The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-04
What the Editors Say

TIE report of Public Examiner john
son, given out a few days ago, regard
ing mineral leases made out during
the incumbencyN of r. c. Dunn, of the
state auditors office, in favor of George
A. Finn and 1. c. Paterson, clerks in
that office, is attracting widespread at
tention. SO fragrant a violation of law
cannot be permitted to pass unnoticed.
Whatever may be said regarding the
way in which timber trespasses were
settled by Mr.. Dunn, in which he exer-
cised his own discretion instead of en-
forcing the law, the action of his clerks
cannot be set aside. That he. the then
state auditor, must have had knowledge
of these transactions when he con-
firned these leases, seems to be GER
tain 1t has passed the stage Of in
situation and has come to show down
of facts. Always having had a good
opinion of r. C. Dunn, we wish that he
might be able to make clean showing
in this matter. Meanwhile it is up to
the attorney general to annul these
fraudulent leases and return to the
state her own. Will he do it?-Le
Sueur Sentinel
We print elsewhere the acceptances
of Justices Lovely and Brown, of the
supreme court, both Republicans of the
Democratic nomination for re- ELECTION.
Judge Brown was renominated by the
Republican state convention, and Judge
Lovely, upon the roll call, had received
a majority of the convention, but be-
cause of trades due to the seating of
the Hennepin county delegation, of in
famous memory, he was juggled and
cheated out of his rights. This was ac-
compfished by trades and changing of
votes after it was known that Judge
Lovely had a majority.
The iQfamY of such proceeding, in
volving as it does the SacredneSS of the
judiciary, is one more evidence of that
great political monstrosity the Dunn
Jones' Merger" state convention.
Surely the Republicans Of Mime
sofa will redeem their party from this
shame and disgrace by RELOCATING the
conspirators to oblivion.-St. Cloud
Times.
The Republican state central COM
mittee invites citizens to compare the
statement made by Auditor Iverson
with the report made by Public Elk
aminer Johnson. The chairman of the
committee which issues this invitation
is business manager of the Pioneer
Press, which refused to print Mr.
Johnson's reports. The citizens who
are invited to make this comparison
should invite Mr.. Hamlin to publish
these reports in his newspaper so that
they can make the comparison. Or
perhaps the Pioneer Press manager
prefers to have the voters compare Mr..
VERSIONS statement with the Pioneer
Press condemnation of the reports of
the public examiner.-St. Cloud Jour
nal-Press.
Are the staneh supporters of Mr..
Dunn ready and willing to maintain
that, as Mr.. Dunn asserts, his deputies
had perfect legal and moral right to
speculate in mineral and timber state
lands? To our way of thinking. MIR.
Dunn himself proelaims to the world
that he willfully and knowingly vio-
lated the laws of the state when he at
tempts to defend the transactions of
| Messrs. Finn and Patterson-Paynes-
vile Press.
The possibility that by some unl1ind
| freak of fate Ray Jones might become
governor of Minnesota makes the good
citizen doubt if the voters of the state
are always possessed of their right
minds on election day.-Red Lake
Courier.
Considerable johnson fever" has de-
veloped in Grant county, which is
strongly Republican, and in all proba-
bility the St. Peter man will get a
| good sprinkling of votes.-Barrett
Breeze.
The weather man knows what is
best. Following an election he chills
the atmosphere so that losing candi-
dates will not spoil, but keep for an
other fray.-Granite Falls Tribune.
It's mighty rare layman who
doesn't know just how to run news
paper-Duluth News Tribune.