Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 31, 1912, Page 8

BORDON’S VISIT STIRS RIVALS Call to Oyster Bay Big Ad for Lieutenant Governor. HAS BACKING OF THE LEADERS eter M. Ringdal Gubernatorial Can- didate of Those in Control of Democratic Party. (Special Correspondence.) St. Paul, July 30—Lieutenant Gov- | ernor S. Y. Gordon of Browns Valley, ene of the five Republican progressive candidates for governor and among the first to espouse the cause of Colo- ne] Roosevelt following his turn down at Chicago, broke bread with the sage of Oyster Bay—at Oyster Bay too, mind you—and now there is—pardon my language—h—— to pay. "The oth- ers are sore. Decked out in a new suit of clothes, an extra pair of socks and a clean suit of underwear, all packed in the suit case presented him | by the State Editorial association, Sam slipped out of St. Paul Tuesday night and he never said a word to a soul. Accompanying him was his tried and true friend, C. T. Knapp of Chisholm. Showing how big this world is and how much ice the average man cuts | the lieutenant governor was not | missed until the following Thursday and it was Jim Martin, he of man- agerial fame, who called attention to his absence. He produced a telegram from the irrepressible Teddy and that was enough. A fortune would not have purchased the advertising which followed. And to think of Sam and Knapp dining at Oyster Bay! How “pi” Rich, Hugh T. Halbert and a dozen others, supreme in the opinion that they are the original “its,” must have suffered. I beg your pardon for this apparent and strained effort to be funny, but you will better appre ciate it when you read some of the Twin City stuff called politics and which is directed at making a fool of ly trying to induce the other candi- | dates and progressive leaders to join im. For your benefit it is called news. I wrote the stuff at one time and I know and so do the editors of the rural press. f ++ + The lieutenant governor, the dis- patches say, so impressed the colonel with a knowledge of the situation in Minnesota that the Oyster Bay man agreed to pass up a threatened de- mand for a third ticket all down the Mne. He would be satisfied with a set of electors with his own name pre- fixed. Accepting the Twin City press as an authority Bill Rich, Hugh T. Halbert and other Roosevelt originals wired the colonel to see if it was so, but the answer is still among the missing. In the meantime I. A. Cas- well, clerk of the supreme court, who is credited with the coup, does noth- ing but smile. Caswell, by the way, has Ed Smith beat when it comes to putting on the soft pedal. While the excitement was on I visited Ed Young, the lieutenant governor’s nearest rival, and he had nothing to say. Even Hugh T. Halbert, who considered himself the original Minnesota Roosevelt boomer, was silent. So much for the daily guff that you read and which emanates from that limited zone called the Twin Cities. You are sup- posed to be sitting up nights and read- ing it and pounding your convictions into your neighbor the next day, but if you are you do not know it. Down fn the cities the politicians have a hunch that the farmers are carrying a scythe in one hand and a copy of the primary law in the other. Gee, won't somebody be fooled! + ob Democracy now has the center of the stage in the filing of P. M. Ring- flal of the state board of control for the gubernatorial nomination of his party. The Crookston man—he was formerly in the marble business there —went to bat the early part of the week and he will, if possible, try and line out a home run. If there is one man who hates the word boss, whose whole life has been directed at purg- ing politics who would use it tor their own benefit and whose voice fas always been raised in opposition to the gang, it is Ringdal, yet his esandidacy is the offering of those who sontro] the destinies of the Demo- tratic party in the state. He is the or- ganization candidate. National Com- mitteeman Lynch, they say, is his sponsor. R. T. O’Connor and Dan Lawler will have none of him. And this is the first time in a long time that Dick has not come out for a win- ger. e+ + Senators John Saugstad and Hd- Ward Rustad spent several days in the Twin Cities last week looking over the ground preparatory to beginning work on a general investigation of the politica] activities of the liquor crowd in the state. The two put in a day with County Attorney Robertson of Hennepin county, whose district is home of the thir? member of the com mittee. I know a lot of fellows whe would like a place in the booze inves tigation as ordered by the late senate. The directed investigation may not ac- complish much, but if it only throws the fear of God in a few that think they know it all it will be of some good. ++ + For the first time in many years the supreme court will meet in ex- traordinary session and the occasion will be a test of one of the many con- flicting features of the new primary law. In this case the grouping piz1 is in controversy and a candidate ior representative from Hennepin county j one to take the whole thing into court. The district court made a rul- ing holding that this particular ob- jector was in the wrong; that the legislature in enacting the law was within its rights, but the supreme court may hold