The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-04

ty commissioners, are SICK OF lap
ping skim milk. Go get them
some raw, red meat"
Senator Adams buttoned on
his toga and got busy. He pushed
a law through the legislature
whereby the county commission
ers of kindly old St. Louis coun-
| ty received salaries, each, Of
$1,000 a year, instead Of $1,000,
with $500 extra for travelling ex-
penses.
Even such commissioners as
are wild and refuse to be tanned ;
who spit viciously at the King
! who arch their backs and make
! the fur on their tails swell up
who show their claws and yowl
defiantly, get full benefit OF. the
senator's service.
"The senator has rubbed our
backs and piled raw, red meat
into our pannkins,' may not the
kings tame pets have said. ""e
should do something in return"
They raised Mr.. Adams salary
as special county attorney to
$4,000 a year but neglected to
bar private practice or to demand
any reduction for months spent
at senatoring in St. Paul, or to
ban such lawyering as going to
International Falls to defend
pious patriots like George A.
Elder, when prosecuted by the
heather.
May the King of the Court
house not have rubbed his hands
unctuously and thought to him
self:
| my medicine is strong, effect
i've and a sure cure for what it is
good for. Onward and upward
is a grand motto. My machine
is fine to look upon but it's time
to put on another deck, as says
my friend Weiss to his pressman,
when the Herald circulation
properly expands and the perfect
ing press is strained to do its
work.
May not Konge Odin when at
the hotel St. Paul, have called in
senator Charles E. Adams, spe-
cial county attorney and possessor
Of a fat private law practice, and
said:
"Charley, Clarence B. Miller
has talked turkey to my spe-
cial friends, the political miracle
workers in the Wolvin building.
He has told them to choose be-
tween me and him. I brook no
opposition in my political plans
for St. Louis county and the
Eighth congressional district. In
time, I'll be boss Of the grand
old party in county, district and
even state. I have Lee Willcuts
put on ice. I stand in with Jake
Preus. He and I may even put
Burnquist where he cannot trou-
BILE or annoy.
"Charley, why not 60 to con-
gress? I'm for you and with you
if you will say the word. In
fact if I say the word, you must
obey or cease to be a wheel in
my machine.
| At the time when Odin Halden
may have taken Charles b.
Adams up on top Of he hotel St.
Paul and showed him the dome
of the capitol building at Wash
ington, Mr.. Adams was busily
engaged in senatoring and cash
ing a monthly check from the
kindly old county Of St. Louis,
said check being for services rem
dered in theory, if not fact, as
special county attorney. He has,
since adjournment Of the sena-
toring job, done a bit Of advis-
ing to the complacent county
commissioners. At present, he
is boosting his private practice
by going to international Falls
to defend Geo. A. Elder, the
prominent Sunday school worker
and efficiency expert, whom the
heather of Koochiching county
have boldly indicted on a charge
Of grating.
In due course, versatile state
senator special county-at attorney
private-lawyer Adams may de-
eide to buck Clarence B. Mil
Ter for his congressional job and
so announce. But any such deci-
sion will be written by the willy
old King Of the Courthouse.
In the meantime, so far as the
Wolvin building miracle work.
ers are concerned, Clarence B.
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