Morris tribune., 1909-04-03


were kidnapped.
Up in the eighth district Congressman
Miller is coming in for a lot of criticism be-
cause he voted for Speaker Cannon and the old
rules at the recent organization of the new
congress. In the contest between Bede and
Miller last fall, Bede stood by Cannon while
Miller openly denounced him, and was elected
mainly because of this. The eighth district
evidently bought gold brick.
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Did it ever occur to you, says the St. Cloud
Journal-Press, that no public enterprise could
succeed without the hearty cooperation of the
newspapers? And did you ever hear of case
where the newspapers did not cheerfully do
more than their full share in promoting every
movement that promised to benefit it's home
city? But do you know that there are business
men in every city who are losing trade and
prestige by neglecting to patronize their best
friends, the newspapers?
Sherman Smith, the Minneapolis politician
has decided to serve his six months sentence
for contempt of court. While the technical
charge against Smith was contempt of court,
his offense tampering with a federal jury
in the Woods case in an attempt to Elk things
up" Smith was formerly member of the
Legislature, and considerable of "fxer", and
two years ago engineered l.. H. Johnson's
campaign for speaker, and was rewarded with
clerkshp. and was an important member of
the bunch that controlled Legislation two years
ago. Later he attempted to influence a United
States jury, and Judge Morris sentenced him to
six months in the Ramsey Jail. His friends
will try to have President Taft grant pardon
but there is good reason why Smith should
not serve out his sentence.
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I'll be be bound the city press is seldom cal
led upon to do gratuitious printing. Why,
bless your heart they even charge for simple
notices of death, also for funeral announce
ments. Precious few favors are extended by
the daily press, The dollar is demanded al
ways and pay, nothing doing. But the
country press. Oh, what difference. Under
takings, conventions, meetings, ETC.. ETC., for
which the daily press received requisite re-
enumeration, are sent to the country paper, with
a request to insert for the good of the cause,
and the silly country publisher seldom refuses
My mind is made up that they simply fish
and bite with alacrity, and are pulled out of the
stream of good business judgment. Actually l
believe the average country newspaper man
would fall off his editorial chair were he to re-
ceive an enclosure of money inserting in his
columns such stuff.-Anoka Union.
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Boards of county commissioners in various
parts of the state generally adopting the
plan of holding regular monthly meetings in
stead of the haphazard methods of two regular
meetings year, and a lot of special meetings
put in convenience may dictate. The Ste
vens county commissioners could adopt the
come before the board required to have
hearings that at the preshnt time, it takes six
months to dispose of matters that could just as
we'll be disposed of in much shorter time if
meetings were held monthly. The board has
much more business to dispose of than
formerly when the semi-annual meetings may
schools and tax matters and all the question
connected with them pile up i'll too large
volume for the infrequent meetings.
Another disadvantage of the present me-
thod is that the time of holding the present
special meetings is not generally known, and
anyone wishing to bring matter before the
commissioners must ascertain by special in
quiry just when meeting is to be held. A re-