The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-14

! on the iron range and who Is not in
sympathy with the Duluth idea Of
fairness in the distribution of politi
tical positions has sent US some de
sirable information in the shape of 9
list of political places in ST. Loui:
county, together with the number oil
state and federal appointments dis
tributed in what may be termed the
Duluth district. Out of total oil
400 places county, state and federal
I-St. Louis county outside of Duluth
has few offices, but they could all be
counted upon the fingers of one hand,
and of the federal and state places
which are given out by the federal and
state powers that be, the range and
the rest of the eighth district have
scarcely anything.
Speaking of st. Louis county, there
are twenty offices, elective and ap.
pointive, and out of this number there
one from the range. Those twenty
officers have 59lucratiye appointments
to give out and of these the range has
the magnificent number of two to its
credit; or of the total of 70 offices and
appointments, the range has grand
total of three.
Turning to state appointments,
we find that there is total of thir-
teen, such as deputy grain inspector,
surveyor general of logs, ETC., and the
lucrative appointments these thirteen
have to give out the number of 100.
OF the thirteen direct appointments
the range is represented by a cipher,
and of the 100 others, add another
cipher.
I'm the matter of federal positions,
such as customs receiver, land Office.
q. S. court, ETC., we find there are IL
offices and 81 appointees. or the
twelve officers the register of the land
office comes from Wright county and
none arefrom the range. There are
34appointees selected by these officers
aud every one of them lives in Duluth;
or of the 46 federal places, only one
comes from a section outside OF Du-
luth.
"The United States government
has life saving station at Duluth. a
Hight house. fish hatchery. and other
departments, and the officers connect
ed with these, number Z. The assist
ants needed for these situations num-
Der 81, and they are appointed. Ask
them all where they belong and the
mystic word Duluth" will drop in
soft cadence upon your ear. Thirty
five mail clerks, government appoin-
tees, running out of Duluth have also
been appointed from that city. In
addition to all the above, Duluth has
a judge, civil service commissioner at
Washington, minister to Norway and
Sweden, several people in the govern
ment printing Office at Washington,
with the other departments to be
heard from.
"Of the ITO federal positions, in
Guiding the 35 railway mail clerks, 46
in the government building and SO in
other parts of the government service
about Duluth, the range has nothing
and the rest OF the district has de-
putty internal revenue inspector and
register of the land office.
1.-THE statistics given above were
compiled some little time ago, and
are from what the Republican con-
siders an authentic source, and they
completely substantiate an observa-
tion madein these columns two weeks
ago to the effect that the Duluth
politician has had his feet in the
trough so long that he imagines he
has vested right, and no rank out
slider is expected to apply for anything.
Duluth we believe to be destined
to be great city. 1t is the metro
polls of Northern Minnesota and its
two newspapers-the News Tribune
and Herald, which would do credit to
a city twice the size of Duluth-are
doing great work in cultiyating the
friendly interest of the rural popula-
tion and in developing the tributary
territory; but as long as the Duluth
politicians manifest disposition to
'shog" everything the newspapers will
be seriously handicapped in their
work. Duluth is entitled to her share
of everything that is going, but it
should not have the whole cheese, and
when the country wakes up to the sit
alton aud finds that its political influ-
ence has been and is being used to
fat offices for the Zenith City poll
ticians, it will demand and get what
is coming to it"
MnTInF