Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1914-05-06

OF all our primary laws and / voted
for all of them, and say to you that
II had thought the law was calcu-
lated to prevent assemblage by the
people for the public consideration of
political matters, would have voted
against every bill. =.
I'm fact, the primary law is going
to come to it's full usefulness when
the people do come together to dis
cuss candidates as this conference
came together. There was nothing in
the conference that violates the law.
"Why does the machine oppose the
conference, public gathering, when
it itself holds secret meetings to
name candidates? If the machine Is
sincere, it would condemn the secret
"Adolph o. Eberhart is the absen.
tee governor.
'He is now asking for reelection.
What has he done to entitle him to
consideration? I have pointed out
many things which indicate he is not
entitled to consideration. What are
some of the things that entitle him
to consideration? He is like the hus-
band the women were talking about.
One lady said, Il never saw my hus-
band before we were married. The
other said, Il never see mine since we
were married. The people of the
state never see their governor at the
capital after election. No man is big
enough to run the state of Minnesota
and neglect things the way Mr.. Eber-
hart does. No wonder taxes are
mounting up.
Should Acknowledge Blame.
AFTER five years as governor, if
had been Mr.. Eberhart I would never
have called a commission of thirty
men to tell me what was the trouble
with the government would be hon
est and say I was the one to blame
The governor had almost unlimited
powers in the matter of directing the
appropriations and the expenditures
Of the state. He has an absolute veto
on all appropriation measures.
| heard members of the senate and
house finance committees of the last
| legislature say that they had gone tt
the governor asking his advice about
the bills before they passed and thai
the governor seemed to take little OF
no interest. Do you wonder that j
costs more and more to run the state
of Minnesota?
| He now asks one more chance t.
remedy matters-it looks to me like
a confidence game
II am interested in the republican
primaries because I am interested IL
good government and because I be
lieve that William E. Lee, the nomi
nee of the anti-machine conference
stands for good government. Whe1
we put Lees record up against Eber
harris record, there is no question
whatever as to where those wht
stand for good government ought t.
be.
"The governor wants to make thu
primary law an issue in this cam
paign. That law has been violated
more by the men who meet secretly
than by those who meet publicly, ant
the governor knows it.
81 am not interested in Lee because
he is Lee, but because of things h,
stands for. I am not opposed to Eb
erhart because he is Eberhart-
because Of the things he stands for
The issue is clean cut and there cal
be no lodging. In this campaign o.
1914 there is no doubt as to how tn,
honest, sincere friend of good govern
ment ought to vote-he ought to bt
with William E. Lee"
R. H. Battey presided at the meet
ing, which was in the Detroit opera
house. Bad weather kept down tn,
crowd. Rudolph Lee of Long Prairie
a son Of the candidate, spoke briefly