Morris tribune., 1906-03-24
SATURDAY, MARCH "a, 1900.

the people or Stevens county so long, and en-
joys their confidence so fully that it is quite
unnecessary for him to make any statement
at all, but there are some portions of the
district where he is not so we'll known,
questions have been raised aud it fitting
that he should make this public statement
The statement shows that Mr. Bicknel has
taken decided and progressive stand on the
questions of the day, and that while the views
enunc1ated are his own, they also in exact
alignment with the views of the people of the
district.
The republican state central committee
Will meet on April 8, in ST. Paul, and decide on
the date of the Republican state convention
and also on the basis of Representations It is
said that the average vote state officers will
be taken as the basis, and if So it will be the
equitable one, neither giving too large con-
vention as the Roosevelt vote would nor punish
lug the counties where many independent
voters were against Dunn, as would be the
case it the Dunn vote taken. 1t is also
prohab that the convention will be held early
in June
O. Q. Canestorp, of Elbow Lake, and O. FL |
for the Senate and for the House were in Morris
onaThursday. They both expressed themselves
as desiring to maintain neutral attitude in
the contest which has come up in this county
between Bicknell and Spooner. This neutral
attitude is most satisfactory to the friends of
Mr. Bicknell. Mr. Hellekson has clear field
but for the fact that the contest between the
Stevens county candidates has been carried into
the other counties and Mr.. Helekson may be-
come endangered by the active contest between
Bicknell and Spooner attracting 50 many votes !
to those two men as to elect them both How :
ever, we do not believe MIR HelleEson to be in
any danger. He will get his county practi-
cally solid, ond strong vote from BicknelIs q
friends in this county. :
The speech delivered by L. c. Spooner on q
Thursday night setting forth his position on $
public questions not what was expected p
After all the claims that have been made as to +,
his wonderful ability, people had right to ex- o
pect and did expect that they would hear re- Il
liable and clear-cut enunciation of needed re- -
forms in our state laws, and correct setting Il
forth of the remedies therefor Instead of this, r
the audience listened for hour to essay II
gressona1 record. In the discussion of the 8
railroad questions of this and laws affecting N
and SO far the figures he gave re- .,
latve to comparative railroad earnings in Min -
nesota and Iowa. there is hardly a country f.
newspaper so small that has not published all &c
this and too during the past year With
in the past three months, The TRIBUNE called
attention to these same facts and just before p
the last election in much effective manne + p
than did Mr. Spooner to the fact that an eight ii
per cent gross earning tax on railroads would tt
be what the railroads should pay if they paid tc
taxes at the same rate that the rest of us do Ell
The principal part of what he said about Sc
the Irvine trust light on the prison Irvine plant n
was contained in an editorial in The TRIBUNE n
last week and the Minneapolis Journal of Tues A
day. What he said about the robber prices w
charged by the International Harvester Co., and b
their enormous profits we'll known to all, Ii
and the suggestion that harvester plant be IL
established at Saltwater is not new one. The a
matter not snuffed out by the last legisla- c;
ture. 1t in the hands of men who will n
fight for it again, but last year it came UP late :"
in the session. W
His discussion of taxation was d1sappont- f
ing. He actually confessed that he unde- l,
constitution to be voted on next fall and then O