The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-05-16

cellency Is not working. In his case
It is going to be a battle of witg
against the sledge hammers of the
other side. Many bits of correspond
ence go out that the public knows lit
tie about, lots of conferences, trivial
to all appearances, take place and
quite a few alliances are being made.
All this does not show up on the sur
face, but it is one way of reaching the
final result
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This is bad year for the gang and
political boss, as was evidenced in st.
Paul last week when R. T.. O'Connor,
better known as the "Cardinal," and
his lieutenants went down to defeat
The count was close, but it was none
the less effective. Into the discard
went Otto Bremen, treasurer of the
Schmidt Brewing company, the Demo-
cratic candidate for mayor, and prac-
tically all the other candidates for i'm
portant offices on the ticket. The
old town even adopted the commission
form of government, which goes into
ed by the public it was a fight be-
tween rival breweries, with the Hamm
concern on the Keller side of the
house, but the voting public was more
concerned regarding gang rule than
which beverage it favored and the
The story is abroad, though, that
while the sympathies Of the Hamm
crowd might have been with the Kel-
Ter forces at the start hands off, was
the feature at the finish. 1 am told
the O'Connor forces threatened re-
ta!iation, win or lose, and there was
no Hamm activity after that.
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Some other way may be found out
of the difficulty but it looks as if the
state beard of control would be COM
PEELED to recommend to the next leg
islature the construction of a fourth
insane asylum. They say a new hos
p1tal would be much better than add
Ing to the present institutions. One
OF the largest hospitals for the insane
Is that at Rochester and when the
board visited it last patients were
sleeping in the corridors and on the
porches. In the wards the beds were
so closely packed together as to COM
pei the inmates to walk over the 9th
er patients in order to reach their
own sleeping quarters. The attend
ants In ministering to the wants of
the sick have to walk across the beds
in order to reach them. And yet this
year, in Difference to the demands of
a number, with influential city papers
to back them and the treatise writing
activities of others, the state is build
ing an expensive hospital for the
reformation of drunks and has al
ready erected girls reformatory at
heavy COST Both could we'll have
been put off until the sick were cared
for, but this never appealed to those
advocating these latest innovations
or those who saw nice fat jobs in their
creation
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Senator Thomas eastman is being
doomed for the Democratic nomina.
ton for governor, but Mr. eastman
will have to forego that honor for a
couple Of years. He is a senator and
is not eligible. Senator eastman is
the author of a distance tariff bill
and his activities in this line would
not be to his advantage as far as Du-
luth and the Twin Cities are con-
cerned.
Keep your eye on Warden Wolfer
OF the Saltwater prison. Mr.. Wolfer
has been breaking into the Twin
City prints of late, the commendatory
things said about him having to do
with his management of the Irvine
and farm machinery plants at the
state prison. He was made the sub
]ect OF an elaborate and congratula-
tory report turned out by Public Ex-
aminer Fritz and this has led some to
say that he might be the compromise
candidate for the Republican nominal
ton for governor occasionally limited
at. 1t has been often said that Mr..
Wolfer would not object to being
made the party standard bearer IF
he was candidate he would undoubt-
sdly have the opposition of organized
labor in the state. That body Of
workers does not take kindly to pris-
on made goods and Mr.. Wolfer has
been active in making the Saltwater
prison self sustaining in this respect.
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st. Paul will have the commission
form of government, it having been
endorsed at the late city election. but
whether it will be put to use hinges
on a case now in the supreme court.
There the Mankato commission char.
ter is under fire, the principal object
OF attack being the provision which
makes the mayor member of the citv
council as we'll as executive. On
ponents of the charter say this is for
hidden by the constitution. St. Pauls