The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-11
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All of the candidates on the Re-
publican ticket have declared them
selves in favor of Amendment No. 1,
which provides for amending Section
2, Article 8, Constitution of Mime
sofa, by creating a revolving fund
of not over two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars to be est apart from
the fund derived from the sale of
school and swamp lands to be used
In constructing roads, bitches and
frebreaks, through, in and around
and in clearing such lands, such fund
to be replenished from the sale of
such lands so benefited. The adop-
ton of Amendment No. 1 will per-
its school and swamp lands by max
ing improvements that will make the
land more attractive to the settlers.
The cost of such improvements will
be added to the original cost of the
land and will be returned to the re-
volving fund as the lands are paid
for. When the need for the revolv-
ing fund no longer exists, the money
will be turned into the Permanent
School Fund. It will not cost the
state one cent
United States Senator Nelson join
ed the growing ranks of motordom
last week when he invested in a pop
ular make of automobile. His ma
chine bearing the license No. 1884,
900, a gift from Secretary of State
Schmahl, an ardent admirer of the
senator, was conspicuous because of
it's ownership at the big Sundburg
Republican rally last Saturday and
Senator Nelson Joined in more than
one laugh at some of the Ford jokes
INDUCED in at his expense. In or
der to make the meeting at Sund-
burg at which he was the principal
speaker, Senator Nelson drove from
Alexandria, his home, and returned
the same way. It was his first taste
of automobile ownership and the
veteran was quite proud of his in
vestment.
II saw copy of the Pioneer at my
neighbours house and want you to
send it to me. haven't been taking
a county paper and can't afford it
now, but I don't see how I can af-
ford to be without paper during the
election period. What I was most
pleased with was that Charles Car
ter has taken a stand against build
ing more bitches and that he will do
what he can to pass laws in the leg
1slature to help the settler and stop
the ditch business: All the settlers
around here are tickled to death over
his stand and I guess they will all
vote for him for representative Mr.
Carter may have some faults, but he
knows what the man on the land
needs and if he favors keeping down
the expense he should be elected,
which think he will" Letters sim
liar to the above have been received
by the Pioneer, not in great num-
bers, but few of them. It is the
opinion of many of our townspeople
that Mr. Carter would make a good
man to represent us at St. Paul. In
dications from various sections of the
county point to his election. Many
favor making it a party issue. Mr.
Carter is a Republican and just be-
cause the legislature has seen fit to
pass a. law making local offices non
partisan is no reason why the Re-
publicans should elect Democrat.
That's the stand hundreds will take
when it comes to sending man to
St. Paul.
Perhaps never in the history of the
nation were postmasters and federal
officers as politically active as at the
present time, says "a St. Paul cor
respondent. Civil service rules and
regulations have been thrown to the
winds in an effort to make good for
the president and the Minnesota CO.
torie of pie counter fiends are no ex-
ception to the rule. Some of their
activities would put to blush the raw
est of the old days. According to
one Federal employee whose stamping
ground is the custom house at St.
Paul the call to get out and hustle is
general. Salaries have also been
levied upon to the. extent of a ten per
cent touch.
Though a candidate for re-elec-
ton and naturally anxious for repe-
tition of the big majorities that have
characterized his election in the past
Attorney General Smith will figure
but little in the hustling of his cam
paign. Official demands upon his
time will not permit it.. This week
he is at Washington arguing before
the supreme court of the United
States on several matters of import