The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1914-01-08
ECONOMY BODY
RUNNING Wild
Said to Have Gotten Away From
Eberhart Control,
PLAN TO DELIVER THE GOODS
Committee Members Would Refute
Idea That Appointments Were
Made for Political Purposes.

has gotten away from him and is
preparing for trouble but if such is
the fact his excellency did not show
any nervousness when, as a witness
summoned by order of H. J. Hughes,
member of the commission, he ap-
peared before Group B." better
known as the public domain commit
tee of the commission, and aired his
views on centralized government.
The meeting of Group B, which is a
subdivision Of the commission of
thirty named by the governor follow
ing. the announcement of the candi-
dacy Of S. G. Iverson, took place last
week at the state capitol and is the
first Of series of subcommittee
meetings to follow. With much of
his time devoted to speaking trips
outside the state Governor Eberhart
has earned the title of the travelling
governor, all of which has been re-
sponsible for line of talk to the ef-
feet that what little he did know of
state affairs was confined to the ap-
pOintment of certain individuals
whose influence would be most ef-
fective about election time. Well, if
such is the case he certainly disap-
pointed those who have been hoping
to pay a few election bets on this al
legged failing when he appeared be-
fore the committee I speak of. To
use a slang remark, his batting aver
age was better than 100 He had an
answer for every question put to him
by the members Of the committee and
his knowledge regarding the govern
ment as it is at present conducted
was remarkable. He knew the per-
sonnet of every state board or COM
mission, it's duties, where it was de-
ficient and the remedy needed to cure
the ills complained of. AS to his own
views centralized government was
the only cure for disease that had
been fifty years in the making, and
he pleaded with the committee to the
effect that if it had the best wishes
of the taxpayers at heart in the job
of remaking the government of the
state it would make the governor re-
sponsible for everything. 1--WE have
a biennial recall in this state" said
his excellency, and that recall is the
voice of the voters every two years.
Put the burden on the governors
shoulders and if he is a man he will
not shirk his duty
!. :. !.
Why Governor Eberhart should get
in bad with a commission of his own
creation, especially one concerned
with the elimination of abuses now
characterizing the government of the
state, is unexplainable, but just the
same the gcssips will have it that the
present economy and efficiency COM
mission is not entirely with the gov
ernor. The gossips, of course, go on
the theory that his excellency, in
naming the commission I speak of.
did so for his own benefit, hoping to
beat Sam IversOn, who is his rival
for the Republican nomination, to it.
One thing is certain, Governor Eber-
George Author secretary of the COM
mission and from all accounts wires
we're laid to bring about Mr. Au-
theirs appointment, >but for some
reason or another John Stone Par
dee of Duluth was named instead.
Pardee was formerly a Twin City
newspaper man, later he was picked
to head a newspaper enterprise in
Duluth and when that failed he was
attached to the Duluth chamber of
commerce. When it comes to brains
no one has it on Pardee, but as l get
it the reason he never made good in
newspaper way was because of his
visionary ideas. The practical ap-
peals to him, but it does not have any
part in his deductions. AS they tell
it down here, G. A. Congdon, T. T.
Hudson and other members of the
commission named by Governor Eber-
hart, full with the idea that they
were being used for political purposes,
got their heads together and decided
that they would deliver the goods in
stead. AS result George Author
was discarded and Pardee named.
Entrusted with duty most important
naturally everybody wishes the COM
mission success, but honestly I have
my doubts. The future does not look
any too bright. We decry politics
and occasionally send to the discard
those who attempt to use it in the
furtherance of schemes designed to
be in aid of moral and civic uplift,
but at that real politics is based on
the practical and when it comes to
the test it has the idealist beat a
mile.
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In the new Tenth congressional
district Senator Johnson of Chisago
county is due to give Congressman
Manahan, who will ask to be return
ed, the run of his life because of the
latter's vote on the Underwood tariff
BILL Down in the Second district