Morris tribune., 1911-11-10

He has come out IN letter stating
that if after the first of the year con.
ditions continue to call for his candi.
dacy and the people persist in demand.
ing that he make the run he may con.
sent to do 70.
But he modestly suggests that he is
not the best man, that some better
man should be found. ~
If Sam will consent to the use OF
his name we do not think that the
people will bother about looking fol
a "better man."
For the rank and file Sam is good
enough.
A "better man" would be too d.
good.
Yes. Sam is all right. He is not
world beater as "mixer. :" but he
is a corker as "fixer."
And the beauty of the thing is that
he always "fixes" things in the in
terest of the people.
OU yOQ 1SCalj uOW AACA LAC
last Minnesota Senate?
Well. he did the job so slick that
the "interests" didn't get look in
on the organization.
"The best organized senate in the
history of Minnesota" said Lynn
Halnes-and Lynn knows.
That is the kind of fixer Sam is.
According to the ''Blue Book" Sam
was SO years old last month.
He comes from Scotch Irish stock
and his ancestors have been pioneer
ing. for several generations, in diff
ferent states.
Sam was born, like all other great
men, in the state of Indiana.
He lived in Browns Valley for about
thirty years.
We know nothing about his financial
rating-but we'Il wager the center
of doughnut that he doesn't need
seven hgures to express the value of
his assets-he has been In the news
paper business all his life.
That generally tells the financial
story.
So we reckon Sam 'ain't got" any
more money than he needs.
But he's got heap more honesty
than many who are in politics.
And he's got a whole lot of COM
mon sense too and that is more than
many honest folks have.
A politician who is both able and
honest is an article as valuable as it
is rare.
Sam is both.
The "interests" tried to get Sam
to "be right" last fall.
But Sam said he would rather be
governor than "be right.
You see it all depends on how you
construe that expression "be right. I"
It's all right to "be right" pro-
vided you are right, but it's not the
company of the politicians you'll be
bothered with, my boy.
Sam has just naturally stuck around
there in Browns Valley, living the
simple life and telling the people of
the surrounding townships in the Tri-
bune-how Clones painted his fence
last week" and how "Billy Brown is
the father Of pair of Brown twins.
Sam has been dishing out that kind
of stuff for twenty five years-and
then life had about twenty-five years
the start of him when he began the
dishing.
And now he is fifty years of age
little young perhaps, but what of
that?
Yes, fifty. and little over a year
ago you had hardly heard of him.
And yet he was there all the time
but not waiting.
Sam was not waiting for the peo-
pie to come and pick him for leader.
But when they did come they found
Sam ready.
And if they decide next year to pick
him for governor they will find that
Sam will be right kthere with the
goods.
Sam was never known to shirk any
duty and if the people of the state of
Minnesota say that they must and
will have him to sit in the private
office. at the governors desk. in the
capitol building on the hill, why. we
just reckon he will go and sit there
without making any fuss about it.
The editors of Minnesota, at their
last meeting in st. Paul, elected Sam
president of their organization.
Z Of course, that's more honor than
being governor and still it didn't turn
Sans head-Sam has been president
of the Board Of Education in Browns
Valley, and postmaster of the town
for IL years so his head isn't turned
10 easily as all that.