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The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-11-02
H0RNCREN AND TONY RICH
TOUR RANGES FOR HALDEN
Youthful Clerks i'm Auditors Office Waste County
Time and Money When Out Boosting for
Halden and Abusing the Rip-saw.

his royal master has done and he
knows too much of the high fl
nancing of his campaign to deny
the charges made against the spid-
cry auditor.
Both Rich and Horngren are
slackers, out wasting county time
and money, when they should be
over in the trenches, trying to
save Italy or France, instead of
starting on careers Of duplicity
and petty grating, as willing
tools of Odin Halden.
If Walter Bergen campaigned
on city time and at expense of the
city treasury, by virtue Of his po-
sition as city clerk, a terrible
roar would be heard up there in
the courthouse as well as by the
few Halden supporters outside.
If these budding political
crooks do not mend their evil
ways, they may be compelled to
make an extended visit to St.
Cloud instead of drinking bevo
on the range and abusing the Rip
saw,
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-11-02
JUDGE FESLER'S FIDDLE
PLAYS TUNES For HALDEN
Local Jurist Pays Private Personal Political Debt
on Demand of the Discredited Autocrat of the
Peoples Courthouse.

motion. Odin Halden secured him
the district judgeship. The party
Of Jefferson, Jackson and Bryan,
with which Fesler affiliated, was
not consulted. The common peo-
pie were not consulted. They were
not even permitted to confirm the
selection. Naturally, Hon. Bert A.
Fesler hears his makers cry Of
distress, therefore stands by with
his vote.
Although Hon. Bert A. Fesler
may pay his private, personal,
political debts, there is some ques-
ton as to his custom in the matter
of party debts. His Influential
voice has not been heard real
loudly in behalf Of anything help
full to- democrats. No campaign
treasurer yet has had the pleas
ure Of depositing a check in the
sum Of SIS as a free-will offering
to the great cause Of democracy
in general and local democrats in
particular.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-11-02

Balm in Gilead. After a session
of two hours with Halden, Hatch
decided to support him this year,
forgetting all the terrible indict-
ments he lodged against the cham
pion of the pie-counter four years
ago.
Hatch also forgot that, four
years ago, Halden told all over
the county that he embezzled gov
eminent funds when postmaster at
Eveleth.
Hatch seems to be a boy who
will kiss the hand that slaps his
face.
Some believe that Halden
promised Hatch to support him
four years hence, thus enlisting
him in the Father and Son move
ment' in the marble-lined court
house. Others believe that Halden
even promised to pay up Hatch s
old campaign debts if reelected.
1t is not impossible that Halden
paid some cash on account, the
situation being desperate, although
he is a difficult man from whom
to get real money, unless encount-
cred when playing Lord Bountiful
at the hotel st. Paul, during a
legislative session.
These are but fair samples of
Halden's bestowal of the deadly
Double Cross. They are almost
innumerable. Many entire Rip.
saws could not contain all of the
sordid tales.
It's dollars to doughnuts that,
eventually, Little Eddie H. Hatch
will find a big, heavy, deadly
Double Cross hanging around his
neck and dragging him down to
despair, if not disrepute.
These incidents are not mud, -
thrown at the man who has
doubled and twisted through
politics for the last thirty years.
They are facts and can be proven.
Halden cannot and will not pub
licly deny them.
Readers and voters can believe
the substantial truth of these in
cidents and then act accordingly,
according to their degree Of in
telligence and morals.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-11-02
PREUS GETS DOUBLE CROSS

