The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1912-12-03
GOSSIP or THE PRESS

is one or the SQuareSt fellows VINO
ever drew breath, and was valued
member ofthe 1911 legislature. His
record in that body was clean and
| his probity had never been questioned
until, during the late campaign, the
Redwood Falls Sun printed a series
of libelous articles about him. Joe"
as his many friends familiarly call
him, got his Irish dander up and
through his attorney served notice
of retraction. In its last issue the
Sun takes column and a half on its
first page to retract. 1t doesn't re-
tract very gracefully, butt retracts.
The publisher of The Herald regrets
exceedingly to note that the paper
he formerly owned should stoop so
low as to libel anyone, especially a
man of "Joe" Keefe's high charac-
ter. 1t is to be hoped that the Sun
has learned its lesson and will try to
be decent in the future.-A M.
Welles, Sank Center Herald.
Joseph Keefe. of Redwood county,
author of the Keefe bill for the dir
ect election of United States senators
is reported to be hot on the trail of
men who defeated him. He was
beaten by few votes by e M. Ben
dixen, Republican. Mr.. Keefe, it is
understood, has placed his case in
the hands of T. D. O'Brien of St.
Paul, and Albert Pfaender of New
Ulm. The same report says he has
served notice of retraction on Red
wood newspaper. land will bring &C.
ton against members of the Repub-
lican organization. ltappears there
was ahotcounty option fightinvolVed
in Mr.. Keefe's campaign, and a book
let was circulated which he claims
was libelous.- Minneapolis Tribune.
The Seventh District Editorial As
ISOLATION honored itself by electing
Gunnar B. Bjornson president. He
typifies the best there is in country
journalism. His editorials are filled
wi h human interest. They are prose
poems, lay sermons, songs from
great, strong heart. He breaches
from larger pulpit than any man
of the cloth; his editorials furnish
Sunday inspiration to a hundred edi-
tors, and through them to hundred
thousand readers. Gunnar Bjorn-
son combines with his poetic nature
the plain, hard sense of the country
folk. When he looks to thesta he
does not forget the ground under
foot. He is artist and economist,
rare mixture The artist tempers
the harshness of economy; the econo-
mist gives practical application to
art. This big hearted, big Drained
son of Iceland has become a tower
ing figure in Minnesota journalism.
We repeat, in honoring him the edi-
tors of the Seventh District have
honored themselves more. -Dawson
Sentinel.
There is a wide spread opinion
gaining ground that the old grange
so popular with the farmers in an
early day when they could i'll afford
to make terms with large corpora.
ton, when they desired supplies be-
cause of the heavy Indebtedness they
were burdened with, will again ma
terialize and prove strong, as the
average farmer is now out of debt
and can elect where he will purchase
things he needs and get terms that
he can notrealize now. By purchas-
ing in quantities he can save money
and realize direct benefits he could
not otherwise. Granite Falls Trib-
une.
Among the different post-mortems
attending the recent decisive engage
ment at Armageddon, it might be
interesting to pause for moment to
inquire as to the fate of the seven
governors. These governors, seven
in number. were among those who
asked T. R. to violate the third term
precedent and make the race for the
presidency. At the time, they occu-
pied large place upon the horizon.
but since the battle is over, where
they were they are not. Stubs of
Kansas wanted to be United States
senator, but where is Stubs? The