Mower County transcript., 1908-02-26

years presidential election comes
November 3. On the morning of the
4th the Democratic remark will be: us
William Jennings Bryan present?
Then let the fourth battle begin"
st. Peter Free Press: Congressman
Tawney opposes the president in con.
Republican, Herald opposes the elec'
tion of a delegation Instructed for
Taft.
Indianapolis News: Naturally con-
gressmen are surprised, aye, even shock
ed, at the widespread demand for tar
if revision. People do not seem to
realize that such action will seriously
St. Peter Herald: Tawney did Can
mons bidding and breathed defiance at
President Roosevelt. But the breath
was little better than frightened gasp.
The people approve of the presidents
waterways project. but they would like
p r m is f r m Tawney that he
will work for tariff revision and divorce
himself from the stand.pat crowd.
Itasca News: Down in Wright
county the county board refuses to
contract with the Cokato Enterprise,
the only bidder on county publishing
because "the amount allowed by law
is too high" The Enterprise man also
guarantees to publish the proceedings
in all other papers in the county.
Wright must be one of those counties
where, when they don't know what else
to do with man they put him in as
county commissioner.
Dodge Centre Star: F. G.. l.. Hunt,
chief engineer of the Dan Patch Air
Line was in town Monday. Mr.. Hunt
is native of Mower county, and about
twenty years ago started in to learn the
printers trade in the Brownsville Leaflet
office. From there he went to the cities
where he became quite proficient in
the art, afterwards worked in big Offices
in Chicago and St. Louis, until he took
up the civil engineer business.
st. Peter Free Press: Speaker Can.
non. is "agin'' tariff revision, and has
no hesitancy in saying so. Later on,
possibly, it may become advisable to
look into the matter but at present he
would not think Of it.. OF course not.
A man of his connections and of his
way of thinking cannot be expected to
do otherwise. The only thing in the
matter somewhat puzzling is the sup
port he gets in the house under the cir
cumstances.
Minneapolis Tribune: As time goes
on the agitation in Gov. Johnson's
! behalf for the presidential nomination
falls more and more into hands like
those of Tammany in New York and
the anti Bryan machine in Chicago
We doubt if the Democratic party is
going to take candidate from the
New York World, Charles f. Murphy
and Roger G. Sullivan.
st. Peter Free Press: Congressman
TaWney disapproves of the presidents
action in appointing committee to
look into the needs of river improve.
ments, and objects to the payment OF
lfl,8OO, incurred by member of that
committee, as illegal. Under a tech.
nical quibbling this may be correct, but
the people want their waterways i'm
proved and II congress refuses to take
the initiative, as it did at the last SOS.
sion, the president is justified to press
on the matter as far as law and good
judgement will permit.
! Rochester Post and Record: The
recent annual gabfest in congress ovel
the proposal to revise the penal code OF
the United States, affords a tolerably
fair specimen Of how that august body
manages to spend a maximum of the
country's time and money with a mini
mum of results. In the course of the de.
bate the ancient dead letter federal laws
relating to kukluxism, federal soldiers
at the ballot, ct cetera ad nauseam came
up for prolonged wind -jamming.
Duluth News Tribune: More than a
few Duluth parents need reminding
that the street is no place for young iris
and youths late in the evening. The
News Tribune has many times called
attention to the fact that, no matter
how faithfully they work, the school
teachers and policemen of the city are
not fitted to bring up other folks child.
rem. Boys and girls are entitled to
care from their parents every day in
the year, and fathers and mothers
should know the whereabouts, com
pany and actions of their children
every hour out the twenty-four
| AlU0lG A0d 1ItDuuo. COQSlO0rl08
the position taken by the postoffice de
p artment in the appointment of the
postmaster in this city, the case at Win
nebag0 City makes an interesting con
trast IN the one case a man resting
under cloud of charges is reappoint
ed, while in the other a man agains
whom no wrong is shown is summaril,
removed. And all without so much q
as pretence at investigation. Politi
cal pull seems to be working overtim
in the postoffice department.
Luverne Herald: Minnesota is 70
Taft, and Minnesota's delegates mus
} go to Chicago with explicit instruction
3 to work for his nomination. An unin
r structed delegation, which is the equiv
alent of trading" delegation, an
;, which is asked for by Taft's opponent,
would be an injustice to the wishes q
Minnesota because it would make th
' will of the many subservient to that q
/! the few The way to send q T aft DELE
1 CATION to Chicago is to elect Taft me
to the county, district and state cor
YentiOns and II is nm Ia the TIA III, me,