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In every letter that you write us never fall to give your full name and address, plainly stated, may reach us Tuesday if possible, any letters of all kinds must be written on separate sheets from letters containing news of the correspondents as second class matter at St. Paul, Minn. AGENTS WANTED. THE APPEAL wants good reliable agents to canvass for subscribers at points not already covered. Write for our extraordinary inducements. Address SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1902. RALLY ON THE CENTER. The campaign is over. The long roll has sounded; the bugles have called boots and saddles; the boys have fallen into line, touched elbows, and wait with eager impatience to charge the enemy and rout them. The outposts have all been called in, and from Maine to California they are rallying on the center with a courage that is invincible and a determination that presages victory. There is not a coward in our ranks, not a living soul who does not feel that when the polls close next Tuesday night the Democratic party will be routed, horse, foot and dragoons, and will be scurrying hither and yon, utterly demoralized. God Almighty still reigns supreme, and He will continue to guide and direct this country until its mission has been accomplished, and mankind the world over are brothers indeed. So be of good cheer fellow Republicans. A Republican Congress will surely be elected—but do not forget to vote and have your neighbor do likewise—just to make it certain. H. D. Wilson is a member of the Louisiana legislature and author of the bill requiring separate street cars for the races. He also did much to aid --- M. B. GRIER M. ORR, Republican Candidate for District Judge M· W. FITZGERALD, Republican Candidate for Register of Deeds. the passage of a "Jim Crow" car ordinance by the city council of New Orleans. Wilson lets the Southern cat out of the bag by saying: "It is not only the desire to separate the whites and blacks on the street cars for the comfort it will provide, but also for the moral effect. THE SEPARATION OF THE RACES IS ONE BENEFIT, BUT THE DEMONSTRATION OF THE SUPERIORITY OF THE WHITE MAN OVER THE NEGRO IS A GREATER THING. There is nothing which shows it more conclusively than the compelling of the negroes to ride in cars marked for their especial use." It is needless to say that Wilson is a Democrat and that the Louisiana separate-car law was passed by a Democratic legislature. The "Jim Crow" car law of New Orleans which went into effect October 14 was passed by a Democratic city council. "I know of the bravery and character of the Afro-American soldier. He saved my life at Santiago, and I have had occasion to say so in many articles and speeches. The Rough Riders were in a bad position when the Ninth and Tenth cavalry came rushing up the hill carrying everything before them. The Afro-American soldier has the faculty of coming to the front when he is needed most. In the Civil war he came 400,000 strong, and I believe he saved the Union."—President Roosevelt. In this great time of prosperity we have a right to think of ourselves and of our own interests. Therefore, when the time comes, and you go to the ballot box, register your vote and give your influence to the perpetuity of the party that has brought to the workingman, as to all of us, this period of prosperity, and you, may bear in mind that as long as the policies of the Republican party continue prosperity will continue.—Senator M. A. Hanna, at Muncie, Ind. "It was the plain purpose of the fifteenth amendment to the constitution to prevent discrimination on account of race or color in regulating the elective franchise. Devices of state government, whether by statutory or constitutional enactment, to avoid the purpose of this amendment are revolutionary and should be condemned."—Republican National Platform 1900. THE AFPEAL:A NATIONAL AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER Senator Spooner uttered an epigrammatic tribute to President Roosevelt at his Schlitz Park meeting in Milwaukee, the other evening, which is naturally going the rounds. Said he of the president: "He thinks straight, he talks straight, he shoots straight, he acts straight, and he is straight. He is an intense American. He is a man of lofty ideals." "Pitchfork Tillman's hands are fairly red with the blood of Afro-Americans of South Carolina. I have heard him stand up in the Senate and assert that never, so long as his party could direct affairs in that State, would the Afro-Americans get their rights. Yet he is the leader of the Democratic party in the Senate."