The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-11-12
POL,IT'IC S AND
r.. POLITICIANS.

The fight between Bates and Mil
Ter for sheriff kept these two men
IN "a state OF hysteria7 for several
hours Tuesday night. The city pre-
c1ncts were slow in coming in, and
the telegraph and telephone wires
were burned up by the two candid
ates in the efforts of obtaining some
thing to tabulate. - :,
Without the shrievality the voters
would have been at a loss for some
thing to fight about on the county
ticket, since this was the only pos
s1ble contest. The surprising thing
about it YVES that the city went
against Bates and he was elected by
BOO majority on the Range showing
Atone:
1t may be that the electionxv OF
johnson will benefit the Republican
party on the whole House-cleaning
time comes once in SO often, anyway,
and it may be that the Republican
PARTY needed it.
Minnesota, as we'll as Kentucky,
has feuds, but in our state the am
flushing is done at the polls and the
night before election, when the as
saulted party has no time to reply to
roorbacEs.e
! Search. the country with a fine
tooth comb, aind you couldn't find
speltbincer who, few days before
election, was CHASING Illinois in the
'doubt1ul' column. Nobody cares
to be regarded as a poor prophet.
:. Puzzle: Find Matt Gasser's prof
It's on election bets.
For few months everybody will
get lest from the boasts OF the
ward healer, with his tables and
statistics OF the vote OF other years,
and prophecies OF the results.
: None were more anxious, or re-
NAMED up so late an hour, as those
who had good money bet on the
election.
Again it was demonstrated that
without Tammany you can't carry
New York. TOO bad, but it's so.
The monthly report OF the health
department OF this city issued We'd
nesday shows twelve deaths from
consumption, all but two of which
were under 20 years OF age, and
nearly all working girls. 1t is said
that lack OF exercise in the open
air and poorly ventilated and lighted
rooms is responsible for the trouble
The working girl who is compelled
to stand Oh her feet eight or ten
hours day has no time to exercise.
Thus condition OF affairs should be
looked into by the health authori-
ties. Stores and offices that are so
dark as to necessitate artificial light
all day need attention. Health is
certainly paramount to the few dol
lars that would be required to make
these places habitable.
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Only three months until the NUM-
cipal election. Short rests, indeed.
between campaigns.
Voting machines have been or
dered for four wards during the
spring elections that have not here
tofore enjoyed them. After that,
Duluth will probably be without
these handy appliances, since the
state agent personally took the re-
sponsibility to rent them to the city
in order to introduce them into the
state, and will probably take them
away.
While political workmen are
clearing away the wreckage of the
general election candidates for office
at the coming, spring tournament are
coming forth. Out of the eight al
dermen to be elected it is believed
that all but one or two will again
ask the support of the people. Aid
erman Walker is reported to have
said he would not be a candidate for
reelection, and Porter Neff has been
mentioned as a candidate from the
same ward.
Governor LaFollette was certainly
"vindicated" over in Wisconsin,, and
the Legislature, which will elect a
senator to succeed Quarles, is said to
be in doubt. 1t is generally believed
that Governor .l4aFollette will now
seek to be United States senator, and
for some months longer Wisconsin is
destined to be in the public eye.
Perhaps it. is just as we'll for
union labor that Judge Parker, with
his legal construction OF everything
executive, was not elected. Our
cause will doubtless receive more
just consideration at the hands of the
president who has promised "a
square deal for every man."