Mower County transcript., 1906-10-31
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HOW THE GOVERNOR VOTED.
Decoration Day.

tlOu uSy-pdSS l1oS. 1OVeIuOi JOnA-
son voted no, and his was the only
vote against the bill.
~. Wine Rooms.
Feb. II, 1901.-S. F. No. 44.-To
prohibit wine rooms in saloons and to
prohibit screens, blinds, etc., in win
dows-page 652. Governor Johnson
voted for indefinite postponement of
bill. That is, he voted to kill the bill.
This wine room bill is needed in the
larger cities more than any other to
save and protect the young girls.
Delivering Liquor on Sunday.
s. F. No. 1SS.-A bill for an act to
prohibit the delivery on the Sabbath
day, commonly known as Sunday, Of
any intoxicating liquors, sold, bar
tered, given away, or In any manner
otherwise disposed OF on day pre-
vious to the Sabbath day.
The question being taken on the
passage of the bill Governor Johnson
voted against the bill. Bill was lost.
The governor intimates that he was
the originator of the state develop
ment scheme, and says that it was his
message to the legislature in 1905 that
started the subject. l have seen a let
ter which Mr. Cole wrote in 1904 and
which was largely published in the
newspapers, in which he took strong
ground on the question Of state devel-
opment and the drainage of state
lands. 1nasmuch as the governor bor-
rowed all the other ideas in his mes
sage from others I am inclined to be-
lieve that what little on that subject
may be found in his message was sng-
gested by Mr.. Cole in his open letter.
On the third page of the supplement
recently sent out by the Democratic
committee, in the second column, the
second paragraph from the bottom
reads as follows:
"1s there any reason, any good and
sufficient reason, why the people of
Minnesota should elect a governor
who is pledged first, last and all the
time to use state funds solely to ad-
vance the interests of our section Of
the state?"
It is presumed that the word "our"
In the second line from the bottom is
typographical error, and should be
"one" 1t looks for all the world as if
the governor and his committee was
playing one part of the state against
the other, and that this supplement,
with this particular paragraph, was in
tended for use in Southern Minnesota,
and is intended to appeal to the pref
udices of the people in that section.
These are the tactics which the gov
ernor and the committee has been fol-
lowing Throughout the campaign.
The only thing that will wean John
son from Bryan is the election of
Hearst as governor Of New York.
Then he will be for Hearst. What a
feast that will be for the Minnesota
Republicans who vote for Johnson!
Mr.. A. B. Hepburn, president Of the
Chase National bank of New York
writes to a friend in Minneapolis in
which he expresses the thought that
the "great business interests of your
commonwealth will find In Mr.. Cole
safe, conservative, and at the same
time able administrator"
Bob Dunn made a great speech &
Milaca last Thursday evening. From
the way business men grabbed up the
extra copies of the St. Paul paper
which published it in full l should
Judge that it attracted lot Of atten-
ton. No man in the state knows more
about the states business than Mr..
Dunn, and lii. marshalled his infornla
ton In a manner that cannot help
making an impression. Of course it
would be impossible to review the
speech In this letter If it were desira-
ble There is one point which Mr.
Dunn brought out think the readers
Of this paper should have called to
their special attention. In Mr.. John.
sons Red Wing speech and at other
places he said that he had stopped
timber trespassing" Mr.. Dunn quotes
from Mr.. Iverson that since 1905 over
$4,000 have been collected from tres
passes committed since 1905. That
don't look as though it had been
stopped.
Just word more. This Is probably
the last letter I will be able to write
before the election, and I want tc
leave last impression urcn tie :>>>:-:i
of the reader before he performs the
most important duty his citizena-4.l
imposes, and that is to vote. TIE cam
paign has been one of considerable
acti7tty c. i . "or+ Inc ~"~ did: -
fer the gcse: ncrs.iir. I <M s;':e %
must havs toen irlnTessrI with
manly sincerity ci Albert l.. Cole. He
has made it plain what his attitude Is
on questions which affect the people.
He is positive character, earnest IN
his convictions. honest in his state
ments and si1;ere in his desire to
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