Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 4, 1906, Page 4

_*The anvouncement of G. W. Sra fe Toews Published Every basiiaiis 34 By B.C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered in the Postoffice at Grand Rapid Mimnesota, as Second-Class Matter, "Official Call. Democratic State Convention to be held at Minneapolis, Minn., Sep- tember 4th, 1906. A Democratic Delegate Convention for the State of Minnesota is hereby called to meet at the city of Minneapolis, on Tuesday, the 4th day of Sepromber, 1906, at 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of placing in nomination candidates of the Democratic party of sald State, for the following state offices to be voted for at the next general election to be held Tuesday, November 6, 1906, to-wit: Gov- Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of Auditor, Attorney General, Treasurer, ustice of the Supreme Court. Clerk of eraor, State, » Supreme Court and one member of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission. In addition the said convention will select a State Committee for the ensuing two years and perform such other business as may properly come before it. The basis of representation of the said State Conveotion shall be one delegate tor y one hundred and fifty votes or a major ft ion thereof cast for Governor Jotun A,; Johnson in November, 1904, and in addition thereto three delegates at large from each andevery county in said state, excepting Henneptn, Ramsey and St. Louis counties, each of which shall have five delegates at large. The delegates to the said State Convention n by the County Conventions to and all of the counties of said stateon Saturday, the 25th day of August 1906; said County Convention to be called for that date and for said purpose by the Demo- cratic County Committees ot the several counties in accordance with the requirements of the election laws of said state. Tn addition the said County Conventions in each county are requested to recommend to the State Convention the name of one resident in each county to represent such on the Democratic State Central Committee. By order of the Democratic State Central Committee; Frank A, Day, M. F. Kain, Chairman. Secret Dated St. Ps 1ul, Minnesota. June 27, 1906. Democratic County Election and Primaries. A Democratic delegate convention for the County ofeltasca and State of Minnesota will be held on Saturday, August 25th, 1906; at 3:30 clock in the afternoon of said day, at the court house in the Village of Grand Rapids nsaid county, for the purpose of selecting elght delegates to the Democratic ‘State Con- vention, to be held in the City of Minneapolis om Tuesday, September 4th, A. D, 1906, for the purpose of nominating candidates'for gover= nor and the various other state office. Alfo for the purpose of designating a resi- dent of said county who shall be reeommend- ed to the said convention for election as a member of the State Central Committee, and to transact such other business as may pro- properly come before said convention. The basis of representation shall be one delegate fcr every twenty votes, or major fraction thereof, cast for Hon. John A, John- son for governer in November 1904, cand also one delegate at large for every voting pre- cient. . In accordance with the above apportion- ment the several precincts will be entitled to the following number of delegates: Alwood, Ardenhurst, Ball Club, Bridgic Blackberry Englewood . Forest Grove.. Feeley Snerry Split Hand.. ‘Third River. Trout lak Vance .. Hasson 1 Lake Haft. Hartley The primaries for the election of delegates shall be held in the usual voting place in the severe! precincts, on Wednesday,the 22nd day of August A. D. 1906, from seven’o’clock p. m. Dated July 23rd, 1906. By order of Democratic County Cothmittee. A. E, WILvErR, Frank F. Price, Chairman. Secretary. ‘es a Representative IT APPEARS that Mr. DeLaittre is not entirely satisfactory to all the people of Aitkin county asa candidate for representative, if we are to judge from the tone of the Aitkin papers. This is the way the Aye speaks oj George W. Knox, who has also filed. Knox as a candidate for the republican nomination for member of the legisla- ture from this district is being well received by the public, and it gives the Age pleasure to endorse his cane didacy and bespeak for him the gen- eral support of the people of this county and the district at large. The decision on the part of Col. Knox was arrived at only after urgent requests by the people, and he may conse- quently be said to be the people's candidate. Ever since Mt: DeLaittre came out as a candidate there has been dissatisfaction and a demand fora candidate that the people of the Col. Knox, there may be said to be a stampede in his behalf. He is a man who has held many important pablic positions and a man that the other counties of the district may safely support as a representative to which this county is justly entitled.” Wrrrrax E. CuLKIN of Duluih has issued an emphatic refusal to go to congress. It had been generally con- ceded that he: would be a candidate | until he wrote*a letter to Editor Hamilton of the Aitkin Republican declining to accept the honor. County ATTORNEY SPEAR must keep the