The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-10-13
POLITICAL GOSSIP
The County Chairman" Gives Miner Readers
Entertaining State Capitol Gossip Touching
The Great and Near.Great.


sat in. Mr.. Spooner is credited with
| desire for a try at that new job
congressman at large, and 1t is said
| Speaker Dunn has similar aspira
tons. At the conference it was re
ported that the two were figuring out
which should give way to the other
Both have decided views on railroad
legislation, Mr.. Dunn being for dis
lance tariff and Mr.. Spooner advocat
ing an increase in the railroad gross
earnings tax rate.
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member of the last house, is said to
be grooming himself for try at the
Republican nomination for attorney
general. He is close friend OF
Speaker H. H. Dunn and was promi
nent at the Dunn-Spooner conference
last week At the state capitol Lyn,
don A. Smith, who will succeed Attor
ney General George T. Simpson when
the latter retires next January, has
been generally picked to land the Of
noe. but it now looks as If he was due
for a fight Mr. Smith is favored by
the Eberhart administration.
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No session of the legislature has
been complete without it's supply OF
jackknives, but if Secretary of State
julius H. Schmahl is on the job again
he announces that when he makes up
the next legislative stationery supplies
he will drop knives from the list. II
they are wanted the members will
have to buy them, he says. Perhaps
no one article supplied for the state
for the use of members and designated
as stationery has been productive OF
more criticism than the knife which
each receives in his package. In sew.
eral cases the item of jackknives has
entered into the legislative campaign
with disastrous results for the recip
tents.
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Speaking of Secretary of State Jul
Illus H. Schmahl, who, it is said, will
make a fourth try for his present job
the gossip is general that If he does
he will have opposition. E. A. Nelson
state librarian under Governor Van
SAINT and a prominent Collins man in
the Dunn-C Collins contest of that date
has his eye on the place, and G. H
Mattson of Roseau county is known
to be laying plans for the capture OF
the Office. 1t Is possible, too, that Hen
nepin county may have a candidate
James A. Larson, assistant to Mr.
Schmahl, is credited with desire tC
succeed his chief, but he will not gel
into the race If Mr.. Schmahl decides
to make the run.
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ONCE holding is not all salary and
much ease, as Governor Eberhart can
attest to- Last week the governor was
the object of spirited attack by a
local Catholic publication for partici
pating in wedding at the Pine county
fair and he was also handed an an
noying demand by the st. Paul Meth
odist Laymen's league that he start
proceedings in custer against the St
Paul officials for failure to enforce the
liquor laws. On top of this is the case
of several members of the board OF
commissioners of Hennepin county
who are charged with malfeasance in
Office, and an up state county attorney
whose removal he will be compelled
to order. 1t means trouble later on
and trouble in these stirring political
times is not what the average Office
holder wants.
Senator Ole Sageng of Otter Tai
county brings the word that President
Taft cannot carry his district again il
the present turbulent state of public
mind continues. He says the farmers
In his section will have none of the
president. And Ole is not alone in re-
ports of this kind. They come from
every section of Minnesota. At the
Madison (Minn.) Homecoming celebra
ton recently, at which a dozen OF
more state officers were present, the
leaders were informed BY men in touch
with political affairs in Lac qui Parle
county. that the president was de
cidedly in bad there.
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Ole Sageng, by the way, is undoubt
eddy going to appear in role the com
ing year other than that of state SEN
ator. Fred B. Lynch of the Demo
cratic forces is said to have picked
him 90 tho no NV oopdidota for ooo
gresham at large. They have even
| discussed him for gubernatorial hon
ors. Senator Sageng was at one time
| spoken of for United States senator
but Lynch and his Heutenants, it is
reported, do not wish it. They favor
A. G. Weiss of the Duluth Herald fol
the place.
Minneapolis Is just now in the
throes of the religious forward move
ment and the nightly meetings and
impromptu street prayer gatherings
threaten to have a bearing on the
city's coming mayoralty campaign. Sir
is being assailed from all points and
those in official life responsible for its
presence are receiving the brunt oil
the attack. Those in charge of the
movement have employed a corps oil
press agents and they are grinding
out the dope in true theatrical style.
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United States Senator La Toilette
has accepted an invitation to speak In