The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-05-05
THE POLITICAL POT
AS the Pie-comter Boys and Patriots Make Merry
Medicine in City, County and State, the
Old Pot BOils and Bubbles Fiercely.

man.
Just why this is probable, NO
one has openly said. For one
thing, there has been opposition
to Mr.. Miller within his own
party. In his last campaign, he
was opposed by Charles P. Craig,
a candidate picked and chosen
by the "king-naker" on the
News Tribune. Lots of noise
was made in Mr.. Crs.ig's behalf
but his feet proved to be of clay,
hence a mighty slew and unsuc-
cessful run against our "little
giant
Then there is dissatisfaction
because Mr.. Miller hired a fe-
male private secretary, although
Minnesota has not yet granted
woman suffrage. She is not con-
sidered a safe secretary for our
congressman. Plenty of budding
young male politicians were avail
able and competent for the job.
1t is whispered that the
Masons, or at least a section of
that order, have turned Mr..
Miller's picture to the wall. They
are supposed to feel that if he
is turned down for congress, he
will be made governor-general
of the PHILIPPINES and can take
his postgraduate course in Turk
ish customs from the Sultan Of
Sulu, unseen at home.
There also is a wierd story to
the effect that Senator Charles
B. Adams will be taken up and
groomed for Mr.. Miller's place.
Although Mr.. Adams usefulness
in the legislature may be nearing
an end, the common run of the
voters hardly will look on him
as strong or even fully desir-
able candidate.
Stranger things have hap
pened, however, right here in
the Eighth district.
County Attorney Greene also
is credited with looking with
favor on the halls of congress
but, aside from speakin' pieces
all over, in season and out of
season, he has not shown his
hand. He is credited with being
too good politician to say any
thing at this time, no matter how
badly the bee may be buzzin' in
his bonnet.
John H. Norton, after nearly
as many trials as the ant made
in getting the grain Of wheat
up the wall, under the watchful
eye of Robert Bruce, finally at
tanned the great goal of county
attorney. Warren E. Greene was
made his first assistant.
When Mr.. Norton tired of
public toll and honor, he re-
tired and handed the key to the
county attorneys office to Mr..
Greene.
If Mr.. Greene, commonly
called "the heir apparent" by
the bench and bar of St. Louis
county, either dons the ermine
after it is laid down by his sire
in-law, or goes to congress, it is
fully expected that he will hand
the keys Of the county attor-
ney's office to Mason M. Forbes.
Of course there may be enough
lawyers, similar to Page Morris,
Henry F. Green, Charles A. Towne
Charles E. Adams, ct al, who
prefer public service to private
practice, to put up a hard con-
test against any such plan as
outlined, thereby, perhaps, spill
ing the beans and changing the
map of the courthouse.
Stranger things have happened
right in St. Louis county.
It is just as certain that Odin
Halden is serving his last term
as auditor Of st. Louis county as
it was that John T. Armstead
never would or could be elected
mayor of Duluth. Mr.. HaldenJ
may not think so, as yet, as
clever and cunning as he may
be, but the Rip-saw talks by the
card and the voters will do well
to paste this statement in their
hats for future reference.
The county not only has suf-
fered and is suffering from "Too
much Halden," but he is losing
his vim, vigor and virility. He
failed to quit when quitting was
good. Now, he will be forced to