The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-08-01
Gall to Oyster Bay Big Ad for
Lieutenant Governor.
HAS BACKING OF THE LEADERS
Peter M. RingdaI Gubernatorial Can
didate Of Those in Control of
Democratic Party.
Especial Correspondence.)

st. Paul, July 3O.-Lieutenant Gov
ernor S. Y. Gordon of Browns Valley.
one of the five Republican progressive
candidates for governor and among
the first to espouse the cause of Colo
mel Roosevelt following his turn down
at Chicago, broke bread with the sage
OF Oyster Bay-at Oyster Bay too,
mind you-and now there is-pardon
my language-h- to pay The 9th
ers are sore. Decked out in a new
suit OF clothes, an extra pair of socks
and a clean suit of underwear, all
packed in the suit case presented him
by the State Editorial association, Sam
slipped out of st. Paul Tuesday night
and he never said a word to a SOUL
Accompanying him was his tried and
true friend, G. T. Knapp of. Chisholm
Showing how big this world is and
now much ice the average man cuts
the lieutenant governor was not
missed until the following Thursday
and it was Jim Martin, he of man
agerial fame, who. called attention to
his absence. He produced a telegram
from the irrepressible Teddy and that
was enough. A fortune would not
have purchased the advertising which
followed. And to think of Sam and
Knapp dining at Oyster Bay! How
bill" Rich, Hugh T. Halbert and
dozen others, supreme in the opinion
that they are the original IT'S must
have suffered. I beg your pardon for
this apparent and strained effort to
be funny, but you will better appre-
clate it when you read some of the
Twin City stuff called politics and
which is directed at making fool of
the lieutenant governor and incident
ly trying to induce the other candi-
dates and progressive leaders to Join
in. For your benefit it is called news.
l wrote the stuff at one time and l
know and so do the editors of the
rural press.
The lieutenant governor, the dis
patches say, SO impressed the colonel
with knowledge of the situation in
Minnesota that the Oyster Bay man
agreed to pass up threatened de-
mand for third ticket all down the
line. He would be satisfied with a
set of electors with his own name pre-
fixed Accepting the Twin City press
as an authority Bill Rich, Hugh T.
Halbert and other Roosevelt originals
wired the colonel to see if it was so,
but the answer is still among the
we'll, clerk of the supreme court, who
is credited with the coup, does moth
ing but smile. Caswell, by the way,
has Ed Smith beat when it comes to
putting on the soft pedal While the
excitement was on visited Ed Young,
the lieutenant governors nearest rival,
and he had nothing to say. Even Hugh
T. Halbert, who considered himself
the original Minnesota Roosevelt
boomer, was silent So much for the
daily CUFF that you read and which
emanates from that limited zone
called the Twin Cities. You are sup
posed to be sitting up nights and read
ing it and pounding your convictions
into your neighbor the next day, but
ii you are you do not know 1t. Down
In the cities the politicians have
bunch that the farmers are carrying
a scythe in one hand and a copy of the
primary law in the other. Gee, won't
somebody be fooled!
!. :. j.
Democracy now has the center of
the stage in the filing of P. M. Ring
dial of the state board of control for
the gubernatorial nomination of his
party. The Crookston mamie was
formerly in the marble business there
went to bat the early part of the
week and he will, if possible, try and
line out home run. If there is one
man who hates the word boss, whose
whole life has been directed at purg-
ing politics of those who would use it
for their own benefit and whose voice
has always been raised in opposition
to the gang, it is Ringdal, yet his
candidacy is the offering of those who
control the destinies of the Demo-
cratic party in the state. He is the or
ganization candidate. National Com
mitteeman Lynch, they say, is his
sponsor. R. T. O'Connor and Dan
Lawler will have none of him. And
this is the first time in a long tirae
that Dick has not come out for win
ner.
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Senators John Saugstad and Ed
ward Rustad spent several days in
the Twin Cities last week looking over
the ground preparatory to beginning
work on general investigation of the
political activities of the liquor crowd
in the state. The two put in a day
with County Attorney Robertson of
lHennepin county, whose district is
about the worst brewery owned in the