Morris tribune., 1906-10-20
: FROM THE STATE CAPITAL !


be we'll authenticated, reached st.
Paul this week via Duluth. A version
of it appears in so reputable a Jour
nal as the Duluth News Tribune,
which, so far as I have observed, has
not been cOntradicted. It is to the
effect that when the governor reached
Duluth the Steel Trust roads, which
monopolize the lines of transportation
In the iron region, rendered him the
use of a special train and private
car in which to make his electioneer-
ing tour and that the generous proffer
was gratefully accepted. Of course
everything was furnished free of
charge. Nor was this the only mark
of consideration said to have been
shown the Democratic executive by the
accommodating officials Of the Steel
Trust. When the governor reached
the various seats of their industries
the machine shops of the company
and mines were shut down. Rnd the
men ordered out to hear the governor
speak. The different neutrality-suspicious.
were instructed to escort him in the
various mining locations. Even the
section men on the roads were in
structed to be at certain designated
places along the lines to meet the
governor and some Of them are said
to have run ten miles on their hand
ears to meet the appointments made
for them by the Steel Trust. Certainly
our governor has winning ways.
Charley Warner, who an omniscient
Democratic press bureau assures us,
resigned from the secretaryship of the
Republican state central committee be-
cause he was disguised with the way
the campaign is being managed, was
up in Carleton county the other day
and the Vidette man, seeming a sensa-
ton no doubt, chased him up and after
an interview with him was moved to
write for his paper after this fashion:
Charles Warner was here the other
day on his way home to town, where
Charley holds the fort. Some of the
papers are trying to find out where
Charley is at" but it doesn't seem to
be a secret with him-he's for Cole
for governor, first, last and all the
time, and he doesn't make any pre-
tensions that he is anywhere else.
This is the way he puts it: If the
people of Northern Minnesota ever ex-
pect to have another candidate for
governor they should vote for A. L.
Cole solid. Good boy, Charley; we're
with you!"
was a good deal amused the other
day to read in the Bemidji Pioneer Of
the latest claim made by Governor
Johnson k1d what do you suppose
1t is? He act@-olly has the nerve to
jump Mr. Goes claim to his own
drainage record This isn't a joke.
It's downright fact Here's the Pho
neer's report:
''In the matter Of drainage he (the
governor) wished to challenge Mr..
Coles attitude in the matter. What
Mr. Cole was now attempting to father
he had recommended to the legisia-
ture in message prior to any active
attention on the part of Mr.. Cole. He
denied his right to claim any right to
initiative in the matter"
This sounds real funny in the light
of the fact that Coles interest IN
drainage preceded Johnson's even be
ms thought Of for the 3OvernOrshiQ.
It sounds funnier still in the light Of
the well known fact that the Demo-
Gratis started out early in the cam
paign to make fight against drainage
in Southern Minnesota, and it sounds
funniest in the light of Johnson's own
record. For our accomplished governor
was in the legislature himself-a mem
Der of the senate-two years before
he was elected governor. He fought
drainage there like good fellow and
declared that he could see no reason"
for an appropriation to drain the gov
ernment's swamp lands in Northern
I'm NicOllet county," he
said, "the farmers have paid for their
own bitches and why they should be
taxed to drain another section is be-
yond my comprehension" But we
must not be too hard on John. He
has had much to learn since he got
into the marble palace, and one of the
things he has learned we'll is that a
politician who wishes to be popular
everywhere must sometimes modify
his views when geographical necessi-
ties demand it.
On the last day for filing of candi-
dates John w. Johnson of Minneapo-
lis filed as the Socialist-Labor candi-
date for governor. The Democrats
have raised a great howl about this,
that it was a Republican
trick to capture the voters. Mr. J. w.
Johnson himself gives an interview to
the MINNEAPOLIS Tribune saying that
his candidacy was decided upon last
July, but that under the law his peti- !
ton could not be circulated until after
the primaries on the 18th of Septem J
Der and as two thousand names were
necessary I could not be prepared be |
fore the 9Th of October, when it was