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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18
Resembled a Waffle.

A politician, upon his arrival at one
of the small towns in North Dakota,
where he was to make speech the fol-
lowing day, found that the two So
called hotels were crowded to the
doors.
Not having telegraphed for accom-
modations, the politician discovered
that he would have to make shift as
best he could.
He was compelled for that night TO
sleep on a wire cot which had only
some blankets and sheet on it. AS
the statesman is a fat man, he found
his improvised bed anything but com
Portable.
"Well," asked friend, when the
politician appeared in the dining-room
in the morning, show did you sleep?''
"Oh, fairly we'll, replied the states
man, nonchalantly, but I looked like
a waffle when / got up. Youth's
Companion,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

From reports of county auditors to
the State auditor there is falling off
in personal property returns from
thirty-two counties of over So, 1000. 900
as compared with last years personal
property valuation. At this rate the
State of Minnesota is undergoing a
wonderful shrinkage in assets. The
COW and calf: melodeon, sewing and
knitting machines, old family clocks.
grandpa's hat, ETC., have no doubt
contributed their just share of taxes.
The goods and merchandise and in
visible assets. are not running neck
and neck with the few items of per-
sonal property which the poor man
and the man Of moderate means pos
sess.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

Road building in the county of Pine
is progressing with gratifying results.
One of the large land companies own
ing thousands of acres of land in
that county is contributing $3.50 per
mile toward the building of eight miles
of road north and east of Bruno, pro-
viding the town will issue bonds for
the balance, and special election
will be held this week to vote on the
proposition. The town has contracted
to- complete fifteen miles of road.
eight miles Of which is finished and
the balance will be finished this year.
There will be thirty-fve miles of good
roads running out of the little town of
Bruno providing sufficient bonds are
voted to complete some of the con
templated roads. This speaks we'll for
a country as new as that about Bruno.
Northern Minnesota is waking up to
the value Of good roads, and let the
good work go on.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

The Hon. Champ Clark lost his
temper the other day while delivering
an address at Chautauqua in In
diana. He made the remark that the
want to rule this country
by assassination, the remark follow
ing a reference to the murder of Gov
ernor Goebel of Kentucky. This re-
mark was too hot for a party in the
audience who called out ''That's not
true; you are liar" To this Clark
replied eff the man who just called
me liar. will meet me outside of the
park when I finish my speech I'll cut
his throat from ear to ear" Pretty
hot stuff, that.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

The county commissioners of
Mcleod county have just approp-
rated $4,000 to the townships of
that county for the purposes of
graveling roads. An appropria-
ton of that kind will bring re-
suits in two ways-the money will
be spent at home, and the good
done the roads will be permanent,
and necessary. -Renville Star
Farmer.
Here is more good roads work. The
people of Mcleod county are to be
on having commission.
arswho realize the Importance of good
roads and who don't stop at just talk
ing about good roads, but appropriate
money for good roads.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

The New York Sun cannot swallow
Parker and the st. Louis platform.
1t says editorially: ssTo state the
Suns position and its reasons there
for requires no metaphysi steal subtlety
of explanation. The main consider
alton is as broad as the nations in
terests. AS the case is now made IN.
we prefer the impulsive candidate of
the party of conserv atism to the mildly
conservative, temporizing, opportun-
ist representative of the Hun vote in
the background. We have more faith
in the distinct promises of the Chicago
platform, not igoring the many Sc
rious defects Of that document, than
we have in the miserable hellbroth Of
dishwater and dynamite concocted at
St. Louis a month ago by a party
afraid to renounce its criminal follies.
and tasted at Esopus by a respect
able candidate who declares with
gusto that it's favor is admirable!
We shall therefore advocate the cleo
ton of Roosevelt and Fairbanks and
advise the defeat of Parker and Davis:
preserving our own absolute independ-
ence Of organic control, and our free
dom of Judgment as to every specific
question occurring. And may the Hon.
Theodore Roosevelt's present mood
continue, and if he is elected may the
discourager of precipitancy stand al
ways at his elbow!''
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18
McCLEARY ON PARKER,

