The Virginia enterprise., 1908-10-30

WE favor Johnson for governor
because we believe the people of
the range will regret their fate it
Jacobson should ever get the whip
hand by filling the governors
chair.
VOTE for your own interests, as
your own better judgment prompts
you, and you will not go far wrong.
And you will also vote for. Taft,
Johnson and the range candidates
for county Offices.
A VOTE for William H. Taft for
president means continuance of
industrial conditions And a vote
for John A. Johnson for governor
means vote for your own interests
if your interests are centered in the
iron country.
THE voters of Minnesota will feel
ingly indite Jacob L. Jacobson's
obituary, in those little voting
booths, on Tuesday next. And with
it will be written, although un.
knowingly, the eternal death of
republican machine politics in
Minnesota. 1t is we'll.
MR. VOTER, if you were wealthy
mine owner drawing royalties from
your mineral land holdings, Mr.. Ia
cobson might have taken you into
his confidence. But as it is you are
jnst workingman, and while Mr..
Jacobson would like your vote he
has hot barred his breast to you, has
he!
IHE BlWABlK TINES asserts that
the tonnage tax situation is due to
the Encouragement of St. Louis
county affairs. Primarily, however,
the tonnage tax situation is due to
Jacob +. Jacobson, the republican
candidate tor governor, who in
troduced the first tonnage tax bill
ever presented to the Minnesota
Legislature, and who has ever since
been persistent worker in behalf
of such measure.
EVERY range voter should re-
member Charles Jesmore and An
ton N. Thompson at the polls on
Tuesday next. Democrats; yes, but
both honest, honorable, upright
range men whose personal qualities
have won them friends by the
hundred and who are competent to
till the positions sought, and will
do so to the entire satisfaction of
the people of the county, without
fear or favor.
MR.. JACOBSON has declared that
he would sign county option bill
it presented TO him as governor.
but Mr.: Jacobson has not declared
to the voters Of the iron ranges, as
Governor Johnson has done, that
he wonld not sign any bin which
would deprive the range or other
municipality of it's jnst portion of
taxation. He may have told it to
Chester A. Congdon; he may have
told it to Moses +. Clapp; he may
have told it to Billy Hanm; he may
have whispered it down a we'll. But
he has not told it to the people of
the iron ranges~-the people whose
safety depends upon the issue.
"IHE only way to be safe is to
vote down tonnage tax of any kind
by standing by Jacobson and hold
ing the good will OF the Republi-
cans, who will have the power to
enact a tonnage tax measure or kill
it as they see fit" is the weak-kneed
argument advanced by the Hibbing
Tribune. If the Republican party
is to have the full power of defeat
ing or enacting a tonnage tax at it's
| pleasure, why need the voters of the
ranges have any cause to fear the
alleged stand of democracy or of
Democratic governor on the issue
And if the Republican party
should enact tonnage measure
through Cussedness caused by de-
feat, as is intimated in the covert
threat, the quicker the people rec
ognize the rule or ruin" policy of
the party leaders the quicker the
political scalps of these leaders will
dangle from the belts Of the voters
or the quicker their carton car
casses will hang from the nearest
limb as food for the crows.
The election of Anton n. Thomp-
sou, of Virginia, would bring up
tor settlement question that
should be settled. Mr.. Thompson,
democrat, is candidate for the
office of clerk of the district court.
against J. p. Johnson, republican,
of Duluth. Many years ago Mr..
johnson was elected to fill an un-
expired term, and the manner in
which he is managing things gives
him hope of holding the office as
long as he lives, for the reason that
he vNv0s1,iooo