The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1922-04-15

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When anyone presents facts and fig.
ures to Tie effect that Hbitulithic .
Pavement costs more and is not so dur.
Fable as come other kinds of asphaltic
concrete, the willy pinch -hitters for the
Barber asphalt interests try to counter
with cries of "tool of the cement
trust
A News Tribune editorial, praisine
Judge Hallam, says: "Aboye all things
he is republican. /" The people Of
this state will agree to that but, for
some years they have iabored under a
misapprehension that, "Aboye all
things, he was a judge of the supreme
court ~ AG
Let commissioner Farrell, alias "Bi-
tulithic Bert" stand up and truthfully
tell the taxpayers of this city what he
did with that $l4 900 municipal mixing
plant which was installed for the bene-
fit of small contractors desiring to COM
pete in the laying of asphaltic pave
ments. r -, ~ - T' -' -
There are pie-counter politicians who
actually think that Lieut.. Spencer J.
Searls should jump off the dock because
he aspired to the republican county
craftsmanship and failed to realize his
ambition. Mr.. Searls' friends well
know that there's a future and they
will await it.
When asked why "'Big Bill" Carss
beat Sam Thomas down SIS on his bill
for painting the engineers house and
woodhouse, some of the Proctor boys
say that the independent-democratic-
unionist was holding out on poor old
Sam for the benefit of the Carssian
campaign fund.
There's rumor that W. I. Prince
finally has sucked all the juice out Of
the Duluth orange, therefore he has
tackled some business enterprise in the
Twin Cities It would be a joke on
Prince if all the Duluthians followed
him to the Twin Cities. Many of them
feel like going.
After having such men as G. A. John.
son, II. B. Moore, Emil Olund and
others as collectors of the Port of Du-
luth, it would be terrible come-down
to put an unknown like druggist Daily
in the high position, even if Halden
Lee Willcuts, Harris Bennett and DR..
Joe Shartel do wish it.
The Duluth delegation to the repub-
lican state. caucns beasts of casting the
vote that secured Miss Kaercher the
endorsement for clerk of the supreme
court, yet they give no good excuse for
not putting Emil M. Erickson across
for grain and warehouse commissioner.
Something the matter with that dele
cation.
Hon. Levi M. Willcuts is making a
big bunch Of republicans peeved by
keeping DR.. Joseph H. Shartel, an I'M
terrified and very wet democrat politi-
clan, in the revenue service. Mr.. Will
cuts makes the excuse that DR.. Shartel
is suffering from bum heart and that
he may drop dead if discharged by
republican administration. -,
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They do say that Hon. Levi NJ. Will.
cuts, ,co-director of the local nonparti-
san league with Col. A. C. Weiss, has
promised one Daily, a Morgan Park
pill vendor, the political plum Of col
lector of the port of Duluth. This
Daily never did anything worth
while for his party and heis small
potato in a big hill, but he's a former
retainer of the late, Kong Odin.
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/ A. B. Kaplan, a former service man,
started to speak before the recent
county republican caucus in Duluth,
but was Kissed or howled down by a
number of delegates and DR.. Joseph, II.
Shartel, democratic politician, holding
a government job by virtue of Hon.
Levi M. WifDcuts, the would-be. Mark
Hanna of Minnesota. There will be an
election on November Z, when some po-
litieal debts and scores can he wiped
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