The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-11-12
POLITICS WIPE ST.
PAUL OFF THE MAP
HERALD CORRESPONDENT SAYS
RECENT ELECTION RETURNS
JUSTIFIES MOVE.
HAMMOND WILL BE REAL GOV.
HIS YANKEE TRAINING WILL
BROOK NO INTERFERENCE
THE APPOINTMENTS.

-ldE AffOlNIMEN1Ss
Very Special and Exclusive Corne-
spondence to Sank Centre Herald)
Hammograd, Nov. 11-Without fm-
perial ukase, kingly decree, legisla-
tive enactment, or conqueror's dictfun
the name of Minnesota's capital city
is, or ought to be changed to Ha1ar
for at the election there WIS
nothing to it but Hammond. and there
has not been any other topic discussed
in this mans town since the election.
Hammograd is not only the civic
capitol of the state but the politicA
capitol as we'll. A policeman coul6
not throw his night stick into crows
on the street without Altung nail =
dozen men who do not believe they are
well qualified to advise the governor
as to just whom he ought to app0llEt
from scrubwoman to private secretary
and are eminently fitted to formulas
all administrative policies and shape
all legislation from the most trivial
to the most important, and they think
they ought to be SO allowed to do, but
Hammograd is going to be disaD-
pointed.
Mr.. Hammond belongs to that a.
most extinct species eW Eng and
Democrats-and with this class duty
is paramount. He believes ne was
chosen to do certain tnings and tE
is going to do them, or try at least b
do them. Ii the shammoaraa pond
clans desire to help him he will b
glad of their assistance. If they OF
pose him he will do as he pleases any
way, if he can.
Belonging to the Jeffersonian school
If Democracy the two fundamental
principles of which were: FIRST, thst
the government consists of three CO..
ordinate but independent branches
the executive, the judicial and the len.
islative, and Second, that the nation
should not do anything for the STATE
that the state could do for itself, and
that the state should do nothing for
the individual that he can perform
for himself. The public can rest a.
sured that Mr.. Hammond will let The
judges do the judging, the Legislators
do the legislating without mterfer-
ence from him, and that he will attend
to the executing and will brook no f1-
terence. They can also rest assured
that paternal legislation, class legas-
lation or freak legislation will meet
with no favor from the newly electeA
executive. In a word Mr.. Hammond
will be governor in fact as well as IN
name, but he won't be anything else.
He will play his part in the govern
mental circus but he won't be the
whole show.
The citizens Of Hammograd are
muchly concerned about the appoint
ments that are to be made. There
are certain appointments like private
secretary, executive clerk, governors
messenger, and a few others, abort
which Mr.. Hammond will consult No
one, but in the other cases he viii
be guided by the advice Of the party
leaders. The safest guess is to pick
out the most likely candidate and
guess he won't be appointed.
The speakership looms up large 1T
this writing. There will be no cap-
cuses and probably no district confer
ences this year. Everything will Be
thrown into the open house and there
will be a merry old time.
There are already a multiplicity III
tentative candidates and still thme
are more to follow S. Y. Gordon, g.
b. Bjornson, ]. T. Johnson, Thus.
Kneeland, H. H. Flowers, and others
have been mentioned. Frank E. Mn
cite of Sank Centre, who will be The
oldest member in point of service and
one of. the best parliamentarians In
the House, has been urged to get In
to the race and may do so. -
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There is also talk Of C. A. Gilman,
the veteran who was speaker of the
Minnesota House before most Of It's
present members were born.
Although it has not reached that
stage yet the finish IA the sepakee-
ship fight is geiug to be straight
ont fight betwssa tie county optfnn
men and the ansi -optfonists, and he
latter should win BY . narrow margin.