Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 9, 1908, Page 1

j VoL, XVI.—Ne, 12. Gand Wapids Hecald- Wer 4 Granp Rapips, Irasca County, MINN., Wepnzspay, SEPTEMBER g, 1908. THESE LOOK | LIKE WINNERS ‘4 Forecast of the Field That Will Make Good. Candidates are all Hustling and a Survey of the Fields Shows but a Little Change From Last Week. ' = Judge—Alfred L. Thwing. Congressman—Clarence B. Miller. s Representative—A. L. Hamilton. i y Representative—Charles W. La Du. County Auditor—M. A. Spang. Treasurer—A. A. Kremer. Clerk of Court—I. D. Rassmussen. ‘ \ Sbheriff—T. T. Riley. } Register of Deeas—E. J. McGowan. Judge of Probate—H. S. Huson. County Attorney—Frank F. Price. | County Surveyor—Jobn A. Brown. Coroner—Dr. Thomas Russell. Superintendent of Scbools—Hattie F. Booth. Pg Commissioner, 1st district—C. M. | King. : | Commissioner, 2nd district — M. / { O’Brien. } Commissioner, 3rd district — J.P. } a Trebilcock. \ | Commissioner, 4th district — Neil Mullins, | Commissioner. 5th district—Archie | McWilliams. | Director, 1st school district—F. F. i Reusswig. Doran. Aiken. , From a careful survey of the field we believe the above ticket will win next Man of the above named candidates are tried and true men who have made good in the office to ain aspire and whom the public bave great confidence in. When we havea particularly good man in a responsible position it is a good plan not to change tov hastily. In this connection we will again call , your attention to A. A. Kremer, the treasurer, | 4 Mr Kremer has made the very best public official we have ever bad and he certinally deserves and will be re- 4 elected by the citizens who fully ap- out at the primary election = Tuesday. which they present . efficient county preciate his worth. district. a handsome majority. zens. The records ,of the judge of pro- the management of H. S. Huson that office has been attended to by a cap- able and conciencious man who has at all times performed the duties of his office in an acceptableand efficient He will undoubtedly be re- membered by the voters next Tues- bate’s office show that under manner. day. Frank F Price wif) undoubtedly be As a pros- . ecutor at the bar of justice he has no peer in Itasca county, and it will be a wise move to put him where he be- ‘ our next ccunty attorney. BP longs. ) On all sides Hattie F. Booth has Ry, given satisfaction as county superin- | tendent and she practically has no Her close attention to business and careful supervision of the schools has endeared her to the people opposition. and she will again be elected. County Auditor Spang, Register ot 4 Deeds McGowan andI. D. Rassmus- sen. clerk of court, may be safely con- next Tuesday as sidered winners } they are without opposition. In the matter of commissioners our | county will elect two new members { and re-elect three members who have already served the county and demon- 1 strated their worth as business men and able executives. Cyrus M. King of Deer River, is a | \YOU MUST VOTE AT PRIMARIES Clerk, 1st school district—James D. Treasurer, Ist school district—C. E. In spite of the efiorts of a few dis- gruntled ones Alfred L. Thwing bas made a lasting impression upon all with whom beh as came in contact and the voters: of the district are con- vinced that he will be a safe man to elect as judge of the 15th judicial For sberiff, T. T: Riley of Nash- wauk, bas made aclean, quet canvass ef the county and will be a winner by Mr. Riley is particularly well known in the east- ernend of the county and will re- ceive the united support of its citi- district and his record as a member of the present board speaks bis praise. He is a faithful worker for the good of the county, safe on all questions that require study and thought, and has dewonstrated his worth time and again. He isa power for good on the board and hisre-election is a certainty. Another member of the board who is slated for re-election is Morris O’- Brien of Cohasset, candidate from the second district, Mr. O’Brien is no stranger to his district or the county, having performed the duties of com- missioner in the past with an eye single to the best interest of the county.\ His wide acquaintance and the able manner in which he has always attended to the duties of bis and his election is a certainty. The 4th district will b€ represented by Neil Mullins of LaPrairie, who is now an avle member of the board. Mr. ullins 18 the only farmer on the board and he is a credit to the farm- ing fraternity of Itasca county. He is a successful business man and at- tends to his duties as commissioner with the same zeal and consideration that hasenabled him to make a suc- cess of his chosen life work. His past record as a member of the board shows him to be a man of good judg- ment. awake to the needs of our great county, and progressive while at the same time conservitive. He is en- titled to a re-election. The two new members will come from Coleraine and Nashwauk. This is the mining end of the county and the candidates being put forward are the choice of the people who have