wires pretty hot with ‘‘tele- grams of official business.” At the last meeting of the county commis- sioners he presented a billon that ace count for $64.58. Mr. Spear is probe ably making his campaign by wire at county’s expense. a THERE is talk to the effect that Mr. Bryan will be induced to hurry home ahead of schedule time to do some spellbinding in the early fall campaign of, several states. His name is mentioned in connection with the Minnesota and Wisconsin campaigns, He may come to this state in the interests of Governor Juhnson, pe Peal Seis THE enterprising, brainy and elo- quent editor of the Duluth Trade News, E. L. Millar, is being pushed by the Bede opposition as a candidate for congress from this district, Mr. Millar would undoubtedly make a strong candidate. He is probably one of the ablest campaigners in the state; an adept at the political game and a gentleman of good grit in a hard fight. There is now a Virginia Star, pub- lished by Paddy Dowling of Eveleth. Paddy announces that public clamor made it necessary for him to establish the third paper at Virginia. If Paddy’s big brother, the contractor, is successful in his business he may be able Lo keep the two Stars running. There jwere already two first-class papers in Virginia. and no room for the third. Family fortunes is great stuff with which to run newspapers as long as it lasts. CTO SOE James A. MARTIN, the well known Republican politician, resigned his position as pustmaster at St. Cloud. Mr. Mattin says that he cannut sup- port Congressman Buckman:in his campaign tor re-election, und he does , not care to hold a public appointment undera man whom he cannot sup- port. This action comes as a great surprise to the political leaders of Minnesota and _ will cause much speculation and discussion. His resignation no doubt means that he will fake an active hand in the anti- Buckman fight in the ‘Sixth district. picoias SEES Hon. D. M. GUNN returned from a trip to St. Paul yesterday. In his usual optimistic spirit he foresces sure success for Cule in the guberna- torial battle. Mr. Gunn has not yet made a canvass of the Fifty-secoud district in his senatorial contest, but he receives assurances from eyery county in the Fifty-second that would cause any candidate to feel sure of success. It has been positively an- nounced that Ole Mauston of Aitkin has filed as a candidate for the senate. This should, make assurance doubly sure. It is generally conceeded that Itasca county is entitled to législa- tive representation, and as Gunn is the npanimous choice of the party in this county ;with strong friends all over the district; with Mauston and Swansou battling among themselves for supremacy, there can be nu doubt as to the outcome. The election of the strongest man will be verdict of thé Republicans at the primaries. THOMAS McGRADY LECTURER Thomas McGrady, an ex-Catholic priest, eminent author and lecturer on economic questions, will appearat Vil- lage hall next Thursday evening under the auspices of the local adyocates of socialism. Mr. McGrady isa lawyer by profession, but much of his time is spent on the tecture platform. He is recognized as one of the greatest platform speakers of the country and a master of beckery questions, He is | county could unite upon, and the way } ,,,; Jar. But Mr. Spear says: «] Mr. Spear Admits It. County Attorney Spear opened for the defense in the last issue of the In- dependent by calling the editor of the Herald—Review a liar, and, as in the case of the state vs. Miller, he then proceeded to prove that itis he who ig the brazed liar. . It is only necessary to read Mr. Spear’s reply to the last indictment in these columns against him to prove that every charge pre- ferred against the county attorney is absolutely ture. The only argument that Spear is prepared to present in defense of his conduct as county attorney in the prosecution of the Miller and other cases is to cali his critics liars and to charge that the Herald-Review is the defender of grafters and criminals. This is the sum total result of an expenditure of over five thousand dollars of the peo- ple’s money in the employment of one Freeman, an aileged expert ac- countant who was paid a salary of $1200 per day for almost eighteen months. He has no couvicting facts to present either to a jury in court or to the public. The Herald-Review is not engaged in a defense of C. C, Miller, He may have defaulted to the extent of a hundred thousand dol- larsso far as this paper knows—and, apparently, so far es Mr. Spear and his"expert knows, his accounts the Herald-Review, in commoén with every good citizen, wants to, know it, atfd also desires to see him justly punished. Dunng the progress of his two trials and prior thereto this paper refrained from any discussion whatever of the merits or demerits of the case. But when, jn both tnals, the evidence presented by Mr. Spear proved the defendant’s in- nocence it was high time for the press ef the county to speak out in condem- nation of the wanton expenditure of thousands of dollars of the public funds. Mr. Spear cannot escape by charging that a jury cannot be found in Itasca county to convict when suf- ficient evidence is presented. In the last case tried against