The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-11-02
THE POLITICAL POT
AS the Pie-counter Boys and Patriots Make Merry
Medicine i'm City, County and State, the
Old Pot BOils and Bubbles Fiercely.

Election comes next Tuesday,
November 5, when tn people in.
state, district and county will have
the delightful task of picking the
proper statesmen, patriots and
pie-counter politicians for whom
to cast their valuable votes.
The three-cornered guberna-
torial fight is adding considerably
to the gaiety of nations. AS, the
fatal day draws near, the fight
seems to be between Evans and
Burnquist. Fred H. Wheaton, de-
serving a better fate, seems surely
doomed to defeat and his most
loyal supporters privately admit
it.
Senator Nelson will not have
things entirely his own way. Many
voters will support Calderwood
for the u. S. senate. He may not
get across but his vote will be a
strong one.
In the Eighth district, Congress-
man Miller is hustling hard to keep
out of the way of the Proctor
Carss. The Little Giant" leisure
ly came back for his biennial visit
and was nearly Frustrated to find
that farmers and organized Sons
of Toll were in open revolt under
the leadership of William L. Carss,
an aggressive, well educated,
splendidly informed locomotive
engineer. Worse yet, many life
long Republicans were on the war
path against the homeless repre-
sentative Of the Eighth district.
There is very strong feeling
that the Eighth district should be
represented by a man having a
local family, home and property
interests. Mr.. Miller's present
situation smacks too much of car
pet-bagging.
Then many loyal, patriotic citi-
zens of all parties resent the way
in which Mr.. Miller has played
politics and rocked the. boat when
the President needed every posi-
BILE support.
Mr.. Miller also has been dis
credited by large number of let
tiers that he wrote, both before
and after the war, hastily, and
snakily biting President Wilson in
the back. Those letters also show
many earmarks Of the despicable
Bernstorff propaganda, WIFI h
causes many voters to fear that
the Beast of Berlin has had &C
cess to the Miller ear and, posi-
bly,, put something into his rather
meager purse.
No one need be at all surprised
if William L. Carss is the next
congressman from the Eighth dis
trict.
There is no dearth of legisla-
tive candidates but it's Hobson's
choice in entirely too many cases.
Nothing is more important to st.
Louis county and the average citi-
zen than first class members of the
legislature. The people have taken
entirely too little interest, both at
the primaries and since then.
Entirely too few of the legisla-
tive candidates have told what
they stand for and why. 1t has
been fox-foot, gum-shoe it and soft
pedal all the way. Of course some
of the candidates do not know
what they really stand for. They
merely know that the state house
is in St. Paul and that they are
headed towards it.
Out in the Fifty-seventh dis
trict, Charles E. Adams and Hen
ry w. Cheadle are contesting for
the senatorship. Many an intelli-
gent citizen is hard-put to make a
choice. Both men have served in
the senate before. Both are sea-
soned politicians and old pie
counter boys, Adams has been
too subservient to the courthouse
gang, his soft job as special coun-
ty attorney not adding anything
to his efficiency as a legislator,
everything considered.
On the other hand, Cheadle,
when in the senate before Adams,
was more or less a reactionary.
He, is represented as opposing
woman suffrage and measures cal
culated to curtail the power of
Old John Barleycorn. His back