The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-05-07
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| to be manifested on the part OF the
people in the approaching primaries
is for the office of Governor
and the voters appear to have forgot
ten or overlooked the fact that there
are other positions to be filled that are
equally important.
The offices of State Auditor, Attor-
ney General and Railroad and Ware
house Commissioner are as important
as that of governor and as much at
tention should be given to the selec-
ton of good and capable men to fill
them as is given to the selection of a
governor.
Governor Eberhart has his fight
practically won. Two years ago, in a
field of five candidates he received
over 81 per cent of the primary vote
cast, having $4,000 votes, first choice,
over his nearest opponent and only
lacked $4,000 votes of having a ma
jority over all and as he received a
majority of the second choice votes, it
was clearly indicated that he was the
general choice of a large majority of
the Republican voters of Minnesota,
and careful examination Of the pres
ent situation develops the fact that
he is very much stronger, especially in
the country than he was two years
ago.
Many of the opposing candidates,
two years ago, possessed strong per-
sonalities, notably Gordon, Young and
Spooner, and naturally had strong
personal following. Mr.. Lee has no
personal following; he simply repre-
sents a sentiment, and not strong
one either, for the sentiment of the
state is strongly with the Governor
and he never was personally more
popular than he is at the present time.
There is nothing more certain in the
realm of politics than Governor Eber-
harris nomination and election.
Bob Dunn, of the Princeton Union
already has Henry Rines nominated
and elected as State Auditor, while
Sam Langum of the Preston Times
has with equal certainty placed Mr..
Preus in the same position. 1t is not
matter of prime Importance, which
one of these watch dogs of the the
States welfare, Sam or Bob, the
voters endorse at the primaries as
both Mr.. Rines and Mr.. Preus are
young, honest, competent men and the
administration of the State Auditors
office will be safe in the hands Of
either.
Mr.. Preus is the choice Of the
Herald; we believe he will be nomi-
mated and elected gy large majority,
but we are not throwing any bricks
at Henry Rines, and we rather like to
pitch bricks too, because our control
is so good.
Lyndon A. Smith the present AT
torney General will be opposed in the
primaries by James A. Manahan,
present congressman at large from
this state who evidently has despaired
of being elected to congress from the
new Tenth district, although he
changed his residence from Ramsey to
Hennepin county with the same shifty
rapidity that he shuffles his political
views, in order that he might become
resident therein.
Of course Manahan as Attorney
General is impossible. 1t was not so
bad to have him in congress where
his vapid mouthings of demagogic
nothings were buried in the unread
pages of the Congressional Record but
in the Attorney Generals office, where
horse sense, good judgment and high
legal attainment are essential, he
would be a veritable bull in a china
shop. 1t is useless to discuss the sub
ject. The sturdy voters of Minnesota
will not place this Republican-Demc-
cratic-Socialistic fre-brand in an Of
flee that requires more level-headed-
ness and discretion than any other
within the gift of the people, not in a
thousand years.
The Herald's choice for Railroad
and warehouse Commissioner is James
S. Arneson, Of St. Paul. "Jim", as he
is best known, is in the very prime Of
life politically, mentally and physical
ly. He is a self-made man and has
worked for everything he has got. He
has had wide experience in many
different official positions and in many
different lines of business. He knows
the wants, the hopes, the needs, and
aspirations of that great and mighty
important mass of humanity that
make things and do things, and this
knowledge was not obtained in the
fanciful college of theory but in the
stern school of experience. He is cap
able, fearless, vigorous, energetic, in
dustrious, levelheaded, Independent
absolutely without strings He is E
doer, not sayer of things, in marked