The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

is always IN line tor 1eeu.
J1M" GRAY is getting whole lot
of advertising out of his race for
governor, if nothing else. And the
fact that in every case it is adver-
Using of nature which cannot but
please we doubt not that it will
make him votes; but not enough
votes in this year of insurgency, as
the people of Minnesota have made
up their minds to elect Eberhart, if
we mistake not,
WALTER F. DACEY, democratic
candidate for county attorney, was
in the city early in the week, max
ing a preliminary canvas regarding
his chances for election. Mr., Dacey
has more than a passing acquaint-
ance on the Mesa ba, and those who
knew him before he acquired the
wherewith to study law say he is
young man of staple qualifications,
and that his election would not
work hardship on any.
THE keynote speeches of each OF
the gubernatOrial candidates have
been spoken, the copy duly sent to
the press, and the people will study
both between now and election day.
And it will be an impassive study,
in which partisan politics will have
little weight. Men, and what men
stand for, ia of more importance to
the voter today than is the question
Of which side of the political pot
the broth ~ going to be on when 1t
comes to beng enabled to make
political appointments.
John r. MEINING, the next sheriff
of St. Louis county, was IN the city
Friday and took occasion to call on
many of the friends who so ably
assisted him in the late primaries
But to those whom he did not see he
desired the Enterprise to extend his
thanks for favors shown. While
there has been some talk on the part
of few of dining up" for Mr.. Jes
more, democratic candidate, we
scarce expect to see many feel this
way over the matter by the time OF
election day and predict for Mr.
Meining sweeping majority fully
equal to the expression made &C
manifest at the primaries.
THE outlaw of Cameron Dam, Ohm
F. Dietz, may have committed
crimes for which the law is entitled
to "get him" dead or alive. But
when sheriff and his posse will
shoot down a defenseless girl under
guise of "drty" they are as truly
murderers in the eye of the people
as whole as was ever any man
who stretched hemp in atonement tc
law. Sheriff Madden and the two
deputies with him may be heroes
in their own eyes, but the people as
a whole will have to be shown why
they should not stand trial for thei,
act of shooting up three of the chill
dren of the Cameron Da m desperate
LATEST among important public
ations to give the more or less Hon
ora bic Clarence B. Miller sapphire
setting is the Review of Reviews
and if Clarence B. Miller needs any
more publicity to make the voters
of the district book him as an Gin.
surgent" he will have to get it from
some other source than the public
alton named. For therein he is
classed, in favorable comment, in
his rightful sphere as Cannon sup
porter-a stand patter of the old
school. Clarence won in the prim-
aries, but there are men in the dis
trict who would not wager penny
with hole in it that he would win
in November.
In lengthy article containing
communications from every repub-
lican candidate for legislative hon.
ors in St. Louis county in the Du.
luth News Tribune few mornings
since we are assured that each and
every one of them stand aquarely
for "re-apportionment." But the
article fails to enlighten a suscept-
ible public whether they stand for
re-apportionment according to pop
ula*ion or stand for a gerrymander,
Routing the county into strips six
miles wide and hundred and sixtv
miles long that the republican
ranges may continue to help out
the democratic end of St. Louis
county, Duluth, in making of the
present and of additional districts
safer republican fold. The pres
ent Legislative districts in St. Louis
county present shoe-string ap.
pearance, and embrace territory of
80 widely varied interests that we
have enough-such as they are. If
we are to be given more of the same
kind, postpone reapportionment.