The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-24
POLL lGS
KANE ARRAICNS
Dunn And JONES
Ramsey County Prosecutor
Makes Plain Talk to
Hebrew Voters

Al a meeting last evening of the John
son and winston Hebrew Democratic club
in Federation hail. Thomas R. Kane ar
raigned Ray W. Jones and charged that
R. c. Dunn is admittedly an incompetent
official
1T does seem queer said Mr.. Kane
at one stage of his speech, that the state
Is able to secure the money with which
to appoint and pay game wardens to pro-
stect the ducks in the air and the grouse
In the grass, and connot appoint and pay
enough cruisers to protect the patrimony
of the state-the forty square miles of
pine timber that is designed to assist in
educating The children.
I'm signed statement of the Republic
an candidate for governor the only eX-
cuse that he gives for allowing the theft
of untold thousands OF feet OF pine was
that he did not have the money to pay
a sufficient number of cruisers to protect
the property of the state 1 would ike to
ask if there is a man who ever heard of
Mr.. Dunn during the eight years that ne
was state apditor asking for additional
money with which to secure cruisers? If
he desired to protect the property of the
state would he not-have done so?
Nails Dunn Statements
Dunn, as the candidate for governor
of his party, has gone into print over his
own signature with an admission that he
signed leases worth millions of dollars in
favor of subordinateS in his office. Spe-a
officially he says that he signed a lease a
: few days before he went out of office
without looking at it, and yet We are told
that this lease is worth from So, 600, 600 to
$4,000,000, and that it was made in favor
of one of the employees of Mr.. Dunn. He
admits that during his term of office he
compromised with timber thieves at from
20 to SO per cent on the dollar, thus per-
mitting the public schools to be robbed.
He admits that in the thirty years before
he went into office that the timber thieves
were allowed by the Republican party to
steal S5, coo worth of pine timber, and
there is plenty of evidence at hand that
me made no apparent effort to stop the
thefts.
And for lieutenant governor the Re
publicans have Ray w. Jones for a candi-
date-a man who appeared in the United
States court and by paying $4,000 for
the theft of timber admitted that he was
guilty. Jones and others have confessed
their guilt. Have you ever heard of one
of the number being criminally prosecut-
ed? Did Dunn, while state auditor bring
to the bar Of justice one of the many
thieves of whose depredationS he should
have been aware? Instead he comes for
ward with the excuse that he did not
have enough cruisers to cover the field.
Is not that a plea of guilty to the charge?
Do we want a man as governor who will
admit in the public prints that he sign
ed important documents without know
ing their contents?
IF the pine lands of the state, the
value Of which is to educate the children
of the future, is to be saved to the state
it is necessary that men be put into Of
flee who VIII see to it that the public
business is honestly transacted Such are
the Democratic candidates for state Of
fees"
Non-PartIsan Bench
S. J. Donnelly spoke upon the attitude
of the Republicans, which has made the
Ramsey county judicial positions political
in character and showed thatit has been
and is the purpose of the Democratic
party to have three of the judges on the
: Ramsey county bench Republicans and
d. OBrien, the Democratic candidates,
are elected there will still be four Re-
publicans to two Democrats, showing that
If the bench is to be evenly maintained
choose one Republican and one Democrat
after having elected Bum and O'Brien:
Mr.. Donnelly urged that all voters who
= believe in the maintenance of a non-par-
tisan bench vote for both the Democratic
/, candidates, as by so doing will it alone
be possible to elect them.
1T has In the past been well said that
Ramsey county should be proud of the
bench that it has maintained said Mr..
: Donnelly, s'but if the Republican pol
iticians are to be allowed to foista their
favorites upon the people the record will
not last long. If the standard is to be
maintained it is necessary that the voters
declare themselves in favor of the nom
partisan bench, and in no other way than
by voting for both the Democratic candi-
dates can they do So.
Among the candidates and others who
made short talks were r. d. O'Brien, p.
j. Metzdorf, DR.. A. w. Miller, NJ. P.
Anton Miesen, Fred Beck, r. N Hare,
R. N. Grady. Oscar Tankenoff presided
and predicted that the Sixth ward will
give majority to the Democratic ticket.
He said this was somewhat due to the
fact that the party has treated national
ity with consideration and fairness.