Miller the evi- dence produced by the state proved that the defendant ha: committed no defaulcation; proved that the fifty dol- lars in question had passed through the treasurer’s hands in an entirely legitimate manner;*proved that, the fifty dollars wentinto the county funds and was duly accounted for. Having, by his own witnesses, the records of the county treasurer’s office and the books of the First National bank, proved these facts sbsolutely, how, in the name of high heaven, did George H. Spear expect a jury to returna verdict other than “not guilty.” Cer- tainly he must know enough law to realize that 1t would be necessary for him to present some evidence that an illegal act had been committed, or at least attempted, before any sane fa 4 would bring in a verdict of guilty. Even though the jury were mclined to find the defendant guilty on general principles commen judgment and com- mon regard for human nghts would have prevented such a_ verdict as Spear asked it to return, Any ordin- ary citizen would know that sucha verdict would not stand, To expect ft was simply preposterous. In his argument through the Independent Mr. Spear says that he has done his full duty; that the investigation was complete and searching under his di- rection. If that be true, where is his report,of the amount of Miller’s short= age? ‘he county commissioners should have this report in their possession. No such report has been submitted. No action has been instituted against the bonding company for the recovery of any alleged shortage. For cam- paign purposes Mr. Spear may insti- tute proceedings against the bonding company at this time for any amount that he may see fit to mention. The case could not come to trial untl after election, and m the meantime would serve his purposes admirably. Itis to be presumed that he brought on for trial his strongest case in prosecuting Mr. Miller criminally. At that time, according to his own statement in the Independent, his expert. flunky had finished his arduous labors and had the evidence all in hand. Any bond- ing company that will disgorge money on the testimony presented atthe trial last month will do so at ats own voli- tion, No jury of ordinarily intelligent men ip this or and other county would find it liable to the extent of one dol- If he 1s short in! ed FOOODOOSOOOOTSOPOOOOOOOOOSOCOOOOOOG is an insinuation that the jury failed | to do its duty, and it is a contemptible felsehood. ‘The evidence was exactly as repeatedly stated in these columns. Continuing, Mr. Spear says: Would the Herald-Review try to rhake the people believe that it is county attorney’s duty to drop a case of so much importance to the morals of the community? Wait until recovery had been mude of the bonding com- | pany and let them prosecute the thief? But [ it isn’t a bonding or surety company who is prosecuting criminals in this or any other county—the state hus to do it sooner or later, so why wait? é “Morals’—so_ it’s ‘morals’? that prompts Mr. Spear, is 1? He ignores the laws and the facts; ignores the rights of the people in expending fif- teen thousand dollais of their money; ignores the prescribed methods of pio ceedure, and gives us a moral stunt. Strange that he didn’t consider “morals” when he was taking J. J. McDonald’s good checks. Strange that his “morals” did not assert them- selves when he was engaged in many other seedy transactions that might be mentioned. ‘Wait until Tecoyery had been made of the bonding company and let them prosecute the thief?” Precisely, Mr. Spear, precisely what; you should have done. If you be- lieved that your evidence was sufficient to convict in a criminal case you cer- tainly must have felt that the claim against the bonding company would hold good m an actton to recover. The cost of a civil action would prob- ably not exceed three or our hundred dollars. If you sueceeded in p-oving your case the bonding company would do the rest. Vigorous criminal prose- cution 1s their only means of defense | against defaulters whom they have in- sured. Perhaps you are too moral a jaan to put a surety /company to such an expense when the costs might just as well be extracted from the pockets of the people of Itasca county. Or, mayhap, you are in cahoots with the bonding company to save them both the amount of the alleged defaulcation and the costs of prosecution. If your claim that Miller is a defaulter be true it certalnly appears that you are doing vour level best to save the surety cow- pany any possible loss, ‘The tact of the matter is Spear had long since dis- covered that there was no shortage in | the county treasurer’s accounts and to ! bring a civil action would have dis- posed of the whole case and lett Spear open tw: just criticism, Agamst which | he would have had no defense. But by getung a number of indictments returned—a thing very easy for any disreputable county attorney to do—| the matter could be strung along in- | terminably and the people kept in ignorance of the real facts. In the meantime Mr. Spear would pose as the great redeemer of Itasca county from the clutches of an organized band | of public grafters—as he modestly puts it in his closing words in the last issue of the Independent, “the best county