The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10
THE SAME OLD TACTICS.

THE SAME OLD TACTICS.
It is rather amusing to see
county auditor Halden and his
retainers try to start the political
game for 1918. They follow the
old rules, play up the same old
stuff and pull off the same old
stunts.
The auditorial press agents have
commenced to Feature the name
and doings of Mr.. Halden in the
daily papers. Mr.. Halden heroic
ally stays in his office Labor Day.
Mr.. Halden, strong for economy,
issues a mandate that the clerks
Of the district court compel the
lawyers to turn in the public
scratch pads at the close of each
session Of court. Mr.. Halden ad-
vises all sporsmen not to 60 hunt
ing this fall but to use the money
thus saved to win the war. It's
Mr.. Halden this and Mr.. Halden
that, usually with that classy pho
tograph printed next to the publ
city dope.
Then from the side lines some
members Of Little Tammany who
usually has supported Halden in
return for a courthouse job for
some friend or merely to accentu-
ate the cold Mans" claim for
auditorial legal printing, wags his
head sadly and exclaims dolefully,
"The Rip-saw's going to re-elect
Halden again"
Other Halden retainers stand in
public places, set up the cigars
and declare that "The Rip-saw's
making votes for Halden every
day." They fail to show conf
dence in their logic by buying and
circulating a few thousand copies
of the Ripsaw each issue. If their
talk is true, they could make the
calling and election of the dear
old auditor sure by very modest
purchase and distribution of this
great family journal.
Although helped to his first
nomination and election by the A.
P. A., auditor Halden has played
up close to the Catholic voters and
sought to get as many Of them on
his staff as possible. Now, how
ever, his friends are babbling
around that "The Catholics wish
to capture the courthouse and the
Rip-saw is trying to turn it over
to them" -.
The Rip-saw does not at all be-
lieve in the injection of religious
creed and denominations into pol
tiles. Good morals, observance of
the law and efficiency should be
the test of a candidate for county
office. As near as the Rip-saw
can ascertain, neither the Guard
ians Of Liberty nor the Knights OF
Columbus are taking any stock in
Mr.. Halden's political promo
tions.
Relatives of. clerks and depu-
ties in the auditorial department
are melted to howl against the
Rip-saw on the grounds that, by
pointing out Mr.. Halden's unfit
ness for further courthouse SER
vice, the great family journal is
"attacking" the kinsman who has
an office job or who serves the
auditor as a flunkey.
Auditor Halden's press agents
never explain or even deny the
unlawful, reprehensible and dis
creditable acts of their master,
They never show that the Rip
saws criticisms are contrary to
/ fact. They cannot do so. Even
a Halden press agent cannot per-
form the, impossible. - There is
plenty Of dust thrown in the air,
to conceal and befog the situa-
ton, but no solid shot hits the i'm
penetrable Notifications Of fact.
All that is back of auditor. Hal
denis push for another term of
office is a camouflage> of dust,
smoke, evasions and empty words.
Let this willy, shifty, slippery
beneficiary of the pie-counter
stand up before the people and
purge himself of the many SER
,ious charges or else cease to flaunt