The Sauk Centre herald., 1916-10-05
SENATOR NELSON
Opens CAMPAIGN
MAKE G.. o. p. P.KEYNOTESPEEC
IN KANDIYOHI COUNTY
SATURDAY
MUCH LITERATURE Sent OUT
ALL PARTIES FLOODING STATE
WITH PRINTED NATTER ON
COMING ELECTION

Senator Knute Nelson might be said
to have officially opened the Repub-
lican campaign in Minnesota Saturday
when he delivered a speech at Sun
burg, Kandiyohi county. AS key
note and so designated by the Repub-
lican managers, the senator's effort
can be regarded as one of the Repub-
lican masterpieces of the campaign,
but any Importance it may have in
that respect fades into insignificance
when it is known that it may be the
last of the senator's official efforts in
behalf of the party he has so long and
faithfully served. Accepting state
ments credited to him by close friends,
Senator Nelson is on the final lap of
long and uninterrupted official ca
reer and with it's close he will retire
to private life. When the venerable
senator faced an audience that taxed
the little town of Sunburg cries of
"Knute, Knute; Good old Knute," rent
the air. Political prejudices aside,
Senator Nelson is easily the biggest
political asset the Republican party
has as far as the Northwest is con-
cerned and those in charge of the
Hughes fortunes in Minnesota and
the Northwest builded we'll when they
picked him to lead the charge this
year. So important do the Republican
managers regard his keynote that ev-
cry Republican newspaper in the state
has been asked to. give it publicity,
while the national managers are dis
tributing the speech broadcast in
pamphlet form.
/ Perhaps never in the history of the
game has so much white paper been
used as in the present contest for po-
litical and official supremacy, and the
question prompts itself, "Is the in
vestment worth it?" From the Repub-
lican state headquarters in St. Paul
and the Democratic offices in Mime
apolis tons of booklets and pamphlets
are sent out daily, and this is not all.
The Prohibitionists, the Socialists and
several other parties are pouring in
their share to the extent that it can
safely be said that better than 100000
pieces of printed political matter are
leaving the Twin Cities daily. Some
of it is trash, and much Of it is good,
but it is doubtful if any of it con-
vinces.
If any one desires to get the official
scalp of Secretary of State Schmahl
or any other executive state officer he
will have to appeal to some source
other than Governor Burnquist. At
torney General Smith has ruled that
the power of removal of any executive
officer does not lay with the gov
ernor. Such is the prerogative of the
legislature or the people only. Mr..
Schmahl's scalp was asked for by an
upstate automobile owner, who ac-
cused the secretary of failing to ex-
.ercise proper haste in forwarding him
a set of automobile tags. The owner
was arrested in Minneapolis for fail
ing to have the proper tags attached
to his machine, and the above was
his excuse. In retaliation he asked
that Mr.. Schmahl be ousted from Of
flee, and Attorney General Smiths
ruling was the answer.. 1t developed
later that the tags had been forward
ed but had been lost in the mails.
A state constabulary for Minnesota
will undoubtedly be one of the offer
irgs at the next session OF the legls-
lature. A system similar to the
mounted police of Canada and the
state soldiery of Pennsylvania IS pro-
nosed. This is not the first time such
an organization has been suggested.
Past legislatures have wrested WIN
the question on several occasions, but
the bill never got beyond the commit
tee room. This time it is proposed TO
incorporate in the new body all the
Inspector functions of the several
state departments. 1t is doubtful II
such bill would get by.
Up in the Seventh district Senator
e. E. Lobeck is hot on the trail OF
CONGRESSMAN Volstead. Lobeck is the
Prohibition candidate for congress,
and while the district is heavily Re-
publican no one, would be surprised
il he crowded his Republican oppo-
nent. Lobeck is car,hpaigner OF no
mean order. In his own county ne
has prevailed a number OF times Dotn
for the house and senate.
James Manahan, once accepted as
Democrat, but who later broke into
the Republican ranks via congress, IS
now stumping the state in the interest
of the Republican party. Hughes and
Kellogg have the call in his talks.
During the early part of the year ne
did North Dakota in the interest OF
the Republican candidateSfor governor
and the Nonpartisan league.
The new economy and efficiency
commission, authorized at the last
session of the legislature, has decided
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