The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

better yet if some of the seekers for
these franchise rights would com
mence TO lay steel to connect the
range municipalities.
OHIO. Indiana, North Dakota and
New Jersey shake hands with Ken
lucky, Louisiana, Texas and Missis-
sippi in solid democratic victories.
"The best tariff ever" assisted the
mirage of insurgency in the general
result.
AND Jim Gray has no kick COM
ing on the work of the local demo-
cracy or the vote given him in Vir.
ginia. When it comes to city
with a normal republican majority
of 500 or better coming under the
wire with less than hundred to
the good it would appear the back
ers of the weak end of the line must
have done some good head-work.
THE village OF Walker is hitting d
pace for the believers in curtail-
ment of the saloon evil, having re-
jected an application for third
license in the village. Walker is a
lumber village, and three years
ago had nine saloons. but the Coun.
ellis of the municipality have grad
ually rooted them out, but two
licenses being now in force. The
tee is 800.
DIETZ, the "darn" outlaw as he is
referred to in an exchange, was re.
leased on Monday on $4,000 bond,
but was rearrested at the Jail door
by the hero Sheriff Madden on
charge ct killing someone back be-
tore the war Madden evidently
has some regard for Iife-when it
comes to his own, and considers it
wise to keep Dietz under surveil-
lance where he cannot get his fling.
er grip on the trigger of a 1910.
TIE local returns showed one or
two things to the most biased mind; ;
one was that county option in case
OF its ever getting TO the people
would receive a hearty support,
and another was that it took some
thing aside from observation-disclosures
to defeat d man on the county tick
ct who won hands down in the
primaries. This latter point was
shown in the fight made on John
r. Mcining, and in the splendid vote
given him al this point.
1T will make no difference to the
voters of the eighth congressional
district whether our Mr. Miller
votes for Joe Cannon or John Jones
for speaker Of the next house of
representative either on the floor
of the house or in the republican
caucus. The boys who sit on the
opposite side of the dividing line in
the national house will be the boys
whose voice will be heard when it
comes to the organization of the
body next time.
ROOSEVELT may have made an
awful killing in the African
jungles, but when Wall Street gets
after him he has a new species with
which to deal. So long as Teddy
was president of this great and
glorious free country Wall Street
used him right, through fear; and
it was through fear they turned op-
en- the vaults to defeat him in his
political ,naneuverings in the past
campaign. But it takes more than
one broken nose to kill off a man
like Theodore Roosevelt, fact
which the republican party and the
money power will learn in due
time.
WHILE Minnesota republicans as
a whole and those who look for
chunks of pie in particular, rejoice
over the success of the party in the
Gopher state, they cannot but fore
see the handwriting on the wall
when they cast their eyes eastward,
where states that have never before
known what a democratic official
looked like have entered the bour.
bon columns. So many, in tact, that
the next house of representatives is
solidly democratic-a fact which
may lead some of the self-styled
"insurgent" republicans to insurge
in the house as we'll as on the stump
if they value their future.
THE vote on the amendments ia
the state constitution in this CITY
should not be taken to reflect the
intelligence or lack of intelligence
of Virginia voters. 1t was simply a
case of being handed ticket to
vote for or against a number Of
propositions of which the voter
had no more knowledge than has
DR.. Cook of the actual appearance
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