The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-08-09
HANT0N and HILL FATHER
THE HUNNISH PROPAGANDA
SEblBLANCE OF RESPECTABuITY GIVEN DOUBTFUL
SCHEME BY A FEW POLITICIANS.
Lawless Bind Tiger. Vent Spite on Mayor-One Opponent
Was Competed to Abate Roughneck Stunts in Dance
Hall Discharged and Discredted Policemen Big loads
Muddy Puddle Bob" Shields Tries to Return to His
Municipal VENT Organized Labor Firm for Baxter
! Election Expected to Fab on September2 z.

Disciples Of low moral character,
sneaking around IA Superier's under
world, aided BY q few misguided ctti-
zens Of repute. a handful Of soreheads
and bunch Of policemen discharged
some time ago for, inefficiency and
general cussodness, are trying to &C.
eomplish tho recall Of Mayor Fred A.
Baxter.
This Hunaish propaganda is faith
cred by E. L. Haaton, fer years the
big noise for the Northern Brewing
company. Haaton's boon companions
through all the years have been Old
John Barleycorn and that Hunnish
person, Old Gambrinus. Col. Hanton
had his heart set on dishing out booze
and beer to The suckers, but the fed
.sral government clanped down the dry
lid. As a result, this knight Of the
foaming suds and the stimulating booze
proposes to get even with hard fate
by doing his worst to fasten recall
on Mayor Baxter.
Hanton Is credited with having q
pull with brewers, some Of the more
responsible saloon keepers and a few
business men. Associated with him in
this campaign against Mayor Baxter
is the notorious Roy Hill, q booze
seller from away back, Z several times
convicted Of biind-pigging and . most
earnest disciple Of low moral endeavor.
Hill, it is expected. will do his best
10 line up blind piggers, keepers OF
alleged hotels where immortality is not
a bar, panderers, gamblers and such
members of thugdem as have not been
driven out Of the city.
Then there is Louis Larson, pro-
prietor Of the Tower Mercantile COM
pany. q man with q personal griev.
ance. He formerly stood for tough
dances in the Sons Of Norway hall.
When those dances had to be made
more civilized and decent. he felt
peeved.
Not only did Louis Larson gel
peeved because the citizens objected
to prostitutes and drunken girls being
created in the dance hall that he rented
to tough people, but he rebuffed rep
resentatives Of organized labor wit
waited on him in che interest Of clos
ing up early on Saturday nights.
"IM see you in hell before I'll clos,
early on Saturday nights" Larson toll
the union men g committee.
Later on, through pressure hrough
by other business men,. Larson diI
finally agree to close at $50 D. m. o.
Saturdays. ~'.'
OF course the policemen recently dis
charged because they were not needle,
and because they were not faithful II
performing their duty, have been bus
lily engaged in circulating the poti
lions and trying to work up pabii
sentiment for Mayor Baxter 3 recall.
These are the chaps who yelled O
loudly over being discharged witAsa
. hearing before the police commits
sion. They wanted almost anythin,
before they did hearing. They coul,
have secured one by demanding il
They preferred to bluff and to try b
deceive feebie-minde citizens VII
were not fully informed.
The actions Of George O'Brieu IN,
Roy Gleason illustrate how much shov
they would have stood before . CON
mission. st. Oage. one Of the dia
charged men. recently was sued by hi
poor wife on q charge Of non supper,
st. Onge has had money to spead o.
fed.light DANES and "chickeus. :" Orl
short time ago, he and Jess Pryor
SON Of the bsbulons mayer Of Olive,
took . couple Of fair but ftail female
from Oliver To- Gordon In an antoine
bile. MONEY .sad lime tSheeuts on; ths
trip, would have done much 70 max
Mrs. st. Onge happy and comfortaba.
Even "Jehu Jack" Mcdonald ha
not demanded hearing. He now ha
ample time to attend to his privat
n business. It b believed that UJeh
Jack" is IN partnership with Ma
Rosenberg in certain matters and tia
the big fellow fits in much bette
around 4axs dumps Of low mor,i an
deavor than he did around police head
quarters.
Then, as stated, there arc a 70,
political sore-hesds and a few well
meaning citizens who have politics
ambitions which hey imagine VIM b
furthered By going back to tho anti
quated, inefficient vsstefal, suspi
cious and cumbersome old ward ~,
tenn. They wa see the error Of thai
ways in due essrse, whether they hay
q personal grievance against Mayo
Baxter or merely wish to mako 4,
attempt to further personal ambition.
One thing that win seriously hur
tho movement - dksage hack to II
old ward system Is the fast that Rsb
ert ]. Shields Il hack in Superior an
IN favor Of no recall sf Mayer Baxts,
Mr.. Shields formerly was eaisf a
giAeef Of nadine politics in Superio,
! He lost ont vh0 Mayor Konkel va
put On lee. AZ about that time. tss
Shields had his famous adventure wit
Jeanette Palmer aal he had 20 max
ne hight Of his Hfs to escape feders