Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-01-12

ENER-sPEAkER DUNN - SAN
Y's PAST GIVEN UP - GOVERN
oR,s MESSAGE "swEAR,Nt
TRAINS" - BILLS,
St Paul, Jan. 9-They're off! The
thirty-seyenth session of the Mime
sofa legislature has started the bi
ennlal law-making grind. The cur
tain raiser was the Republican caucus
or rather the Republican ratification
meeting.''
Ihey don't hold caucuses any more
The old time method of waiting IN.
I'll the members assembled and then
calling them into caucus and passing
ON the merits OF the various candi-
dates has passed into innocuous dis
3 quletude and these matters are all
settled weeks in advance of the meet
ING OF the legislature by Steering
committees and district meetings, .
so that the formal caucus is nothine,
more than an official ratification of
the pre-arranged division of the
spells. Every officer had been -prac-
ideally agreed upon down to the chap
lain One would think there would
s never be a scramble for this office,
For reverend gentlemen to election
Ger for this position seems Xix hawk
ing the Gospel in the market places.
still there are always as many candi-
dates for this position as any other if
not more.
The solons in both houses, are rath-
er particular who prays for them and
are mighty finnicky about their quail
tications They are always seeking
"a man who will pray short, and if it
Is possible to find one they want a
preacher who has never had much to
do with either religion or politics.
This would be all right if the chap
lalns only duty was to pray for the
legislature, as any old kind of chanlain
could do that, but he should also take
it upon himself to pray for the people
While the legislature is in session.
zihls needs a man most devout. fer
Vent IN spirit, serving the Lord, one
who will wrestle in prayer and Weld
not until he has received a BLESSING.
Julius Schmahl opened the House
session with great dignity and a re-
sonant voice. Julius just loves to
throw that voice around through
space and no one blames him for it is
good one. AS an. Opener" Julius
IS in a class by himself. He can
open anything from a Jackpot to =.
legislature with debonnaire grace
equalled by few and surpassed nv
none.
w. II. Dunn was placed in nomina-
ton for Speaker by Representative
Mckenzie in "peace and prosperity
speech. Albert Pfaender was named
by the Democrats and Representative
Sulurud was designated as the choice
OF the Prohibitionists. The election
was not exciting, Mr. Dunn proving
hot favorite and distancing the field.
! Looming above the escort committee
like lighthouse he took possession
of the speakers desk.
Mr. Dunn is a little shy on legisla-
tive experience but he started in
"speakering" as if he had never done
else all his life He won
the hearts of all and gave an earnest
OF future performance by refraining
from making speech and beginning
at once on the business before the
House, and the remaining officials
were speedily elected
They say the speaker resembles
lincoln, and he does; that is, his legs
look like Lincoln's did, and there the
comparison ends. AS "Rineyn saws
in isis Hopkins, Mature never Gre
ated but one Abraham Lincoln" This
is true, the molds were broken and
there never will be another. Lincoln
was the great, unapproachable cham