The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-02-23
POLITICAL GOSSIP
The County Chairman" Gives Miner Readers
Entertaining State Capitol Gossip Touching
The Great and Near-Great

lie and numerous kilograms sent out
could only be seen they would show
what real organization means and
how such gets results.
The value of publicity has not been
lost upon Lieutenant Governor S. Y
Gordon, who is contesting Governor
Eberhart for the Republican nomina-
ton, for soon the dead walls and va
cant windows will be covered with
his pictures. Twin City printing
houses are now turning them out The
Gordon club recently organized at
Browns Valley is sending out cards
calling attention to the candidacy of
their favorite and this has been sup
plemented by the local business men,
who have decorated their Office sta
tionery with the line, %Gordon for Gov
ernor." w. E., Lee, who is also. con-
testing Governor Eberhart for his job,
Is also active in a publicity way. In
his county the officers have started an
endless chain movement. Each coun-
ty officer has sent out a letter of en-
dorsement to brother county officer
and they have been asked to supple
ment it with ten additional letters to
be forwarded to as many friends with
requests to continue the good work.
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Speaking of Mr.. Lee and his candi-
dacy the Todd county man was en-
dorsed by the directors of the Mime
sofa Progressive league last Saturday.
The endorsement was given following
the resignation of Hugh T. Halbert,
after being reproved by James Mana
han for having deserted the La Fol
lette cause. The endorsement did not
cause much of furry in the Gordon
camp, though it brought from the can
d1date the sharp answer that he was
still progressive, but not one of the
dictatorial kind. II am for Mr. Roose-
velt," said Mr.. Gordon, "but l am not
going to read any one out of the Re
publican party because he is foe to
some one else. I'll put my progressive
principles up against those of any
man and I respect him too if he has
Governor Gordon has steered clear of
the La Toilette movement ever since
1t was started. The LOTUS Manahan
crowd has also seen little of his
company.
Some one with keen sense of
humor and rare appreciation of the
fitness of things flooded the state cap
1tol with comic valentines last week.
They were postmarked Mankato, Gov
ernor Eberhart's home, and the pic
lures, together with the verses, were
strikingly pat" l. A Caswell, clerk
OF the supreme court, who is credited
with much of the activity directed
against the administration, figures as
a "knocker." Archie Hays, chief clerk
to his excellency and the state capitol
entertainer, was accommodated with
a missive telling him to put his stale
jokes In storage, and Secretary of
State Schmahl, whose principal am
bition next to being a great automo-
bilist is to succeed himself, was adj |
vised his machine was too slow for
the job. If Governor Eberhart received
one of the jokers he kept it hid, like
wise Secretary Wheelock, E. E. Smith |
and Insurance Commissioner ]. A. o. |
Preus.
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Former Representative J. A.. Gates
OF Kenyon, who was outnosed a year
ago in an effort to land the Republican |
nomination for lieutenant governor,
has come out for Roosevelt and pro- |
poses to take the initiative in the call |
Ing Of mass meeting to endorse the
Roosevelt movement. He was Wis
itor at the state editorial meeting
Thursday and advanced the opinion
that nothing could stop the colonel
In Minnesota. Mr.. Gates, or doc" as
he Is better known-he is a physician
is not very much in love with the
administration crowd He has al
ways credited his defeat to their activ-
tiles and it looks pretty mucn as if
he was trying to even up the score.
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There are quite few over the state
who do not take kindly to the move
ment started in Minneapolis to have
Cyrus Northrup, late president Of the
university, head a Taft delegation
which those behind the movement
want Minnesota to send to the nation
II convention. When it was proposed
70 nominate him for congressman-at
arge similar protest went up Not
hat the grand old man" is not en-
titled to all the honors that a grateful
people can bestow, but because it is
believed that his name is simply be-
ng used for purpose and one that
will not be to his credit. Politics at
is best is a dirty game and friends
,ver the state do not want to see him
ragged into it.
Cash Sprague of Sank Center, ac-
;ording to Ralph w. Wheelock, secre-
AIRY to Governor Eberhart, would
make an excellent candidate for
lieutenant governor and he proposes
linn for that place on the Republican
ticket. Outside of R. C. Dunn, who
objected, no one has been mentioned
or the job and Mr. Sprague, it is un-
lerstood, might be induced to take it.
The Sank Center man figured in con-
lection with the lieutenant governor
hip year ago, but S. Y Gordon was
90 much for him and the other as
,irants.
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