The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-04

Hennepln county as lost. The only
wonder to those in tOnch with the
feelings of the 113 unseated dele
gates is that the county was not
given up at the outset and the work
ers placed elsewhere.
DULUTH may be interested to an
extent in the political Jackpot, but
she is more interested in the recent
raise of insurance rates. And
rightly so, as the insurance rate in
crease is of much more importance
to the property owners of the Zenith
City than is the question as to who
shall be permitted to get their
share of the states pay roll.
THE ENTERPRISE acknowledges a
personal letter from James NJ. Mar
tin, now head push for the Dunn
band wagon, urging the support of
every Republican for the declared
nominee of the convention. This
letter, in comparison with some of
Mr.. Martins former illusions on
the nominee as named, would not
make hit as one of the infallible
items of Poor Richards almanac.
DESPITE the fact that Joel Heat
wole was given high ball by the
state Republican committee it is
evident that the gentleman landed
right side up with care and that his
name will not be stricken from the
list of Republican futures in the
state of Minnesota. 1t is even hint
ed that his name may be one of the
elements with which the state leg
islature may have to contend the
coming winter.
COL. a. NJ. FLAGG, of Duluth, form
err editorial writer on the News Trib-
une, committed suicide by drown
ing on Tuesday. The deceased was
well-known to many of the newspa-
per boys of the Gogebic as we'll as
the Mesaba range, spending several
years on the northern Michigan
range after leaving South Dakota
Mr.. Flagg was recovering from a
protracted illness, and the act is at
tributed to an unbalanced brain.
The reports of Public Examiner
Johnson. as submitted upon request
of Gov. Van SAINT, have been pub
lished in book form and gain cir
culation throughout the state. The
reports deal to great extent with
the records of the state auditors Of
fee during the incumb ency of Rob
ert G. Dunn, and a casual research
of the sworn statements submitted
will show why so many Minnesota
lumbermen favor Mr.. Dunn's CUB.
ernatOrial candidacy.
In his remarks to a Virginia audi.
ence on Friday last Robert C. Dunn
asserted that if elected governor he
would recommend legislation pro
hibiting the issuance of railroad
passes to any but railroad men
But he did not say whether or not
he was riding on passes or paying
his fare in his swing around the
circle during the campaign. And
while he asserts that the corpora
tons are strictly "agin" him it is a
safe bet that railroad fare and
special trains do not enter into his
list of campaign expenses.
THE PRINCETON UNION, Candi
date Dunn's paper, in mention Of
those favoring Mr.. Dunn in the
present contest says that 1.-The thou
sands of plain, common people, all
over the state, true blue Republi
cans who are not to be controlled
by corporation organs, political
scavengers, traducers and marp
lots, soreheaded and sour-stom
ached Republicans, and lot Of
human small fry who inhale th<
ozone of the scavenger wagon" are
with him. But on Tuesday mex
Mr.. Dunn will find that he will rur
80 far behind Theodore Roosevelt
in the state of Minnesota that hi
will be forced for time to wonder
what has become of all those thou
sands of "plain, common people,
The voters of Minnesota are doing
!, their own thinking these days, and
while to the acute sense of the Re
publican candidate they may seem
ingly be following the "scavenge1
wagon" they will continue their
own thinking, whether it Pleases q
/ gang of political hucksters or not