Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1916-05-19

The people OF Denver nave hnally
repudiated the commission form Of
government. St. Cloud would proba-
bly, do the same. This does not mean
that there are not some excellent
things about a commission form OF
government, but that unless the right
kind of men are in office, any form
of government will be failure.
Duluth has the doubtful honor of
having a freak club woman-one Mrs:
Liggett-who says that women of
superior breeding and education should
necessary one, sad as the fact is
should be left to women of GLOVER
classes,' who are not supposed to
have feelings. What a poor, silly sort
of fool this woman must be.
After a great struggle, Works sue
ceeded in getting one man to file on
the ticket with him and he had been
at the task for some time. That is
shout as striking commentary on the
Works candidacy as one might find.
Mr.. King did not decide to file til
the last day, and then only a few
hours before the time expired. If his
friends had had a little more time,
full ticket would have fled, instead
Of only three besides the candidate
for governor.
The Minneapolis Journal is begin
ming to worry about what the voters
for Ford may mean. Michigan was
dismissed as a joke, but Nebraska
made it look little serious, and now
comes California, ON the sea coast,
where no one would be surprised if
there were great sentiment for extreme
preparedness. Yet many thousand
voters in the Golden State took the
trouble to write in the name of Ford
as their candidate for president What
it all means is simple. Several mil
lion American voters, enough to de-
termine a presidential election, do not
propose to swallow the bunk dished
out by, the munitions makers and their
allies among the newspapers and the
politicians. Another straw OIL signii-
canoe is the statement of Congress-
man Doremus, chairman of the demo-
cratic congressional campaign commit
tee, that the democrats will expect
help from the Ford vote. That will
be impossible unless the platform is
right.
The 1All-wise Sister Fuller, editor
OF The Transcript (not editress), but
evidently always in deep distress,
momentarily depressed from solving
the great questions of the day, and in
real devlish glee stuck her preiudiced
pen into a pot Of irresponsible ink
and attempted to show wherein our
report of the council meeting in rela-
tlon to the franciscan Sisters-Water
rover controversy, as we'll as our
Wr1te.up OF the engineers report, did
llot give the company "fair shake. -
OF something to that effect. Anv nm.
PreJudiced person at the council meet
ing WILL say that our article was a.
very 1alr writeup of the discussions
mat took place. AS to the engineers
report, our information as covered in
me article, gave the company credit
lcr winning a good deal larger part
OF It's contention, than does the renort
VI inc engineer, printed in another
co1umn' Look it over sister, and Won
may possibly come to the conclusion
mat your readers would also he ;n+orl
ested IN n. what the report says.
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For the first time in the history ~
one s!ate the democratic party has no
candidates c for the positions Of secr re-
tary OF state, attorney general and
railroad commissioner. That ;e -
proud position for a party which con-
trolls the national administration and
reveals the kind of party leadership
from which the party has suffered 6SredSn +
Governor Hammond had lived. th;na &c
would have been different. hn+ -
would have been on account tu Of mat h;t
strong personality, and not hecanse
Of agreater acceptance of partv nr;n.
clples on the part of the people That
IS the result of leaders like Tvnch
who has had full sway, who has had
the backing Of national adm;n;stro'
ton, and who leaves the partv in 70,
worse shape "a now than it was in 1915
There was every opportunity to hn;id
the, party up, but there was M
thought of making it other than
personal and business appendaee. The
democratic party or this state needs
a house cleaning, and thorough one
before it can expect natural growth
and be able to appeal to people who
can only be won by principles and &C.
tions which; square with each other.
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