Mower County transcript., 1904-10-05

selections, as the idea of direct nomina-
tions conveys, but restricts them to the
names that appear on the primary
ticket and does not allow the voter to
suggest any other. It would seem that
the practical working of the law puts
thu selection Of the candidates before
the people into the hands of fewer
men.
Wykoff Messenger: Robert NJ. Foster
who has been visiting old friends and
neighbors in this vicinity for several
weeks returned on Monday to his home
in Austin. COL Foster has many
friends here who are always glad to
welcome him, and who were pleased to
see him looking so hale and hearty
Mr. Foster came down principally at
this time to visit his old-time friend,
Hon. R. b. Brown of GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
who bas been spending a few weeks at
Forestville.
Luverne Herald: The Herald has
never failed to give it's loyal support to
the nominees of the republican party.
| 1t believes in party organization and
party loyalty. 1t believes that those
who participate in a party convention
! or primary election for the nomina-
tion of candidates are in honor bound
| to abide by the results. It believes in
supporting the whole ticket from top
to bottom. Therefore the Herald, as a
matter of course, will give it's loyal
support to the republican ticket,
national, state, judicial, congressional
and county.
-Bemidji Pioneer: If the republicans
cannot nominate their own ticket in
the primaries without having hundreds
| of democrats assisting what is going to
become of the republican party? TO
| those who do not believe that the party
system is an integral part of the re-
public this question is of small concern,
but to those of us who firmly believe
that the welfare of the nation depends
upon the political organization which
has been builded in the slow process of
time since 1898, the question is a grave
one.
Albert Lea Tribune: There is still
something to live for. Nyquist, who
made such an effort to have the law
taxing dogs repealed and succeeded,
was defeated for denomination in Blue
Earth county along with his colleagues,
an excellent action, as all had long ago
outlived their usefulness. Nyquist
earned the name of 1.-The Dog States
man" and it should always cling to
him. AS much of a nuisance as dogs
are in every community in the state no
man that is sane should make a
speciality of having restrictive laws re-
pealed, for it he does he is laying the
Foundation for defeat. Nyquist, last
and long farewell!
| Fairmont News: Death, even, some
wag to display his proclivities. Not
long ago a subscriber to the News died
in southern state. Not long after his
demise there was received at this Office
la postmasters notification card which
said that our "paper addressed to Mr..
Blank is not taken out but remains
dead il. this Office. Reason, left city
and gone, we don't know where. .. He
has probably gone, however, to q better
place than will the man who takes the
paper out of the postofice for threeSor
four years and then, when asked to- pay
for it, puts it back in the Office marked
refused The world would be better
off if q lot of lthis latter kind Of fell
lows were dead. .zst 0 y
st. Cloud Journal-P Press: The time
has come when some additional legisla-
tiOn should be enacted looking to rail
|road rates, which shall be fair to all
sections Of the state. The present t}rates
are in favor Of the big terminals and
against the inland points. Minnesotc
is sufficiently well settled, and has
plenty of railroads on good tracks to
warrant the same rate per mile whether
that mile is in southern Minnesota.
central Minnesota or northern Mime
sofa. The discri ation against nine
tenths Of the terri tory covered by the