The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-02-22

labor will put up strenuous tight
against the measure is certain. Inc
bill is unusually drastic, in that it
even prohibits the use of any Ian
guage, actions or printed matter cal
culated to make any workman dissat-
isfied with his present employment or
those whom he is working for.
A feature of the annual meeting Of
the State Editorial association at St.
Paul was the marked absence of pollt-
ical discussion and the side gossip
characteristic of such gatherings. It
was business meeting from start to
finish, with the high cost of paper ana
printing material the chief subject.
How to meet the new order of things
called for seriors consideration anG
little, time was given over to the i'm
material. Many members of the leg
islature and state officials hobnobbed
with the scribes. The meeting as a
whole was one of the best in the his
tory of the association.
To say that politics was entirely ia
booed at the editorial gathering is per-
haps wrong. Such did not figure il
the deliberations, but it was sidlined
in a little gathering participated in b
Frank Day of Fairmont, Fred Schil,
pin of St. Cloud, Harry Lamberton Of
Winona and others, who laid the plans
looking to future Democratic contrc
of the state. Governor Burnquist's ad-
ministration was roundly scored and
his dethronement discussed.
In addition to a dry constitutional
amendment, which has been given the
endorsement of both houses, voters IF
the state may also be given the op-
portunity to pass on the question Of
woman suffrage at the next general
election. A bill by Representative
Larson of Sandstone providing for
such submission has been decided on
favorably by the house election COM
mittee. According to the program
mapped out the bill is to be special
order in the house soon, but it may
be sidetracked for the time by other
important legislation. The opinion is
growing that suffrage will receive the
endorsement of both houses.
A limited convention system and a
return to partisanship has been agreed
upon by subcommittee from the cleo
ton committees of both houses and a
bill providing for such is expected
shortly. All that remains is the work
ing out of details. Limited nominal
ing convention bills have been intro
duced in the house by Representative
Harrison of Minneapolis and in the
senate by Senator Rustad of Wheaton
and the committee oil to be intro
duced will be a combination of the
best of each. According to those in
terested prospects for marked changes
in the present primary and election
laws are most favorable and they ex-
pect to see new act on the books
before the close of the session.
The repeal of the law legalizing box
ing in the three large cities of the
statefis worrying the sporting element
in the two houses and those interested
are working overtime in an effort to
avert the calamity. Senator Sagenp
of Otter Tail county is the chief actor
on the other side. Boxing advocates
say they have the repeal law beaten
in the senate, but they admit that it
would receive the approval of the
house if it ever got by the upper
body.
Shakopee has been decided upon by
the state board Of control as the loco
ton of the wonan's reformatory, au-
thorized by the last lesislaturo. Til
news is a week old, but time has by
no means removed all the soreness
that has been caused as result Of
the selection. The board says it was
actuated by economy and the desira-
bility of the site selected. One of the
active candidates for the reformatory