attorney [tasca county ever had.” In regard to any personal references made in the Independent to the editor of the Herald-Review we care not one whit. The insignificant, ignorant httle whiffit whose name appears-at the head of that paper is not worthy of any considefation from this great fam ily journal. He 1s not responsible for anything that is said or left unsaid in the Independent. He is far petter qualified to pick potato bugs, trap muskrats or set up pins in a bowling alley than he is to play editor. He will soon retire, as many others have, from the newspaper field of Grand Rapids and ke as completeiy torgotten as though he had never been “in our midst.” In the meantime the Herald- Review editor is perfectly willing to rest serenely and secure on his record of fourteen years as a resident of this good cnmmunity. He will conunue to do his duty as editor and publisher of this highly moral representative ot the people’s best interests. Wherever he finds a scoundrel in public place he will scalp him. He will not stand supinely by and see the public ex- chequer ravished by an irresponsible adventurer whose aim itis to gratity an insane ambition to gain a reputation and make himsel! notorious at public expense. Father O’Mahoney Goes to Brainerd. Rev. Father J. J. O'Mahoney ot St. Joseph’s Catholic church will say mass and deliver his farewell sermon here tomorrow. He has been trans- ferred to Brainerd, which is the third largest and most important parish in northern Munnesota. Rev. John Feehely of West Duluth will come to Grand Rapids and Rev. Father Lynch will be transferred from Jramerd to West Duluth. During the past three and a half years Rev. Father O’Ma- honey has been in charge of this par- ish, Under his care St. Joseph’s church has prospered, When he came here the church had a debt. hanging over it of several hundred dollars. ‘This has been cleared up besides the ex- penditure of over tive thousand dol- lars in enlarging the edifice and mak-— ing other substanual improvements. He leaves the parish absolutely free of all indebtedness. As a pniest of the peopie be has been a zealous worker for all that tended to the up- | butlding of Cinstian. citizenship and | moral purity. Asa pulpit orator he is eloquent, forceiul and uncomprom- ising mm dealing with all things siniul, His sojourn in Grand Rapids has been for the good of the church and j the people and many are the sincere THE POLITICIANS AND POLITICS Local politics now has the oenter of the public arena, but the stunts thus far produced have not been of avery exciting nature. The filing of A. L. Thwing as a Republican candidate for the office of county attorney seems to have caused oth- er members of the legal profession to sit up and take notice. Prank F. Price has announced his intention to seek the Democratic nomination for the office of attorney for the people and ©. M. King has been induced to make a similar effort. Mr. King may be an indnpendent candidate. He has been urged by friends from many different locali- ties to make the race, and when he left Grand Rapids Wednesday he stated to the Herald-Review that he would enter the ra Mr. Price has an extensive acquaintance in the county and lots of friends who would like to see him county nttor- ney. He has not yet filed. ape test Nobody seems inclined to “butt up’ against the inevitable and hence County Auditor Spang will not likely encounter any opposition. His record is such that the people want him to remain where he is. het A. A. Kremer filed for the treasurership nomination on the Republican ticket. Up to the pres- ent time there is no mention of op- position to him from any source. Mr. Kremer served as county treas- urer from 1894 to 1898, and was again elected in 1904. He is effici- ent and obliging as a county ofti- cial im- proved upon. has and could not easily be tt If efficiency counts in public of- fice Sheriff Hoolihan should be re- warded for his faithful duty by a re-election. There is absolutely no reason for a change in the office ex cept to oblige some one who wants the job for what money there’s in it. Wm. Hoolihan made an ideal officer, performing his every duty with conscientious fidelity. + + Tt has register of Booth, coun- schools and McGowan, s; Mrs. Hattie ty superintendent of H. S. Huson, judge of probate, ap- pear to be in about the same pre- dicament that confronts Auditor Spang—they will have nobody to do battle with--judging from pres- ent indications. For Sale or Rent—New six room regrets expressed for his removal to another field of labor. ‘Lhe Catholic people of Bramerd will have a worthy | successor to Father Lynch, who has been there for the past thirteen years, and the whole community will be eu- riched by the addition of a loyal, Christian citizen, house. Inquire of King Lumber Co. Order your ice cream by the pint, quart or galion at Miller's. © Fhone 223 and it will be delivered. Go to Mille when muple, cherry, re aspbe » chocolate, orauge, sbrawberry or pin apple Suu- dae flavors with your ice cream. au Want nut FOOHHSODODOSODOSOSODOTODOOIOOOTS OOOO" JOHN BECKFEL Grand Rapids, Minn. ona pair. Not the to buy. Superi In Our Windows oe r JOHN BECKF sired. 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