The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-03-24
BATTLE OF BALLOTS.

in years gone by. Several men
are holding credit for things that
really were done by S. F. Snively.
Duluth would profit with such a
man in the city council. The peo-
pie may draft him for their serv-
ice at some later day.
Let a man hold office for twen-
ty or forty years and he uncon-
ciously gets to think he owns it.
When the voters finally turn him
out he feels something like a Du-
luth copperstock speculator who
has bought heavily just before a
"bear" market.
The boys who believe in barter
ing booze declare that blind pigs
will overrun the city if the dry
ordinance is sustained. Is Du-
luth so pregnant with law1ess
men that the will of the people
can be thwarted Removal Of any
blind men in the police depart
ment will kill off any blind pigs.
Mayor Prince now will have
ample time both for the 'Back
to Bessemer" movement and the
erection of his new $4,000 home.
Duluth has had mayors much less
efficient than Mr.. Prince. and
great credit is especially due him
for his dignified, quiet, gentle
manly way of conducting the af-
fairs Of his office.
Senator Charles 3. Adams is
another of these double-barrelled
boys when it comes to drawing
salaries. He gets his little modi-
cum of pay for serving as senator
| and no one has heard that any
thing is knocked off his salary as
special attorney to the board of
| county commissioners while he
| slaves in st. Paul. All the, self
denying patriots did not live in
George Washington's day.
| Many people have commented
on the fact that the Duluth ship
canal does not stay frozen over
all winter as it did some years
ago. Government scientists
ascribe the condition to the fact
that since the Marine Supply
Company located at the foot of
Fifth avenue, Simon Clark s
smile has kept the waterfront
several degrees warmer during
the winter season..
Some blunt Drained individual
has tried to injure G. B. Magney's
mayoralty aspirations by start
ling a report that Chauncey Troy
er would be brought back to Du-
luth as chief Of police in the event
of Mr.. Magney's election. If the
voters thought that report had
and basis in fact, as the lawyers
say, Mr.. Magney would be elect
ed with. a whoop.
The editor of the Evening
Herald appears peeved because
some local grand jury has not in
dicted local coal dealers for Gun
fairly high coal prices. Some
years ago, the Herald conducted a
hysterical crusade against the
terrible 'meat trust until local
butchers agreed to advertise in
the Friday evening "market bas-
ket." The local coal barons well
may profit by the butchers ex-
ample.
Madam Julia Wallace, a dis
tant relative by marriage Of the
great William Wallace, once was
a prominent redlight lady on the
iron ranges. Unlike so many such
women, she did not await the
yawning of deaths door before
!! she changed her place and mode
of living. She came to Duluth
and is doing work meet for re-
pentance. In the historic old
hotel Brunswick, adjoining the
Lyceum, Madam Julia now con-
ducts private rest resort for
ladies Of high moral endeavor or
gentleman pilgrims who seek a
shade in the wilderness, as it were.
Some Sabbath mornings all the
way from dozen to a score Of
these good women, refreshed with
cheering cups Of tea, issue forth
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