The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-12-05

| legislature suggests a return to an
nual sessions. just why that system
was dropped is not quite apparent.
Madison Independent Press.
| The most unkindly cut-in of all
was the cut-in of Roosevelt in the
matter Of how to handle the trusts.
as he we'll knew his remarks were a
sharp criticism of the policy of the
present administration regarding
the trusts. For one, we prefer the
Taft policy to the proposed Roose-
welt policy. Roosevelt had his OPP
portunity when president, but the
trusts prospered like green bay
tree. 1t is up to him to keep still
until the Taft policies have had a
fair try Madison Independent
Press.
That it is everybody for himself
and the devil take the hindmost' is
evident in Minnesota politics since
Senators Clapp and Nelson have
made up. Clapp says he will help
Nelson; Nelson says he will support
the republican nominee. but will not
help nominate one; Eberhart says
his organization will not lead the
Taft movement in Minnesota; the
various congressman will attend to
their own business; and everybody
looks out for themselves. Surely
the chances are good for circus
when they all get to explaining. In
the meantime the dear people" are
serenely saving wood and saying no.
thing. Cottonwood Citizen.
1t is stated that Senator La Fol-
lette's proposed visit to Minnesota
has been indefinitely postponed. Can
it be that the grim visage of the
man from Oyster Bay has had any
thing to do with the change of
plans? Fairfax Standard.
Wouldn't it be just as we'll to let
good old "Prexy" Northrop rest
comfortably on his honors as presi-
dent emeritus of the state univer-
sity and not try to fill his head with
notions of the governorship. con-
gressman-at-large, and other, impos-
sible things? Hutchinson Leader.
1t is beyond a doubt true that
Comrade Van SAINT is seriously con-
sidering the matter of becoming a
candidate to succeed Senator Mel
son. If Van SAINT should decide to
hook up with Taft in the Minnesota
campaign where would Knute find
himself? The way Of the politician
is hard. and especially if he happens
to have standpat proclivities. Mar
tin County Sentinel.
Theodore Roosevelt for president;
Robert M. La Toilette for vice presi-
dent. is the way some of the political
writer's are doping it out. A ticket
like that would run faster than a
prairie fire in a gale.-Sauk Center
Herald.
The progressives at the county
seat town have sent out a call for a
or meeting to be held at
Wabasso, Dec. IL, at l o'clock p. M.
No doubt they will draw a large
crowd, because there are only few
old standpatters in the county, and
they are that just because their
bosses say for them to be.-Vesta
Censor.
That man Grove Wilson'S certainly
the Redwood Falls Gazette
hum editorially. He is turning
out a most splendid paper in every
respect and it can not but be said
that Grove is valuable addition to
the Seventh district editorial fra
ternity. Of course, our friend Theo-
dore Christianson, of Dawson,
thinks that Grove doesn't know just |
which side of the fence to get off on
in the matter of presidential politics
but that does not signify anything.
Grove has been on the city papers
so long that he has learned the value
of not jumping too soon into cam
paign the outcome of which is away |
out yonder in the unlimited remote
ness of uncertainty. Grove wants
to see the jumping off place before
he jumps. Minnesota Mascot.
The softest proposition Of which
ancient or modern history makes