The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-11-10
POLITICAL GOSSIP
The County Chairman" Gives Miner Readers
Entertaining State Capitol Gossip Touching
The Great and Near-Great.

growth of the state has necessitated
vast additions to those needed for the
enforcement of the laws and the car
rying out of its policies is admitted
but there are many who believe that
selfishness rather than good business
has figured in the increase, and Bob
Dunn is only voicing their sentiments
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Dame Rumor is still busy with the
name of Congressman C. A. Lindberg
in connection with the Republican
nomination for governor. The Sixth
district congressman, however, re
fuses to give the talk confirmation
He, however, has not entered any de-
NAL. 1t may not be generally known
but the Sixth district progressive is
credited down here with much of this
worlds goods and there are those who
say that If he wanted to get into the
game outside help in the way of fl.
nances would not be necessary. He
has been much in the Twin Cities of
late comforting with local progressive
leaders.
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One of the features of the inquiries
for state lands received by State
Auditor Iverson these days is the re.
quest for information covering acre
age that has a lake frontage. Moth.
ing is required of the purchaser under
the present law other than that he
pay the stipulated price, and the fancy
of prospective buyers in consequence
seems to run to pleasure spots. In a
report just filed Mr.. Iverson says that
from May to October of the present
year he disposed of 102,75S acres of
state land at an average price of 1882
an acre. The whole realized the state
school fund the tidy sum of $685..
261.37.
Some of Governor Eberhart's critics
have been fussing with his contingent
fund and they find that since Aug. l
he has spent of the states money $27
for taxicabs, $191 in visiting county
fairs and other state points, several
hundred dollars in telegraph and tel
ephone tolls and nearly SIPS for clip
ping bureau service. The latter tells
him what the country and city press
has to say regarding his conduct of
the executive department and the
states affairs. Some have been try
ing to hold that many of the expendi-
lures are illegal, but State Auditor
Iverson says it is the governors fund
and what he does with it will not be
questioned by him.
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Attorney General Simpson will soon
leave the service of the state to en-
gage In the private practice of law.
eff do say it myself" said Mr.. Simp-
son, commenting upon his early de-
parture, "the state legal department
has grown to be one of the most i'm
portant on the list. 1t is now earning
many times its cost and if those who
succeed me keep up the work fully
$750,000 in Inheritance taxes alone
can be added to the treasury within
the next year. ! have in mind several
New York estates from which this
sum can be collected, but which l
cannot reach now because of my linn
tied time"
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This never appealed to me, but a
wise head at the state capitol offers
this political advice: IF political
career is your ambition and the peo-
pie make favorable answer, do not
stick to one Office, keep climbing l
have seen more than one hope blasted
through sticking to one thing. Jim
Tawney is an example of one class;
Senator Nelson the other. Knute
never stopped until he reached the
top" And l had to admit there was
something in it.
The name of Judge John c. Meth.
away Of Saltwater is figuring consid.
erably these days in the matter of the
Republican nomination for attorney
general. When the present attorney
general arrived on the scene Judge
Nethaway was looked upon as picked
for one of the assistants, but at the
last moment some unknown power in
terfered and the place went to Alex
James, then county attorney of Pipe
stone county. 1t was a great disap-
pointment to Nethaway's Fourth dis
trict hackers and they have ever since
been threatening to get even.
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At the next national Republican
convention national committeeman
for Minnesota will be selected and
the gossips are busy with the name of
E, e. Smith of Minneapolis as the
probable successor of Frank B. Kel-
logg, who now holds down the job.
Mr.. Smith Is chairman of the Repub-
lican state central committee. Mr..
Kellogg's fame is nationwide, but the
politicians generally do not take
kindly to him. He was close to the
Roosevelt administration, but the pass
ing of the big stick seems to have left
him out in the cold.
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I learn that there is more than talk
in the proposition to offer Alvah East
man, the well known st. Cloud pub
Usher and editor, as a candidate for
the Republican nomination for con-
gresham at large. Mr.. Eastman would
be the last man in the world to seek