—Congressman Albert J. Hopkins. The reorganization of the Republican party in the South into a white man's party has received a serious set-back as the result of the statements made by the president recently to a delegation of Afro-Americans. President Roosevelt said that he did not approve of political discrimination against Afro-Americans. The death of Elizabeth Cady Stanton removes one of the greatest friends of oppressed humanity. She was not only unremitting in her advocacy of female suffrage, but in the dark days before the slaveholders' rebellion she did much for the anti-slavery cause. The fact that the lowest element in the South, the old rebels and all who wish to oppose the Afro-American race belong to the Democratic party, ought to be enough to convince all sensible Afro-Americans that the Democratic party is a good one to keep out of office. "To admit duty free all articles the like of which are produced in this country by trusts, would probably stop the trusts, but only because it would at the same time stop everything else." —Senator J. B. Foraker of Ohio. Nearly all of the prominent Afro-Americans who strayed away into the Democratic camp have come back to the Republican fold. They say there is no place in the Democratic party for the Afro-American. Governor SAMUEL R. VAN SANT. Lieutenant Governor RAY W. JONES. Secretary of State PETE R. NISSON. State Auditor SAMUEL G. IVERSON. State Treasurer. JULIUS H. BLOCK. Attorney General. WALLACE B. DOUGLASS. Clerk Supreme Court. CHARLES A. PIDGEON. Railroad & Warehouse Commissioner. CHARLES F. STAPLES. Congressman 4th District. FREDRICKY S. STEVENS. Judges District Court. GREER M. ORR. O. B. LEWIS. Probate Judge. E. W. BAZILLE. County Auditor. E. G. KRAHMER. County Treasurer. M. J. BELL. Register of Deeds. M. W. FITZGERALD. Sheriff. P. C. JUSTUS. County Attorney. HARVEY E. HALL. County Surveyor. GATES A. JOHNSON. Coroner. S. S. HESSELGRAVE. Clerk of District Court. E. G. ROGERS. Abstract Clerk. AIBERT SCHUETZ. Senators. Thirty-Third District. W. W. DUNN. Thirty-Fourth District. WALTER NELSON. Thirty-Fifth District. BERNARD ZIMMERMANN. Thirty-Sixth District. HILER H. HORTON. Thirty-Seventh District. A. R. McGILL. Representatives. Thirty-Third District. JOEL E. GREGORY. WALTER LEMON. Thirty-Fourth District. GEORGE A. DALLIMORE. HARVEY L. MILLS. CONSTANS JENSEN. Thirty-Fifth District. RENVILLE CHINNOCK. CHARLES S. SCHERMAN. Thirty Sixth District. HENRY JOHNS. AMBROSE TIGHE. Thirty-Sixth District. LOUIS NORMANDIN. THOMAS C. FULTON. County Commissioners. R. H. SENG. GEORGE H. NASH. D. W. GRAY. NICHOLAS POTTGIESER. West of Rice Street. JAMES POWERS. East of Rice Street. A. P. WRIGHT. C. A. PIDGEON. Republican Candidate for Clerk of Supreme Court. Prof. Booker T. Washington has invited President Roosevelt to visit Tuskegee this fall, and it is likely that he'll go in event of making a Southern trip. When the glorious sun beams on the smiling earth on the morning of November 4, be at the polls ready to vote and work for Republican success. Get a hustle upon yourself; see your neighbors and your neighbors' neighbors, and induce them to vote for Republican candidates. "We stuffed ballot boxes, we shot them; we are not ashamed of it"—Pitchfork Tillman, Democratic senator from South Carolina. No victory was ever won without a battle. Remember that and fight for Republican policies until the polls close November 4. Take off your coat and work for the Republican party until the evening of November 4; then we can shout until we are hoarse. Let the Stars and Stripes wave upon the breeze today. A passage of victory for Republicans, we all say. The cablegrams for Porto Rico read like Southern election despatches. At the recent election two Republicans were killed. President Hadley, of Yale university, who has always voted as a Democrat, is now a supporter of the Republican party. The foundations of the Republican party were laid on high moral and humanitarian ideas. The "lily whites" are doomed to defeat; they'll get a sound licking next Tuesday. Vote the Republican ticket if you hope for protection and justice in the South. C. EORCE A. NASH R$publican Candidate for County Commissioner HON. F. C. STEVENS. Republican Candidate for Congress Fourth District. Congressman Frederick C. Stevens, who has so ably represented the Fourth Minnesota District in the House of Representatives, will undoubtedly be re-elected on the fourth day of November with a triumphant majority. It is a fact, well known not only within the boundaries of his own district, but also in the state of Minnesota in general and the National capital, that Mr. Stevens' labors