
cheaper than they do in the home mar
ket: they know, and know full well,
that where such conditions exist the
difference between the foreign price
and the higher home one is not protec-
ton to American Workingmen or to
American producers, but it is simply
tribute to the men who own and con-
troll the industry.
"Our trust laws are weak and ineffi-
cient. Great corporations possessing
unlimited capital receive legislative
benefits and governmental favors not
enjoyed by smaller concerns.
Our currency and banking laws are
cumbrous, complicated and antiquated.
'sThis is the only commercial coun-
try on the globe where conditions have
arisen and may arise again when
man with an abundance of first-class
collateral cannot raise a dollar thereon.
Our system of taxation, state and
eigners smile when they see man
worth $4,000 paying as much tax as
man worth $50.
"Our civil service system is unjust
and discriminating.
"Our suffrage laws are absurd and
unfair; that the qualifications emitting