his broad breast, it being placed
there by the shifty Halden.
To get Halden's favor, it has
seemed necessary to embezzle
either public or private funds,
steal cigars or stuff a ballot box.
And even violation of the state
laws often has been rewarded by
one of Halden's deadly Double
Crosses.
A young man was clerk of the
township Of Stuntz. Before two
prominent men, at different times;
well known to the Rip-saw, this
young man told how he superin-
tended the stuffng Of the ballot
box at Kitsville, near Hibbing,
thereby adding heavily to Halden s
majority and making his re-
election safe and sure.
Some months ago, no longer
township clerk, being rather down
and out, in fact, the young man
who made himself liable to a term
in Saltwater, merely to help out
Halden, went to the king of the
courthouse for a favor. 1t is al
most unnecessary to state that he
was brusquely, coldly and fatty
turned down.
With his power as township
clerk gone, Halden had no more
use for him, therefore he hung a
deadly Double Cross on his neck.
Four years ago, Edward H.
Hatch, boy politician of Eveleth,
ran against Halden and told some
most terrible tales as to his unfit
ness for auditor. Thanks to the
ballot box stuffing at Kitsville,
and other stunts, Halden carried
the election.
The public did not rise up en-
masse to insist that Little Eddie
run for auditor again this year.
Heavily ip debt from his fruitless
campaign four years ago, Hatch
became gloomy and plotted for a
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-11-02

Auditor Halden, in his desper-
ate death struggle to avoid Danish
ment from office, is sending out
political novices from the audi
torial chambers, at county ex-
pense, in a fruitless attempt to
fool the citizens Of the county into
wasting a vote on the badly scared
autocrat.
Even many of Halden's oldest
and ablest workers privately adj
NIT that a vote cast for Halden
this year is a vote wasted.
A young squirt by the name of
Horngren has been touring the
ranges, presumably on some ficti-
tious county errand, thereby MAX
ing a color Of excuse to charge his
expenses up to the helpless old
county.
That, perhaps, is what Judge
Fesler calls deficiency"
At Virginia, young Mr.. Horn
gren, who is not yet dry politi-
cally around the ears and who is
a veritable babe in diapers when
it comes to playing politics a la
Halden, told with great gusto
how the Rip-saw brought out Bor-
gen for auditor and then gave
him $4,000 with which to make his
campaign.
"Do you know that to be
trueY" asked Duluthian who
has been through the political mill
from basement to cupola.
II do" brazenly asserted the
young disciple Of Halden.
"You know that it is not true
and I know that you know it is
not truen'' charged the Duluthian.
"Well, it's a good story and
I'm going to tell it," said the
youthful disciple of old Ananias.
Another youngster, getting
money under false pretenses by
virtue Of being on the auditorial
payroll, roamed over the county
all of September, lacking up that
picture of Halden where he looks
like Napoleon just before the Bat
tie Of Waterloo. Honest employees
in the auditors office allege that
this young political degenerate,
Tony Rich, draws a salary and
expenses from the county treasury
while out campaigning for Hal
den.
Young Rich, with breath reek-
ing of garlic and spaghetti smears
all over his vest, has no stock in
trade but abuse Of the Rip-saw.
He lacks intelligence to point out
anything really meritorious that
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-11-02
SWANSTROM BOYS
DIG FOR HALDEN
Emanuel Makes Medicine Up
At Proctor and ISLANDERS
Walter H. Bergen. /!

