The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-06-24
LOUIS COUNTY, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY JUNE "a, 1910
WALTER SMITH BOOKS 4 WINNING
Lands State treasurer Nomination,
While St. Louis County virtu-
a)lv Controls Convention

ally Controls Convention
St. Louis County did not get all
it wished at the Republican State
Convention, but it did get full three
fourths. The St. Louis County
delegation asked two things-the
nomination of Walter J. Smith for
State Treasurer and Hon. Homer
B. Dibell for the supreme bench.
1t got Smith, but while it failed to
land Judge Dibell the delegation
virtually had the turning down of
Judge Lewis, through throwing it's
strength to Judge P. E. Brown, of
the thirteenth Judicial district.
The fight in behalf of Smith was
by no means tame affair, but the
delegation fought it out to finish
at every stage and landed it's man
with whoop in the final test.
The state ticket as nominated,
considered by many as the strong
est ticket placed before the voters
of Minnesota by any state conven'
ton in years, was as follows:
Govenor-A. o. Ebehart.
Lieutenant Govenor-S. Y. Gordon
Auditor-SamuelG G. Iverson
Sec. of State-Julius A. Schmahl
Attorney General-Geo. p. Simpson
Associated Justices of the Supreme
Court-E. A. Jaggard. c. L. Brown,
D. F. Simpson, P. E. Brown.
Railroad COMMISSIONER. F FStaples
Clerk of Supreme Court. A. Cas-
we'll.
The convention turned down
county option plan, the platform as
adopted containing mild conser-
vation plank, an endorsement of
President Taft and the measures
for which he stands, the Minnesota
delegation in Congress for it's eff
orts in behalf of Legislation in the
interest of the people, recitation
of the adherence of Minnesotans
to the principals aud policy of pro.
lection, favors an apportionment
law by the next Legislature which
will give to each and every section
just and equitable representation,
and declared in favor of the con-
servation OF our state and national
resources along lines suggested by
Theodore Roosevelt and begun by
him during his administration.
The subject of good roads is
treated at greater length, the plat
form declaring in favor of a one
mill state road tax, the levying of
one.quarter mill state road tax by
next Legislature, and the appropri-
alton of liberal annual appropri-
alton in future to enable the state
highway commission to employ a
corps of competent men to super.
wise the work of highway improve
ment. The document deals with the
improvement of the states arabic
lands and recommends the employ
ment of means by the state i'm.
migration bureau to procure desir-
able settlers, and recommends that
the commission be given enlarged
powers and increased funds to as
sist them in this work.
The subject of primary elections
met with paragraph Numerically
opposed to the present system, the
objection being that the expense
attendant upon the present system
practically precludes many men of
moderate means from becoming
candidates for office, while at the
same time the present system per-
mits the voters of one party to as
sist in the nominating primaries
toward the nomination of the weak.
er candidates on the opposing side.
While turning down a county op-
tion plank the platform declares for
the enforcement of all liquor laws
now on the statute books, and the
strict regulation and control of the
liquor traffic.
Expressing regret at the demise
of former Governor John A. John
son the platform continues with a
memento to the manner in which
the duties of the Office have been
performed by Governor Eberhart,
voicing the sentiment of the people
of the entire state in appreciation of
the manner in which he has cared
for the duties of state devolving up
on him through the untimely death
of his illustrious predecessor.