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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-17
Roosevelt Praises Nelson.

President Roosevelt's letter to Gen.
eral Baker should put a quietus to the
bushwhacking campaign that has been
conducted against Senator Nelson. It
certainly cuts the string to the anti
Nelson kite in a neat and effective man
ner. The senator g opponents can only
fall back on La Toilette, but the people
of Minnesota have enough confidence
in the president to accept his judgment
as to their senator's integrity and sin
cere interest in the cause Of the people.
Senator Nelson has not conducted
himself to suit his colleague from Wis
consin, but Minnesota people did not
send their senators to Washington to
become echoes. When President Roose-
welt says che and I were in entire har-
mony thruout," in the fight for the
rate bill, he gives Senator Nelson all
the Endorsement that his constituents
could ask for. He goes sfarther,,S how
ever, and says Ex-senator Nelson was one
of the men to whom we owe most in
connection with the passage of the
measure.'
Senator La Toilette g specious attack
has blinded the eyes of good many
people, and has shaken the faith Of
some in Senator Nelson. They must
now see that Nelson IS work on the rate
bill was Of the solid kind that brings
results, while La Toilette spent his en-
ergies in the introduction Of puerile
amendments, with which he sought to
put his colleagues on record in false
light before the people. Those who
have been misled by a half knowledge
Of the facts will now appreciate, that it
is not safe to condemn any public man
on the unsupported testimony Of man
with grudge, even if he is reformer.
The disgruntled politicians who have
been running a frenzied politics cam
paign against Senator Nelson's re-elec-
ton have never had a candidate, and
now they have lost their issue. Ism It it
about time for them to take the T'Nel-
son cure'' and 90 into the hands, of a
receiver9 y g., r,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-17

system, tickets which are good until
1880 pm. are sold at the rate of eight
for rs cents; after that hour the rate
is six tickets for 25 cents. On the re-
mainder of the system, workingmen q
tickets are sold eight for 25 cents, and
these are good from am. to $3.50 am.
and 4:45 pm. to 5:45 pm. The COM
pany, however, is after an extension
of the franchise until 1924. and is gen
erously disposed, as it offers, in con-
nection with it's application, to grant
SIX fares for Is cents all hours and to
make special rate Of ten tickets for
70 cents between and am. and 4:30
and $3.50 pm.
Mayor Tom johnson of Cleveland is
behind the Forest City Railway COM
pany. which is building system on
which the straight fare will be 8 cents
with free transfers. Nine tickets will
De sold for % cents. The Cleveland
Electric company, which is seeking an
extension of its franchise, offers sew.
eral concessions, among them seven
tickets for 25 cents, good at all hours.
Six for Quarter Popular.
Among the cities which are eniov.
ing the benefits of reduced fares are
Milwaukee, Indianapolis, DAYTON. r..
ronto: Columbus, Winnipeg, Toledo and
Des Molnes. Just what they are get
ting will be seen from the following
comparative summary: .s.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-17
Railroads
ST. LOUIS REACHES C0NDE
EXTENSION OF LINE TO MISSOU-
RI RIVER NOW READY TO PUSH
= TWO DIRECTIONS.

The st. Louis railroad reached the
f TORI of the roads yesterday, in the
building Of its South Dakota extern
sions. From Condo, where the extern
sions to LIE Beau and Leola will meet,
the Winston Brothers company, the
contractors, will start two track-laying
crews. One will work along the main
line toward LIE Beau and the other thru
Aberdeen toward Leola.
The Leola line will be about as long
as the distance between Condo, and
Watertown, while the LIE Beau line will
extend to the Missouri river.
i New towns already opened on the
main line between Watertown and
Condo are Wallace and Florence. The
new towns which are already opened
on the LIE Beau line are Brentford.
Croker, Crandall, Chelsea and Cresbard.
Thomas A. Way, TOWNSHIP agent, is now
at work on sites on the Leola branch,
An eight-stall roundhouse will be
built at Aberdeen, which leads the cit
liens to believe that the company will
eventually make an extension of the
Leola branch, possibly up into North
Dakota.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-17
President or Acting President.

