The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-10-17
A CHARACTERISTIC
APPEAL BY TEDDY
FORMER PRESIDENT STANDS
FOUR SQUARE FOR PURE
AMERICANISM
ROTTEN ST. PAUL POLITICS
WELL KNOWN DEMOCRATIC
JURIST ENDORSES GOV. ]. A.
A. BURNQUIST.

ing a general call sent out by Chair
man Lindquist, of the Republican
State Central Committee, several
hundred Republican Editors and
members of the State Central Com
mittce met with former President
Theodore Roosevelt in Minneapolis,
monday, and discussed matters of IN
terest 70 the party AMI it's candidates
for office. Preceding the conference,
those present were treated to one of
the Colonel's characteristic talks in
which A. c. Townley, of Nonpartisan
fame, and his lieutenants, were I'M
mercifully fiayed. Every word was
in denunciation of Townley, LeSuenr,
and their followers, the Colonel con-
Guiding with an appeal to every loyal
voter in the state to stand by Gov.
Burnquist and the entire Republican
state ticket. The very fact that
Governor Burnquist was uncomprom-
ising in his opposition to Townley and
his like, he declared, demanded un-
qualified support for the Governor.
Another candidate to receive the
Colonel's endorsement was United
States Senator Nelson. The, talk and
the conference which followed was a
whirlwind in way and left no doubt
as to what the results will be. Every
committeeman present left for his
district prepared to go the limit in the
way of endeavor while as to the edi-
tors in attendance, all announced
themselves as ready to give Townley
and his crowd the best to be had in
the way of undesirable publicity.
Nonpartisan leaders and members of
the unwashed made every effort to
give out the impression that the gath
ering was preliminary to presiden-
tial boom for the Colonel but it fail
ed of it's purpose. The Colonel would
have none of it. He said he had ex-
pressed wish to meet the leading
editors and Republicans of the state
for a heart to heart talk regarding
conditions, which he believed to be a
menace to good government and that
the results were in every way salts
factory.
Malinging Gov. Burnquist, especial
ly when Gus Lindquist, his private
secretary and chairman of the Repub-
lican State Central Committee is on
the job is not safe proposition. One
Sullivan, st. Paul attorney, who un-
successfully essayed the Republican
nomination for attorney general via
a Nonpartisan endorsement had this
fact impressed upon him the other
| day when he INDUCED in line OF
executive criticism which Gus con-
sidered vicious and uncalled for. Gre
peat that calumny," warned Gus adj
vancing aggressively toward Sulli-
van, "and you will have me to deal
| with. No man can indulge in stuff
like that and get away with it when
| l am around" To Sullivan's credit he
beat a shasty retreat and possible
set-too was avoided, but this did not
appease the secretary's wrath. Te
those who gathered Gus addressed
himself: Gov. Burnquist is no more
immune from criticism than any 9TH
er official but those who utter it in
my presence have to come through
clean. I have known Joe Burnquist
from a boy and there is not ids.
honest hair in his head. His Official
conduct may not please every one, but
he is on the square. He does what he
thinks is right. What Sullivan SAID
was a reflection on the Governor
honesty and no one can indulge in
that stuff when I am around"
Some more LIE Sueur-Haywood /
w. w. letters are in the making anc
will be ready for distribution this
week. They, like the others, are part
of the evidence that figured in con.
viction of Haywood at Chicago, OF
charges of disloyalty some weeks
ago, and convict LIE Sueur and his
crowd beyond the shadow OF a doubt
Nothing is left to the imagination
The letters brand LIE Sueur as a Dis
loyalist of the worst kind and show
undaniable connection between the
league and the notorious I.W.W .Thes;
particular letters were written aftel
the declaration of war and are fillee
with abusive language for the Gov
eminent and its agents. LIE Sueul
became very Wrathy on the. publica
ton of his first letter, he explaining
that any attempt to connect the Non
partisan league with the I. w. W.wa'
an outrage. This time however,he can
not get away from the connection.
Illegal voting, long charged to the
gang of the political situation in st
Paul is being aired in the Ramsey
country courts this week, where A. p
| Smith, an unsuccessful candidate fol
City Commissioner, is contesting the
election of Commissioner Wunderlich
Wunderlich got by with small ma
jority. Some of the evidence produc'
ed is Of decidedly discriminating con
nection and gives to the public, fol
the first time, the tactics employed BY