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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-08-02
they WILL keep THEIR HANDS OFF,

There is in this and other con.
gressional districts in the state
spirited but friendly contests in
progress for the nominations at the
primaries. The same condition
exists in regard to state senators
and members of the legislature.
Stories have been circulated in this
district especially that the state
nominees and the members of the
state central committee were
actively espousing the cause OF
some of the candidates and were
working as hard or harder for the
candidates who must submit their
claims to the people for ratification
as they were in organizing the state
for the fall campaign and looking
after interests of the candidates
already nominated. If this were
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-08-02
POPULARITY NOT THE TRUE TEST.

Much has been said and written
about the popularity of Governor
johnson. 1t does not have to be
proven, everyone admits that
"Prince John" is a good fellow.
The test of the value of a public
official, however, is not personal
popularity but accomplishment.
Something more is needed in a
governor than to be able to look
real nice in a dress suit, make
complimentary speeches to ladies'
clubs, jolly editorial associations
and convince high school graduates
sthat they are geniuses. If this was
all that is required we would have
been nominated by reclamation and
unanimously elected. Both Gov
ernor Johnson and Mr.. Cole have
been in public life for some years.
Both have served in the state
legislature. What measures did
Governor johnson introduce while
SO serving that were of benefit to
the state? What has he recon-
mended by message looking towards
the welfare of the men that have
made Minnesota? On what
occasions has he exercised his
almost divine gift of eloquence in
behalf of the masses of the people?
We do not have to answer these
questions. 1t is up to the sup
porters of the governor to make
this showing. We want the time,
place and occasion specified. The
only test of public worth is service.
The supporters of Mr.. Cole WILL.
during the campaign, show just
what position he took on questions
affecting the public welfare, it will
be tented. The supporters of
Governor johnson should do the
eame thing and then let the voters
decide as to their respective merits.
Let the people know what the
candidates have already accomplish.
ed, not what they promise to do.
The friends of Mr.. Cole welcome
this test, more than that, they de-
mand this test.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-08-02
We HAVE ESCAPED THE WOE
From the Lake County Advocate

cIOm tuc Lake SOuuCy AuVOcdtc,
In the last issue of the Sank Centre
Herald, the editor shows cOnclusively
that he is opposed to Cole for governor
simply because Jacobson failed to re-
ceive the nomination for that Office and
with q great exhibition OF egotism and
conciet assumes to act as dictator for
the Republican party of the state. The
so called advice he pretends to give will
be considered an insult by every intel
ligent and fair minded person, who
reads his bombastic editorial attacking
Cole and his friends. With supreme
audacity he tells his readers the great
things he accomplished while a poll
tician and candidate for Office, and we
do not wonder that he is now a back
number with such men as Heatwole,
Adams and others, who outlived their
usefulness long time ago.
This so called advice to Republican
leaders by the Herald man really
amounts to one of the most malignant
and unjust attacks ever given the party
in this state and the quicker Mr.. Eddy
and his malicious sheet goes over body
and breeches to the Democratic party,
the better it will be for the Republican
party of this state as no Democratic
paper in the state has SO far ever con-
tainest such dastardly article.
tits truly wonderful esolicitude MIR.
Eddy takes in the cash box of the Re-
publican party of Minnesota, insinuat-
ing that it is q forlorn hope to fight for
the party as there is no money in sight
in the treasury Of, the leaders. just as
Doodle wass the chief object in
view for the success OF the party. The
/ facts are that Mr.. Cole will NOT have to
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-08-02
IS WOMAN A CROSS BETWEEN AN
ANGEL AND AN IDIOT?

