The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-03-28
Dairy Commissions Secretary
Said to Be Too TaIkative.
EFFORTS NOT APPRECIATED
Is an Eberhart Booster, but the Gov
ernor's Managers Think He Over
reached the Limit.
Especial Correspondence.)

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of temper" is a frequent offering by
those whose chief business is the
severance of the CALLING bonds of
matrimony, but Ralph w. Wheelock,
private secretary to his excellency,
Governor Eberhart, is the first one to
invoke its aid in an official way. Sat-
urday he tied the incompatibility tag
to Fred w. Mcintosh of Mankato, Sec
rotary of the state dairy and food COM
mission, and while Mr.. Mcintosh, who
has been an enthusiastic Eberhart
shouter, will not lose his meal ticket
he will have to change his official resi-
dence. He will be given another posi-
ton, possibly the secretaryship under
Ed Corliss: custodian of the state cap
1tol. There his activities will be mini
mixed. Publicity is pretty much the
order of the day at the present time,
something the lamented Governor
johnson and his official family appre-
ciated to the extent that no news bets
we're ever overlooked, and while Gov
ernor Eberhart likes to see his name
in print, Ed Smith, chairman of the
Republican state central committee,
and Ralph w. Wheelock, his protege,
are agreed that there is a limit Nc
Intosh overreached this limit and his
transfer is the result. It is limited
that there is something more than
'incompatibility" behind the change
"a matter I do not care to discuss at
this writing-but just the same Nc
1ntosh talked too much and his activi-
ties in this line were not appreciated
by those higher up. Mac was an ar
dent admirer of Governor Eberhart,
who gave him his official meal ticket,
and likewise he was a firm believer
in the old saw, Ito the victors belong
the spoils," but he ran up against a
snag when he made the fact public.
Mac got his present position minus
the best wishes of J. P. Winkjer,
state dairy and food commissioner,
who was brought from WASHINGTON
with the much heralded statement
that he would eliminate politics from
the department. Sometime in life
SNNo1ANe~AAJ
clusion that while duty is principle
No. is a case of preservation and it
its said Commissioner Winkjer had
about reached this conclusion and had
decided to accept the inevitable when
Mcintosh elected his irrepressible per-
sonality. He agreed with Governor
Eberhart and Secretary Wheelock that
Assistant Commissioner McCabe, long
a member of the department., and,
what was worse, Democrat, should
go and Mr.. McCabe might have been
listed among the has beene had not
Mcintosh busted himself. Winkjer
was sore, McCabe raised a row and
the administration saw it's plans for
Eberhartizing the department vanish
into thin air. Here Secretary Whee-
lock discovered the 'incompatibility of
temper proposition and McIntosh's
change of residence was decided upon.
AS stated there is a rumor that more
serious things are involved in the con-
troversy, but common sense demands
silence until the serious things break.
:. :. :.
While the gum shoe artist is still a
factor, and his kind wins more often
than it loses, this is a day of publicity.
The demand is for the cards face up
on the table, but the new order Of
things, it seems, has not penetrated
the state capitol. In Twin City news
paper circles, Governor Eberhart is
considered the poorest copy maker
that ever occupied the executive chair.
A square deal for his excellency COM
pels the statement that his frequent
absence from his Office does not per-
NIT of the reporters seeing him daily,
but when the governor is away they
look to the official family to make up
the deficiency. In state with popu-
lation of over 100000, an area equal
to any commonwealth in the United
States, and line of commercial and
industrial activity second to none
there should not be dearth of daily
state copy and yet the Capitol City
papers fail to show it.
!. :. :.
Here are the observations of one
bureau has not produced a story worth
printing since the new crowd took
charge; the dairy and food depart
ment, which used to be a prolific
source OF copy, is dead; the banking
department is used principly to ex-
plot the efforts of Kelley Chase, it's
superintendent, to cut down over
drafts; the public examiner is too
much of a politician to make public
the various irregularities he finds in
county and school districts and the
dairy and food department is so sur
rounded by that Washington atmos-
phere that nothing is obtainable un-
Jess those higher up see fit to un-
bosom. Frank A. Day, private secre-
tary to the late Governor johnson.
never overlooked a bet He was al
ways coed for a story a day. The
present crowd waits until thires