The Minnesota Congressman Sizes up
Democratic Candidate tor President.
Representative McCleary has re-
viewed briefly and systematically
Judge Parker IS speech of acceptance.
Mr.. McCleary says: a..
The speech must be a severe disap-
pointment to those whose expectations
were keyed up by the telegram to the
St. Louis convention. That telegram
seemed the spontaneous utterances of
a clear-headed and courageous man.
The acceptance speech is fair illus
tration of Talleyrand' S famous dictum
of diplomacy. that speech was made to
conceal thought. The first third of
the speech was taken up with the state
ment of general truths, which are we'll
worth stating at frequent intervals,
but which in no sense constitute an
issue because they are approved by
thoughtful and intelligent men of all
parties.
"On the tariff Mr.. Parker practi-
cally says We could do nothing, any
way; therefore trust u.s..
His treatment of the Philippine
question lacks frankness. It seems to
say to the anti-imperialists, we think
as you do, and to the rest of the peo-
pie I'VE would do practically what the
present administration is doing
"In my judgment Mr.. Parker is
actually censurable for his reference
to the Colorado troubles. After stat
ing SO we'll and SO clearly the neces-
sity for the several parts of our gov
ernmental system being kept within
their respective spheres of action, and
knowing as he certainly must that up
to this time, at least, there is no con-
stitiutional warrant for presidential
interference, he should either have
gone further and shown where such
warrant was to be found or else he
should have refrained from mention
ing Colorado at all.
Judge Parker is probably a good
man personally, but he does not in his
speech exhibit either the frankness or
the fearlessness that would warrant
the American people in expecting from
him leadership in good cause,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

That was a beautiful tribute that
the village council of Hinckley paid
to Edward E. Barry, the Great North
ern engineer who during the great
Hinckley fire of 1894 saved the lives
of hundreds of the people of that place
by rescuing them with his train. 1t
was his cool Judgment and great
bravery that saved the lives of the
people. Engineer Barry died the
other day and the council of Hinckley
passed resolutions last week eulogiz-
ing him as a great hero that he really
was. In it's resolutions the village
council said:
He asked no reward and none
was given him but the simple APP
probation of the ones he saved
from terrible death.
A simple and yet a grand tribute.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

Editor Eddy of the Sank Centre
Herald has started ''Men's Column
which is making a great hit and all
the women of Sank Centre are popu-
larizing the feature. Here is one OF
Eddy's very interesting paragraphs:
The world is not run by men and
women who take their dinner at
SIX p. m.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

The eighth annual outing of the
Northwestern Minnesota Editorial as
ISOLATION will be taken Sept. to 8 and
will consist of a trip from St. Paul to
Pine City, Lake Pokegama, Taylor's
Falls, Saltwater, down the St. Croix
river and back to St. Paul. The boys
will have a good time.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18
now on.

The jackson village council at its
last meeting voted a tax for the fol-
lowing purposes: General fund, So, 600;
road and bridge fund, 81, 200; water
works fund. 81, 200; electric light fund,
1925; library fund, 5000. All Of which
goes to show that no village can ever
make improvements or get out of debt
if it doesn't care to pay tax for such
purposes. Saloon license money is
not always sufficient, don It you know?
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

The Saturday Evening Post says il
it's issue of last week:
This pause before the presiden-
tial campaign begins is, or ought
to be, the time for all voters, by
no means excluding the new ones,
to make good resolutions. Such
as: I will not forget that by list
ening to both sides I shall hear
the truth about each, and shall
thus be able to act more intelli-
gently. -
Just so. All that is necessary is
the truth about EACH That will be
entirely sufficient.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18
ADDlTIONALLOCAL,

The second nine of Princeton will
play game of ball at the fair
grounds next Sunday afternoon with
married mems nine. The kids have
been doing some good ball playing
lately and have wrested the honors
twice in succession from Milaca and
they will now tackle the married mem S
nine and the game will be an interest
ing one. Admission tenty-fve cents.
Boys ten cents. Ladies free.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

Last Tuesday morning when A. F.
Slater, carrier on Route No. l, drove
into the alley in the rear of the post
Office there came near being general
smashup. Mr.. Slater had just come
out OF the postofice with his armful of
mail when the horses started. He
threw the mail in the buggy and made
a running high jump into the buggy,
got the lines and soon had the team
under control, otherwise it would have
been lively runaway.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

In the town of Plymouth in Henne-
pin county the people voted to- move
a school house from a neighboring
saloon in order to get outside the
/, 500 foot limit. Here is where the
little red school house gives way to
red liquor. Plymouth people are real
accommodating.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

The Russian squadron at Port Ar
thur will probably not attempt
another sortie right away. Admiral
Togo opened fire at long range and
inflicted great damage to the fleet.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

The Populist candidate for presi-
dent will be notified to-day that he
will also run. Davis was notified the
other day that he might remain and
see Parker's finish, and the battle is
now on.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18
A Question.

