Morris tribune., 1908-10-31
julius A. Schmahl Asks Voters
to IndOrse Two Years of Ex-
cellent Administration.
HARD WORK GAINS SUCCESS
Is Native of Minnesota, Born in NicOllef
County Ability Brought Him
to the Front.


tary of state, is Minnesota prod
uct, having been born in Trav-
erse de Sioux, Nicol1et county, in
| 1867. His father and mother
| both first saw the light of day in
Germany, and Julius was one OF
a family of ten children, each OF
whom was early taught the in
stinct of root, hog, or die" The
| Schmahl family moved to Red
wood Falls in 1870, where the
subject of this sketch spent his
earlier days in attending school in
the late fall and winter months,
and herding cattle on Redwood
| prairies during the summer.
When fourteen years old Mr..
| Schmahl served as an apprentice
in the printing Office of the Red
wood Gazette, working there at
setting type, sweeping floors and
running the hand press for three
years, after which he went to
Fargo, and served two years in
the job printing department of
the Fargo Argus, then conducted
by Maj. Edwards. In 1885 Mr..
Schmah1, DESTROYS of learning all
branches of the newspaper bust
ness, went to St. Paul and spent
eight years reporting on nearly
all of the dailies of St. Paul and
Minneapolis, and also in doing
String" work for Eastern dailies.
In 1892 he returned to Redwood
Falls, purchased an interest in
the Redwood Gazette plant,
where he commenced his career.
and built up one of the best pay
ing and finest country printing
office plants in the Northwest.
It was in 1900 that Mr.. Schmahl
first broke into the active political
harness. He became candidate
for chief clerk Of the house for
the 1901 session, and So effectu-
ally was the campaign carried on
that his election was assured six
weeks before the session opened,
and on his candidacy the house,
including the selection of speaker,
was organized. He was re-elect-
ed chief clerk at the extra session
of 1902, and again at the regular
session of 1903. In his campaign
for reelection in 1905 he was
confronted with the problem of
the represent from his coun-
ty, being a candidate for speaker,
but SO well was the contest car
ried on, and so we'll had Mr..
Schmahl secured the confidence
of the old members. as well as the
belief of the new, that he was the
fright man in the right place,
that he,>was again elected for
chief clerk, even with the speaker
chosen from his county, an al
most unprecedented incident in
political annals. Mr.. Schmahl
became candidate for secretary
of state in 1906, and securing
the Republican nomination, was
elected. He was renominated for
secretary of state at the last Re-
publican convection by a unani-
nous vote. AS secretary of state
he has brought about many
changes in the administration of
the department which are receiv-
ing commentator. His record is
an enviable one, showing as it
does strict attention to his duty
as an official Of the people. He
has compelled many corporations
which attempted to evade the
Somerville law to file their arti.
cles in his department, and thus
brought large amount Of addi- |
tional fee money into the state
treasury. He has further shown
his watchfulness for the people
by closely scanning all incorpora-
ton papers offered for filing, and
in several instances has declined /
to permit the incorporation Of /
companies which were undesira-
bic from both the view of tech
nical conformity to law and pub
lie desirability.
Mr.. Schmahl was a newspaper
reporter in the house during Mr.
Tacobson's first legislative years,
and was chief clerk when Mr.. ia
cobson made his great and sue
cessful fight for the bill increas-
ing the gross earnings tax on rail-
roads. as we'll as the bill creating
the state board Of cotrol.