Morris tribune., 1915-07-02
EGG SHOWER BRINGS
VICTORY FOR DRYS
John Cunneen, Who Spoke in
Morris, Victim of Hen Fruit
Carnival at Hokah

Houston county has finally been de-
clared dry following the election ten
days ago. The vote was close and OPP
posing sides made strenuous claims to
victory but the canvassing board found
that the county option forces won by
a majority of about 80 votes. Eggs
thrown at John F. Cunneen after he
had delivered a dry lecture at Hokah
are believed to have turned the tide of
sentiment that threatened to hold
Houston county in line for the vets.
Cunneen spoke in Morris and various
places in Stevens county during the
campaign. He was temperate in
speech and said not word of abuse
for anyone. He did the same at
Hokah and when he was mobbed senti
ment turned in favor IF the cause he
championed.
A few days before the election in
Houston county Cunneen, who is ex-
president of the Catholic Abstinence
Union of Illinois and layman in the
Catholic church, and Rev. Currie,
Presbyterian pastor at Hokah, spoke
in the Hokah hall. After the meet
ing the two speakers with C. ]. Sven
son, leading business man of Hous-
ton, left the hall. They were trailed
by bunch of unknown men and boys
who threw eggs, several striking Gun
neen and Rev. Currie. Because of the
prominence of Mr.. Swenson in Hous-
ton his town resented the treatment
and cast a dry vote of 124 to 46 for
the vets. Up till election Houston
was conceded to the vets. The Hous-
ton Chief, a wet paper, now claims
the drys won the county by an egg.
Hypenated Americanism was given
a rebuke in the United States dis
trict court in st. Paul Monday of
last week when Judge Page Morris
granted citizenship papers to Anton
Schuster, an Austrian. "You are not
an Austrian any more or an Austro-
American. explained the court.
"You are just plain, every day Am
erican. We do not want any Austro-
Americans, English Americans or Ger
man-Americans or any other kind of
Americans except plain Americans. "
Schuster is 81 years old, has lived in
St. Paul ID years.
J. R. Landy of the Olivia Times.
charged with criminal defamation OF
Daniel W. LaWler when the latter
was a candidate for the democratic
nomination for governor Of Minnesota
last year, won in the supreme court
last Friday by reversal of the de-
cision of the Ramsey county district
court. The higher court holds that
the language used in regard to Mr..
Lawler was not defamation per sc.
but required special proof to prove
that it was defamatory with regard
to candidate for public Office.
Ortonville is to have wireless sta
tion. Fl. W. Palm will be in charge
and will receive message from Long
Island, Norfolk and Springfield but
all the news will be censored. Time
will be given out three times a day
and watches and clocks in Ortonville
will be made to run correctly OF
they will be thrown away. News
concerning the war or the stock ex-
changes of the country will be sup,
pressed.
Orders for booze cannot be solicit.
ed by mail in counties that have gone
dry under the county option law.
Lyon county was among the first coun,
ties to adopt dry policy and soor
thereafter the Cold Spring Brewing
Co. and G. & ]. Michel Brewing Co.
solicited orders there and were ar
rested. Dry counties may receive
booze but the stuff must be sold BY
other means than the mails.
Saloon-keepers at Ortonville wht
subscribed to the corn and alfalfa show
will be restituted. They donated
about one thousand dollars and Thu