DR.. Chas. A. Beard of Columbis
University, said some things worth
repeating, the other day, in an address
before the College Equal Suffrage
League of New York City. Here are
few of them:
II think that woman suffrage will
come as a result of the increasing
economic independence of women
which will in turn sharpen her intel
lect, force upon her an interest in the
social and economic conditions which
are determining her own destiny in
so great a measure, and finally give
her that self-respect and self-suffi.
cheney which prevents her from being
content with the alternate alteration
and contempt of the opposite sex.
"To me the woman question is
simply part of the human question,
which is to increase the moral, in.
tellectual and physical strength of the
nation. Now every one knows that a
very important part of this increase
of power is to come from an improve.
ment in the stock and education oil
individuals.
"Since intellectual and physical
powers are increased through activity,
and since we inherit from our mothers
as we'll as our fathers, it stands to
reason that the increase of race power
will be accelerated by widening the
sphere OF woman's activity.
"By becoming more human and
less feminine she will add to the
power of the race. She will not be less
lovable or less womanly save to those
whose ideal of q woman is a cross be-
tween an angel and an idiot"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-08-02

Congressman Volstead has the sit
uation so we'll in hand in his district,
the Seventh, that the Democrats will
not put up man in opposition, even
as matter of form. Mr.. Volstead is
doing good work as a congressman
which fact the people of his district
have not been slow to appreciate
Litehfeld Review.
1t has been said of Hon. A. L. Cole
that he accomplished more for the
benefit OF the state in the four years
he was in the state legislature than
many others have in twice the time
He had the faculty of getting things
done the way he wanted them. That
is the kind of man we want fol
governor. We have had enough of the
goody-goody, smooth talking do
nothing kind.-Austin Transcript.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-08-02
Births.

Just as we go to press we hear
that Mrs. Joshua Hildebrand gave birth
to a 10-lb. baby girl. Being very busy
at the last minute we were unable
to verify this report, but if it is not
true there will be no harm done, be-
cause Mrs. Hildebrand is already the
mother of nine children and one more
or less won't make much difference.
We also failed to learn whether the
new arrival, if any, is boy or girl,
but we presume it is girl, as most
of the others are. Watch next weeks
Bugle for a full acct of this infants
sex.-"Bingville Bugle items" in Bos-
ton Post.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-08-02
An Open Question.

Our friend, the famous wit and
raconteur, has been sitting in studious
silence for upward of a quarter of an
hour. Fearing that he may at any
moment, break forth with the story he
has told us over fifty times already,
we ask:
Whats up, old man? What makes
you so solemn"
Nothing much" he answers. 81
was just trying to decide which is the
most annoying, to be interrupted in
the middle Of story or to be permit
ted to finish it and then not get a
laugh"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-08-02
Some Recent British humor,

Pa" asked the child, what is an
autobiography" "A book, my son, u"
moaned the father (who hsd written
one), "that the public autobi, but
won't. Now go to bed."-The curate
had just kissed the pretty housemaid:
"Oh, but, strand you clergyman!
cried the housemaid "Ah, don't let's
talk shop now," said the curate.-"Oh,
darling, such good news!" cried Mrs.
Snob, running in to see Mrs. Tuft-
hunter; you will be green with
envy" well, what is it this timer"
asked the rival anxiously. why, my
dear Clara has caught the Duchess
cold.'
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-08-02
A Sze-up From Duluth.

There are more than the usua
number of Minnesota Republican,
this year who are ambitious to 60 tt
congress. In the Second, Fourth
Fifth and Sixth districts the campaign
are becoming quite active, and there
will be a contest in the Third anc
possibly in this district. =
This leaves only Mr.. Tawney, Mr.
Volstead and Mr.. Stevenson, three o.
the nine, who can surely read theil
title clear to reelection without opposi'
ton at the primaries or at the general
election. The most spectacular con-
tests are in the Second and the Sixth
districts. In the former Mr.. McCleary
continues to "stand pat" and is ex.
pected to win, though his opponent
Mr.. Gilbert Gutterson, has for some
time been making thorough canvass
OF the district.
In the Sixth Mr.. Buchanan, who has
never been permitted to taste anything
but the trials of political life, is having
his third hard fight, his rival being
his own townsman, Mr.. G. A.. Lind.
berg. Here, also, the prevailing
opinion is that the present MEMBER
will be returned.
An interesting news letter on the
situation in the st. Paul district is
published on another page of this
paper. The contest there attracts nc
little attention in Duluth, both because
of the prominence in national affairs
of Mr.. F. G.. Stevens, the present
member, and because he has at various
times rendered valuable service to oul
local interests, notably when, at the
close Of the local session, he saved the
appropriation for the additionrto the
federal building from being cut from
$3.50 900 to $125, 900.
Mr.. Stevens ranks as one of the
ablest of Minnesota's really fine
delegation. He is serving his fifth
term and his position on important
committees enables him to be most
valuable member, not only to his
district, but to the nation. In the
passage of the rate law and the pure
food law he had prominent part, az
he had also in securing the denatnrized
alcohol law. 800 -
He is large enough and able enough
to have his candidacy considered from
the national point of view. His
district will return him because o.
what he. has done for it's material
local interests, and it should. But
beyond that, the district owes "a duty
to the country to return him, as he ii
too valuable and too honorable 9
member to be spared without adistinc
loss. 9 + "a. 4fa"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-08-02
oldtime Beeaars Of london.