urged them to represent them. For commissioner from the 3rd dis- strict Jobn. P. Trebilcock will un- doubtedly be the winner. Mr. ‘Tre- bilcock 1s one of the best known vew mes in his district and his presence on the board will be for good at all times. Archie McWilliams of Nashwauk is the logical member from the 5th district. Mr. McWilliams is an old time resident of Lltasca county and for seventeen years has lived in this section. He is well qualifie§ both by education and experience to represent the county and will receive practi- cally the unanimous vote of his dis- strict. for county surveyor John A. Brown will undoubtedly again. serve the connty in the future as be bas in the past. He is a good man and “you can’t keep a good man down.” Vote for Miller for Congress. From the attitude of the voters throughout the congressional contest in the Highth district, which closes next Tuesday, it has been clear that the district is ripe for change ino its congressional representative. tbat the rigbt man has presented himself, and that the deed will be done with a certainty that will carry the news to Cannon that his methods and his af- filiations with the interests as against the interests of the peuple are repudiated by the Republican voters of the Eigbtb congressiona! district. In the campaign these considera- tions bave weighed with the people. For Mr. Miller—That he is a clean cul, aggressive, courageous and alert citizen, ambitious to make good for his district and for his country, and possessed of the ability to do it; that he bas shown bis capacity by his first term in the legislature where, in 3pite of his oponent’s statement that “New members merely look on” he leaped to the front as a leader and took a promenint part in al] the vital legislation in the interests of the State and its people: that, so far as the issues of the day are concerned, he 1s progressive though not frantic, earnest though not headstrong, vigourous though not vindictive—in short, that he is a Roosevelt-Tatt-La Follette Republican aud not a Can- non-Foraker-Rockefeller Republican, a champion of the people and ‘not a champion of predatory greed. Against Mr. Bede—That his three terms are lacking not only in real accomplishments for his district, but in singleminded devotion to the cause of the people; that his ideas are friv- olous and impractical, even though amusing and entertaining; that be bas associated himself to closely with the powers in congress that have fought legislation demanded by Roosevelt and the people, and that have disgraced Republicanism and shamed the nation; that be has not divided his time fairly between bis duties and his private pursuits, but bas given too much of it to the lecture platform and to personal profit, the result being the injury of his district's important interests. ; The Eighth district is one of the most important in the country. It bas every industry that is to befound anywhere, and more varied interests than are crowded into any other single district. It bas agriculture, stock-raising, manufacturing, trans- portation on Jand and water, mining, umbering and merchandising. These interests are too important to be recklessly intrusted to the one’ man who represents them in the national house of representatives. Judging from the records of both and from the personalities and capacities of both, there is not a doubt that Mr. Miller will be chosen by the Republi- cans of the Eighth district at the primary election next Tuesday. office makes him a safe man to returao- candidate for re-election from the Ist {HANDS ONE TO OUR NEIGHBOR Editor Hamilton Takes Exception to the Misstatements of Tony.’ Aitkin, Sept. 7, 1908. Editor Herald-Review: Graud Rapids, Minn.: Dear Sir—Some time ago the Grand Rapids Independent published a re- port to the effect that Mr. Thwing and myself bad entered into an agree- ment to help each other politically, and there being no truth in the mat- ter the following letter was sent to the Independent: Aitkin, Mion., July 18, 1908. Editor Independent: Grand Rapids, Minn : Dear Sir—In the last issue of your valuable paper, currency is given to the rumor tbat ‘an agreement has been made whereby the friends of County Attorney Thwing will trade off the legislative vote of Itasca county to Hamilton for Aitkin Coun- ty snpport for Thwing.”” x I do pot think vou would knowingly make use of misrepresentation in the | discussion of political candidates, and for this reason feel assured that you will allow sufficient space in your paper for me tw say there is no truth in the said report. In the first place, such an agree- ment woubd be impossible of fulfi}l- ment, because no man could deliver the vote of either Itasca or Aitkin county; andssecondly, neither Mr. Thwing norany of his friends have approached me or (tu my knowledge) any or wy friends with any such pro- prosition. Before it was organized. Itasca county was a partof Aitkin county, and at the time of its organization many of the citizens of Aitkin moved to Grand Rapids. For the reason that Itasea is our neighbor and