Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1919-06-06
STATE CAPITOL NOTES.

later known was as The Trogressi S party =:
had the of
as the leader and became the presiden-
tial candidate Of that faction Of the Re.
publican party. It was the battle OF
Armageddon, the war of progressive,
forward looking men against reaction
ary leadership and the dominion !. Of T
movement in the Republican party at
that time that the regular Republican
organization carried but Ave states in
f s%t }Rey
eeSeeion 81 Re1eS the
o' Fo4 six Sesrs the
cans wandered in the desert: without
political patronage and without power.
W VI tae was sas' defeated in 1912 was
the eS 20 g 9SGsn e Their return gives
= tS as of
ership as can be imagined. The men
who were able to carry but five states
in the HniNn In 3912 were ndi TO
puted leadership in the party. After Aft
ity in the House and the Senate. the 50.
served notice upon the leaders that the
s speiied defeat in 1920: This advice. q
order to Illustrate how truly indie
are now telling The p1bli;S; that "a an the the
hcb Is sues resas n9t
ately announced himself as candidate
for Speaker Let thd f9ff e he W6o
Easitsnia to as thS
the Duluth News-Tribune, has said, HE
s Wholly lost the public G S};dGs1s
thinks backward:" HE lacks breadth Of
view and sound Judgment" And friend
publican liabilities" along with prac-
tically every other member of the Con-
gressional organization as recently
&c Was side
tracked, but he managed to control the
Organization of the House, where his
position as leader now is undisputed:
chosen as speaker. Mann was a. pupil
Of Joe Cannon and typifies in himself
ment Of the Republican party; A far ar
as Gillette goes, there is little to choose
between his record as a reactionary
and that Of the man he o defsats d:o,1 But
sives" should become. elated over the
defeat of Mr.. Mann, the steering COM
mittee, composed OF nVe members, was
licans, millionaire manufacturers of the
dominate the work Of the House,
se1 Eeaef es @SnS fsade % yes
dore Roosevelt said He has consist
entity fought for local and private in
terests as against the interests OF the
people as a ~ho{s So
In the organization of the Senate the
Progressives. such as Johnson, Borah,
ed That under. no circumstances would
they vote for Penrose, of Pennsylvania,
as chairman of the committee on fin
they. could never be induced to vote
cSaifm 9aa'o 81 the on appropriS
THEY Of New 9orR IS
Of the committee on military affairs; to
Of 59tia of
not wildly ENTHUSIASTIC over Lodge as
chairman Of the foreign relations com
mittee: All these calamities. however,
tionary. organization proceeded with
the make-up Of the. committees: just as
though the word progressive We're
unknown, in the Republican lexicon; In II.
the work of the committee on commit
tees! eight Progressive senators voted .l
to the %aEe For yeey
ship in the Republican party collapsed.
The men who had declared that they
would carry their fight to the a.3 floor 4oo Of
the places doled out to them by the or
ganization committee. Special privi-
lege was much stronger In the victor.
was in the defeated Republican party
in 1912. Will the people of the country
follow this leadership and return to the
Which they repuda1ted when en-
defeat in 1912? Biblical history tells
US Of another battle of Armageddon,
staged something over 1900 years ago.
Let me refresh your memory.
when the unclean spirit is gone out
of man, he walketh through dry places,
seeking rest; and finding none, he saith;
came out. And when he cometh: ne
findeth it swept and garnished.- Then
goeth he, and taketh to him seven 9TH
er spirits more wicked than himself;
and they enter in, and dwell there; and
the last state of that man is worse than
Since the death 81 Congressman Van
Dyke, of the 4th District, party leaders
have been casting about for candidates
to succeed him The RSm 40 are
before them. Those favorably mention
ed are Richard u. OBrien, for IL years
attorney of Ramsey. county; Daniel W..
throughout the state" and the North
west; Charles A. Lethert, a progressive
and popular young attorney;John Wag-
ener, for 10 years sheriff of Ramsey
county; and George w. Lawson, we'll
known labor leader.
The only candidate who thus far has
presented himself for the Republican
nomination is Oscar E: Keller, one OF
the Commissioners of the City of St.
Paul. Mr.. Keller is not at all accept
able to the Republican organization: He
is rated as a super-progressive. he fav-
ors public ownership, has been affiliat-
ed with the Nonpartisan League. and
is in every way Objectionable to the
conservative element of the reaction
airy party. Leaders have been trying
to draft some candidate not objection
able to them, but so far without sue
cess. 1t is possible that Herb Keller,
at one time mayor of St. Paul, will be
selected as the victim. Prospects are
highly favorable to the Democrats at
the election, which will be called soon
by Governor BurnQuist.
=
Reports from Chicago are to the eff
feet that the meeting of the Democratic
National Committee was successful in
every way. This meeting marked the
amalgamation of the men and women
of the country in Democratic politics.
The sentiment of those in attendance
was that the feminine element, natur-