Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1912-08-02


Ways ready to help any Of them. We
venture to say that congressman Lind
bergh would not subscribe to this. The
Congressman 3 friends say Nelson but
tttty IN on postoffice matters continual
IF end always against Lindbergh g
z2conGlne ndatiOns.
The St. Cloud Times doesn't under.
stand why it should be charged with
favoring the selection OF supreme court
:indges by the Great Northern railway.
!fhe Times is probably not aware of
the facts concerning appointment of
some of the present judges. a little in
quiry and investigation on it's part
viii satisfy the Times that it has not
Been doing justice to itself in follow
ing the lead of the Pioneer and Dis
patch in this extremely important mat
ter Some of the press comments we
publish this week are illuminating.
A French statesman said: ct was
sapub1ican before tie republic. With
truth P. M. Ringdal could say: IT was
was progressive before progressive
nfeas were popular" Twenty years
ago, when probably not a half dozen
persons in this state knew the meaning
of the Initiative, P. M. Ringdal favor
er it and tried to put it into the
Ropufist national platform. He has
always been man Of progressive ideas,
never dominated by machine or boss
the sort Of man to help make future
for the democratic party bright with
promise Of service to the people.
Our friend, the St. Cloud Times,
9oesn It hurt this papers feeling by
calling it populist. There is nothing
Of reproach in the name. With most Of
tke populist doctrines of old becoming
most important planks in the platforms
Of the great parties and of the new
sfliref party; with the democratic candi-
date for: president advocating issues
wh1rnawere once considered the peculiar
property Of the populists twenty years
ago, we find nothing approbrious in the
term populist, even though the populist
pasty as an organization no longer ex-
zsts and it's principal doctrines have be-
come crystallized into laws or are liv.
ing issues. Yet the Herald is a demo-
cratic paper, not, however, a democratic
paper that believes the Murphy-sul-
ivan-Taggart style Of democracy to be
either good or decent-but rather, we
hope, paper that believes if. demo-
;ratic democracy.
The country press is beginning to
speak out boldly as to candidates for
the supreme bench. The way in which
The doctrine Of a non partisan Judiciary
is being twisted in order to retain
monopoly representatives on the bench,
Is not going to succeed in preventing
free and fair consideration of judicial
candidates. Non-partisanship does not
refer only to political affiliations.
There must be -partisanship as to
corporations also. To aspire to the
bench is an honorable ambition, and
fhe doctrine of a non-partisan judiciary
Toes not mean that men in every re-
spssct fitted for judgeships shall refrain
iram filing because the sitting Judge
lies: If the sitting judge is all he ought
TO" be. there will be little danger Of a
filing which would be fruitless in re-
suit: The object Of the new law is not to
preserve "vested right,' of monopoly
owned Judges, but to encourage clean.
able ana impartial men to file.
!: The trite saying that politics makes
strange bedfellows was never bet
tar exemplifed than at the Roosevelt
meeting at St. Paul this week. Pro.
gressive Purdv, who first presided, is
attorney for lot of Minneapolis cor.
porations, some of which have collided
with the law. Progressive jacobson, of
honorable fame earned while member
Of the legislature, was permanent chair
man, and looked upon meeting il
which were prominent Progressive Viii
Kinson, for years the Great Northern
chief lobbyist; Progressive Gates
whose record in the legislature would
. Hardly be called progressive: Pro
gressive Rich. Everybody knows Billy
ETC., etc. Then there were men lik
Welles of Sank Centre. clean. able con
scientious, sincerely believing that tn
wise and proper thing to do is to sup
cort Roosevelt. IF the third party eve
IS in position to appeal to the countr
on an honest basis, it will be due
aren of the last type, and not to tn
rondescripts, worn out gangsters an
disappointed politicians who have al
Tached themselves to the Roosevelt
orovement.