In the year 100 John Cary had this
to say about London and it's beggars:
He that walks the streets and OBJ
serves the fatigues used by the beg
gars to make themselves seem OBJ
jects Of charity, must conclude that
they. take more pains than an honest
man doth at his trade. Beggary is
now become an art of mystery, to
which children are brought up from
their cradles. Anything that may
move compassion is made q nveli-
hood, a sore leg or arm or. for want
thereof, q pretended one"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-08-02
TO REPUBLICANS:

We. are anxious to have every
Republican in close touch. and
working in harmony with the
Republican National Congressional
Committee in favor of the election
of Republican Congress.
The Congressional campaign
must be based on the administrative
and Legislative record of the party,
and, that being SO, Theodore
Roosevelt's personality must be a
central figure and his achievements
central thought in the campaign.
We desire to maintain the work
of this campaign with popular
subscriptions of One Dollar each
from Republicans. To each sub
scriber we will send the Republican
National Campaign Text Book and
all documents issued by the Com
mittee.
Help us achieve great victory.
James S. Sherman, Chairman,
P. O. Box 2063, New York.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-08-02
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.

REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
United States Senator
Knute Nelson,
Douglas County.
Governor
A. L. Cole,
Cass County.
Lieutenant Governor
A. o. Eberhart,
Blue Earth County.
Chief Justice
Charles M. Start,
Olmsted County.
State Treasurer
Clarence Dinehart,
Murray County.
Secretary of State
julius SehmahI,
Redwood County.
Attorney General
EFT. Young,
Swift County.
State Auditor
s. G. Iverson,
Fillmore County.
Clerk of the Supreme Court
c. A. Pidseon,
Wright County.
Railroad Commissioner
CT. Staples,
Dakota County.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-08-02

1t is true that some years ago A.
L. Cole voted the democratic ticket
and supported the democratic
nominees, but it is we'll for re-
publicans to remember that Gov.
johnson is doing it yet. ri
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-08-02
e : The FACTS.


Democratic press in regard to A. L.
Coles having been soldier turns
out to have originated from a casual
statement made by country editor
Who got the Cole brothers mixed in
his editorial. 1t was A. B. Cole
who. was a soldier, and not A. L.
Cole, the Republican candidate for
governor. Neither A. L. Cole nor
his friends have ever claimed that
he was soldier.-Brainerd Tribune.
Now let us get this matter
straight. There are three Cole
brothers; Alfred L., formerly a
physician in Minneapolis, Mimi,
Albert L., the republican candidate
for governor, and A. B. Cole, a
physician of Fergus Falls, state
senator from Otter Tail county for
Two terms and the widest known
member of the whole f'Cole"
family. Alfred l.. was private in
Co. g., l4th New York Heavy
Artillery; was severely wounded in
the battle of Petersburg, Va, and
is or at least was member of
G. A. r. Post in Minneapolis.
Having the same initials as the
candidate for governor the mistake
was a natural one.
Mr.. Winter, the English tailor
whom the War Department has inn
ported from dear old London ssto
devise a uniform to make our.soldier
boys look smart" says he is in,
favor of the English pancake cap
with its ridiculous chin strap "be-
cause it compels the soldier to keep
his hair tidy, his head up and his
mouth shut" Good heavens the
army don't need him. His place is
in the United States Senate. They
do need the caps.
1t looks very much as though
Lindburgh would be elected to
congress from the 9th district over
Buchanan. This will end ssBuck's"
political career in Minnesota, and
there will be few tears.-Brown's
Valley Tribune.
The above is fair sample of the
comment of the republican papers
Of the state outside the 9th district.
We have yet to see the first one
that advocates the return of Mr..
Buchanan.
Senator Nelson lie just as much
the nominee Of the Duluth conven-
ton as A. E. Cole, julius Schmahl
or any other man nominated out OF
that convention. To oppose him
is Just as mach of q bolt as it would
|be 10. oppose s., any other regular
nominee. - ~.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-08-02