Leslie's Weekly has recently COM
piled and published an ingenious argu-
ment to show that Mr.. Roosevelt has
never been president but once, and that
only since his election by the people.
According to the authorities it cites
when he succeeded Mr.. Mckinley, he
succeeded merely to the powers and
duties Of the office, and not to the
office itself. That the vice president
when performing the duties of presi-
dent is acting president only, was the
opinion of Webster, and the group of
statesmen and lawyers who composed
the elder Harrison IS cabinet. John
Quincy Adams maintained that Mr.,
Tyler, who succeeded Mr.. Harrison,
should properly sign himself "vice
president and acting president. A
good many Of the heavyweight lawyers,
Of the day were Disguised because Ty-
Ter brushed aside their technicalities
and signed himself president. Va
The whole argument is based on a
bubble about a title. It does not
touch the question Of the Washington
precedent. Mr.. Roosevelt interpreted
that precedent for himself. In so do
ing he may have made new one, but
there is not any question but what he
admitted that he had been president
for nearly four years in succession to
Mckinley.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-17

The present administrations has the
active enmity of a certain class in the
community who want,a different state
of a fairs. The gambling houses want
to be re-enthroned as aids to the adj
ministration. They want immunity in
return for their service as thief shad-
overs. Mayor Jones has declined the
partnership, and he has today the active
enmity of this class. Some Of the sa-
looms are in the same state of rebellion.
The keeper Of saloon was recently APP
preached by police officer with re-
quest for information regarding GER
tain crook. He replied that he WASH It
receiving any favors from this admins
tration, nor was he giving any. When
taken to headquarters and informed
that it was the policy of the admins
tration to revoke the licenses Of saloon
lists who harbored crooks, he saw the
matter in new light. But the Incl
dent is illustrative. :. 1t shows an active
movement in certain lines of endeavor
to either get on a footing of mutual
obligation with the mayor or to GUST
| him. The mayor has rejected all over
lures, and he has the active enmity Of
the criminal classes.
! He was sustained in the primaries,
but the battle is not over. It will take
the election in November to decide
whether the joints and the gambling
houses are to stay out of business where
Mayor Jones has put them, or whether
the people are going to say by their
votes that these people are needed to
help govern the city. When the CUES
ton is fully understood there can be
no doubt Of the answer.
But the law-abiding people ought not
to lie back in serene confidence of the
result. The elements opposed to Mayor
Jones are subtle, powerful, organized
and full of cunning. Their motto is
divide and conquer. Their present
work is to divide the forces of law and
order upon the question of police ad-
ministration. If the present scare can
be dashed into a stampede their work
is done.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-17
Minnesota Politics.
Some Democratic cIaIms--sIxth District
County Chairman to confer-Eberhart
Busy In chIsago County.

Speeches Today-Republican: A. l..
Cole, Moses p. Clapp and ]. Adam Bede
on the iron range; Knute Nelson at Ben
son; J. F. Jacobson at Litchfield; s. r.
Van SAINT at Clara City and Maynard;
Frank M. Eddy at Hinckley; F. c. Stew
ems and A. J. Volstead at Center City;
J. 7. McCleary at Hadley and Lake Will
son; Halvor STEVENSON at Zumbrota.
Democratic: John A. Johnson at Per-
ham and Detroit; T. D. O'Brien at Month
cello; P. M. Magnusson and D. M. Evans
at East Union; Anton schaefer and T. R.
Kane at Redwood Falls; Edward Peter
son at Clarkield; Einar Hoidale at Fer
tile. ',".
Members of the democratic state COM
mittee object to statements that they are
only hoping for a few thousand plurality
for Johnson. They say the estimates
made in the last conference at state
headquarters put the governors majority
all the way from 100000 to 100000
. The hard question to answer Is, where
will Johnson gain over his vote Of two
years ago: His supporters claim conf
IDENTITY that they will gain in Ramsey
and st. Louis counties. and they name a
dozen or more smaller counties in which
they feel sure of making a better show
ing. These include Winona, Mower, Wa
SEGA, Cottonwood, Brown, LIE Sueur, Da-
kota, Scott, Carver Mcleod, Wright,
Kandiyohi, Lyon, Lincoln, Otter Tail and
Polk. There are reasons for anticipating
democratic gains in some of these coun-
ties not all of them, but all told the gains
Johnson is likely to make will no more
than offset the loss which it is conceded
he will Suffer in Hennepin. On the other
hand there are thirty or forty counties
&o l,oo o.
an gains over two, years ago, running IN
some cases to several hundred.
1t would only take a change of fifty
votes In each county from johnson tt
turn the scale this time.
| A sixth district conference has beer
called for, r.. Saturday afternoon. The
| chairnen of the republican county com
mittees will meet in st. Cloud at thu
invitation Of James A. Martin, the sixth
district member Of the state committee
to consult as to the campaign for thu
state ticket. Plans Will be discussed TO-
rolling up a big vote for Cole and Lind
bergh in every county of the district.
! A. 0. Eberhart is putting in some hare
days work campaigning in the countle
| Of Pine, Chisago and Kanabec this week
He is accompanied by Victor l.. Johnson
nominee for the senate. E. w. Stark o
Harris. the former representative VIII
was appointed probate judge in Chisag
county by. Governor Johnson, is the re
publican nominee for that office, and i
out making vigorous campaign Of tn
county in the interests OF the whole re
publican ticket. With the effective .worl
now being done, the republican leader
expect a substantial gain in each count
of the thirty second legislative district
Charles B. Cheney.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-17
Incorporated Politics.

