Mower County transcript., 1906-10-17
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Z st. Paul, Oct. Il hose who have
listened to the inpassioned appeals Of
Governor Johnson before the Munic-
ipal3 league which met in st. Paul last
January and have heard his fiery de
annexation Of the railroads would not
have supposed for Ia minute that he
would be the man to accept favors
which would place him under obliga-
tions to these corporations. Yet the
story comes to us from Duluth, and
! has as yet been uncontradicte that
when the governor made his famous
trip around the range towns that he
was the guest Of the Steel Trust and
occupied a private car on a special
train which was subject to his order.
These Steel Trust roads are the paral-
lei and competing lines which are be-
Ing operated in defiance Of the laws of
the state and which the Democratic
party in 1902 accused Governor Wan
SAINT of protecting. In the face1of Gil
this the governor; accepts the hospital:
1ty OF these roads gladly and worked
It to the limit. Not only this, but the
shops and mines were shut down and
the men were ordered to attend the
meetings which were addressed by the
governor. It is said that some of the
section men had to push their hand
cars ten miles to reach the point des-
ignated by the Steel Trust for them to
meet the governor. understand that
the trip wound up with grand ban
Quet and that all the expense was
borne by the Steel Trust magnates.
All is serene again at Democratic
headquarters in the Gilillan block.
Day has succeeded TN getting the So
cialfst, Johnson, off the ticket and the
only Johnson now holds the fort The
rather strange part of 1t is that the
other Johnson quietly acquiesced in
the proceedings which ousted him.
Now the Democratic voter will have
no trouble in finding out how he wants
to vote. He has simply to put an X
after the name of Johnson and that
will do the business. 1t was real
thoughtful of Frank to fix it up so
that the intelligent Democratic voter
would not get mixed in his principles
and candidates on account of the nu-
merical strength of the Johnsons.
To- ~f i,a
st. Paul about the unusual activity of
the Democratic Boss, Dick O'Connor,
inlthe interest of Governor Johnson in
the present campaign. The "Gardinal'
is known to be very close to the mag
mates of the Great Northern road, who
have the reputation of providing him
with the sinews Of war when it is to
their mutual interest Generally be
works through his lieutenants and it
is only at important crises that he
gets out in the open and puts up "a
fight himself. That is what he is do
ing now and last Sunday was one of
his busy days. Il heard Of several con-
ferences that were held and met the
boss himself circulating round in the
Eighth ward, which went for Bob
Dunn two years ago. Evidently he
was trying to straighten out things
there. 'The Cardinals" unusual ac-
tfvlty, however, indicates among other
things just where the Great Northern
Is in this fight and that is something
It is worth while to know.
met gentleman from Sank Center
last Monday and he told men thct it
looked very much TO him as though
Cole was the favorite in that part Of
the country for governor. I am sorry
that he would not give his consent to
the use Of his name in this connect-Ga.
Stearns county is strongly Democratic,
but if my friend is right in his est:-
mate of the situation Cole is going to
poll big vote there.
Cole clearly has Johnson on the de-
fensive. Johnson is explaining his
attitude now in some of his speeches.
At Bemidji, for instance, he said that
"day by day" he was laying founda-
tions for railroad reform. Some of the
newspapers who have been keeping.
tab on the governor point out that UP
to last July he had not done much
"day by day" In an interview In the
Dispatch Of the oath Of that month he
said: :
"In view Of the recent enactment of
q national law, and in view of the fact
that the state board Of railroad and
warehouse commissioners have begun
the work CT regulation, it does not ap-
pear to ne proper on the eve of a
political campaign to do some spec
tacular thing which might not bring
desired results"
There is not very heavy evidence in
these words Of Mr.. Johnson himself
that he was labo1ing very hard day
by day." But we have still further
evidence from the governor that l29
had not been very 5asy day by d.
The next sentence Of that interview
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