The Little Falls Transcript, Mr..
Buckman's official organ, wants it
distinctly understood that Mr.. J. A.
Nichols is Mr.. Buckman's campaign
manager and none other. We
thought Mr.. Nichols was Mr..
Thomas H. Shevlins' Business
manager for Northern Minnesota.
Is there any relation between the
two jobs?
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-08-02

The Little Falls Transcript winds
up a rather sarcastic review of
some statements made by the editor
of the Herald while in St. Paul
with the statement: "The only
novel feature about Eddy's inter
view was he didn't challenge any
body to joint debate" In order
not to begin any innovations in our
old age we hereby challenge the
editor of the Transcript to joint
debate and we will undertake to
prove that Mr.. Buchanan is not
half as bad a man as the Transcript
said he was in 1898.
Graham guardian., 1906-12-07

hoes, one overcoat, two boxes
paper collars, none of which have
been returned.
"Called my opponent perambu'
lating liar-doctor's bill ten dol
lars; had five arguments with my
wlfe-result; one flower vase brok.
en-, one crock handle broken, one
dish of hash knocked off the table,
one shirt bosom ruined, one hand,
full of whiskers pulled out, ten
cents worth of sticking plaster
bought"
1t really dosen't matter whether
this man was elected or motive
venture the assertion that he will
never again aspire to any office
within the gift of the people, If
ever he holds a public Office, il
will be thrust upon him by an nd.
miring constituency.
Graham guardian., 1906-12-07
A REMARKABLE FEAT
Prisoner Saws Steel With Common
Yarn and Shows Keeper The
Way Il Was Done

Out Of pieces Of wooden yarn,
nnraveled from a sock and twisted
together, a prisoner in the new
federal prison at Leavenworth,
Kansas, constructed an instrument
which he used, recently, to saw
through the top and bottom of a
three inch steel bar. Mark A,
Shipley, who resides at 4636 Cook
avenue, st. Louis, returned from
Leavenworth and gave the story
to the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
which says: ga photograph Of
the sawed bars, showing the open
ing made, was given to Mr.. Ship,
ley by the warden. Shipley was
one of the men instrumental in
sending the man to prison, That
common piece of yarn could be
made to cut the strongest piece
of steel bars, tested with acid and
resisting steel saws, is a discovery
that not only surprises police and
keepers of jails and penitentiaries,
but scientists as we'll. 1t is the
first case of the kind on record, as
far as can be learned, and the
prisoner who used it in the Leav
enworth penitentiary is the origi-
nator. The prisoner was confined
in one of the isolation cells. A
guard standing on a tier above
noticed him working his hands
backward and forward around
the bars and notified the guards
on the lower floor. They investi-
gated aud found that the top bar
had been sawed through. The
prisoner readily confessed and
showed the warden how he had
accomplished the feat. The raw
ehngs of his wooden sock he had
twisted together as a tailor would
pieces of thread. He had made
them compact by frequent wcttings
Dust and sand picked up in the
quarry were kneaded into the
string. When finished it was al
most as hard as piece of emery
stone, 1t required two days, he
said, to saw through the bars with
the string, several new strings
having to be made, as they wore
out quickly. The warden doubted
the statement at first. The pris
oner offered to show him and
made one of the instruments out
Of common twine. Small pieces
of broomstick were used as handles
With this the warden had the
prisoner finish saving through the
bottom of the bar, When plans
for the new penItentary were
made 1t was decided to use Besse
Graham guardian., 1906-12-07
COST TO A CANDIDATE