that many of her residents are former Aitkinites, we have always bad a friendly feeling toward your county, aod whenever ltasca county bas had a political cap- didate in whom our county was in- terested, many of our citizens have felt constrained to help him. It may have been from this fact that the rumor of an agreement between Mr. Thwing and myse)f was started, but I assure you that it bas no further foundation. A. L. Hamitton. It was expected that this letter would be published in the Indepen- dent asa matter of justice to Mr, Thwing and myself. But instead, the following appeared in that paper of |, the issue of July 30, 1908: “Legislative candidates evidently | hear a noise Jike ‘Let it Alone’, and they are heeding the advice. A. L. Hamilton, candidate for the legis- lature, and bis friends are, or appear to be, dropping Mr. Thwing like he was a hot coal, they don’t want to be known as boosting bim over in Aitkin county. ob no, they want sume votes in Itasca county, and they are catch- ing on the situation. Mr. Hamilton, in a letter to the , Independent, asks us to deny that he bas made an agree- ment whereby the friends of Mr. Thwing would trade off the legislative vote of Itasca county to him for Ait- kin county support of Mr. Thwing.” The writer is in the publishing business, and agreed with both Mr. Thwing aod Mr. Wright at the be- ginning of the campaign to publish such matter as either would send, charging advertising rates for same. In the conrse of business two weeks ago, a circular was received from Mr. Thwing’s committee for publica- tion, wherein it was set forth that the ltasca County Independent had been guilty of publishing matter with malicious intent to injure the cbar- acter, reputation and standing of Mr. Thwing. This statement was signed by some 70 of the leading citizens of Grand Rapids, and it was published in my paper. And the publication thereof has thrown the Independent editor into a state of “profound be- lief” that the writer, if elected to the legislature, would repose in some- body’s vest pocket. ‘‘We protest that the Independent editor’s ‘‘profound belief” is unwarranted, for the reason that he has been-so busy attempting todefame Mr. Thwing’s fair name that he bas not had time for proper investigation as to whether weshould fit into somebody’s vest pocket or rot. But it isa matter of indifference to us what the Independent editor’s “profound belief” is. He has been branded by 70 of bis neighbors as having published ‘charges, insinua- tions, inuendves and claims known by them to be absolutely false,’ and has been spread around throughout the length and breadth of this dis- trict, and he has consequently been shorn of the power to do any harm or good to anybody. And while we are taking no part in the judgeship mat- ter, we Cannot refrain from extend- ing our felicitations to Mr. Thwing on the character of the newspaper opposition he has stirred up in Grand Rapids. Yours very truly, A. L. Haminron. cw. MINNGSOTA HISTORIC SOCci Two Dollars a Year. |\DO WE WANT A HOME JUDGE special term to be beld in October. Some Reasons for Voting for A: L. Thwing Next Tuesday. During the past three years the amount of litigation in this county has been such that the cases could uct be tried or the business disposed of at the regular terms of court fixed by law. The result has been that ad- journed terms bave been held to dis- pose of the cases which could not be tried and that were not tried at the Tegular term. This results in large pense to the county, and in large expense to the litigants and pefsons having business before the court. There are two kinds of cases and litigation; one tried to a jury called ; ‘jury cases,” the other tried to the court, called “court cases.” It is the practice of the court upon the com- mencement of the term, to first try the jury cases, putting off the court cases until after the jury has com- pleted its work, and has been dis- charged. At the terms of court for the years 1906, 1907 and 1908, owing to the large number of cases on the calendar to be tried, only the jury cases could be disposed of, and the court cases were all continued to special terms of court. The court cases to be tried at jhe June term of court were coatinutd over until a special term held in October, and the court cases tu be tried at’ the December term of court, were con- tinued over to a special] term held in March. The present term of court is a good illustration of these conditions. There were about ninety cases upon the calendar to be tried. Aboutoue- balf of which, or abvut forty-five, were jury cases, and about one-balf or forty-five, are court cases, and in ad- dition all the indictments returned by the grand jury making over 100 to be tried. It took from the 2nd day of June, when the court convened, until the 15th day of August, nearly two months and a hajf, to dispose of the jury cases, leaving about forty { court cases to be tried, with no term SHOES For. ferent prices. Sweaters for Women at THE BIG DEPARTMENT STORE lot court to try them in. These cases; have all