Walter Swanstrom, county COM
missioner, has been mumbling
around to the effect that the
Swanstrom brethren were neutral
this year in the auditorial contest.
There is ample evidence to
prove that Hon. Walter either is
out of his mind or else he is talk
ing through his hat.
About two weeks ago, Emanuel
Swanstrom, spokesman for the
Swanstrom brethren, went up to
Proctor to try to seduce Ed. Erick-
son into supporting Halden.
Ed. Erickson, although a work
ingman, also is an honorable man
who spells principle with a cap
ital P.
"You 60 back and tell Halden
that there's nothing doing" he
replied to Swanstrom. "Also tell
him I stand now, with him, just
as I did in the Becks-Kauppi cam
paign. I was offered $500 to sup
port Kauppi, but I turned down
the offer and supported Becks for
nothing"
Emanuel Swanstrom friends
fear that he is losing his mind. His
wild election lies are the founda-
ton for these fears. Emanuel has
been telling around that Walter
H. Bergen was seen on the streets
Of Virginia, toting around bottle
Of whiskey, which he used in his
campaign for votes. 1t was a wick
ed lie and Emanuel knew it.
The boys at the West End ex-
press the opinion that Emanuel
must have been looking in the mir
ror and mistaken his own classical
"mug" for that of Bergen.
Emanuel Swanstrom has the
reputation Of being the best friend
that Old John Barleycorn has in
the West End. Just about the
time the county went dry, last
March, a private detective, looking
for Blind-pigs and boot-leggers,
called on Swanstrom and pretend
ed to be in the market for a $10,-
600 mortgage or a big, fine resi-
dence.
Nanny" Swanstrom fairly fell
over his feet to make it pleasant
for the customer. He invited him
to dinner and even proposed that
they 60 to Smiths drug store for
an appetizer before dinner.
II do not have to go to Superior
for my whiskey," boosted the real
estater. 81 can get it right down
here at Smiths drug store. Of
course his booze is nothing to 60
crazy over, but it's pretty fair
stuff, just the same"
Swanstrom led his guest down
that well-beaten trail between the
Swanstrom office and Smith 8 no.
torious drug store, diagonally
across from the Rex hotel.
"Give us some of the same old
stuff" said Swanstrom as he
swelled in behind the prescription
case.
"Noddings doing, shentlemens,"
said Druggist Smith. "Dieses burg
is schust gone dry and I will not
sell any more schnapps to der boys
until I can see how die policemen
act"
Swanstrom went away SORROW
| full and the detective missed catch
ing Druggist Smith for illegal sale
Of whiskey, after using Swan
/ strom for a stalking horse.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-11-02
THE AUDITORIAL SITUATION

Odin Halden, the man who has
held the office for twenty-four
years, has this town strewn with
cards Of himself for County Au-
ditor. 1t looks is though he
would like to have it for another
twenty-four, but the people think
no-so do we. When you go to
vote on Nov. 5, cast your vote for
Walter H. Borgen.-Cook News
bow.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-11-02
MERRITT BACKS BORGEN.

Lon Merritt, one Of the trail
blazers of Saint Louis county
and a victim Of the system, is
working with Walter Bergen to
defeat County Auditor Halden,
and there is food for thought in
that. Mr.. Merritt believes in
Bergen and don't believe in Hal
den, with good reason for his at
titude.-The Mesaba Ore.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-11-02
BoRGEN'S CAUSE BOOMING.

Walter Bergen is making splen-
did progress in his campaign for
county auditor against Odin Hal.
den. He is clean and upright
young man and if elected, as it
now appears he will be, the PEG.
pie of the county will have done
themselves proud.-The Mesaba
Ore. -.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-11-02
HALDEN'S HANDY WEAPON
USED ON STATE AUDITOR
COUNTY AUDITOR LAVAQUE GIVES BANK
RUPT GROCER HALDEN A CLERKSHIP.

TgeacherOus Deputy Throws Down BenefactOr.
Congressman Miller knitted in the Back-Asa
Daley staggers Under Deadly Decoration.
Paul Sharvy Sent Saddened to His Grave.
Capt Stevens and Steve Pierce Wear Badge Of
Halden's Treachery-GeOrge r. Laybourn and
Otto Calvert Cruelty Thrown Down-Eddie
Hatch Plays POltrOOn.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-11-02