A Texas exchange gives the fol-
lowing report of the expense &C.
count of Texas office.seeker:
"Lost four months and twenty.
three days, canvassing; thirteen
hundred hours thinking about the
election; five acres of cotton;
twenty-five acres of corn; whole
sweet potato crop; forty-four sheep;
for shoats and one beef to bar
becue; two front teeth and con-
siderable amount of hair IN per.
sonal skirmisb; gave ninety seven
plugs OF tobacco, seven Sunday
school books, two pairs of suspend.
ers, three pair stockings, four
calico dresses, seven dollars, thir.
teen baby rattlers.
"Told 2,287 lies; shook hands
22,479 times, talked enough to
have made in print one hundred
volumes size of patent Office re.
ports, kissed one hundred and
twenty-slx babies, kindled four.
teen kitchen fires, cut three cords
of wood, helped to pull seven
wagon loads OF corn, dug seven
teen bushels of potatoes, toted
twenty.six buckets of water, put
up seven stoves, was dog bit fouI
times, watch broken by baby, cos
three dollars to have il repaired.
"Loaned out eight barrels o
-four, twenty bushels Of meal, one
hundred and fifty pounds of bacon
seventy-Rve pounds of butter, fiji
teen dozen eggs, three umbrellas
thirteen lead pencils, one bible
dictionary, one moving blade, two
Graham guardian., 1906-12-07
Early to Bed

and early to rise, makes one
healthy, happy and wise-espec
tally if you take Herbiue before
retiring. A positive cure for con
supation, dyspepsia and all liver
complaints. Mrs s. Columbia,
Tenn, writes: 81 always keep u
supply of your Herbino on hand.
Am so pleased with the relief it
gives in constipation and all liver
complaints, that words can't ex
press my appreciation.
Sold by Stafford Drug Co., SAT.
ford; Thatcher Drug Store, Thatch'
err; Frank ClufP, Pima.
Graham guardian., 1906-12-07
ZION CITY AND SOCIALISM

In the final collapse of the Zion
City movement the Chicago
Chronicle reads a significant anal
ogy to the Utopian dreams of
socialism. The analogy is drawn
of Dowie's experiment and the
aims and purposes of the social
reformers who extol the COM
munistic idea. 1t is cited, for in
stance, that IN William Alfred
Kinds book entitled "Amerlcan
Communities" there are presented
about forty serious experiments of
communlsuc life, of which all have
failed completely, although in each
Instance the outlook appeared
promising at the start and for a
time each community thrlved.
This was due in most cases TO the
vitality impaired through religious
motives, which gave the leaders
perfect control of their followers,
Dowie could never have accom-
plished even temporary success
had il not been that Zion City was
essentially religious organization
and to that extent its members
were of a tractable class who were
willing tools in the masterful hand
of Dowic. But the fundamental
mistake Of all socialism, the Chron-
icle points out, whether it be
Utopian or scientific, is that it is
predicated upon the theory that
normally all men and women are
honest, unselfish, of equal intelli-
gence and free from all tempta-
tions of deceit and ambition So
cialists argue that men and wom-
en- are abnormal because of abnor'
NAL social conditions and bad
laws. If such conditions and laws
are done away With, says the So
cialists, it leaves humanity in a
state of ideal mobility.
But as murders ure not the re-
suit of laws against slaughter, so
are the sins of humanity not the
result of legal restrictions or social
prescription. They exist in spite
of laws, and while our social con-
ditions may not be perfectly at
tuned there is no reason to believe
there would be less sin in the
world under any other form of
order. Upon this phase of the
matter the Chronicle says: If this
is the theory of every small com
munity, even when fortified by re-
ligious motives, il is easy to see
what would become of state So
cialism. In this case there would
be no halcyon days ofpeace, purity
and contentment. By the time
the new order was organized it'll
would be found that few smart
devils had cornered the whole
thing. Then there would be a
species of tyranny, oppression and
poverty such as the world has
never known" 1t is not an ac-
cident that Zion City went into
bankruptcy. The result was in
evitable. The movement was
merely another in the long pro-
cession of religious and social
theories that are founded upon
false predications.
Graham guardian., 1906-12-07
Catarrh Cannot be Cured

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