The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-10-18
JENSWOLD HELPS MILLER

Sandstone Tribune, Oct. 4.-The
speech of Hon. John Jenswold Jr.,
Democratic candidate for congress
in this district at the opera house
here last Friday evening was a
manly and fair statement from his
standpoint and had the paradoxical
effect of making friends for himself
and Congressman Miller. In his
statement of facts he stuck to the
truth and that made friends for
him among even those who could
not agree with him in his con-
illusions. He mentioned facts not
known to many of us here which
left no doubt of Congressman
Miller's progressiveism and made
friends for him among many who
have previously opposed him.
His attack on Congressman Mil.
Ter for his vote on the steel schedule
of the tariff bill was intended for
local consumption only and did
not appear in the supposedly full
text of his address that appeared
the following evening in the Du-
luth Herald which circulates widely
in the region where Mr.. Jenswold
hopes to get lots of steel" votes.
However, it was fair argument and
by it he intended to show Con-
gresham Miller's discrimination
in favor of the man on the Range
who makes a living from working
for the Steel corporation and
against the man in the Pine county
who makes living from producing
meat, butter and vegetables for the
man on the range. Mr.. Jenswold
forgot that their success means our
success and their failure would cut
off our best market. He forgot that
extensive explorations owing to
the prosperity of the iron ore
market are daily showing big de-
posits closer to us, that showed
men believe that the day is not far
off when iron will be found in Pine
County and that every man who
owns a foot of soil in this region
will benefit when that day arrives.
And he probably did not know that
our quarry and creosote plant
would have had mighty slim pack
ing this summer if it had not been
for the prosperity on the Range
and at Duluth owing to the big new
steel plant and generally prosperous
conditions in the steel business.
Oh, no, we quarrymen and farmers
of this region are not in cahoots"
with the steel trust but we've got
our own living to make and as
there is trading on the tariff we
want some of the cream if we can
get it.
His references to Congressman
Miller's vote on the wool schedule
was the only friveloss and unbound
ed feature of his speech and would
doubtless not have been had Judge
Jacques not enormously called at
tention to it. Mr.. Jenswold knows
that Congressman Miller's vote
was with LaFollette and the ultra
Republican progressives and honest
Democrats on this measure and that
he { Jenswold) as Democrat candi-
date for congress should be the last
man on earth to criticize Mr.. Mil
ler's progressive position or to
refer to it in any sighting terms as
a move to reduce the cost of clothes
worn by the rich. For such an
argument is specious and without
reason.
His attack on Congressman Mil
ler's vote on the cotton schedule
was not in effect so much an attack
on Mr.. Miller as upon his own
Democratic party if we remember
correctly. For if we recall, it was
the Democratic majority that voted
strongly against reducing the tariff
on cotton made goods. Mr.. Jens-
void would doubtless vote with his