Hearst 8 fame as corporatlonlst IS
growing. It was only shortly after
Hearst accused Hughes of being a cor
poration lawyer that Hughes turned
and proved that Hearst's newspapers
are owned by a ring of corporations in
dorsing a "holding" corporation i'm
pervious to assault either from tax
gatherers or Judgment seekers. .
Now it is shown that the Independ-
ence league itself is corporation. We
have heard Of corporation politics, but
this is the first time the country has
known Of politics being incorporated.
And this too by the man whose sole
stock in trade is to rail at corporations.
The way it happened to be discov-
cred that the league was corporation
was that a number of the members of
the league, dissatisfied with the deal
Hearst had made with Murphy over the
judgeships, threatened to put an 'oppo-
sition ticket in the field by petition.
These worthy gentlemen went to see Mr..
Hearst and learned then for the first
time that they belonged not to politi-
cal association, but to a corporation or
ganized under the laws of New York,
that they could not put ticket in the
field or do anything else without vote
of the board Of directors and that the
board of directors was composed of
Hearst and Hearst employees. They
did not put up a new ticket. 81
Here is perhaps the boldest and most
brazen attempt to monopolize free
speech and free action in politics that
ever was brought off ii this country.
1t is bossism backed by law; corrup.
ton Incorporated. The Independence
league is a dependence league. Instead
Of freeing the people from the machina.
lions Of an unauthorized boss it binds
| them hand and foot to the chariot Of a
boss who IS crowned with the sover,
eighty Of the state.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-17
MANYOTHER CITIESHAVEI
CHEAP STREETCARFARES
Some Interesting Comparisons Will Be Presented to
the Tri-City Streetcar Fare Conferees.

AS st. Paul has not yet named all its
representatives on the committee to
labor for lower streetcar fares, the
meeting called for yesterday afternoon
did not result in any definite action,
However, the Minneapolis aldermen
met Alderman Lyle Of Duluth, who
seems to be much interested in the
movement to secure concessions from
the street railway corporation which
has monopoly Of the street railway
systems Of Minneapolis, st. Paul and
Duluth. It is conceded that there is
a better show Of success if the three
cities move simultaneously and cooper
ate with each other to the fullest ex-
tent. 1t has been suggested that it
might be well also to invite Stillwa-
ter to take a hand in the game.
There was nothing to do yesterday,
as the committee was not complete
The st. Paul assembly has named it's
representatives, but the board of alder
men has not, and yesterdays meeting
was adjourned until st. Paul would be
able TO send complete delegation.
- What Other Cities Get.
Many people who have given more
or less attention to the movement for
lower streetcar fares, which has been
IoA oOFCIoI yCdio OH OVCI GuS
land, will have some statistics to pre-
sent to the conferees when they meet
again. There are some government re-
ports, for instance, which give some
significant information. Reports from
the bureau of census show that more
than one-third of the operating street
railway companies Of the United States
give rates Of less than 5 cents to al
their patrons under certain conditions
tickets at price approximating 4 cents
1t is argued that there are few more
profitable street railway properties il
the country than those Of the Twi1
City company, and a strong point will
be made of this fact to show that tn.
company can afford to make some con
cessions.
Detroit's Low Fares.
Detroit and Cleveland have tough
| long fight for low fares with partia
success. On one-third of the Detroi
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-17
B O q x S
BY w. i. sK:

"a ., )
NEW, NOVEL BY MRS. ALICE AMEs
WlNTE R.--Ihe author of 1.-THE Prize to
the Hardy Mrs. Alice, Anes Winter,
has. y In q new novel, Jewel Weed, told
another story with Minneapolis for its
scene and Minneapolis life for Its back
ground. It is story full of the ozone,
the clear air. and the wholesome life and
spirit Of the northwest. It abounds in
flashes OF insight into human nature and
the deeper meaning Of life and teaches,
without preaching, the high success OF
being true to oneself sin spite Of all Che
world. It's characters, for the most part,
are finely and truly drawn and are such
as one is glad to know, whether in a
novel or in real life. The interest Of the
story and the skill with which the au-
thor writes increase with the progress
OF the action and leaves the reader at
the end with sense Of satisfaction that
life-life in Minneapolis in particular
is good and holds high and worthy re-
wards to him who is above all true to
himself. %-..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-17
stampeding the n sople for Politics.

Are the people of Minneapolis being
stampeded into q state of panic by the
exigencies Of a political campaign?
The democratic candidate for may is
nightly shouting that people s lives and
property are endangered by an ineff-
cient police force. The performances
of one enemy Of law and order are
magnifed into a general condition Of
lawlessness and quiet people are scared
out of their boots by shadows. It is
always easy to get the people to criti-
cize the police force, and when one
clever demagogue is turned loose to
condemn it, he can get many follow
ers. Take the applause that followed
the statement by Mr.. Haynes that you
cannot hunt criminals with autos, as
an example. Mr.. Haynes no doubt
thought he had worked out something
clever, and from the standpoint of a
reckless demagog, he had. But the po-
lice were not hunting the criminal in
autos. The autos were used merely
to transport large number Of officers
rapidly to the neighborhood of the
crime: There they scattered thru the
woods searching for the miscreant. The
use of the swiftest means of transpor-
tation was proper and scientific. Would
Mr.. Haynes object to the United States
transporting troops to the scene of a
battle by train9 Would he insist on
their marching overland in the good
old way9
The police force of Minneapolis is
comparatively small and the territory
it has to cover is. comparatively large
Every means possible has to be taken
to increase the efficiency of every man
on it. If swift means of transporta.
ton are available it is good police
work to use them. The man who ar
CUES publicly against such a theory of
police work, if he does it honestly
marks himself as not naturally adapted
to the headship Of a police force. II
he does it dishonesty to capture votes
by misleading and insincere criticism
his claims to the office are still further
discredited.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-17
COUNTESS SUIT DEFERRED
De- Castellane Hearing Is Put Off Two
t,yre -....:.rs ..-,- Weeks. r-,t

Paris, Oct. 1.-THE hearing of the
suit for divorce brought by Countess
de Castellane against her husband,
Count Boni, and the hearing of the
suit brought by the creditors of the
count, were both postponed for fort
night today, counsel for the countess
succeeding in having the court hear the
divorce suit before the creditors suit.
The count wanted to have the latter
case decided first.
Maitre Miller and counsel for the
creditors of the count claimed that the
interest Of the creditors required that
their case precede the divorce suit, as
they wished to confront the countess
and the count, but Maitre Cruppi ar
gued that the contention had no value,
as the parties lived under a stregime
of separation Of property" and that
consequently g decree Of divorce would
have absolutely no bearing on the in
terests Of the creditors, while on the
other hand the interests of the Countess
de Castellane and her children de-
manded the early settlement Of the d.
vorce suit.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-17
New Market for Durum.

