Morris tribune., 1911-10-13


the latter retires next January, has
been generally picked to land the Of
fee, but it now looks as if he was due
for a fight Mr. Smith is favored by
the Eberhart administration.
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No session of the legislature has
been complete without it's supply of
jackknives, but if Secretary of State
julius H. Schmahl is on the job again
he announces that when he makes up
| the next legislative stitionery supplies
he will drop knives from the list. If
have to buy them, he says. Perhaps
no one article supplied for the state
for the use of members and designated
as stationery has been productive of
more criticism than the knife which
each receives in his package. In sew
eral cases the item Of jackknives has
entered into the legislative campaign
with disastrous results for the recip-
tents.
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Speaking of Secretary of State Ju-
Illus H. Schmahl, who, 1t Is said, will
make fourth try for his present job,
the gossip is general that If he does
he will have opposition. E. A. Nelson,
state librarian under Governor Van
SAINT and a prominent Collins man in
the Dunn-Collins contest of that date,
has his eye on the place, and G.. H.
Mattson of Roseau county is known
to be laying plans for the capture of
the Office. 1t is possible, too, that Hen
nepin county may have candidate
James A. Larson, assistant to Mr..
Schmahl, is credited with q desire to
succeed his chief, but he will not get
into the race if Mr.. Schmahl decides
to make the run.
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Office holding is not all salary and
much ease, as Governor Eberhart can
attest to. Last week the governor was
the object of a spirited attack by
local Catholic publication for partici-
pating in wedding at the Pine county
fair and he was also handed an an
noying demand by the St. Paul Meth
odist Laymen's league that he start
proceedings in custer against the st.
Paul officials for failure to enforce the
liquor laws. On top of this is the case
of several members of the board of
commissioners of Hennepin county,
who are charged with malfeasance In
Office, and an up state county attorney
whose removal he will be compelled
to order. 1t means trouble later on,
and trouble In thsse stirring political
times is not what the average Office
holder wants.
Senator Ole Sageng of Otter Tail
county brings the word that President
Taft cannot carry his district again if
the present turbulent state of public
mind continues. He says the farmers
in his section will have none Of the
president. And Ole Is not alone In re-
ports of this kind. They come from
every section of Minnesota At the
Madison (Minn.) Homecoming celebra-
tion recently, at which a dozen or
more state officers were present, the
IC0uCI " CIC AAIOl l1Iou Ny MSA ia
with political affairs in Lac qui Parle
county, that the president was de-
cidedly in bad there.
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Ole Sageng, by the way, is undoubt-
edly going to appear in role the COM
ing year other than that of state SEN
ator. Fred B. Lynch of the Demo
cratic forces is said to have picked
him as the party candidate for con-
gressman at large. They have even
discussed him for gubernatorial hon
ors. Senator Sageng was at one time
spoken of for United States senator,
but Lynch and his lieutenants, it is
reported, do not wish it, They favor
A. c. Weiss of the Duluth Herald for
the place.
Minneapolis is just now in the
throes of the religious forward move
ment and the nightly meetings and
impromptu street prayer gatherings
threaten to have a bearing on the
city's coming mayoralty campaign. Sin
is being assailed from all points and
those in official ife responsible for it's
presence are receiving the brunt of
the attack. Those in charge of the
movement have employed a corps of
press agents and they are grinding
out the dope in true theatrical style.
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United States Senator La Toilette
has accepted an invitation to speak ir
st. Paul and Minneapolis next month
and progressive circles are now busy
with the preliminaries. 1t Is planned
to make the occasion monster af-
fair At Chicago Oct. 16 the Wiscon-
sin senator will make an official an
nouncement of his candidacy for the
presidency and a number of his Min
nesota followers are planning to be
present on the occasion. 1t is possible |!
that the campaign for the capture of
the Minnesota delegation to the ma