Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1914-05-29
THE TWIsTY-WISTY MACHINE

The wsty wisty tactics of the state machine in its
endeavor hold control of the administration
minds of the technical lawyer in court whose argu-
ments amuse the judge and ignored by the jury.
The technical lawyer in court to regard the
whole practice of law game while the jury is devot
ing their attention to the serious business of doing SUBJ
stantia Justice The politicians directing the campaign
for Eberhart regard politics simply of
points and checks while the plain voter is given serious
attention to issues of the election for the purpose of
getting good government
Certain private interest which have had too large
share the government of Minnesota like make the
people think that politics is only game, and hope by
keeping the people entertained able conduct the
government without serious interference from the voters
The coming election is not to be base ball contest
or whist game 1t is for the purpose of deciding whether
or will be elected who will give serious at
tention to the needs of the state.
Yet the politicians for the present administration
conducted the present campaign just about
would play game Lately they put out story that Mr..
Lee the candidate for governor had thrown
board Mr. Rines and Others and had made combination
with Sam Gordon of Browns Valley That Mr.. Lee had
any combination with Mr. Rines would have been
both of the concerned because there combina
tion That the machine is against both Lee and Rnes is
true but each has been prosecuting his campaign and
will continue to do The alleged combination with Mr.
Gordon only amusing from the fact that Mr. Gordon
candidate for state office but only for the legislature
from Traverse county, and furthermore has been out of the
state for over month"; He has devoting his atten-
to newspaper and politics. He is,
however, supporting Mr. Lee, is also S. G. Iverson j.
F. jacobson E. T. Young, james Peterson and hundreds
of other men who rendered patriotic the
state in the past
But why all these nconsequentis twisty. wsty
tactics? Mr. Lee is making clean dgned and serious
campaign. He has hidden the ball carried
up his sleeve He regards the Office of governor as
mans job and not simply the pawn of game.
The state administration however, so far mistake
the temper of the people that they attempt to make
that the whole campaign is simply game, and trump
up any kind of story to entertain. Even the
himself CLAIMS credit for lot of laws passed by the last
legislature which every knows his especial friends
fought bitterly
Last week delivered is published the keynote
speech of Governor Eberhar in his campaign for election
There much in this speech which is issue in
present campaign and the Importance which the
attaches the assault upon the primary system
that the real issue the campaign in his
mind His remarks denolncing the effort made by good
citizens to reduce the number of candidates that
people could make majority ctoice do not ring true
and they could not ring true because he himself and all
his friends know that popular government stands no
danger open gathering citizens but that the
dangers lie in the meetings of those who serve spe
cal interests Eberhar himself is hardly the issue in
this campaign. The campaign is against Eberhart as the
choice of state machine. invisible government
which dictates Mr. Eberhar to stay away from lending
assistance the Minnesota rate and he stays which
dictates to Eberhart to veto a Mnette Nolan BILL
and he vetoes which dictates Eberhart to call
special session of the legislature and he doesn't call
Eberhart's advisers are the best politicians far as
simply ''payng the game is concerned that there are
in the state but the time has come have man who
would rather be right than be governor There plenty
of real serious work be done by the governor with
out his spending his time ''payng the game. Eber-
hart has been there long enough