Some business In durum wheat TOT
export to northern Europe was done
very recently here and in Duluth. There
is significance in this beyond that Of
a mere trade incident. Northern
Europe has not been buyer OF du'
rum wheat It is to the Mediterranean
countries, Italy and southern France
especially, that we have looked for an
outlet. Our exporters have felt the
competition of durum from north
Africa and south Russia.
Much comment has been passed and
much theorizing INDUCED in as to
where we were to find a market Tor
the rapidly increasing production OF
durum which, under government pat
ronage, came up in five years from
practically nothing to yield estimated
this year at 45,OOo,OOo bushels. That
the grain and milling trade must aban-
don it's attitude of Indifference or hos
tility to this wheat and must recog-
nize it and look about for ways to
utilize it, is shown by the fact that
while the wheat production Of the
United States is increasing only moder-
ately from one period to another and
in a recent year Of partial crop fail
ure, wheat was actually imported for
the Minneapolis mills, the production Of
durum wheat is increasing immensely.
This tends not only to larger offerings
of that variety, but necessarily to cur
tailment of the acreages in spring wheat
proper. Only last week J o u r
nal announced the purchase of 10000
acres of west Texas land by north
west syndicate that proposes to ex-
pertinent with durum. The tendency
to increase the production appears gen.
eral.
Meanwhile, we have been told by ex-
perts that only to the paste consuming
countries Of Europe, the macarcni and
spaghetti eaters, could we look for dc.
mand for this wheat. Hence, the report
that northern Europe is buying it is
significant. The Germanic and scandi'
navian countries are great consumers
of rye, and, indeed, the rye crop Of
Germany is Of great Importance tC
maintenance of her wealth. The i'm
portance of rye may be shown by the
comparative figures for 1905, in which
year Russia produced 56s 100000 bush
els wheat and 7OS,000,000 bushels rye
Austria Hungary 22S,00O,0o0 bushels
wheat and 155,OOO,OOO bushels rye
and Germany 136,OOO,0O0 bushels wheat
and 37sOO0,000 bushels rye, total Of
932,0O0,O00 bushels wheat and 1,24l,
100000 rye.
1t is apparent that anything affect
ing the price of rye, as, for instance
the short crops of Russia last year, mus
cause search for a substitute. It i
for this purpose that the macaron
wheat is being bought. Hence again
the significance of this demand. If ou
durum wheat can be used as substi
tute for rye with satisfaction to con
sumers, then the fear that our increas
ing production will make it impossible
for us to sell the surplus proftably i
gone, and in the production Of durun
wheat in localities where ordinar,
wheat is precarious crop, owing t.
insufficient moisture, and better for
eign market for it appearing, there i
a new source Of agricultural wealth a
hand for the country.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-17
JAPS TO ASK DAMAGES
Seal Poachipg Incident to Result in
Indemnity Appeal. T. - -

Victoria. B. c., Oct. 17.-According
to advices from Japan, directors of the
Toyi Fishing company .of Wakayima,
2, which had. FIVE mem killed and
twelve captured when raiding the ST..
Paul rookery in Boring sea last July,
have approached the Japanese govern
ment asking that claim for damages
be lodged with the American govern
ment. On Sept. % two directors Wis
tied: the Japanese foreign office and
presented a claim to Viscount Hay
ashi* to be forwarded to Washing ton.
The foreign minister said action would
be deferred until the report from the
member of the Washington legation
sent TO investigate had been made.
This representative is back en- route
from Juneau. .....,.> =,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-17

There is some disposition to cavil at
the campaign because it is too quiet
Under the law Of averages it ought to be
quiet. The last campaign in Minnesota
made row enough for two. But it is not
well to despse a campaign because it is
lacking in spectacular features. Those
features ordinarily represent the sum to-
.al Of the efforts of the politicians to keep
the people away from the real issues.
The absence thereof in the present cam
paign indicates that the people are get
ting close.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-17
d CERTIFICATE PLAN HOLDS
Interstate Commerce Commission Lets
Down Bars for DELEGATES.

According, to a ruling of the inter
state commerce commission, the rail-
ways may sell tickets on the certificate
plan. The railroads have supposed that
excursion rates to conventions could not
be granted because the favor Of low
rate was a discrimination unless the
rate were thrown open to the public.
1t is probable that only delegates will
be allowed the privilege, however. and
not all members Of the organization Sc
curing the rate. Minister'S families are
without the pale Of the half-rate rule.
which will be a hardship on new west.
ern ministers who must move their fam.
lilies from time to time.