The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-05-12
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Observation-Disclosures
make their positions life affairs. An
attempt was made by this same ring
to get the last legislative Investigating
committee to hold back its report UNI
til the coming session, intentionally
forcing the inference that there was
something wrong in the auditors
Office, in order to hinder or defeat
Mr.. Dunn in his candidacy for the
governorship The public, perceiving
the despicable motive. demanded the
report and Mr.. Dunn was commended
as usual, not criticised. It was in this
crisis that Mr.. johnson remarked
very sagely that if something were not
found Mr.. Dunn would be the next
governor. He dug up these same
charges which in this last report he
has only amplifed. The hollowness
of these charges was Immediately ex-
posed. To say to-day that a business
action taken years ago with the best
Judgment and knowledge then avail
able was not right and to assume
years later that asuit could have been
successfully waged when at the time it
seemed a fruitless expense is the sort
of criticism that the Sam Johnsons in
life are constantly making. If. this is
a fair criticism there is hardly an act
of business judgment that cannot be
distorted and attacked in later years.
But this attack fell fat and in this
last period of desperation, when the
call for the Republican State conven-
ton is already issued, a report con-
tanning the same charges, a little more
in detail, is submitted to the governor,
by him transferred to the attorney
general and by him given to the news
papers. This was done with the in
tention of galvanizing these dead
charges into life enough by this formal
action to injure Mr.. Dunn as a can
didate, and to do this at such mo-
ment, if possible, that their unfairness
and falsity and the despicable motive
behind it all could not be successfully
exposed.
If the attack on Mr.. Dunn is not
made by the ring Of officeholders back
of Judge Collins campaign, why were
these charges not brought months,
yes, years ago? It is only few weeks
back that these same charges were
brought in a general way and ex-
ploded prematurely in Sam Johnson IS
hands. Since then-only few weeks
he has had time to get at the details,
it seems, SO that, if Mr.. Johnson's aim
is of such unselfsh character, he
could have made this report four
years ago. But Bob Dunn was not a
candidate then and was not interfering
with the plans of the capitol ring OF
oHiceholders. If the charges are
brought without political motives, why
did Judge Collins know about them
days ago? He is not the governor, or
the attorney general or the bank ex-
aminer. Simply because it was the
desperate play of the capitol ring
whose candidate Judge Collins is and
he was posted by them on this as on
all other plans. Why did the attor-
ney general Immediately give the
matter to the papers? If it is an hon
est attempt to benefit the State it would
be the natural course to serve the sum-
monses and complaints and not to
notify the defendants in advance with
brass band accompaniment. If it is
an honest attempt to act in the inter-
ests of the State then WHY DID NOT
SAM JOHNSON BRING A REPORT
ON SIMILAR CASES SETTLED IN
A SIMILAR MANNER WITHIN TEN
MONTHS? Because Sam Iverson is
not candidate for governor and be-
cause Robert G. Dunn is and because
the latter's candidacy interferes with
the plans Of this ring of oficeholders
Pioneer Press.
Political Trickery,
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