The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-11-17

fed with what has been handed out
to them already, signs for a square
meal at the trough. The Journal
Press knock against Eberhart, con-
tinued viciously for months, was sud-
denly changed to peans OF fawnlng
Joy, and Immediately after this light
ming change, A. E. Fritz, who for
some time has been connected with
the job printing department or the
paper, was named as member of the
state central committee. Now IL is
given out that Alvah Eastman ana
the Journal-Press are to be further
placated or rewarded, as you see 1t,
by the appointment of Mr.. Fritz as
public examiner. Whether Mr.. Fritz
will be the next public examiner or
not remains to be seen, but one thing
is evident, namely, that Eastman's
hammer was laid away for some reas-
on or other and that he has overcome
his characteristic modesty long enough
to persistently demand that at least
part of his reward for the flop of his
newspaper should be the appointment
of one of his former employees to a
state office.
Speaking of "The ST. Cloud bunch, !"
it may not be out out of place,
now that the election is over, to make
public bit of the inside history rela-
tive to the county convention held in
St. Cloud in June. AS is we'll known,
G. M. Sprague of Sank Centre was a
candidate for the republican nominal
ton to the office of lieutenant COVER
nor. During the preliminary cam
paign when delegates were being Sc
lected to the county convention, a
well known republican residing in
another part of Stearns county than
St. Cloud or Sank Centre, happened
to be in the county seat one day.
One of ''the bunch" invited him into
his office and while there intimated
that the section of the county where
in this gentleman resided ought to
line up with St. Cloud, because" as
the member of "the bunch" put it,
"our interests are common. The
gentleman asked for a diagram to
show why such interests were ':com-
mon," following it up with the ques-
ton, Glow about Sprague?" The re-
ply was something to the effect that
''the bunch" didn't care a rap about
Sprague. The gentleman replied that
he thought the county should stand
by it's home candidate, and then and
there declined to enter any conspiracy
to ''down Sprague." When delegates
to the county convention were chosen
the gentleman in question and his
friends were left at home and dele
cation elected that stood with ''the
St. Cloud bunch" because their inter-
ests were common" This is a true
story and furnishes another illustra-
tion of how dearly "the St. Cloud
bunch" loves Sank Centre-and other
people who decline to do the bidding
of that "bunch."
The Stearns county canvassing
board on Monday completed the can
vass of the returns of the election of
Nov. s, with the following results:
Governor. A. o. Eberhart, 1927 plur-
ality: lieutenant governor, M. c. Tiff,
119l plurality; secretary of state, F.
w. Johnson, 1883 plurality; auditor, T.
f. Meighen, 1914 majority; treasurer,
c. f. Ladner, 1858 majority; attorney
general, j. Nj. Freeman, 1924 major
ity. All but Eberhart are democrats.
There were no contests for county
officers, for representative in the
second district of the fifty-fourth
district, nor for commissioner in the
first district.
J. d. Sullivan for senator in the
47th district received 332 majority
over A. G. Cooper; L. Wisneiwiski,
beat 0. f. Doyle Ii votes for repre-
sentative in the 47th district. J. j.
Ahmann, polled l476 votes more than
Henry Emmel, for senator in the
| fifty-fourth district.
The majority of Frank E. Minette,
DEM, for representative in the first
of the fifty-fourth district, was 1874
over William Arndt, rep.
J.. H. Garfield for commissioner of
the fifth district polled 812 votes and
Henry G. Schultz 685, giving Garfield
a majority of 127.