The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-01-13
AT THE CAPITAL
News From MinneSOtd'S Officials
and Other People
COUNTY OPTION GROWS
Indications are That Political Par
ties Will Have to Take a Stand
on The Question
st. Paul Special to The Herald, Jan. 10

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St. Paul Special to The Herald. Jan. 10
Governor Eberhart was an honored
guest this week at a banquet of a
Transportation club. In his address
he put himself on record as standing
for the best transportation facilities.
"The interests of the people and the
interests of the railroads are in COM
mon," he said. 81 see no reason why
they should not act together. With
this sentiment no one can find fault
if the meaning is that they act togeth-
er for the common good, rather than
to the exclusive advantage of the rail-
roads. What Governor Eberhart
meant is not SO clear when he added,
as he is reported to have done: "There
is no longer any necessity for railroads
and other business interests to main
tain Hobbies at the legislatures. for
they could have their rights safe
guarded" A good deal depends on
what one means by their rights. One
who has been observant of recent
Minnesota legislatures, however, will
be inclined to agree with the governor.
There is very little need of railroads
maintaining Hobbies when they are
amply represented on the floors of
both chambers.
County option sentiment in Mime
sota," said a well known upstate sem
ator to me the other day at the Mer-
chants, lis growing by leaps and
bounds. The Republican convention"
he added, ''may choose to ignore it,
but If it does and interests antagonis-
tic to temperance reform nominate
candidate for governor it will be fatal
to his prospects of election. The
opinion is growing" he continued,
s'and is every day becoming more pro-
nounced that all the people who are
brought into contact with the sa-
looms in our village should have some
thing to say as to whether those
saloons shonld be opened--as to
whether there should be license or
no license"
On the whole one cannot fail to
commend the course pursued by the
game and fish commission in endeavor-
ing to secure as a superintendent of
fisheries to succeed S. F. Fullerton an
expert in that line. The gentleman
selected is Professor Titcomb, who
was a former chief in the department
of fish culture in the United States
of fisheries, and is said to
be an expert in the matter of fish
breeding and propagation. 1t is be-
lieyed that the selection was made
without regard to Professor Titcomb's
political affiliations which, indeed,
have not been inquired into.
This is as it should be and it is only
to be regretted that political con-
sideratiOnS should be a controlling in
fluence in the selection of an executive
agent, although l have no reason to
suppose that Mr.. Rider will not make
a capable and conscientious official.
However, in the matter of the preser-
walton of game animals, birds and
fishes, it is becoming apparent that
in Minnesota it is high time that eff
fective steps should be taken to pre-
vent their extirpation. Not only are
deer and furbearing animals yearly
becoming scarcer and game birds
driven from their usual haunts, but
our lakes are rapidly being "fshed
out" Notwithstanding the laws for
the protection of valuable game and
food fishes. On merely utilitarian
grounds this is greatly to be deplored.
Curtis Lee Moshier is again to the
front. For some time Mr.. Moshier
has been the publicity agent of the
city of st. Paul, in which capacity he
is understood to have secured for the
benefit of his patrons considerable
free advertising from Minnesota
COUNTRY editors among others. Now
he has rooms at the state capitol and
is the publicity agent of the governors
conservation policy, from which much
in the way Unpopular approval is hop
ed. This indicates, among other
things, Mr.. Moshier's versatility.
For state conservation is the legiti-
mate offspring of that national con-
rattan Of x.,l,soL