Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-04-27
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Isgl,akss who was the proud father of
4 Ellireen children, named the last one
4, nktum," and when asked for his
d lSseasson replied; that "Punktum"
Sgeant a full STOP
Isf With the effusion these articles
{ ttSo1me tg1e 10 full stop, as the legislative
|ssssicsa has ended, and the thirty
BsaYlfEh session of the Minnesota leg
lssasss4se Eas mas passed into history
gs'sfFs3 as It is-so I concluded that
SsssFsi ssssatum 9 would be the proper head
Eaeers of sneerers and the muck
IlIis RI this final letter.
Notwithstanding the gibes of gibers
I t$S4ls muckers, the record of this
legislature for things accomplished
and especially for things not accom-
y Rplisnsed, l1Is'ns Is equal to any of it's prede-
SCISSORS.
b criticism without stint has been
Iievelled at this legislature and the
members composing it, especially in
|Sne columns of the city press, but if
|1ne legislators had followed the ad-
Vice Of these carping critics and en-
|fcted the legislation proposed by
|tnem their recvord would have been
ten times worse than it is now and
tney would have lost the respect of
the entire state including their own.
Many times legislators are entitled
to more credit for not doing things
than they are for doing them and
this legislature has not done more
lhlngs than any one that has assem-.
bled for long time.
Lynn Haines who is a most pro-
nounced 'muck-raker'' in everything
but capacity, has issued his size up
and those whom he has denounced
are congratulating themselves and
those whom he has endorsed to ex-
plain away such endorsement.
E For some unknown reason the
political experts of the twin city
papers have decided that Speaker
Dunn was not a success and have
gravely decided that he has no politi-
cal future, yet for sheer ability, force
,fulhess and leadership qualities the
Speaker easily demonstrated that he
was the equal, if not the superior, of
any member of either branch of the
legislature and as a matter of fact
was in a class by himself
tits true, he was not an entire sue
cess as presiding officer. He was
too just and fair, too sensitive of
criticism, followed parliamentary
practice and precedent too closely
and was too anxious to please all fac
tions. A Speaker must be something
OF a tyrant to be success.
There is only one manual that it is
safe for a presiding officer to follow
and that is "To rule according to his
own best Judgment, to rule quick, to
rule loud and to stick to his ruling
When a presiding officer makes a
ruling he should always stick to it
and never reverse himself, if there is
any reversing done let the members
do, it.
Mr. Dunn is a natural advocate, a
pleader, a born leader, and his proper
place is at the head of the storming
column and not presiding over DELHI
erations.
Anyone who imagines that Mr.. Dunn
is out of public life and that he will
not leave the impress of his strong
indivuality upon public affairs in
this state whether he holds Office or
not, has another guess coming.
AS presiding officer over the Sen.
ate Lieutenant Governor Gordon was
success. In the first place the
Senate is a much easier body to pre-
side over than the House. Samuel Y.
is a natural presider. Although with
out experience he took to the Job as a
summer girl takes to ice cream On a
midsummer day. He is GOODNESS per.
sonified. If a brick house should fall
on him it would never face him. He
would emerge from the debris and
smilingly remark that it was lucky
that he was not standing in an alley
where two houses might have tum-
bled over him." When a question was
put up to him he took on an air OF
such profound wisdom whether real
or assumed, deponent sayeth not
that the nerviest Senator never pre-
sumed to question his decision.
There is no doubt that Mr.. Gordon
has a future, but what that future will
be, circumstances yet to develop can
only determine.
There has been more adverse criti.
a - ~.