Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-01-19
LEGISLATIVE LETTER
By FRANK N. EDDY

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vestisauion of every thing under the
stars and anything that is new and
different that will create talk, make
a sensation and raise the devil.
Quite large percentage of the
Taftites favor one or more of these
measures, but they favor them soft
and easy not hard, enthusiastically
and vociferously as the La Folletteers
do. The former seem inclined to leg
islate for the state, the latter for prac-
teal purposes.
The supreme aim Of the La Toilet
teers is to turn the state delegation
over to the Wisconsin Senator and al
ready a state organization has been
formed for this purpose and an at
tempt will be made to extend it into
every voting precinct in the state;
but the movement will by no means
be confined to national affairs. The
La Folletteers are after Senator Nell
sons scalp hard and fast. They in
tend to nominate a full state ticket,
and none of the present state officials
will have a '.look in if their plans
carry, and six at least of the nine
sitting members of Congress will
have to fight for denomination
against La Folletteers.
All these candidates have been
selected. but it would hardly be fair
to publish their names as the men
selected, or at least many of them, do
not know they have been chosen and
only the charmed inner circle of the
La Folletteers know who they will
be, but the popular choice has been
made just the same.
A leader for either faction has not
yet developed in the Senate and III
the House the Taftites are as yet
settled on a champion. w I. Nolan
has shown decided symptoms of be-
coming the leader of the La Toilet
teers in the House Billy possesses
that sublime self-confidence parlia-
mentary knowledge, readiness of re-
partee. imperturbable good nature
and careless disregard of facts that
are essential to q legislative political
leader. Billy has already started
looking for trouble and he will PROB
ably find it before the session closes.
"The Big Eat''
Wednesday night, Jan. II, the
citizens of st. Paul, through the Com
mercial Club gave a sumptuous feed
to the Legislature which for brillian-
cy of execution, splendor of arrange
ment and general allround success
has never been equalled in the his
tory of the capitol city.
1t was held in the magnificent palm
room in the new st. Paul Hotel that
had been transformed into a scene OF
oriental gorgeousness that bewildered
the beholder All the details passed
Off with military precision and with
the regularity OF a legislator drawing
his pay. The guests arrived on time.
Statesmen may be a little dilatory in
getting up to the Georgia marble
pile but when it comes to feed"
they are as prompt as the small boy
with a pass to the grand stand for a
ball game.
1t was an informal affair with
emphasis on the "in."
The menu had best not be publish
ed in the country papers for fear all
the editors Will become candidates
for the legislature two years from
now.
1t took the consumers two hours to
wade through it, and considering its
extent and variety it is strange they
are not there yet. The viands were
of such character as to make the
partakers long to carry the fragments
home in their pockets There was "A
food of wine that loveth running red
der than b1ood' and fantastic smoke
wreaths from fine Habanas eircled
about the ceiling in picturesque
forms and they We're no "two-fors'
either.
The oratorica1 programme was
handled by that prince of Toast-mas-
tiers, j. W. Stone, whose eloquence
would make that of Cicero, Demos
themes and all the other ancient word
singers, sound as insipid as a sixth
grade pupil reeiting .'The boy stood
on the burning deck"
The speaking programme was not
overloaded and each speaker exhibit
ed a rare judgment not usually man
ifested on occasions of this kind, by
stopping when he had finished.
The "Vaudevillian'' turns we're a
scream. The first one was finished
performance and each succeeding