The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-12
JACOBSON AFTER
BUCK MANS SCALP.
He Tells Big Lake Audience Why
the Congressman Should
Be Defeated. 5i
Special to The Journal

sAS citizen Of this state l have
been as much interested in seeing that
the whole delegation from Minnesota
are good, clean, honest and capable
should not be one single exception from
this statement. Not one. Now, one
Of the candidates on the republican
ticket in this district for congress-, I
have known. for some twenty years
Mr.. Buchanan. have watched his
career and become acquainted with it
s ever since | was in the house. l was
7 in the house when he was In the senate.
can't call to mind q single instance
during that whole period when there
was one of those measures of reform
that would benefit the masses of the
people Of this state, where we found
him on the right side of any question,
never knew of a single instance where
there was fight with the corporations
of this state, affecting them, or the lun-
Der, mineral or the railroad interests
that he. was not on the wrong side Of
every single one Of them. 40.
am, going to talk to you about
his rec record upon the gross earnings bdi3
That was the first attempt that had
ever been made since the state was
organized to change the gross earnings
law. Two years afterward 1 reintro-
duced the bill, and the question had
i then been discussed in the public press.
+ introduced it and we passed it after
something Of fight in the house, and
It went over to the senate: When it
came to the vote for indefinite post
/ tien Of the report of the committee
which, in effect, meant to kill the bill
I'VE find on the list from the sixth dis
t,triet, Brewer, Buchanan and others.
The report was adopted by so to 81
votes, one single vote would have
passed the bill; there. was 80 votes
4 for the bill and 81 against 1t. If Mr..
! Buekman or ope" Of the other senators
from the sixth district had changed
his vote to the other side the bill would
have gone before the house for further
consideration.
+ Buchanan Voted No.
's1n feo1 I reintroduced tho bill.
Remember, the platform Of the 5repub-
lican party had pledged every single
candidate to, the adoption Of that bill.
Mr.. Buchanan led the rollcal and was
one Of the seventeen: that voted mo.
8 he. was for another postponement Of
toe y6u Let e t what you 9'd so n mag
about that.
4sThe first year that it was in opera
tion it brought into the treasury nearly
$4,000 more, or, to be accurate, it
brought $s7O,O0O- more than the rail-
reads had ever paid before. In other
words, they paid nearly million dol-
lars more of taxes than they had ever
Of just that much of the public bur
den. And. yet it took six years from
the time of the inception Of that bill
until it became law. Now, almost
anybody would think that the man that
voted against bill of that kind, where
it was not only just and right, but was
an absolute, benefit to the state Of
nearly a million dollars a year, wotfld
hc5 forever, condemned by the people
fqa any political preferment in the fu-
tufe. Are you going to vote for him
thave the right to ask you this ques-
. ton and 1t is serious one.
Buckman's Record.
Why, Mr.. Buckman's record in
congress has been good,' I heard men
say. Why, Mr.. Buchanan has sent out
a long list Of his services I understand
(Eaven't seen it,; that he has taken
care of the widows and the orphans.
That was very kind. But a congress-
man has other duties. I remember that
when the president recommended that
the material and the machinery and
supplies for the Panama canal might
be; bought in some other. country pre-
bination Of the trusts in this country
to keep the price up-he wanted that
privilege trusts in this country
didn' It want it, and MI. Buckman
didn't want it, either. daughter. )
:" It is your duty, if you believe in
the republican principles, to make the
best selection that you can. No post
office appointment ought to sway you
one particle: Remember, Mr.; Buekna san
at all. That was adopted long before
Mr. Buchanan ever got ! to congress.
(Laughter) The power to, cleanse the
party and reform the party is with
yourselves. But what will you :, doY
Nop are responsible for your action,
and how can you 60. before the people
after you have nominated man that
ask Intelligent voters to. indorse your
action at the polls In November9
Whose Is the oreditas !.
..The governments has done some.
thing for you and Mr.. Buchanan claims
the credit for it. He never claimed
the credit for, killing the gross earn
lion dollars every year for six years
tNow, the vote on that report was
the most important vote he ever cast,
and yet he hash It mentioned the fact.
Why didn It he tell you why killed
that woodchuck'P >. ....-.
fsThere is one more bill that is of
q great deal Of import ance to the state.
The railroad companies had that year
raised the rate on wheat and / intro
duced bill to compel them to go before
the railroad commission before they
could raise the rates upon any other
commodities in the state, but they got
it amended and cut it down until I only
N got the wood, the lumber and the coal.
Stock, etc, and other large farm prod-
ucts. And 1t is funny thing that
when he found that the railroad com
panies didn't want that bill Mr.. Buck
man didn It want it either. daughter. J
s1That was equally true when the
other bill was introduced in regard to a
lien on logs and lumber. One of the
senators up in the northern part of the
Il state introduced bill that the laborers
and the others that actually did the
hard work could levy upon the
logs in the judicial district in which
they were cut and in which they were
found. Under the present law they
could only follow them down to the
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