The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1932-01-15
(By Vance Chaprnan.)

Listening in on loose political talk
and there is plenty of it these days
the state G. o. P. is in bad way.
No chance a-tall. Cup the ear on any
local political hook-up and you learn
that the Minnesota delegation to the
next Republican national convention
will go unilstructed, that President
Hoover Is doomed and that Governor
Olson is certain to succeed himself.
Further breaches in the accepted shock
proof Republican fence are also
promised. They include F. L. invasion
of the state railroad and warehouse
commission, Townleyizing of the Mime
sofa congressional delegation and the
Farmer of the lower branch
of the legislature. So far three va
cancies in the state supreme court
have not figured in the talk, but they
will be on the air in due time. The
chief broadcasting station for this line
of INSTRUMENTATION is the recently re-
modelled $4,000 Indiana stone front
Union Labor Temple in st. Paul. It's
sister station is in Minneapolis. Here
the officers and business agents of the
many local labor units hold forth in
their swivel chairs and the unemployed,
holders of union cards, sit around and
curse their hard luck. Here also is
located the editorial and publishing
offices of the "Farmer-Labor Leader"
of which H. G. Tiegen of Gov. Olson's
big Three" is editor. Other mem
bers of the Governors official family
make the Temple sort of stamping
ground and here they frequently confer
with his Excellency. Recently the Big
Boy spent an entire afternoon at the
temple in an effort to convince King
Townley that special session of the
|! legislature was inadvisable at this time.
Summing up the present political stu
| alton in Minnesota It does not re-
quire the services of the blatant to
call attention to the fact that the
Gopher State is not head over heels
| in love with Pres. Hoover. A national
election today, tomorrow, or month
hence, might see Minnesota in the
Democratic column. If the state cleo
ton was held within the same period
Gov. Olson might be returned, but not
at the cost to his Republican oppon-
| ent as that which featured the defeat
of Ray P. Chase in 1880. However, the
| next election is not today, tomorrow or
| month hence; it is many months dis
tant and much can happen in the
mean time. Time is great physician,
Let EN- talk.
One of the things that peeves Cong,
M. j. Mas of the st. Paul district is
his continued failure to get the official
scalp of G. ]. Moos, Capitol City post
master. Mr.. Moos Is a hold over and
Mass has been hot on his trail ever
since last January. Another Washing
ton representative to whom Pap
seems to be of more importance than
the many serious problems now before
congress is United States Senator Tom
Schan The Federal judiciary is his
particular grevience and both consider
| it day lost when the correspondents
fail to record their "yappings" in the
| matter of patronage. There are others
ling while Rome burns is nothing in
too with a patronage squawk. Fid-
their young lives. Both patrons and
employees of the st. Paul Office are
strong for Mr.. Moos and it would look
as if Cong. Mas was flirting with fire.
Mr.. MODS is highly regarded in ma
tional post Office circles, he has been
frequently commended by his superiors
and has made the st. Paul Office one
of the best in the United States.
State Auditor Stafford King is the
latest to start state wide militant
fight to wrest Minnesota from the
clutches of the Farmer-Labor party
Answering call sent out by him and
jointly sponsored by State Senator
Sherman Child and Rufus Rand, Jr.,
both of Minneapolis, sixty or more
young Republicans, mostly ex-service-
men, met in the Mill City last week
and laid the foundation for a per-
manent organization. A state wide
rally will be held January 16, at which
officers will be named and other details
perfected. Several fiery talks calcu-
lated to give the impression that the
younger and progressive element of the
Republican party and the ex-service
men had been over looked in a prior
gathering of older Republicans were
made, but cooler heads prevailed and
a general unification of efforts de-