Candidate Dunn says he will make
a special effort to secure the adoption
OF the four per cent gross earnings
tax proposition by the voters at the
polls in November. Does that look as
though he was the candidate of
the railroads? Madison Independent
Press.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

The Glencoe Register started on it's
forty-eighth year of publication last
week. It is one Of the pioneer news
papers Of the State and is a good one.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

The car has an heir to the throne.
but all, what changes are liable to
take place ere the young Romanoff
is crowned.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18
Another Plank.

r. G.. Dunn, the Republican candi-
date for governor of Minnesota has
added another plank to the platform
OF the party. He has declared that if
elected, he will do everything in his
power to have the gross earnings tax
of railroads in the State increased to
four per cent. A plank of this kind
was left out of the platform by mis-
take as was found out by Mr.. Dunn
himself. He therefore declared his
position on the matter. Probably the
Collins weepers and Dem howlers will
say that Jim Hill is doing this
Grand Rapids Magnet.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18
An Excellent Motto,

A Sherburne club woman recently
gave her sisters this most excellent
motto: "There is so much that is bad
in the best of us and so much that is
good in the worst of US that it doesn't
behoove any of us to say anything
about the rest of us. ''-Fairmont Sen
tinel.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

Hon. Charles J. Bell, the master of
the Vermont state grange, is the Re
publican candidate for governor of
that state. He has been identified
with the grange for thirty years.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

The metropolitan josh thinkers are
returning from their vacations with
all kinds of new joke "mickrobes.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

Be thankful, anyway that there is
no coal strike this year. We can get
along without meat but not without
heat
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

Boston is entertaining the G.. A. r.
Beans and camp-fres will be strictly
the thing.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

Japan has lost over $4,000 in killed
and wounded since March 18th. The
Russian report is paralyzing the add
ing machines.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

Mayor Harrison of Chicago will
settle the butchers strike. It's awful
"rily" to start with.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

The car will surely go to the front
now that he is the car of a bouncing
CZarette
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

The meat strike has not affected
the pig iron market as yet.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

Duluth's city council is figuring
on public baths, and Lake Superior
at it's doorstep.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

j. D. Tam g. Co. who are manufac-
turing the new concrete blocks for
building purposes, have taken the
contract to build the new school house
in the Battle Brook district. They
are having success in making the new
building material and a school house
out of concrete will be an innovation.
The concrete is nothing more nor less
than mixture of cement, sand and
crushed stone or gravel with water
which is placed into forms and tamped.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

Bryan loses that $50, 900 bequest and
also his grip on the Democratic party.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18
1t Doesn't Matter.

1t doesn't matter who the Democrats
nominate for governor August 3Oth,
Bob" Dunn will be elected by a
rousing majority next November
Cambridge Independent.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

Last Friday there was considerable
excitement at the Commercial hotel.
A fire was discovered under the kitchen
range and the incipient blaze soon
developed into flame that for time
made some lively hustling about the
hotel. A dozen or more persons were
kept busy carrying pals of water and
pouring on the fire. It became neces-
sary to move the heavy range so that
the fire could be put out. The dam
age was slight, but the fire knocked
the regular order in the kitchen into
a cooked hat for time.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18
REPUBLICAN TICKET

THEODORE ROOSEVELT
For Vice President
CHARLES w. FAIRBANKS
ROBERT c. DUNN, Princeton
For Lieutenant Governor
RAY W. JONES' Minneapolis
For Secretary OF State
PETER E. HANSON. Litchfield
For State Treasurer
JULIUS H. BLOCK, St. Peter
For Attorney General
E. T. Young, Appleton
For Justices of the Supreme Court
CALVIN L. BROWN, Morris
CHARLES L. LEWIS, Duluth
CHARLES B. ELLIOTT, Minneapolis
EDWIN A. JAGGARD, st. Paul
For Railroad and Warehouse Com RS
IRA B. MILLS. Moorhead
w. E. YOUNG, Mankato
For Presidential Electors
A. W. WRIGHT Austin
THOS. LOWRY, Minneapolis
THOMAS SIMPSON, Winona
BASIL sMoUT, Wells
Third District
BENZ. B. SHEFFIELD Faribault
Fourth District
JOHN G. NELSON, Saltwater
Fifth District
EDWARD W. BACKUs, Minneapolis
Sixth District
GEO. W. PETERSON, Long Prairie
Seventh District
FRANK CLIFF, Ortonville
Eithth District ,....
JOHN H. HARDING, Eveleth
Ninth District
PETER I. HOLEN, Marshall county
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State Political Comment
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Making a Deduction.

Admittedly Dunn was considered,
until the commencement of the recent
campaign for the Republican nominal
tion for governor, to have been the
ablest, best and most thoroughly re-
liable auditor the State ever has had,
and from our knowledge of his conduct
of the Office we think we are conserva-
tive in saying that he has had few su-
periors in any state in the Union.
That being so, it follows as matter
of course that he will make an excep-
tional overnor.-Lakefeld Standard.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

First file, then file your saw and then
saw your political wood.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

The human race fell from grace
and has been having a hard time
ever since picking itself up.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18
Will Please Host of Friends.

