Morris tribune., 1913-12-05

THE MORRIS TRIBUNE, FIR.
well the Wilson influence has q
happy faculty sometimes of straying
beyond the confines of the national
capital President Wilson is well
thought of in Minnesota. If I remem-
Der right D. w. LawIer was a Clark
hacker when the Democratic national
fight was on.
Henry Rines of Mora, accepted can
didate for state auditor on the Repub-
lican ticket, has failed to file for the
office as yet, but he says he will in
due time. Mr.. Rines, with r. c.
Dunn, visited the capitol last week
and the rumor was that he came to
register his name In the conference
at the time were Charles Warner of
Aitkin and Andrew Davis of Elk
River. The reason Mr. Rines did not
file, / understand, is twSause he is in
doubt as to the legal Status of the
present primary law and he does rot
want to be put in the position of h"v-
ing to make numerous expense filings,
which would not be the case if the
new primary law was found unconpti-
tutional. The new law makes June
the primary month, while September
is the month under the old law.
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Mr.. Rines is not generally taken
as hand in glove with the Eberhart
administration and this fact has been
responsible for several inspired arti-
cles of late, the burden of which is
beware" 1t is hardly likely that
Mr.. Rines is frightened. If he has
any sense at all his motto will be
Paddle your own canoe" To start
with Mr.. Rines knows that the pres
ent administration is not favorable
to him. He was the head of the
house forces, whose every move was
anti-administration, and any change
of front now would hardly help |
gather from a talk with him that Mr.
Rines is going to attend strictly to
the authorship and let the other fel.
lows fight their own battles.
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Asa Wallace, chief deputy fire mar
shall, has resigned, according to the
public prints, and will be succeeded
by Ernest Simpson, an inspector
employed in the department. The
public prints, however, did not tell it
all. Mr.. Wallace will still be crn-
nected with the department but only
in district way He is to have head
quarters at Sank Center, where he
conducts paper, and his pay will be
$1,000 a year. Mr.. Wallace formerly
ran a paper at Fairfax and he was
| in charge there when he became con.
nected with the fire marshaPs Office.
Since Aug. 1 hts publishing business
has been confined to Sank Center and
it was there where his official trou-
bles began. 1t opened the way to
care for a rival and Mr.. Wallace
gracefully gave way
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P. M. Ringdal is the latest mem.
Der of the state Democratic forces to
be cared for in a national way Ma
tional Committeeman Lynch recon-
mended him for register of the
Crookston land Office and President
Wilson has sent his name to the sen
ate for confirmation. Frank King OF
| Grand Rapids is the other member OF
| the unwashed to be favored. He is
to be receiver of the land office al
| Cass Lake. The positions pay about
| $4,000 a year
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Rumors are frequent down here
that Congressman Hammond, Demo
crat, of the Second district, and Con
gresham Lindbergh, Republican, o.
the Sixth district, are preparing tc
forego a Washington residence for g
try at the governorship. There is
nothing to it. Mr. Lindbergh has
expressed himself and Congressman
Hammond, while in st. Paul the othel
day, said that he would not run fol
governor under any condition.
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The state railway and warehouse
comission has completed it's hearing
On the eastman distance tariff, which
| will be effective Jan. l next. Every
rate made by the commission under
the new act was protested and those
sitting through the proceedings could
not but be impressed by the declara
ton made by former Attorney Gen
eral E. T. Young that the roads were
trying to make the law as obnoxious
as possible. This declaration came
when the roads joined in a profess
against the proposition to continue
the cities of st. Paul and Minneapolis
as one terminal The idea, he init
mated, was to make the law so oh
noxious as to compel its repeal.
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In a speech at Red Wing D. M
NeiU took occasion to roast Cover
nor Eberhart and President Vincen
of the state university for their con
tinued absence from their official du
ties. Governor Eberhart, he contend
ed, was doing too much visiting out