Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1919-08-15
STATE CAPITOL n TEs

STATE CAPITOL a ] ] ] NOTES
st. Paul, Mimi, Aug. u, 1919.
Franklin F. Ellsworth, congressman
from the second district, is visiting
among his friends in Minnesota at the
present time, for the purpose Of fur
thering his candidacy for the Republi-
can gubernatorial nomination in 1920.
This reminds me that in 1914 when
Winfield Scott Hammond, then con-
gresham from the same district, be-
came the gubernatorial candidate Of
the Democratic party, he refused to
leave his post Of duty in Washington
to look after his political interests in
Minnesota, and might add that the is
sues involved at that time were not to
be mentioned in the same breath with
those which confront Congress now. I
am afraid that when. the people pass
upon Mr.. Ellsworth g availability, they
are liable to decide that he has proved
wanting in Washington. One would be
led to think that with the many COM
pick problems before Congress, that Mr..
Ellsworth would be devoting his time
and his talents-to say nothing Of his
experience as congressman-to as
sisting in solving those problems, in
stead of attempting to further his per-
sonal political fortunes in Minnesota.
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Governor Burnquist has announced
that sometime in the not distant future
he will call a special session of the
Legislature for the purpose of ratifyig
the federal suffrage amendment and
"for other purposes,' which purposes
will have to do with the high cost Of
living, the protection Of northern Min
nesota against the menace Of fires and
perhaps the Republican organization
against the assaults Of the Nonparti-
san league in the next campaign.
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On Friday Director of the Census
Rogers, in Washington, announced the
appointment of congressional directors
| who will have supervision of~the taking
of the census in Minnesota: First dis
trict, Joseph D. Burke, Winona; second,
Georg e P. Gurley, Pipestone; third,
| Fred E. DuToit, Jr.; Fourth, G. w. Sui
Ivan, st. Paul; Fifth, E. j. Sweeney,
Minneapolis; Sixth, Thomas w. Swim
son, Bemidji; seventh, William j. Shell
| uOll, h1cAduul1d, L1SACA, " i1lloAA IL
McEwen, Duluth; Tenth, Gustaf Wah-
lund, Wyoming. It is understood that
the supervisor of the Ninth district will
be announced shortly. The directors
will receive $500 each for their labor,
with additional compensation at the
rate Of one dollar for each enumerated
| thousand of population. They will be-
gin at once the organization Of their
forces for taking census, which will
start January l, 1920. Among other
duties, they will appoint, with the con-
currence of the director in washington,
enumcrators for their districts. These
enumerators will be paid from two to
four cents for each person counted by
them.
The new Labor N on Partisan League
utilization is making plans to perfect
an organization in every precinct OF the
state. William Mahoney, president, st.
Paul Trades and Labor Assembly, also
president of the political league, states
that headquarters will be opened in
Minneapolis within a few days and
that thereafter an intensive campaign
will be started through labor newspa-
pers and by organizers. A news bureau
will be instituted and literature distrib-
uted Throughout the state. It is un-
derstood that Congressman Oscar Kel-
Ter, newly elected from the Fourth dis
trict, will be the candidate Of this
party for Governor in 1920 and that an
attempt will be made to capture the
Republican organization with which to
make the campaign. As the organiza-
ton in question always has served the
purpose Of special interests of one sort
or, another, it is only right and proper
that the laboring men and the Non
partisan leaguers, who have interests
of their own to conserve, should have
it for at least one campaign to work
! with.
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The situation in Washington, taken
in connection with the strike OF rail
road machinists, has been Of overshad-
owing interest during the past week.
1t became acute about ten days ago,
at which time President Wilson ad-
dressed Congress in a special message
and asked that commission be created
to investigate the situation and make
some disposal Of the demands Of the
railroad brotherhoods, which were in