The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-01-19
POLITICAL GOSSIP
The County Chairman" Gives Miner Readers
Entertaining State Capitol Gossip Touching
The Great and Near-Great
him from any further participation IN
First district politics.

him from any further participation IN
First district politics.
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National Democratic Committeeman
Fred B. Lynch of st. Paul paid an
old debt long due last week when he
voted with the majority at the meet
Ing OF the national committee against
the Bryan resolution ousting Colonel
James M. Guffey, the member from
Pennsylvania, from the organization.
Guffey had long been a thorn in the
ambitions of the Peerless One. 1t was
Mr.. Bryan, the Minnesota committee
man remembered, who put the lid on
Governor Johnson's early ambitions
and 1t was the Lincoln man too who
fatty told T. d. O'Brien, Mr.. Lynch
and others that Governor Johnson
could not even be considered for sec
ond place. Mr.. Lynch never travelled
with the Bryan bunch, but he has
never antagonized them.
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While in ST. Paul the other day W.
R.. Mackenzie of Bemidji, the Northern
Minnesota boomer, was asked If there
was any truth in the story that he was
preparing to enter the lists for secre-
tary OF state. Il will not say anything
regarding my reported candidacy"
said Mr.. Mackenzie, "but you can say
that Secretary Schmahl will have OPP
position. The secretary of the North
ern Development association is said
in some quarters to be slightly peeved
as a result of his failure to land the
position of immigration commissioner,
but he denies that such is the case.
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The new state law requiring white
lights on all horse drawn vehicles
after dusk is looked upon by some as
a joke, but attorneys say that failure
to! observe 1t may result seriously. 1t
Is not so much the penalty for viola
ton, they point out as the lack of
light on vehicle may interfere when
damages for loss of life or destruction
of the vehicle Is concerned. The pro-
vision Is taken from the New York
law and is designed to enable a per-
son to tell whether an approaching
vehicle at night is motor driven one
or otherwise
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One Of the things that Governor Eb-
erhart will likely recommend to the
next legislature will be the passage of
duplicate of the Kansas law de-
signed to keep wild cat and get-rich-
quick corporations out of the state 1t
Is proposed to put all corporations I'M
der the control of one of the state de-
partments and to exact from those in
charge of the concerns the fullest in
formation regarding them before adj
hitting them to do business in the
state. There is no way of reaching
them now and Governor Eberhart
gives 1t as his opinion that the people
are fieeced out Of hundreds of thou
sands Of dollars as a result.
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Baltimore has been selected by the
Democrats as the place for holding
their national convention. The gath
ering will begin June 25. The Mime
sofa contingent favored Chicago be-
cause of its nearness, but were finally
won over to the Maryland city. The
fact that Baltimore was favorable to
the presidential ambitions of the late
Governor Johnson and stood with him
to the last at the Denver convention
aided in influencing the Minnesota
crowd.
At the last meeting OF the state
board of health Dr. H. M. Bracken
was authorized to make European
trip In the interest of pure water and
the best methods of preventing its
contamination. Much opposition has
resulted and 1t is possible that an open
protest will be made to Governor Eb-
erhart. DIR. Bracken and his annual
authorized visits to the old world
figured in an investigation made by
the last legislature and though no ac-
ton was taken by that body the prac-
tice was condemned by the members
The state board Of health is one of
the most costly branches Of the state
government and charges have been
frequent regarding some of its ex-
penditures.
E. e. Lobsck of Alexandria, a for
nner member of the legislature, is like
ly to be the Prohibition candidate for
governor and It is expected that his
name will be filed shortly by the party
managers. Lobeck, when a member
Of the legislature, was an uncompro-
missing advocate Of the strenuous in
the way of laws for violation Of the
moral code and the bill hopper was
kept busy with the products Of his
pen. Few of them got by, however.
He Is an imprisoned speaker and In
his crusade against the liquor traffic
he was no respector of persons. 1t
IVES said of him that his meetings
nstted the cause more money than
that Of any other speaker in the same
line.
It does look as IL Senator James P.
Boyle OF Eyeleth was going to get into
the congressional game and that the
fears of Clarence Miller, the present
Eighth district incumbent. were due
to be realized, Senator Boyle's home
paper has been saying nice things
about him and the articles published
have been taken as a practical an
nouncement Of his candidacy for Mil
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