The despicable use Of the deadly
Double Cross ever has been one
of Odin Halden's favorite means
of disposing Of a political rival,
anyone inimical to the Halden
welfare or anyone no longer USE
full to the Halden cause.
No politician Of recent days has
been more helpful to Halden than
j. A. o. Preus, state auditor. He
not only is keen and clever but
can pull strings from the state
capital that help Halden very
much. Mr.. Preus believes that he
has helped Halden more than Hal
den has helped him.
When Gov. Burnquist was try
ing to deprive Preus and others
of all their official patronage,
and making it a gubernatorial
perquisite, the state auditor sent
word to Halden for help.
Deep silence greeted the S. o.
S. call. 1t was repeated several
times, but Halden neither ap-
peared nor made reply.
One cold day, Mr.. Morgan, an
attorney for the U. S. Steel cor
poration, with a comfortable Of
flee in the Wolvin building, ap-
peared before Jake Preus in st.
Paul and icily said:
: "I am authorized to say for
Mr.. Halden that he regrets that
you have become involved in a
fight of this kind at this time.
It is credibly stated that state
auditor Preus swore like a pirate,
termed Halden an migrate and
called him names that mean fist
fighting with men of red blood
and no yellow streaks.
Two years ago, when the News
Tribune tried to eliminate Clar-
ence B. Miller and to stick Charles
P. Craig in his place as congress
man from the Eighth district,
Odin Halden silly, sneakily and
treacherously boosted the Craig
cause and stabbed Miller in the
back.
When told Of Halden's efforts
to decorate him with a deadly
Double Cross, Mr.. Miller would
not believe his informant. Being
urged to check up in the matter,
he did so with such effect that he
offered apology for doubling his
informant's word. Further than
that, Mr.. Miller, we'll incensed,
served notice on the political de-
partment of the u. S. Steel Cor
poration in the Wolvin building
that choice could be made between
him and Halden, right then and
there.
It now looks as if the dear old
Wolvin building chose Halden, for
the political. soothsayers in that
noble pile seem to be saying moth
ing for Miller and his Bern
storffian record and are trying to
to deliver every Steel Trust en-
ploye vote to the courthouse auto
crat.
Asa Daley was fighting to save
the Union when Odin Halden was
toddling around under the King
of Norway and Sweden. In his
old age he became custodian of
Memorial Hall in the marble.
lined courthouse.
Halden either became piqued at
the old veteran or else wanted
some Of his modest salary for
some favorite in the courthouse
employ-anyway, he gave the
Daley salary heavy cut and
turned him and other G. A. R.
veterans the marble face when
they protested.
Asa Daley, G.. A. r. veteran,
old, sick and feeble, is compelled
to suffer in his declining days
from both a decrease in small sal
airy and a decoration with one of
Halden's deadly Double Crosses,
because he lost favor in the royal
EYE.
Asa Daley and every G. A. r.
veteran probably are working
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-11-02

overtime to kiss the hand that
snatched bread and butter from a
hero who saved this nation, there
by enabling Odin Halden to feed
fatty off the people for thirty long
years.
Judge Fesler is right when he
declares that Halden is $50 eff
cient he is, for Halden.
About thirty years ago, Odin
Halden went bankrupt in the
grocery business and found him.
self fiat on his uppers. George
N. LaVaque, then county auditor,
gave the bursted grocer a job as
clerk and, eventually, made him
chief deputy.
Twenty-four years ago, Geo. N.
LaVaque tried to secure the
nomination for the state auditor
| ship, but without success. After
that, he desired to run again for
county auditor.
While Mr.. LaVaque was cam
paigning at st. Paul, the auditorial
bee got into deputy Halden's
bonnet. It buzzed so loudly that,
one day, he startled the force by
DOMINIC his coat and informing
the boys that he proposed to run
for auditor. He did so, throwing
down his employer and benefactor.
During the campaign, Halden
had tied up with Paul Sharvy,
then sheriff, a big, generous, I'M
suspecting Son of Norway. In
course of time Halden saw that
two Norwegians on the ticket
might work to his harm, there
fore he coldly and cruelty threw
down the unsuspecting sheriff.
| The duplicity on the part of
Halden never was forgiven by
Sharvy. LaVaque, too, retained
no pleasant or complimentary
memories of Halden.
Odin Halden has clug to the Of
flee of county auditor ever since.
He has done so by profuse
promises, being all things to all
men, and then literally bestowing
the deadly Double Cross on any
friend, benefactor, opponent or
competitor whom he wished to
eliminate for personal safety's
sake.
| Ten or twelve years ago, Capt.
Darwin E. Stevens won out in the
republican primaries, which made
him high man with Gov. Van SAINT,
according to the rules Of politics.
| That same time, Odin Halden
was aspirant for the nomination
for state auditor, just like Bob
Dunn, a man who came out of
the state auditors office with
money and an iron mine.
A day or two before the county
convention, Col. Graves and others
came to Capt. Stevens and gave
him mental treatment. They
TREMENDOUSLY told how dear old
Halden was candidate for state
F.; auditor; how he was the first can
didate Duluth ever had for a state
office, forgetting Geo. N. LaVaque
and others; how kind it would be
to give the dear boy show; and
would not the kind Captain let
some Halden boosters get on the
| Duluth delegation to st. Paul.
! Capt. Stevens felt magnanimous
and liberal. He fell for the idea.
The delegation was loaded heavily
with members of the old guard,
such men as Lee Willcuts, w. A,
Cant, 7. W. Hugo, Simon Clark
and others.
| When Capt. Stevens got to st.
Paul, he found that he had been
pulled out Of the saddle and was
walking at the rear of the pro-
cession, truly in keeping with
Halden custom and policy.
Halden failed to get the state
nomination but he so frosted the
plum tree that it never bore fruit
for Capt. Stevens.
! Capt. Stevens expected Van
SAINT to appoint him surveyor
general. On the day when the ap-
pointment was to be made, q large
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The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-11-02