been continued until thej Many of these court cases are of equal importance to the litigants as ‘the jary cases. As a mattor of fact, many of the court cases involve large amounts of property and money, and ! while the jury cases attract more at- tention, it is the court cases that are of more vital interest to litigants and business interests. If Itasca county hada residentjudge, all of these court cases could be tried at chambers, if the parties desired, und would agree or stipulate todoso. In fact, many of the court cases would never appear upon the calendar at all because as soon as issue was formed, the parties could agree to try them to the court whenever the judge could bear them. The result would be a great saving tothe county and a much greater saving to the litigants. Next October, when the court cal- endar is called, it will be saecessary for the parties to be present with their witnesses and because of that fact the Titigants will be obliged to subpoena their witnesses, bring them to the court aed keep them waiting day after day until their case is called. If there was a resident judge in this county, more than one-half of these cases would be.disposed of before the date fixed for the specia! term. The only reason why the above facts are proper to be urged at this time in the matter of election of the district judge, is hecause of the great amount of litigation in this county. If the court business in this county was about equal to the business in other counties, it would not be proper to urge the above reasons for the elec- tion of a judge residing in thiscounty but when as is well known, the legal business of this county is more than double tbat of any other county ip the district, and rapidly increasing so that within a year or so it will have more than three times the business of any other county, it is a legitimate arguwnent that the judge should re- side in this county. This paper earnestly calls the at- tention of the electors of this county BUSTER BROWN BLUE RIBBON New Fall Sweaters The Bradley Make Every time you see a Bradley Garment you know your looking at the highest quality of knit gar- ment that can be produced at the price. showing knit garments for men, women and children in different styles—different colors—dif- We want you to come and see them—we think the garments will convince you. Sweaters for Men at $1.50, $3, $5 to $7.50. 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We are eerees $3, $4 to $7.50. i Sehool Shoes We have made special provisions for you with an vious test and we are better prepared School Shoes for the masse&—pric: to consider their own best interests and not to be influenced by the one one or twe men in this county who are opposing: Mr. Thwing for the furtherance of their own selfish and envious ends. Citizens of Itasea County and the Fifteenth District of Minnesota! Have you ip your localities, young men, your own sons, and the sons of your neighbor just beginning the battle of life, or just fightine the battles of the first seven or eight years of life? Ifso, what would you think if some newspaper should deliberately set out to ruin and destroy these young men? What would you think if some paper should deliberately com- mence and continue to publish false- hoods, lying statements and slander- ous charges against these young men for the express purpose of blasting their future? What would you think if such nowepenes should tell halt- truths; shouid distorts facts: suppress the truth; put a false and misieading construction on other facts, all for the purpose of injuring these young men? That is exactly what the ltasca County Independent is now and for more than two months has beep doing against Mr. A. L. Thwing, a young man living at Grand Rapids lvasca County, Minnesota. For seven years Mr. Thwing bas lived among us, a bright, clean, capable, honest man. He has always had and held the re- spect of his neighbors and acquaint- ances. At the request of his neighbors and acquaintauces he became a can- didate for the office of district judge of the Fifteenth judical district. He has made and is making a clean, hon- orable, gentlemanly campaign, but there happens to be one or two men here who do not like him. These men have got the control of the Indepen- dent, and by means of that paper have deliberately set out to ruin and destroy Mr. Thwing; to blast bis fu- ture by publishing through the columns of that paper, slanders, false- hoods, mis-statements, distorted facts, half-truths, false and mislead- ipg constructions upon proceedings in court, hints, insinuations and by all the tricks and schemes that shameless, conscienceless cunning can devise. The Herald-Review and the citizens uf Grand Rapids respect- fuliv snbmit the question to the fair and candid mina of the people of this district, whether sucb tactics shall be permitted to bear fruit. We re- spectfally submit that the effort to destroy men by such means should be rebuked. sortment Our shoes have stood pre- this fall than ever. es from $1.25 to $3.50 for boys and girls $1.75 $2 to $3.