Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-07-31
Seventh District Opinions.

No, we are not going to join.
in a third party game
Franklin Tribune.
If Knute does not speak up soon
some one will expire with heart fail
ure.-Redwood Gazette.
The Corrupt Practices act has a
three volume novel looking like dew
drop on a rose bud.-Redwood Gaz-
ette.
Are there any more candidates for
the Republican nomination for COVER
nor? The more the merrier-for
Press.
Some one has suggested that the
third party be named Teddy. As if
there weren't enough misbegotten
critters answering to that cognomen
neutrality-suspicious. Press.
The proposed new third party
leaders are planning to put full
ticket in the field in each state. Bet
ter shoot the third party and let it
go at that.-Granite Falls Journal.
Mondays market reports quoted
wheat in Winnipeg at l.06A and in
Minneapolis at LOS. Farmers who
were scared Of reciprocity should
study these fgures.-Appleton Press.
Even tho Lobeck may not be the
successful candidate for governor
We know that he stands on a mighty
clean platform and one that we be-
lieve is also progressive enough for
anybody.-Atwater Press.
Inc independent Press Of Madison
thinks Eberhart is good enough for
governor, thinks Knute Nelson will
be reelected if he wants it, and says
the Taft-Roosevelt squabble is a
"sort Of old woman's QUARREL
GGG
Frank Eddy thinks he ought to re-
turn to Congress "because he has
had experience" The people Of Mimi
esota had some "experience," too:
and that is why Frank will not go
back to Congress.-Dawson Senti-
mel.
Rudolph Speckels declares that the
Wall Street interests, playing upon
the vanity and great ambition of
Theodore Roosevelt, have encourage
ed his candidacy in order to disrupt
the progressive movement.-Dawson
Sentinel.
We have always been a great ad-
mlrer Of Col. Roosevelt and am vet.
only we believe his trying to organ
lze a third party in what looks to be
in his behalf is hardly the thing at
this time. We can at this writing see
nothing but trouble ahead in the or
ganization Of a third party.-Ren-
vile Star-Farmer.
If all progressives will unite in
casting their second choice for Cor
don, their first choice vote to the ex-
tent that it is -Eberhart will be
given effectiveness, and Gordon will
be nominated where otherwise Eber-
hart might be. And remember that
your second choice vote will not count
against your first choice vote, and
will not be counted at all unless your
first choice favorite is hopelessly de-
feated anyway.-Morris Tribune.
Of all the candidates for con-
gressman-at-large, that fighting IT.
ishman, Jim Manahan, looks best to
us. Jim isn't afraid Of the cars
railroad cars or any other kind.
When he goes to Washington, the
keeper Of the capitol grounds may as
we'll tear down the signs of Coxey-
fame, keep off the grass''-there
will not be any grass growing in
Washington after Jim hits town.
Hurrah for Jim dawson Sentinel.
Ten years ago the writer heard
certain candidate for congressman
at-large make speech in the city
hall at Murdoch, when he told the
audience that VIM. j. Bryan was a
demagog-a great hit wasn't it? Now
this same man was six years in Con-
gress for which time the U. S. Gov
eminent paid him $4,000 and his
car fare to help make the laws and
superintend for the people. After he
was retired he could not make an
honest living on his own hook. At
a last resort he went to singing songs
in the saloons for whiskey and tn.
scraps off the lunch counter. The
next move was making prohibition