The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1903-05-06

accomplished by the assistance of
republican votes and predictions
are common that all such votes will
be cast for him again if he becomes
candidate for reelection.
X
Mayor Haynes is the antithesis of
Mayor Smith of ST. Paul. Mayor
Haynes is Industrious. aggressive
and tireless while Mayor Smith is
| phlegmatic, passive and Indifferent.
| No one can ''use' Mayor Haynes,
while Mayor Smith is only kept in
his present position because he can
be used. " Mayor Smith is man
of pretty fair business judgment,
however, and if allowed to carry
out his own ideas in making appoint
| ments his city would be we'll
Differed; but he probably has not
in all the years he has served as
mayor in St. Paul made single
appointment that had it's origin in
his own mind. The official list is
made up and handed him by the
men who placed him in the official
chair, and all he is expected or
permitted to do is to OK the list.
Mayor Smith is TO the govern
ment of st. Paul what a postage
stamp is to letter. The stamp has
nothing to do with the letter, but is
simply stuck on the envelope to
make the letter go. And Mayor
Smith has nothing to do with max
ing the official appointments of his
Office, but simply affixes his OK in
order that the appointment may be
legalized and the appointees enabled
thereby to draw their salaries.
However, Mayor Smith is a man
much admired in private life. He
is honest, plain, friendly and con-
vivial, and has no political or other
enemies. Such man is hard to
defeat at the polls, and it is safe to
say that the genial "Bob' Smith
will continue to be mayor of St.
| Paul until he reaches his dotage,
and it is not certain that he can be
defeated then. In the mean time
he is willing to be a mayor, with
out authority, that he may, as he
says, have the salary which the
position draws.
The old Exposition building at
| Minneapolis, which for years has
been the whitest kind of a white
elephant for it's owners, the real
estate men and people who live in
it's vicinity, has at last been sold to
the president of the International
Stock Food Co., who will spend a
fortune in altering it to suit his
needs, as a manufacturing plant,
depot, etc. This structure, the
largest of it's kind ia the North west,
and costing 800, 900, was a failure
from the start for the purpose for
which it was built.
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About eighteen years ago Ramsey
county gave tract of land between
the two cities which constituted the
county poor" farm to the State
Agricultural society, to be used
permanently as the state fair
grounds. Minneapolis people who
had hoped to capture the state fair
we're hostile to this transaction,
and, being more impetuous in those
days than now, put up a building
and held an exposition at the same
time the fair was held. This was
for spite. After few years failure
in the exposition business the enter
prise was called off and the big
building has since stood monu-
ment to the cantankerous spirit
which brought it into being
The building has an interesting
history A president has been
nominated in it, the foremost men
of the country have grated in it,
the brightest operate stars in the
world have sung in it and the
heaviest musical organizations ex-
tant have played in it. If the fellow
who bought it was after something
on which he might lavish some of
his surplus wealth he has found