Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1913-07-04


ernor he included in his message to
one of the sessions of the legislature
held during his administration the
need of a utilities commission. This
message has just been unearthed by
those backing the new order of things
and like a voice from the dead it is
being worked for all there is in it.
The one trouble, though, is that Gov
ernor Johnson specified telephones,
electric lines and water powers which
were interstate in their naAre, or
intercounty, if such word can be
used. Governor Eberhart, in his zeal
to provide statewide control for every
thing in the line of utilities, vetoed
the very bill providing for one of the
utilities for which Governor Johnson
advocated statewide control, that OF
telephones. Statewide control OF
some utilities and supervision Of
kind over others is all right, yet
cannot get away from the bunch that
this whole question is yet going to
reach the dirty stage. Some nasty
talk is now being INDUCED in.
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A number Of law and order leagues
operating in ST. Paul, and undoubted-
ly earnest in their desire to purge
the Capitol City of q lot of its vices,
are preparing to petition Governor
Eberhart to remove Sheriff Wagner
of Ramsey county and officials of st.
Paul for their alleged failure to en-
force the laws. These Interested held
q mass meeting and at the close the
prime mover, man named Clemens,
while en- route to his home, was at
tackled by an unknown and was 90"
Verely beaten. Like a lot Of other
reform movements the one now on
in St. Paul is backed by too much
hysterIa and l doubt very much II
Governor Eberhart will permit him.
self to be dragged in. Clemens, the
instigator, used to be employed by
the Milwaukee railroad and it is said
lost his job because he busted him
self In tipping off to peace officers
shipments of liquor into forbidden
territory. He has been working over
time since in an effort to get even.
If ST. Paul can be taken as an eX-
ample the efficiency of any reform
law lies entirely in the way the gen
eral public accepts it. st. Paul is
liberal in it's views and it does not
permit any law to stand against its
way of thinking, but it will not stand
for excuses. It's voters can gener-
ally be found on the job when a
housekeeping is necessary. The vot-
ing population of the Capitol City is
strongly German and that probably
explains it.
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Fred Sherman, the new head Of the
state migration department, has TAX
| en- up a new scheme in the broaden
| ing of the uses of the department
| and it promises to become popular.
Instead Of combining the efforts of the
bureau to the bringing of settlers
into the state and the sale of Mime
! sofa lands he is going to provide
towns and cities with needed prOfes
| sional men, mercantile establish
ments and manufactures. Mr.. Sher-
| man has caused to be sent broadcast
throughout the state blanks to be
filed out by the various town off
Gals on the matter of professions and
industries necessary to their prosper
ity. These are to be embodied in a
booklet which will be circulated all
over the United States. This book
will be standing advertisement Of
Minnesota needs in town way and
is expected to add to it's prosperity.
Frank A Day, through the medium
Of his official organ, the Fairmon
Sentinel, has given the faithful {
peep into the future in the matter
of who they may expect as their
standard bearer in the next genera
election. The Sentinel offers Judge
Stanton of Beltrami county as The
Democratic gubernatorial sacrifice
Several upstate papers have taken VI
the cry and it looks pretty much al
if Judge Spooner would have to tak'
the leap. Judge Spooner is som
mixer and he has a way Of gettin
voters that makes him solid with tn
boys. He was one of the big Tt
when Governor Johnson and his fol
lowing were in the saddle.
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The passing of Fred Won Baum
bach, internal revenue collector TO
Minnesota, who will soon retire t
make room for Ed Lynch, brother O
Fred B. Lynch national Democrat
committeeman from Minnesota, onI
calls attention to the rapid retiremen
, of what was once the big end of til
: Republican machine in Minnesota
Baumbach got his job through Ser
ator Nelson and in his day was som
boy. So were the others. They pre-
dominated at every state conventio
and ruled the year through with
rod of iron. Baumbach-and thi
: is no reflection on man who ha
served his country and the taxpa!
: ers well-has nothing beyond his ow
q vote now and has not figured in