The Virginia enterprise., 1908-10-30
JACOBSON AFRAID TO FACE the MUSIC
Man Who Has Always Opposed RANGE
and Northern Minnesota interests
viii Not Visit Us During
Campaign.

= and Northern Minnesota interests
II Will Not Visit Us During
I'll Campaign.
\ While the pen pictures of Jacob
l.. jacobson as drawn by the re.
publican speakers during the cam-
paign had awakened an interest in
behalf of the man who heads the
republican state ticket, or rather,
\ perhaps, had awakened the curiosity
of our people to see the subject
which has so feelingly been re-
ferred to in language which would
indicate that Darwin's theory had
J been proven correct, it was duly
} recorded with much misgiving in
\ the News Tribune of Monday that
Mr., jacobson could not make his
range tour as advertised and that
instead of talking in Duluth on
Thursday, when his address could
be spread among the farmers of the
southern part of the state, he would
not appear in the Zenith City until
tomorrow evening-a plan which
will forestall to great extent the
circulation of the probable double
dealing of the republican candidate
in his wild scramble for votes.
This is the second time Mr.. Jacob.
son has been "due" on the ranges
during the campaign, and his
failure to keep his engagements or
to visit the section can be ascribed
to but one thing-that the man
who has always been known as an
enemy of northern Minnesota, that
the man who first brought up the
tonnage tax issue in the Minnesota
\ legislature in the session of 1891,
that the man who has opposed the
drainage of swamp lands, that the
man who has ever been known as
an arch enemy of our school system
and who fought with might and
main against an appropriation of
more than 5000 for the Duluth
State Normal School, dare not come
into this section and show his hand;
that he dare not come before the
intelligent voters of the district he
has always opposed and try to
\ square himself-fOr fear that what
he would have to say to square
/ himself here would work him
J greater harm in the southern Sec
} tion of the state, tor which he has
D always worked, than would his
/ death bed repentance do him good
on the ranges.
There can be no other solution OF
the why's and wherefOres of the
situations; Mr.. Jacobson dare not
! come before range voters and de-
\ fend his attitude on the tonnage tax
proposition, because he cannot
/ deny the fact that he brought into
the Minnesota Legislature the first
measure providing for such a tax,
in 1897; he cannot deny that he
\ withdraw that measure in favor of
a similar measure introduced by a
southern Minnesota legislator
u named Reeves providing for Scents
per ton higher tax; he cannot deny
= that again, in 1901, he introduced a
tonnage tax bill providing for
y cents per ton tax ain lieu of all other
taxation" on iron mines; he cannot
deny that again, at the last session
of the Legislature, although not a
member OF the body, he was in St.
J Paul lobbying in behalf of a ton
\ mage tax measure.
Therefore in consideration of his
past attitude toward this section
and his repeated attempts to take
from us what which belongs to ia.
y to rob us of the taxes upon the
\ property which nature has provided
\ for the snstenapce and upbuilding
of this northern section, it is not to be
wondered at that Mr.. Jacobson dare
not show his head or open his
y mouth in defense of his past
\ "record," d,"the only platform on which
he has thus far committed himself
in his campaign.
u However, the range voters should
not feel too keenly their loss of op-
portunity of hearing the man whom
\ Bob Dunn and others of the old
: "machine" have selected for the
slaughter, for while the Duluth
& morning paper in its "misgiving'
4 article did not give Mr.. Jacobson's
\ itinerary it is proba bic that he was
sent to that southern Minnesota
! city whose democratic committee
! chairman sent in request to the
\ democratic state central committee
\ for date to be filled by Gov. John
\ son, and upon receiving the in
u formation that the Governors time
l was fully occupied wired back
y Then for Is sake, send Jacob
y son." 1t is therefore probable tha,
\ Mr.. Jacobson is doing valiant worl
\ for Governor Johnson in some othe,
section, where the vote may be en-
y dangered; it is safe on the ranges.
\ Vote for Charles Jesmore fo1
Co.,