The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-01-01
Personnel of the Kitchen Cabinet;
Said BY the Governor.
GIVES OUT THE LIST HIMSELF
Som ething About the Early Morning
Session Of That Body; Mr.. John
sons Late Eastern Trip.
[St. Paul Pioneer Press.

! "The kitchen cabinet is now com.
lplcte," said Governor Johnson yester-
jday morning as w. E. McEwen, state
oil inspector and long suspected Of be-
ing moving member of the X. c.
entered the room of the secretary to
the governor, where the governor was
talking TO a crowd of appointees. This
was the first official announcement of
the personnel of that famous body.
Thus far it had travelled anonymous
/ ly. There had been no one around the
capitol who would admit that he was a
member of the body. But the real
wire -pullers of the state now stand
revealed in all their naked political
activity.
There has been group of appointees
who met every day in the office of the
governors secretary and the finger OF
rumor has been pointed at them for a
long time as members of the famous
clique.
The Real Members.
Here are the real members indi-
Gated by the governors announcement:
L. J. Lynch, assistant commissioner
of labor and slated as state oil in,
ispector. providing the senate doesn't
withhold its confirmation.
John King, state librarian, and late
manager of the democratic state press
bureau
John A. Hartigan, state insurance
commissioner, rarely seen in the bosom
of the cabinet.
I {. ii. Day, assistant state fire mar
shall, relative of the redoubtablt
Frank A.
! We h. McEwen, state oil inspector
SLATED for state labor commissioner
vice Billy Williams, ousted.
Harvey Grimmer, executive clerk Il
the governor, and general bright idea
artist to the cabinet.
Sat in Days Chair.
Frank A. Day, in whose office the
Iearly morning session of the cabinet
was held, had just stepped out of TIN
room, so he is not to be exclude,
from the list. During his recent absenc
in Porto Rico the members of the cabi
net gathered daily in his office, takin
turns sitting in his chair. The sacre'
portals of the governors office ar
rarely crossed by the members of tin
X. c., although it is rather OH ac
Icount of the strong attraction at tn,
other end of the reception room, thai
any prohibition OH the part of til,
governor, for he is the prince of gooC
fellows among them.
I For the edification of the press gal
lery and the *. c. the governor dis
coursed OH the qualities of steel il
relation to the amount of phosphorou
in the composition and explained il
detail the meaning of the globula
appearance of the broken end of stee
: rail
He also said that he mad gathered
some ideas about county superintend
ents during his recent trip through TIN
east Many of the speeches which tn,
governor delivered were before organ
, izations of teachers. He learned tina
i'll Pennsylvania the county schoo
board elects the county superintendent
and a high grade article is present il
every county. Recommendations o
consideration of this possible change
; in the laws of Minnesota will be par
of the governors message.
The governor looks much better thar
when he went to the east, the tril
4 having been in the nature of a needle,
rest to the chief executive