different. If the law was attacked in its entirety the tax- | Payers might get a proper ruling and in addition something which would put at rest the biennial spasms of the legislature, but the trouble is that | every attack made hits at some spe- cial provision and either it is knocked out or approved without regard to the act as a whole. The attorney general, I am told, takes the position that the law as a whole is unconstitutional, yet when any of its provisions are at- tacked he is compelled to use every | bit of machinery at his command in | an effort to convince the court that |the law is what it purports to be. | Attorney General Smith has said lopenly that | party gain a foothold in the coming | election to the extent of naming the | | the White Star company was under no | electors it could not have a place in ‘has elected himself a committee of | state, and then ieft for Eveleth, the ' | Gordon bribed the crew of his lifeboat should the Roosevelt ; | the next primary. This is undoubtedly | ; unconstitutional. t+ + Bet on it if you want to that United | States Senator Knute Nelson is going to ask for a return ticket to Washing- ton. That he is going to file for his | Present job is certain. Those in a Position to know say it is sure. The | hunch holds good that Uncle Knute will pull down the plum, but reports regarding James A. Peterson of Min- neapolis, a rival, are not at all reas- suring. It comes straight that Jim is making a hit. It is said that he is , the only candidate now on the stump who is getting a crowd. Upstate the a prominent Republican, had to be introduced to his audience by a Demo- | crat, but the fact did not detract from the impression he made. Jim does | sure deal sledgehammer blows. the lieutenant governor and incident- | | the farmers busy with their harvest- | sbout the worst brewery owned in the | t+ + + Governor Eberhart is of the opinion that only about a third of the regular vote will be polled at the coming pri- maries. His excellency makes the point that as the primaries fall on the 17th of September, this will find ing and it will take a team of oxen to pull them away. In the case of the cities the new law has made so many | exactions in the way of registration and voting that hundreds will be dis- franchised. In the opinion of the gov- ernor’s friends the rank and file will be put out of the running and this will mean that the regulars, who always | vote, will be on the job. There is logic in the governor’s reasoning. + + + J. Oscar Morse of Slayton has filed | for the Republican nomination for the legislature. He was secretary to United States Senator Washburn when the latter resided at Washing- | Mr. Morse is threatened with | ton. epposition. ++ + The question of who is going to be P. M. Ringdal’s manager is bothering | quite a few. According to the Twin City prints Frank A. Day, who piloted John A. Johnson to success, is not in | it, but his presence in St. Paul the | | past week would indicate that he has | something up his sleeve. The story, too, is that Mr. Day and Fred Lynch, Democratic national have broken. salt. ee + Affidavits concerning newspaper ownership as required under the new corrupt practices act are being filed daily with the secretary of state and like the first received the majority of them ridicule the law. Some of them are really funny. One owner of a paper called personally upon the sec- retary of state for information as to | what he would have to do. “Must ft place over every political advertise- ment the price paid and the one au- thorizing it?’ asked this particular newspaper owner. “You certainly must,” was the answer. “Well, sup- pose I do not fix a price, but insert it free and sel] him some extra cop- ies?” asked the publisher. “I do not know anything about that,” was the answer. The owner has not made any filing and he says he will not. ee oe Judge Oscar Hallam, who will cor- test Justice Bunn, for his place on | the supreme bench, says he has se cured the number of signers to his petition as required under the ne¥ | primary law. The contest promises | to be a warm one. eet Harvey Grimmer, under the late Governor Johnson, it is said will go after the Democratic | nomination for secretary of state. eet What has become of the Anti-Sa- loon league? It seems to’ have gone by the board. Another case of kill ing the goose that laid the golden THE COUNTY CHAIRMAN. committeemah, | The latter statement | can be taken with the usual grain of | executive clerk | | the organization been better. story is that Jim, in the absence of | the | full speed ahead through an icefield | gouche river in Canada. | the crew of the Carpathia in rescuing | the Titanic’s survivors is commended | a8 admirable. the Titanic’s and the opinion is ex- pressed that the California could have pushed through the ice without serious risk and have saved many, if not all, of those on board the sinking ship. English Board of Inquiry Files Titanic Report. } , i I ISMAY IS EXONE® ATED, VREELAND _ OUT OF RACE Congressman for Fourt Ferrteen Years Will \ Retire. President of White Star Line Under! Salamanca, N. Y., July 31.—E. B. so dhatal Obligation to Memalnan Pe ee sentative in congress for the district Board the Vessel Until It Sank—Ex- cessive Speed the Only Matter of Criticism. London, July 81.