Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1912-11-08

NE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER s, 10.
Schmidt Brewing company is now eli
Geavoring to bring the small brewers
of the state around to it's way of
thinking and the dissolution of the
State Brewers association is probable
rs a result. This association is main
taiRed by barrel tax and in times
past has been quite a factor in state
politics.
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The break between the two leading
brewing concerns in st. Paul is said
to date back to the st. Paul city cleo
ton last spring, when Otto Bremen,
the head of the Schmidt company, was
the Democratic candidate for mayor.
Bremen lost out and the charge made
by his friends was that the Hamm
Brewing company was responsible. In
retaliation, it is said, Mr.. Bremen per
sonally espoused the cause of P. M.
Ringdal, the Democratic candidate for
governor, and to have financed several
speakers and workers in an effort to
bring the German vote of the state
back into the fold Bremen and
Hamm never hitched, though both
stood back to back in the brewery
fight against the Anti-Saloon league
CT two and four years ago, which re
suited in its practical humiliation.
Bremen always contended that the as
ISOLATION was hurting the brewery
business and while contributing to the
common fund seldom participated in
its councils.
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Many bills calculated to relieve the
present statewide primary law of it's
obnoxious features are due to be Of
fered at the coming session of the leg
islature. One member, | am told, is
preparing to offer bill repeating the
entire act and returning to the con-
vention system. That any of them
will prevail, however, is hardly likely
When the first primary law was passed
it was condemned all over the state
and numerous amendments were pro-
posed but few of them became laws.
The repeal of the second choice provi-
sion is sure to be attempted, but how
far it will get remains to be seen.
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The ProhibitiOnists of the state cast
vote Tuesday that compeIs attention
The figures was hardly large enough
to put the party candidates across but
it was sufficient to make a decided cut
in the vote of the two great parties
The gubernatOrial candidate of the
ProhibitiOnist party was E. E. Lobeck
Of Douglas county and it is said that
he made campaign the like of which
was never seen in Minnesota. A zealot
if there ever as one and with speech
making abilities above the average Lo-
beck, 1t is said, campaigned the state
in manner that practically put the
candidates of the other parties to
shame. Lobeck always had a crowd
and he compelled attention whenever
he spoke. AS to funds for the cam
paign Lobeck had only to exhort and
the hat passed at every meeting came
back well filed
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Though the new election law speci-
fes the amount that a candidate for
Office may spend and compels a week
ly filing of a statement showing the
moneys received and expended it will
never be known how much money was
invested in the contest just closed.
Expenses were filed as required, but
they are regarded as joke in the ma
jority of cases. One well known poll
tician hazards the guess that over
100000 was expended by the various
candidates. 1t is known that the tax
payers expended fully that amount in
the conduct of the two elections.
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F. Alex Stewart of Minneapolis,
candidate for chief justice of the su-
.preme court, had his little joke when
filing his expense account. He made a
| notation under the heading of receipts
acknowledging an unsolicited editorial
and cartoon appearing in the st. Paul
Dispatch and Pioneer Press. The
value of the two he placed at $499.
The papers named went after Stew
art roughshod.
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If c. E. Elmquist of the state rail-
road and warehouse commission
lacked interest in the primary cam
paign he more than made up for it in
the election campaign which followed.
| Elmquist was feature of every
special train sent out by the state com
mittee and it is said that he was the
first to reach the platform when sta
ton was reached. He simply could
not be suppressed Elmquist had the
run of his life in the primary cam
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