Hon. Fl. E. Craig has fled for the
nomination for representative from the
Forty-ffth district. The gentleman
lives at Orrock, Sherburne ccounty,
and is we'll known figure in Mime
sofa politics. His election will please
host of friends. -Brainerd Dispatch.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

Parker has spoken and that is about
all one can say. .s.s
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

The Japanese admiral means Togo
right after the Russians.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18
Harmless.

Public Examiner Johnson threatens
another report on Dunn's official
career while State auditor. Pub. Elk.
Johnson's days of usefulness will soon
be over. SO let him have his fun. He's
mless.-Mankato Journal.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18
A Dunn Club at Madison.

a Dunn club has just been organized
at Madison, Lac qui Parle county,
which was a strong Collins -commun-
ity. The club has ffty-three charter
members, all of whom are between the
ages Of twenty-one and thirty-fve, and
it will WELD a powerful influence
among the younger voters. The
officers of the club are: H. L. Berg
endale, president; Sanders Iverson,
vice president: DR.. w. H. Hurd, Sec
rotary, and Elias Hauge, treasurer
Minneapolis Tribune.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18
The Gross Earnings Tax.

r. G. Dunn favors the increase in
the gross earrings tax on railroads to
four per cent, and also the extension
of the primary election law to State
officers. While the Minneapolis
Journal deplores the omission from
the State Republican platform of APP
proval of the increased gross earnings
tax, Mr.. Dunn, the Republican can
didate for governor, and the man
whom the Journal has and still is op-
posing, announces that he is heartily
in favor Of the increased gross earn
ings tax and will urge the matter dur
ing the State paign.-Hubbard
County Clipper.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18
The Democratic Convention.
A Host of Warm Friends.

The State convention demonstrated
very conclusively that Dunn has a
host Of warm and strenuous friends all
over the State, and they are going to
elect him governor in spite Of hades
and high water. The bush-whacking
tactics of few disgruntled knockers
may make it little harder to do so
than it ordinarily would be, but there
is a hereafter in politics as in life,
and little scraps and contentious
within the party are more easily for
gotten and forgiven than those that
are continued after the party has made
its choice.-Elk River Star-News.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18
Interests of the Common People.

Bob Dunn has announced that in
his campaign for governor he will
make his fight principally for the in
crease in the gross earnings tax and
for the extension of the election law to
include State officers. In this outline
Mr.. Dunn has again demonstrated
that he is standing close by the inter-
ests of the common people.-Hutchin
son independents Times.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18
cones be buried, and both factions get
together. Glencoe Register.
Hard to SATISFY.

Alvah Eastman Of the St. Cloud
Journal-Press, is still nursing that
sore toe. For a man who holds a
State as we'll as a federal position
Bro. Alvah seems pretty hard to sat-
isfy.-Nortfield News.
The Democratic Convention.
The Democrats of the State will hold
their State convention at Minneapolis
on August Both and place their State
ticket in nomination. County primar-
les will be held on the 22d,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18

County Auditor Whitney has just
finished some very handsome photo
graphs Of the string of trout that W.
H. Terrell and E. NJ. Chapman caught
near Hinckley last week. The fish
were hung on a V=shape string with the
brick work of the court house wall as
background and the speckled
beauties showed off fine. The largest
of the trout which weighed fifteen
ounces was in the center of the string
and the trout were graded down with
the smallest at the ends of the string.
The trout fishers are real proud of the
picture and so are their friends.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-18
Red Lake County in Line.

L"ho oouAuy, WHICH, iOIleu up d bryan
majority four years ago, will fall in
line and do her part to make the G.
O. P. majority the largest in the
States history.-Red Lake Falls
Gazette.
We notice by our exchanges there is
still more or less of elimination and
recriminaition over the Dunn-Collins
gubernatorial nomination fight. Such
coming from Republicans, who here
tofore have been loyal to the party
and expect to remain so, is not only
silly, but endangers the success of the
campaign. If those who fought so
valiantly for Collins had won, they
not only would have expected, but
had the right to expect that the Dunn
followers would fall in line and 10y
ally give their support and votes for
Collins. The Dunn supporters won
and the same support from the Col
Inns adherents should now as Loyalty
be given to the candidate that won
the nomination. It is not a question
of worthiness. Both the candidates
that We're seeking the nomination are
fully believed to ably fill the govern
or's chair. Neither of them should
have been made the subjects of vitu-
peration and villifying that were
heaped upon them. The extreme par
tisanship manifested bred dirty
brood Of things that neither of them
were guilty Of saying or doing. 10y
ally to Republican principles and the
best interest of the party, and the sue
cess of the campaign demand that by