The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-11-23
BIG BOULDERSAHEAD
Those Who Claim to be Posted on the
Situation Say There is Trouble
in Store for Eberlart.
Suspicion That Geo. T. Simpson Has
Resigned Attorney GeneraIship
to Run for Governor.
Union Special CORRESPONDENCE.

talk of opposition to the governor but
it has not had much point or origin.
This week the Minneapolis journal
takes fall out of the executive. It
is entwined about the brewery owned
saloons. Starting with this as the
text, the Journal announces that
Governor Eberhart's alliances have
not been satisfactory, whatever they
may be. Then it announces sagely,
''let US have a clean-cut candidate. "
The meaning of the Journals outburst
is a mooted question and has started
the tongues wagging.
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There is a good deal of question as
TO the identity of the "clean-cut candi-
'date,'' but there is suspicion that it
is Attorney General George T. Simp-
son, who has resigned the attorney
generalship in order to form a part
nership which gives him the Shevlin-
Carpenter lumber business.
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Mr.. Simpson and the governor have
not been at all friendly. The at
torney general wanted to be appointed
to the supreme bench to succeed Judge
Jaggard. Up to that time he and the
Eberhart forces had been extremely
close. Mr.. Simpson was miffed and
let the fact be known. He Immediately
started out to Inland things" to the
governor and succeeded in doing So.
The result was that the relations be-
tween the two Offices have been about
as friendly as those between the Man.
chus and the honest-to-goodness
Chinese. Mr.. Simpson is credited
with having felt around for support
and intimated that he had that of GER
tain corporate interests. He is also
credited with the opinion that the
time was come for a straight, clean
cut candidate who would not be car
ried away by the popular issues of the
day. Among other things, it is re-
ported that he had a conference with
Chairman E. E. Smith of the state
central committee relative to the SUBJ
stitution Of has name for that of Eber-
hart in the annals of that body, and
that the chairman gigged back on the
proposition. Couldn't see his way to
such consummation without dis
loyalty to the governor. This kept
things boiling little more. Then
comes the attack on the governor by
the Journal.
In the meantime wherever opposi-
tion to the governor could be made to
stick it was shown. A determined
effort is on hand to induce the
Northern Minnesota Development as
ISOLATION TO indorse the proposition
of an extra session and to slap the
governor. The executive will not be
present owing to the fact that he will
be speeding on his way eastward with
the governors special, which will be
started for the purpose of boosting
the northwest But he will be repre-
scented, probably by Secretary
Wheelock, who will be armed with a
verbatim report of what the governor
really said in his Brainerd speech.
The governor is opposed to an extra
session SO far as reapportionment
and the increase of the gross earnings
tax is concerned. He knows that an
extra session could not secure reap
ipOrtionment. It is we'll recognized
that reapportionment must be gained
by an alliance between northern Min
nesota and the cities. The senators
who put the "seven senator's" bill
over on the cities would not gig back
on that proposition, which was their
back door out for not passing reap
portionment The cities would not be
willing to pass a reapportionment
measure with that handicap left in.
These are subjects that are not gener-
ally discussed, but they are the facts.
AS to the gross earnings tax, the
governor does not approve of the
effort in advance of the supreme court
decision, because, under the Sanborn
decision, this would simply mean an
increase of the rates to cover the new
expenditure. In fact there is grow
ing feeling that the gross earnings tax
may not be the best way in the world
to tax the railroads and that an ad
valorem tax might be more satisfac-
tory-taxing the roads the same as
any other property.
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But the governors friends profess
30 believe that he may finally yield to
the pressure for an extra session if it
persists. Especially so in view of the
possibility of a corporation combine
against him. The governor is more