The Sauk Centre herald., 1908-10-15
julius A. Schmahl Asks Voters
to lndOrse Two Years of EX-
cellent Administration.
HARD W0..K GAINS SUCCESS
Is Native of Minnesota, Born in Nicollef
C0unty-Abifify Brought Him
to the Front

candidate for reelection as secre.
tary Of state, is a Minnesota prod
uct, haEir been born in Irav-
erse de Sioux. Nico1let county, in
1867. His father and mother
both first saw the light OF day in
Germany. and Julius was one oi
a family Of ten children, each oi
Wi.vi~ was ca ly taught the it,
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 MIR,
Schmahl served as an apprentice
in the printing Office Of the Red
wood Gaz =tte, working there at
setting type, sweeping floors and
running the hand press for three
wears, 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..
Scllluuili, desirous Of learning all
branches Of the newspaper busi-
ness, went to St. Paul and spent
ciemf ycars reporting on nearly
all Of the dailies OF St. Paul and
Mirne2~olis, and also in doing
string" work for Eastern dailies.
In 1892 he returned to Redwood
Falls, purchased an interest in
the Redwood Gazette plant,
willTt he commenced his career,
and built up one Of the best pay
i-S 81 finest country printing
office plants in the Northwest.
ii wao in 1900 that Mr.. Schmahl
first broke into the active political
harness. He became a 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,
II cc:2& &;cg the selection Of speaker,
WIS 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 representative from his coun-
ty, being a candidate for speaker,
but so well was the contest car
ried On. and so well had Mr..
Schmahl secured the confidence
of the old members, as well as the
belief Of the new, that he was the
right 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 a 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 publican convection by a unani-
NOUS vote. AS secretary of state
he has brought about many
changes in the administration of
the depa rtment which are receiv-
ing oo11n1endation. His record is
All enviable one, showing as it
does d stIict attention to his duty
as a1l omcial of the people. He
has compelled many corporations
which attempted to evade the
Somerville law 20 file their arti.
cles in his department, and thus
ta'7ass.- a 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
CO... r-..1~s which were undesira-
bic from both the view of tech
nical conformity to law and pub
lie desirability.
Mr.. Schnnahl was newspaper
reporter in the house during Mr..
Jacobson's first legislative years,
and was chief clerk when Mr.. Ia
cobson made his great and sue
cessful fight for TIE bill increas-
iriC the gross ca siFt-9~ faV nm raIl-
roads, as well as the bin creating
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