The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-08-18
POLITICAL GOSSIP
The County Chairman" Gives Miner Readers
Entertaining State Capitol Gossip Touching
The Great and Near-Great.

official head. Resolution Bill' re-
GENTLY went to Washington, having in
charge a prisoner wanted in the Dis
trict of Columbia, and his visit to the
national capital started the talk. With
him was w. W. Rich, late custodian
of the federal building in st. Paul,
who bankers for another berth. Mr..
Grimshaw's connection with Fred
Briggs, now under indictment in Min
neapolis for connection with several
notorious "yeggmen," is said to be re-
sponsible for the visit, though this is
denied by the marshal.
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Speaking of United States Marshal
Grimshaw, he was one of the big boys
in the good old days, but one seldom
hears of him now except in an Off
cial capacity. No political gathering
was complete without him and his
ever ready pocketful of resolutions,
eulogistio of the administration and a
few other things necessary to party
success, was always in evidence. The
reigning senator could always be as
sured of "BilPs" best wishes and a
few resolutions and to his credit he
never fell down on the job. The last
order from the federal department
prohibiting political activity on the
part of it's employees seems to have
been enough for the marshal and little
has been heard of him until now.
Minnesota now has summer cap
itol and Minnetonka Lake is the spot
chosen by the executive. st. Adams
resort is the prosaic name given the
summer home of the chief official and
for the next ten days Governor Eber-
hart will bare his fevered brow to the
cooling lake breeZes. Saturday night
last the enterprising owner of the re-
sort gave a dance in honor of his dis
tinguished guest, and, in the words of
the chronicler, 'his excellency and of
fetal family danced until the wee sma'
hours" And you can take it from me
that the governor can dance. No one
loves it better and certainly no one
misses as few sets. AS his secretary
once remarked, commenting upon Gov
ernor Eberhart's love for the terpscho-
rian art, "he fairly delights in it." =
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The suit started by a printing firm
in Minneapolis, which holds the con-
tract for state printing, against the
state farmers institute because of its
action in going outside to have its an
nual report printed put one line of &C,
custom of a number of state depart.
ments in soliciting advertising to help
out their revenues. The institute an.
nual is made up largely of advertising
the money going to pay for the pub.
fishing of the book. Then there is
the state fair, the breeders and a
number of other semi-state institu-
lions. This practice is to be attacked
in the suit brought and it may result
In the lid being applied. The state
university is another offender in this
respect. That some of the state pub
ications give returns to advertisers
there is no doubt, but in many cases
it is absolutely graft and sentiment
against the practice is growing.
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Washington dispatches credit Chair
man Ed Smith of the Republican state
central committee and w. w. Rich
he who used to hand out the bits OF
pasteboard in the good old days, as
having the state tied up for President
Taft Up this way Ed and Bill were
never regarded as having much in
common, and as for coppering the
state-well it takes more than two to
do that.
Henry Rines of the Mora Times and
the representative from Kanabec
county is the latest to be talked of
for the lieutenant governorship. 1t is
said the county option forces regard
him favorably. Mr.. Rines fathered
a county option bill in the last house
He was In the Twin Cities last week,
but had nothing to say regarding the
talk.
Chickens will be ready for the
slaughter the 7th of next month and
already hunters are on the ground-a
number of them to their sorrow. An
ticipating early shooting the state
game and fish commission has put a
large number of extra game wardens
in the field and they are gobbling up
the "sooners." The commission says
there will be lots of birds this year.
Candidates for congressman-at-large
, under the reapportionment authorized
by congress threaten to be numerous
on the Republican side of the house,
but SO far nothing has been heard
from the unwashed. Word just comes,
however, that State Senator S. d.
Works OF Mankato is willing to make
the sacrifice. He says he may get into
the game. Senator Works was one of
the bitter opponents of reapportion-
ment at the last session of the legis-
lature, something that might hamper
his ambitions as far as the northern
part of the state is concerned, but he
does not think so. He says he is sorry
because he voted against the act, but
he had to do it because his Democratic
colleagues demanded it.
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If bills galore in railroad way do
not find their way into the next legis-
lative hopper it will not be the fault
of those who haua ambitions alann