The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-08
MINNESOTA POLITICS

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The democratic editor of the Faribault
Pilot says: '.r, 1 M.
Tho the merger case may prove a
costly olunder for the state, still it should
not be charged against Governor Van
SAINT, but against the republican party of
the state. A political party should be held
surety accountable for the official acts
q those whom 1t elects to office. The re-
publican party Of Minnesota made Samuel
70. Van SAINT governor. The democrats of
THIS state then must hold the republican
party OF minnesota responsible for the Of
nclal acts and administration Of Governor
Van SAINT. If the creation of the board
OF control and the instituting Of the mer-
ger suit were blunders, let the republican
party 20 held responsible for. them. The
repupl1can party took the credit for the
merger suit last year,snoW they must take
So far as heard from, the voters Of the
state have not changed their minds about
the board of control or the bringing of the
merger suit since last fall, when they
gave $4,000 majority on thosa< issues The
| Pilot. man is thesttrst TO eYatge up the
merger suit asSNaS blunder because the
state mas lost the first round. q However.
] there Is some meat in what he says. The
republican party has made The board Of
control and the merger suits state issues,
4 and cannot go back on them. X The plat
form next year must reiterate last years
on those subjects;and the candidates must
stand by the paaffornls.5sss Sy1s.ssseas; - e-5.
! w. e. Verify says in the Wadena Tri-
bune:
Speaking about merger busters-did
| Van !un1ntentiona1ly overlook the merging
Of the range railways by the United States
! steel company Rockefeller concern?
And If he did not-will he be Kind enough
TO furnish us with good reason why a
Rockefeller merger is entitled to any bet
ter treatment at the hand Of Minnesota
than any other merger? AS republican
the governor must believe in protection tic
home Enthusiastically not to home mer-
gers?"z
Is 1t possible that Editor Verify is not
familiar with the course Of the state au-
thor1t1es concerning the iron ore roads
merger? Governor Van SAINT requested
Attorney General Douglas to investigate
and see whether there was any means Of
breaking up that consolidation: Mr.. Doug.
las found that there was not: The Duluth
Missabe & Northern stock is owned by
one company; that of the Duluth & Iror
Range by another. These iron companies
are in turn owned, as to a majority Of
their stock, by the United States Stee
company. This is far more artful anG
c1rcuitous form Of merger than the North.
ern Securities company, held legal by
Judge iochren. Mr.. Douglas advised thai
no legal process could possibly defeat this
scheme, so no suit was brought. The same
ones who have chided the administration
for not busting" the steel merger would
be the first ones to roast it for bringing z
suit and having it thrown out of court
, II people do not want to be pleased, yol
can't please them. III -.
Discussing the possibility of Governor
ont hair, lI~k
) Dunn says in his Princeton Union:
l Surely Governor Van SAINT is a man O
his word? More than a year ago he re
peatedly pledged his support to anothe
for governor in 1904 So great man a.
t Governor Van SAINT cannot afford to VIC
1 late a voluntary pledge. Governor Val
, SAINTS protested friends do him ranl
= injustice by even intimating that III
= could or would be guilty of deliberat
. falsehood" &ss - rf5
81 The Princeton Union ought to be prett,
q good authority for such a statement, an
evidently it's confidence is not misplaced
The governor is not a candidate for
0 third term. T.
: Yet if the following from the Austi
: Transcript Is authentic, somebody ha
: put sugar in the cranberries:
g Van SAINTS agents are already active
(; ly engaged in plans for his denomination
:, We are informed that Mower county ha
. been promised by his local adherents an
e it is probable that all along the line hi
e lieutenants are In the same business. ]
r. will be hard to deliver the goods here I'm
. less some change in present condition
9 occurs
e One Of Dan Shells senatorial colleague
n says that when the broad statesmen
Worthington first received his invitatio
to the Jones dinner, with an "R S. v. P.
: attached, he replied with the sinpl
e legend: '"T. F. T. G. OF When presse
:, for the meaning of it he explained thu
+ it was a fashionable abbreviation fc
% '"Too Fat to Go OUT The story is lii
% tie doubtful, for Daniel was there Thurs
n day night in all his glory,
u The Appleton Tribune says:
le 1T is not a very good omen for tt
IS success of Frank Eddy's gubernatori
? 4 boom that he should receive such gre:
attention this year when. nobody else
le particular is running. ~
ID CHARLES B. Cheney.
y NEW-FANGLED SCHOOLS
IS Journal Of Education.
r. The following is from the Newark, I
IT.. News.