The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-07-09
Billy Shows Frank
His Mistake
FAIRMONT SENTINEL MAN ALL
WRONG IN HIS CONGRESS
SIGNAL OUTLOOK.

NThe Sentinel never has believed
! that Judge Frank Clague had serious
intentions of resigning the high of
flee to which he has recently been
elected to engage IN a most uncertain
scramble for congress.
/ Judge is comparatively new resi-
dent Of the Second district his home
county having been detached from
the Seventh district a few years ago
and tackled on to the Second district
for what purpose no one has ever
been able to satisfactorily explain.
The county does not belong with the
Second and from geographical stand
point makes a ridiculous shoestring
appearance on the congressional
map.
Judge Clague is mighty fine AM
erican gentleman but If we are not
greatly mistaken the bent of his mind
is judicial rather than legislative
We have positive knowledge that the
leading republican of the district feel
that the judge would make great
mistake in deserving the wool sack.
with it's dignity and power, for a
plunge in the murky pool of politics
with it's uncertainties and disappoint-
ments. Prank Day in Fairmont
Sentinel.
IF Brother Day were on the ground
8 floor with his ear a little closer to
the ground he would have no hesitancy
in declaring emphatically that Judge
Clague will be very much in evidence
! as a candidate in the next congress
sional race. The Sentinel also accus-
es Judge Clague of being compare
/ Of
districts but in it's eagerness to foster
/ the candidacy of it's home candidate
overlooks the fact that Judge Clague
has been an old resident of the state
of Minnesota for many, many years,
during which time his prominence in
Minnesota politics has not only made
him floor leader in the Minnesota
legislature but he was also chosen
3 speaker of the House, besides serv-
1 ing on the most important committees
{ in the senate. During his usefulness
! in the claw Factory" at ST. Paul his
name was a watch in practically ev-
cry nook and corner of the state, and
. as the Second Congressional district
represents only small part of the
: state it must be all too apparent that
er lit will not be necessary for the Sen
Il. tinel editor to. escort Judge Clagu'
1e about the district to introduce hin
" during the campaign. The Sentine
.e editor also asserts that he has posi-
ne tive knowledge that leading republi
lie cans consider it would be mistak
a. for the Judge to enter the congress
sional race, which prompts the write
to ask. since when has our congen
ial friend Frank Day become a bed
fellow with the leading republican
!. that they would tip him off with sue
u dope? There are thousands of friend
!. u of Judge Clague who will regret tha
81 he has decided to quit the judgeshi
"a for congressional honors, wholly be
90 cause he is so thoroughly qualifie
4 for the present position he hold
- which in no sense disqualifies hi
from giving the Second Congressions
district the best representation
s. Washington it ever had, strictly bs
cause he is also qualified to represer
the district in an unbiased name
in a capable manner, and if the Ser
n tinel did not have a candidate frol
ne his town, the editor thereof would sa
ne just as many nice things of Mr. Ga
'ce gue."
VIM. Mailer in Springfield Advanc