The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-06-02

the bill came up for passage, Joel
had the votes to rout its champions
so easily that their defeat was al
NOSE pitiable.
The politicians of the state will
not soon forget the speaker ship
fight of two years ago. DR..
Babcock of Wadena, announced his
candidacy. Governor Van SAINT
and his followers, flushed with
victory and elated by their magnifi-
cant endorsement of over $4,000
majority at the preceding election,
declared their opposition to the
genial doctor. The decentralization
of the Doctors forces at this an
nouncement was never equalled ex-
cept by the decentralization of the
Union troops at Cedar Creek when
Early and his gray-eoated cavalry
made their sudden and audacious
dash into their camp on that long
ago historic morning. Heatvole,
Sheridan-like, flew home from
Washington to rally the Doctors
scattered clans. He passed the
word along the line "You have run
far enough, it is now time for you
to make the other fellows run for
a SPELL" Inspired by the presence
of their master, the Babcock forces
faced about and routed the admins
tration cohorts as badly as the
Sheridan-inspired Federals routed
Early's victory-enthused troopers,
when the little General, on his
foam coated charger, arrived on the
lost battlefield and rejuvenated his
warriors with the electrical inspira
ton of his presence.
Heatwole sits alone in his politi-
cal workshop, and in loom of his
own creation, weaves the destinies
Of Minnesota politicians in and out
of the fabric out of which he in
tends to create the garment of his
own political ambitions, with the
skill of master weaver. Heatwole
is good waiter. The patience of
a grim spider sitting in the center
of his web, waiting for a victim to
become entangled in the meshes of
his self created structure, is in
decent haste compared to the
patience with which Joel waits for
things ''to come his way"
Heatwole plays upon the weak
nesses, the vanities and the ambi-
tons Of his fellow citizens with the
same mystifying skill that trained
harper manipulates the strings of
his instrument. Heatwole is a
conscientious politician but his
political conscience is of that
elastic sort so that without
difficulty he can stretch 1t enough
to cover any method or utilize any
resource that will enable him to &C.
complish his ends. No other poll
tician can work with Heatwole,
they must work for him or train
with someone else. Numerous
Minnesota politicians, who have in
former times arrayed themselves
against him, have since passed
under his yoke and smiled as if they
enjoyed their enforced submission
to his authority. Candidate Dunn,
in 1896, called him a ''tadpole" but
Heatwole cut the tail off the "tad-
poll'' and is now using it as a whip
lash to make his former bitter
political opponent dance and dance
lively to his music.
For years, Chas. A. Mitchell of
Alexandria, hurled the darts of his
biting, cutting sarcasm at the
ponderosity3 encased within Heat
wole's immaculate waist-coat. Joel
saved them all and now that he has
Charley hitched as pole horse to
his band wagon, he takes special
delight in using these same darts
as goads to make Charley step lively
and pull steadily.
Should Heatwole win in the
present fight, the iron rule of Quay
in Pennsylvania and the perfect