Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-08-12
THE FIVE DELEGATES AT LARGE.

dagaDt-each county has been entitled to five del
sgates- atlarge in the Republican state conven-
taon 1n addition to the delegates apportioned
frprm the number of votes cast
Recently Frank Eddy suggested that the
-s,sssrnber of delegates at-large should be cut
DOWN to one from each county, and the Minnea
Yngis Journal was so elated over the suggestion
coming from the country that it has been both
cred with insomnia ever since.
The Journal figures it all out that in small
-csmmties there is really delegate for each
100 or 125 Republican voters while in Henne-
ssiss county it takes $50 voters whereabouts to
sses delegate, wherefore the Journal figures it
sut that the Hennepin county republican isn't
worth much more than half what country Re
publican is. mo insinuations)
But if the practice of five elagates-at-large
as wrong, will the Journal will please explain
why there should be any delegates
But that the practice of apportioning a
murnber of Delegates at large is right, and that
If any change is made it should be toward
Increasing the number we believe is capable OF
mathematical demonstration.
Let us take for example that in Stevens
county under the present system there are 125
voters to every delegate, and that in Hennepin
alsere $50 voters to every delegate. The Unequal
afy is apparently to in favor of the Stevens
ccsnty voter.
But this is more than offset by the factth at
Hen1sepin county has 113 delegates to the state
convention and Stevens county nine and while
asse half voter in Hennepin county is voting
spr control of one tenth OF the convention, the
Stevens county voter is seeking for control of
less than one-hundredth. When attention is
called to this other series in compound prop
e<4son any sixth grader see that Hennepin-
oarnty voters still has the best part of the deal
by 5 to t.
So long as Hennepin county elects her dele
rates in bunch, the country is more than
lustiiedin insisting on at least five delegates
at-Yarge. When Hennepin elects her delegates
by wards or senatorial districts, we talk about
changing.
Down at Saratoga, N. Y, the latest wrinkle
au the delirium of chance and luck is gamble
OH the weather by the formation of weather
pDoE." Out in Minnesota, the farmers all take
chances on the weather, but it is in effort to
increase their own wealth by creating more
wealth and not simply by taking it from
somebody else.
A Chicago professor says that graft was
In the good old days when the republic
was yourag than it is now, and just because1
he IS fronn Chicrgo university, probably one
wall believe it. Yet during Adams, Jefferson's
Msdison's and Monroe's administrations, there
q most disgraceful amount of brazen- faced
graft, and not one-tenth of the effort to stamp
al uut that there is at present This is uniustly
called the "age of graft, while it might more
properly be called the"age of graft exposure"
With grievance than the tele-
> ~aphers had, where is the justice in their
sszsr, z allowed to inflict the damage they have
71yasre, dor at least tried to inflict-on the
shippers and farmers who had nothing to do
With the fiat If the telegraphers were suffer
!. sun lander fa.ea,t grievious wrongs, it would
~,hob1,, be es.s,asa, bic in them if they tied up
!. sramscontirsutal line, and brought hardship
an the people living along the line. But the
sr4eoraphers Sc far as We have been able tt
vxXber from their statements OF their
demands have not been able to
chow but that they paid about the same