Don't starve that brain Of yours
the Rip-sav
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-07-26
Don't Swap Horses!

Judge Bethurum says he will car
ry every congressional district in the
primary Saturday week, with the pos
sible exception of the Fourth, and
that he will get more votes in the
Eleventh district for U. S. Senator
than DR.. Bruner, his Republican OPP
ponent, will get in the entire State.
Possibly, but what will it profit him,
except the qualification of beating
Bruner, to get all the Republican
votes and lose out in the final cleo
ton? If the State would elect Re-
publican at any time it would hardly
do so now over tried and true man.
A green man, no matter how capa-
BILE, would be worse than a notch on
a stick in the Senate in this world
crisis.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-07-26
Liars, Indeed.

1t is to be noted that the German
official statements still ignore the
presence of American troops on the
French front. There is nothing sur
prising in this fact, however, since
the German press and German COM
mand have been busy for some
months installing into the minds of
the masses and enlisted personnel Of
the army the notion that American
soldiers do not count.
The press has been particularly
careful to point out the Americans
will not tight except when they wish
to. Those Germans opposed to the
American troops along the Marine by
this time must have come to the con-
clusion that American troops wish to
fight at all times. They have had a
good demonstration of what the TAN
Yankees think is proper conduct in a
fight; and there is little doubt that
they unanimously agree by this time
that the German press and the Ger
man command are incorrigible liars.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-07-26
Speed The Coming Day.

''No Germans remain south of the
Marine, except prisoners and dead"
reads message from the front.
Praise the Lord, with even greater
JUNCTION than beloved Brother
Barnes used to calculate. Firmly
believing in the justice of goodness
of Almighty God, we believe that be-
fore many months another dispatch
will come as follows: mo Germans
north Of the Marine, except prisoners
and dead" and then our brave and
beloved sons and friends will come
marching home with victory perched
on their banners and the mark Of
hero on every one of them. Our heart
almost bursts with joy as we contem-
plate the happy time.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-07-26
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stumps, ending just below the knees,
are too CHASTITY for description. In
the ehiId's side is wide incision-
the cruel thrust of bayonet.
Horrible? r.
Yes!
But a more damning indictment OF
German "kultur" than any of the
countless crimes that can be laid at
the door of only one man-Wilhelm
II, Emperor of Germany.
That picture is no product of the
imagination. 1t is an actual photo
graph in the possession of DR.. Newell
Dwight Hills. Those little girls
were Belgians, not more than Is
years old, and the photograph was
taken soon after they were outraged,
tortured in a manner that would re-
volt the most barbarous savage, and
finally murdered by the Kaiser's
brutes.
Horrible as it is, that photograph
should be copied and recopied and
displayed to the public in every city
and hamlet in America.
Can you doubt that it would re-
move from the mind of every man,
woman or child seeing it, be they
German-born or American, the last
vestige of doubt that the Huns who
perpetrated such deeds and their
ruler must be wiped off the face of
the earth?
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-07-26
UNCEAS1NG MISERY
Some Paris Kidney Sufferers Get Lit.
La tie Rest or Comfort.


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