—Excessive speed, caused the loss of the Titanic, in the opinion of Lord Mersey, who, as chair- | man of the English commission of in- | quiry into the disaster, made his re | port public. | Arrangements for launching and | mannr‘ng the great Mner’s lifeboats | were improper, insufficient and inade- quate, his lordship said, and though | the boat drill itself was good, as was discipline at the time of 2ha wreck, more lives could have been saved had | The charge that Sir Cesmo Duft to row away from the drowning was held to be unfounded. Managing Director Bruce Ismay of moral obligation to remain aboard the Titanic until the vessel sank, accord- ing to the commission’s findings, and had he done so the only result would have been the needless loss of anoth: | er life. The handing of the Baltic’s ice’ Message by Captain Smith to Ismay is held to have been irregular and Is- may’s retention of it improper, but under the circumstances the commis- sion thinks the incident had nothing to do with the subsequent navigation and Allegheny counties and prominent | of the ship. chin as an advocate of currency reform, Extra Lookouts Nesdad.. has announced that on account of ill health he will not be a candidate to The lookout for ice was inadequate, succeed himself. report says. Extra lookout: / ss zi should have been stationed at the/ Secretary Meyer Recovered. masthead and at both ends of the| Hamilton, Mass., July 31—Secretary bridge. | of the Navy George von L. Meyer is The evidence shows, the report con- | baek at his summer home after a tinues, that the practice of steaming | month's fishing trip on the Resti- He has fully at night was bad, but under the cir’ recovered from the illness which took cumstances the commission feels UD-| him away from Washington early in | able to blame Captain Smith, who, the summer and after a few weeks though he made a grievous mistake, pore he expects to return to bis office | cannot be guilty of neglect. | in Washington. @ 1M. by American Press Association. CONGRESSMAN VREELAND. FARM BOYS" STATE FAIR ENCAMPMENT ONE BOY FROM A HISTORIC SPECTACLE — ye — 300 ACRES CROWDED WITH ENTE RTAIN MENTS EDUCATION THE WORLDS MOST FAMOUS - HORSES. WILL MAKE NEW » WORLDS RECORDS .«* Investigators are convinced that the , _ Nights sighted by the California were | comprising Chautauaua. Coperaneee { i This is a splendid C Gath Hammock made of heavy canvas over a strong wood frame. As complete as a bed. Complete with $8.78 able fioenp aca ae ee We have a very large assortment of the newest things in Porch Chairs and Rockers at very reason- OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE PEORGE F. KREME FURNITURE AND UNDERTAKING Crand Rapids, Minn |ROOSEVELT EXPLAINS VISIT | Telegraphs Judge Purdy Why He Sent | for S. Y. Gordon, In a telegram addressed to Judge Milton D. Purdy of Minneapolis Colo- nel Theodore Roosevelt informed tke Minnesota progressives why he in- vited Sam Y. Gordon to lunch with him at Oyster Bay and did not invite tome of the other candidates for gov- ernor in the Gopher state. He sac it was “because the lieutenant go ernor was openly for the progressive national ticket,” and that he would “enjoy seeing any other candidate for | governor in Minnesota who is straight jout and open against Mr. Taft.” The telegram was in response to | the one Sent by Judge Purdy and H. T. Halbert last Thursday asking the colonel why he invited only Gordon, intimating that by this apparent favoritism among the candidates for | governor he was embarrassing the leaders of the progressive movement who were trying not to take sides in the state primary scramble. Colonel | Roosevelt does not say who arranged the Gordon visit further than he was | “requested by one of our delegates to | Chicago” to see him. GIVEN MAXIMUM SENTENCE ; Man Who Misled His His Wife’s Sister | Gets Five Years. | For: violations of the white slave Jaw Mark Anthony Rano was given two years and six months United States prison at Leavenworth, Kan., and John Pluth, recently con- | vieted after a trial in the federal court | at Duluth, was given the limit, five years, at the same institution, by Judge Page Morris at Duluth. Rano induced a young woman to en- | | ter a disrderly resort. He was ar- | rested some time ago at Hibbing. Pluth induced his wife’s sister, a girl of eighteen years, to come to this | gtegetedt | country from Austria and then forced her to live an immoral life. Pluth is the first man to receive the extreme penalty for the for the crime. | AGED WOMAN DIE AN DIES IN FIRE | Ttasca County | Abstract Office Abstracts Real Estate Fire Insurance Conveyances Drawn, TaxeS Paid for Non-Residents Kremer & King Props. Grand Rapids - - Minn. eS Se in. the | y day—but 4 yueeze three day into one, Residence Service 5 cents per day Tried and proven Order the Mesahba : | ls | | | | | ls Destroyed. Mrs. John Rodeck of Crosby was | a burned to death when fire destroyed | | the residence of her son, Charles Ro- deck, with whom she made her home. The property loss is $3,000. The fire started in the basement !and spread so rapidly that neighbors were unable to rescue Mrs. Rodeck, who was seventy-eight years old and unable to escape unassisted. Taft Cow Entered in Show. 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