The Irish standard., 1906-10-20
COLE SELLS OFFICES AND
MORTGAGES POLICIES
ST. PAUL DISPATCH (REPUe.
LlcAN) CHARGES AFFECT SUR.
RENDER OF FIRST DIS.
TRicr PATRONAGE.

nepuDtlCdu OF. raul lJlSEdICn CdllS d
deal brought to successful termina-
ton last week. In consideration of
Candidate Cole. the story goes, agree
ing to reward the stalwarts of the
First district Congressman James A.
Tawney of Winona is to have a large
slice of the pie when ii is cut after
MIR. Coles election. The Dispatch
naively says that similar concessions
will be made TO other recalcitrant con-
gressmen by Coles political managers.
The dignity of the high office is
trailed in the dust by pre.convention
pledges and should the state be so
unfortunate to witness Mr.. Coles
election in November they will have
the spectacle in January of the con-
summation of the trades Offices will
be dealt out and policies will be
shaped in the governors Office as per
agreements made during the closing
days of September.
In striking contrast to this charac.
teristic surrender of Mr.. Cole to the
opportunities Of the political marplots
of the First district Is the fact that
John A. Johnson two years ago was
elected without a single pledge being
enacted from him. Governor Johnson
was thus left free to make the best
possible appointments and to pursue
policies dictated by no other interest
than his own sense of what the best
IN the state demanded of him and the
people who were responsible for his
election. >.
CanuIdd1e Cole IN his abject surren-
der has simply furnished another rea-
son why he is not the man to he en-
trusted with the high and dignified
office Of governor of Minnesota. Nom.
mated not because he was the choice
of the free and untrammelled vote of
the state but simply to defeat
worthier candidate for the place he is
under an eternal debt of gratitude to
the lumber, the railroad and the other
big interests of the state. He has
in accepting placed himself in posi-
ton where he can, if elected. do moth.
ing else than accept their dictation in
administering the Office of governor.
This in itself is enough to condemn
him as an unworthy candidate, but he
is now added another and insuperable
reason why he should be left to the
peaceful pursuit of shaving" time
checks for the poor settler in that part
of Northern Minnesota that he de-
clares so badly needs development.
The story of how the Republican
gubernatorial candidate sold his birth
right is briefly told and the tale needs
no establishment.
There was disaffection and lots of
1t in the strongly Republican First
congressional district. Governor John
sons invasion of the district had met
on every hand with a f1attering recep.
tton. The popular young governor was
lionized at half a dozen places where
he had spoken In the campaign. No
one In the Republican organization
was apparently making an effort to
stop the landslide. Tawney, the Wi
mona congressman, was reputed to be
"of" in his support and 1t was current
gossip in political circles that he had
as much as refused to give Mr.. Coles
campaign committee speakers from
the national Republican bureau that
they had asked for in spirit of hum.
BILE need. There was unmixed con.
sternation in the Republican head
quarters in st. Paul Then somebody
woke up. 1t was pointed out to Mr..
Cole that Judge Gould's term on the
board Of control would expire within
the next two years. It was further
made known that popular opinion
seemed to point to ]. F. Jacobson of
Lac eli Payle as the successor to
Judge Gould of Winona on the board.
That was one of the reasons for the
detection IN the First. The case was
desperate and required desperate
remedy. A representative of Tawney
was hurriedly summoned and after a
conference lasting all day it was
agreed that Mr. Gould should be reap
pointed If Cole became governor and
Mr.. Tawney should be supreme in the
First.
EnOs thompson, chairman or the ex-
ecutive committee and an anti-Tawney
man in the First, was left to shift fer
himself and the anti-Tawney senti-
ment in the First was tossed aside as
shoe that had reached it's uppers.
Then the word was sent out that il
other congressman wanted similar
treatment, in other words If they want
ed the state central committee to as
sist in perfectins their machines, they
could have the services of the central
committee to do so.
Cole had made an abject and shame
full surrender. Proof Of the deal was
found the next day when Tawney
made violently vituperative speech
against Governor johnson at Albert
Lea. Meanwhile the Tawney men are
jubilant, smothering their contempt
for the weakness of the gubernatorial
candidate in their satisfaction in ar
ranging so advantageous a deal. Gold
commercialism" seems to be the
proper and only designation for so rep.