The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-02-06
see. the people forget and very
easy after spectacular campaign.

see, the people forget and very
easy after a spectacular campaign.
a few weeks passed away and
then 1t was announced by the Great
Northern railroad company that it
would increase its capital stock to
the extent Of $4,000, 900, and that
stockholders would be al
lowed to eat the core of this juicy
melon get the first chance at the
purchase of stock that was quoted
far above par. Mr.. Hill failed to
state just what the issue was needed
for, and when hue and cry was
raised by some of Mr.. Hills enemies
Attorney General Young commenced
an investigation of the original char
ter OF the company and learned that
Mr.. Hill was violating the law
granting a charter to the st. Paul,
Minneapolis & Manitoba, which COM
pany was absorbed by the Great
Northern, ard that the issue could
not legally be made without the con-
sent of the railroad and warehouse
commission. 1t should not be said
that Mr.. Young was doing any more
than his duty in looking up the
matter anc determining to apply
for restraining order preventing
the issue. Around the capitol the
attorney general and his superb staff
are given full confidence and the
credit of sincerely honest motives,
but the move was made at time
when certain other interests were
opposed to Mr.. Hills move, whether
from business jealousy or otherwise,
remains for the reader to decipher.
Mr.. Young and his assistants ap-
peared before Judge Hallam of the
Ramsey county district court on
schedule time, fought the Great
Northern legal squad, and in SPLEEN
did decision by the Youngest of the
Ramsey county bench, worsted the
railroad legal array completely. An
appeal will follow, of course.
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Anasthis takes the writer back in
history about q months. He car
remember when Judge Hallam was
the Republican nominee for the dis
trict bench, and that his opponent
was 7. D. O'Brien, at present in
surance commissioner Of the state
All during that campaign it was
claimed that the Great Northern
and Northern Pacific railroads fought
Hallam and spent every effort to
elect O'Brien-O'Brien and Bum
were claimed to be in favor with
them, in fact. Little Oscar Hallam
won out. But the railroad interests
were not satisfied and they com.
menced contest thru certain peo-
pie. When the recount was or
Hallam made continual gain. The
Seventh ward is the silk-hosed ward
supposed to contain the intelligence
of the city, or equal to the best
The judges Of election were among
the leading men, one Of them the
son of district Judge. When this
ward was reached it was found that
Hallam made gains at the rate of sc
votes to a precinct land the contest
was ended. Just why this rank re
turn of voting from these precincts
happened the reader must determine
for himself, but some of St. Paul:
leading families got into the game
to end the contest, fearing tina
some of their sires and sons nigh
be sent to the penitentlary. Imagine
then, the satisfaction which Judge
Hallam must have felt when h
wrote that decision insisting tina
the Great Northern railroad scom
pany must first secure the consen
of the railroad and warehouse com
mission before it could dispose o.
its $50, 900, 900 bond issue. While
the decision is orthodox at ever,
point, in the opinion of the writer
yet there is human feeling o.
revenge in every person, and judge
Hallam, so, we'll and favorabl.
knownsto Redwood countyssattorney'
and a number of its people, is onl.
human.
If the decision of Judge Hallam j.
sustained: how would you like tx
be member of the railroad an6