The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-11
Crist Of the
Political Mill

From Crookston comes the rather
startling information that 'tSteenerson
is mad" This refers to Congressman
| STEVENSON, the Ninth districts first
representative in the national legisIa-
ture, and Is not to be taken seriously
| Mr.. STEVENSON is not mad. He is an
cry some. His ire was excited, he
| says, by Misrepresentation Of his at
| tltude In the land office matter which
resulted in an order establishing the
new Office at Cass Lake.
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Mf. STEVENSON denies emphatically
that he ever agreed to the location of
the office at Cass Lake He says he
| agreed to the boundaries, but never so
| Tar forgot the interests of his own dis
| tr1ct and himself as to agree that Ne
Office should be established in another
| congressional bailiwick Further, Mr.,
STEVENSON intimates that the chances
! OF securing a change in favor of Be
midi are mighty slim, which has
small tendency to smooth his ruffied
| temper.
Ii Mr.. STEVENSON has been repre-
sented as consenting to anything rel
| at1ve to the location of the land office
ably an injustice has been done him
and his agitated state of temper is en-
tirely justifab1e. In fact, it is init
mated by politicians who claim to
know something about the land Office
disturbance that Mr.. STEVENSON does
himself an injustice when he says he
| consented to the boundaries. They say
some slight boundary changes request
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other members of the delegation after
| Steenerson's plan to fix up the district
and land the Office had fallen through.
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That Mr.. STEVENSON has been mis-
| represented is not at all unlikely Mis-
representation seems to play a promi-
nent part in the land office squabble
which has entagled five of the nine
| members of the delegation. The atti-
tude of Commissioner Richards when
he was in Minnesota and declined to
go to Bemidji rather tended to sub
Stantiate the story that he believed
he had been the victim of attempted
misrepresentation in connection with
the boundaries he was originally asked
to establish and which he refused to do
after investigation.
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VolStead thinks McCleary was gull
ty of Misrepresentation when he back
ed Shepherd for transfer to the new
| office. McCIeary and DoWIing's friends
insist that Volstead misrepresented
Shepherd in charging him with ag-
gressive participation in the Seventh
district primary fight. Buchanan is
hot under the collar because he was
announced as a member of a commit
tee formed to secure reversal of the
Cass Lake Office order and move the
st. Cloud office to Bemidji. Bernard
thinks he has been misrepresented to
the department. or there would have
been no Washington objection to his
appointment to one of the good things
in the new office.
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A few weeks ago Bede'S friends were
sure there was plot to down their man
in the order which showed the upper
end of Itasca county over into the new
district. That order was reversed by
Commissioner Richards, after his Min
nesota visit, and the Eighth district
people are happy. But it is not i'm
probable that Bede will also turn up
with a denial of his participation in the
work Of the Bemidji committee. Taken
pretty complication.
''NOw that Ohio is safe, all political
eyes are turned on Iowa. Will Sena-
tor Allison be able to juggIe the Ian
guage to such an extent that both the
Iowa Ideans and the stand-patters will
be. satisfied? No one questions his SUI
premacy in the straddling art, but this
test is a strenuous one."-Sioux Falls
Argus Leader
Really there is no occasion for lack
of faith. The last state convention in
Minnesota demonstrated nothing in the
way of issue straddling is impossible.
Minnesota Republicans Endorsed both
the president and their representatives
in congress.
Editor Won Week, of the Lake City
Republican, says:
'The inference that the editorial
junket to Washington was for the
purpose of inaugurating a concerted
action among the publishers of the
state anent the distribution of federal
patronage is without foundation. The
increase in the number of editors being
appointed as poStmaSterS is due solely
to the fact that congressman are be-
ginning to realize the Importance of
recognizing "the faithful" and the
fortunate country publishers are get
ting no more than their just dues"
Right you certainly are, Mr.. Won
Week, the brethren of the state press
have made most of the members of the
delegation and they have first call
on poStoff1ces or any other available
patronage and should insist more
strenuously on recognition of their
claim.
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The Aberdeen Democrat is entirely
satisfied with what it considers the
outcome of the next national Demo-
cratic convention. 1t says:
"The- next Democratic presidential
nomination will go to one of three
New York men, and they are Hearst,
Parker and Shepard. Either one will
be generally satisfactory to South Da-
kota Democrats" T"
Two of them might be satisfactory
to Minnesota Democrats but it would
take lot of faith food to induce many
Minnesotans to whoop it up for Hearst.
George A. VanSmith.
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