The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-11-16
ELOPfRS MARRIED JOYFUL JOLLItS|
State Administration ChuCkS vOt-
erS Under the ChinS
M ANY COMMISSIONS
Thousands of Voters Named as Dele
gates to Congresses of All
Sorts and Conditions
Especial Correspondence

Sorts and Conditions
Especial Correspondence
ST. PAUL, Nov. LIT is hardly
possible that you have been overlooked
in the gratuitous distribution of dele
gate commissions which are feature
of the state executive department
these days-I refer to those sheets of
executive parchment, with the great
seal of the state attached, and bear
ing your name and that of his excel
lency's, beautifully scrolled together,
with the function at which you are to
represent the great state of Mime
sota-but if you have not don't worry.
The last time l looked in at the exc
cutive quarters there were more
parchment sheets and to spare; Secre-
tary of State Julius A. Schmahl had
replenished his rapidly diminishing
supply of gold seals and within easy
call of the commission mill sat a
young lady who could duplicate the
executive signature at the rate of fifty
"sigs" a minute if the occasion de-
manded it and defy criticism as to
detection between the original and
the copy at that. AS to the functions
well, Secretary Ralph Wheelock was
opening invitations to send Minnesota
representatives to "get- back-to-the
farm conventions and what not at
the rate of four a day. And when
they failed he had other doings up his
sleeve re protection congresses,
conservation gatherings and other get
togtther things. That any one has
been overlooked surprises me. but, as
1 said, do not worry; just it;-they
will come.
This is a rather coarse way of
speaking CT something that has grown
apace with no less than four admins
trations and which had its inception
during the period when Dave Clough
was in command, but as slight re-
compense for the genius that invented
the game l take off my hat to him.
He is sure entitled to a niche, for he
builded we'll in providing a way for
more than one hard pressed official to
lull rebellion. AS history records it,
and / will have to admit that history
i'll this case is rather vagne, the gen.
eral distribution of gold seal decor
ated commissions, with the big fell
lows signature attached, had it's first
trial during the Dave Clough admin
istration. but it was the democratic |
Kitchen Cabinet" that brought the
scheme to state of perfection, with |
the present administration a close
second. The cabinet, ground out
at every excuse and lowly
was the shack whose walls were not
decorated with the Illuminated bits
of paper, or poor the voter who could
not procure something bearing the
name of the immortal Johnson, and
in his own handwriting at that. Gov
ernor Eberhart distributed over five
thousand commissions bearing his
signature" for the conservation con-
yress of year or more ago, with his
latest innovation, the Fire Prevention
congress, held last week in St. Paul,
hard pressing it for place. And both
represent money well spent, for they
brought into being two propositions
If merit, and in the case of the con-
'ervation congress an appreciation
hat figured strongly in the big vote
which the Mankato man piled up
against his rival. And in addition,
uSt think of the advertising. /.
Poohooed as joke by his enemies,
so seriously by one St. Paul
eRM3h chat he mistook the delegate