The Redwood gazette., 1912-06-04
GOSSIP or THE PRESS

/ The Redwood Gazette prophesles
that the boss, and the CRATER. and
the man with the money will survive
the present campaign and continue
to run the country our country
because" forsooth, you and !
haven't time to attend to the affairs
of the state" And it's true bald
ly and glaringly true. and the truth
of it ought to raise blister on the
conscience and common sense OF
every "you and /" in this happy-go-
lucky country. We ought to be
ashamed to have permitted such con-
ditions to have developed about US.
But, thank the Lord, Grove Wilson,
we are coming out of our trance and
within the next few years the rep
resentatiye few" representing greed
and graft and the craze for power,
who have been running this country
will be reIegated to the rear, and
the political atmosphere will no
longer be so polluted with booze and
graft, and corruption that decent
men shrink from contact with it.
The time is not far distant when
the political machine will no longer
be manned by moral incompetents.
doing scavenger work for the "men
higher up. Cannon Falls Beacon.
1t is said that some prominent
Redwood county republicans are
quietly at work seeking to discour-
age opposition to the reelection of
our democratic repres n t tiv e.
Their work is mostly done like that
of pocket gopher underground
but occasionally it comes to the sur
face. These fellows have Judas IS
CARROT backed off the boards. Bel
view Independent.
]. R. Keefe, the democratic repre-
sentative referred to. rendered ex-
cellent service for his county and
state in the last legislature and the
republicans who are aiding his can
didacy for reelection are to be COM
mended. The Relview editor is prob
ably one of those old, narrow
gauged partisans, who would follow
his party into perdiction rather than
support a good man of the opposite
party. Olivia Times.
To Governor Eberhart: We never
loved you very dearly. In fact we
have no recollection of ever having
voted for you. If there was one
thing we were not hankering for it
was an extra session of the legisla-
ture. Your enemies said you did
not dare call an extra session be-
cause the brewers, the steel trust
and the railroads objected; the smart
politicians said you did not want a
primary election law. Governor, we
doff our tile to you.-Princeton
Union.
Speaking of what newspaper does
in a community the late United
States Senator Davis of Illinois made
an address in which he said: Every
| year each local newspaper gives
from $500 to 81, 900 ia free lines for
the benefit of the community in
which it is located. No other agency
can or will do this. The editor in
proportion to his means does more
than any other man, and he ought
to be supported, not because you like
him or admire his writing, but be-
cause the local paper is the best in
vestment a community can make.
Today the local papers are doing
more for less pay than anything else
on earth. PatroniZe your paper not
as a,eharity but as an investment.
The timid who are urging con-
stitutional amendment to lengthen
the term to six years and make the
President ineligible for reelection
should take courage. The disasters
they can see ahead of us are the hob
goblins of their own imaginations.
There is no danger of this country
becoming an empire or despotism.
The people know too we'll their own
strength. They know that no man
or combination Of men could equal
them in a struggle. Furthermore,