The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-10-31

come over the GOVERNOR He's a states
man now and wants to improve the
public service with permanency of
position, but when he was only candi-
date back in 1890 how he breathed out
threatenings and slaughterl Two of
the most astounding of the battle-crys
with which he rallied his cohorts to the
charge were the oft repeated sweep the
Capitol Clean" and Turn the Rascals
Out"
politician or a Sanctimonious statesman
depends upon the situation one is in.
Incidentally there are lot of things
that might be said today about clean
illness and rascality-but that is a
horse of a different color.
Minnesota to the fore, proxies by the
score. Recently elected: Senator Chas.
N. Orr, president of the Association of
the States on Bank Taxation; Grover
M. Comet, director of forestry in the
Minnesota Department of Conservation,
TO be president of the Association of
State Foresters; j. P. Bengston, Assist
ant Secretary of State, to be secretary
treasurer of the American Association
of Motor Vehicle Administrators, Region
No. 8; Oscar M. Sullivan, for many
years head of the Minnesota division
of vocational education and rehabilita-
ton, to be president of the National
Council of the Physically Handicapped.
Last winter, faced with critical tax
situation, the Legislature made final
three-day effort to get together with
the Governor on the omnibus tax bill,
it discovered the only compromise pos
sible was to let the Governor write the
bill He not only wanted to be the
executive but the Legislature also. Re
Gently the Supreme Court, in an opinion
written by the Governors own ap-
pointee on the bench, rebuked him for
attempting to usurp the functions of
the courts of Minnesota. He proposed
not only to exercise the executive power
but the judicial as well
Plainly nettled by the decision of the
Supreme Court Governor Olson wants
to debate "any lawyer from Portland,
Maine, to Portland Oregon, on the pro-
position that the judicial branch of the
government is usurping its authority.
One paragraph in particular in the
opinion of the Supreme Court as writ
ten by Justice Julius Olson deserves the
attention and the applause of every
American citizen:
mo governor should be placed in the
light of one who seeks conviction Of a
person by means of anything having
even the appearance of advantage.
The necessity of protecting the judiciary
from executive encrcachment is OBJ
full to the orderly administration of
justice than to permit or sanction what
is here sought"
This goes to the heart of the fund
amental conception of the American
government as one of checks and bal
ances, in which each of the three CO.
ordinate branches of the government
are check and restraint upon pos
sible excuses of the others, which if
allowed unrestrained Roadway would
inevitably destroy the rights and liber-
ties guaranteed by the Declaration of
Independence and the Constitution.
BarkiSes congressional and G. o. p
State Representative Leonard Ericsson.
former mayor of Fergus Falls, author
of the mortgage moratorium act, gives
unmistakable signs of an intention to
file for the Republican nomination for
Congress in the ninth district. ****BiIl
Pttenger had better look out for Mrs.
Virginia Smith Warick of Virginia Min
nesota. They take politics pretty seri-
ously IN Virginia. Minnesota. Inciden-
tally, among other items of what it
takes, Virginia Warwick has most en-
gaging twins, and Bill Pittenger should
not think for one minute that Virginia
Warwick, with or without her twins. is
not vote getter****Put away in a safe
place Arch Campbell of Mankato has
$40 which can be used, if the moon and
the stars and other things in their
courses are propitious, as filing fee in
the third congressional district. Arch
has been around a good deal, has a
gift of CAB and a way with him. Con-
gresham Elmer j. Ryan will have to
keep his weather eye on Arch
$3.50
Hot from the Seventh World Congress
of the Communist International at
Moscow, one Earl Browder, general Sec
rotary of the Communist party in
America, talked for two hours and
fifteen minutes to "a highly attentive
and enthusiastic" audience estimated
at 1000 to 5000 according to the en-
thusiasm of the estimator, one night
last week in Minneapolis About 400 of
the audience, judging from those who
Justify sang the "Internationale," were
Communists.
A circular advertising the meeting ex-
ended "a special invitation" to members
Of the trades unions and the Farmer