on behalf of his constituents have been crowned with the most signal success. He has proved himself to be possessed of sound judgment, a conscientious regard for the fulfillment of his duties and a thorough understanding of the needs of his district and the manner in which public business is expedited in Congress and in the great departments. Among the notable achievements of Mr. Stevens in this capacity as representative of the people of the Fourth Minnesota District is the establishment of the postoffice headquarters for the entire postoffice business of the Northwest, at St. Paul. The designation of St. Paul as the proper place for the location and maintenance of such continuous efforts which many important interests at first were fearful would not meet with success, owing to the difficulties that had to be overcome. In this connection Mr. Stevens has recently secured an addition to the facilities already offered the public in the matter of securing a prompt and effective delivery of all classes of mail matter. There will shortly be established in the down-town business district of St. Paul a new postoffice branch headquarters to be known as the Comprehensive Mail Center, to enable all mail intended for St. Paul more houses to be delivered much more rapidly than has heretofore been the case. The maintenance of the Commercial Station will necessitate an expenditure of $7,500 per annum, exclusive of the salaries of about fifteen clerks and twenty-five mail carriers. When the proposition to adopt the rural free delivery system was first discussed, Congressman Stevens devoted considerable time and attention to the thorough study of the merits of this system and decided that his district should be one of the first in the United States to adopt the same. He has met with extraordinary success in carrying out this plan and the result is, that the counties of Ramsey, Washington and Chisago, which compose his district, are supplied with rural free delivery routes to such an extent that nearly every farmer aid country resident in the district, receives the mail daily. Washington county is the first county in the state to be completely equipped with routes of this county. As a prominent member of the committee on military affairs of the House of Representatives, Mr. Stevens has exerted every energy to secure the enlargement and improvement of Fort Snelling as a military post and the in- increase of its garrison. An appropriation of $60,000 has been secured to this end and part of said sum is now being, expended for the purposes mentioned. The plan for enlarging the garrison at Fort Snelling contemplates the final establishment at that post of a full regiment of infantry, two entire batteries of artillery* and a complete squadron of cavalry, all under the command of Colonel Jacob Kline. The county of Washington owes a debt of gratitude to Congressman Stevens for his success in obtaining an appropriation for the purchase of a site and prospective erection of a federal building at Stillwater. The sum of $60,000 has been appropriated for that purpose. ZAZA. In offering Eugenie Blair in "Zaza" at the attraction at the Grand Opera House next week, the enterprising manager, Mr. Henri Gressitt, brings a great artiste and a great play. Miss Eugenie Blair, in the name part of this celebrated play, is a revelation to even her most ardent admirers. For several years her great ability as an emotional actress has been well known, but never before has she had a part in her career. She has been a electric temperament, which in the fourth act of Zaza finds full scope. In this great scene, having discovered that her lover is a married man, she cannot refrain from questioning him about his life when he is absent in Paris. His ready lies and explanations rouse her to such a pitch of fury that she tells him she has seen his braids him for the despicable part he has played in gaining her love, when he is in honor bound to another, and refuses any longer to share his love. At this he insults her with references to her past life, and is furious that she, "a child of the gutter," should have dared force herself into the presence of his pure wife. Then poor outraged Zaza, who has kept his secret for him out of love for his child, and outraged for his grief that was within her grasp, realizes the fulgul between her and pure refined women, and understands that she can never have the hold over Dufrene that his wife has. In her despair and humiliation she lashes with scornful words that man who has destroyed her peace and happiness only for a passing whim, and drives him from her forever. Before this, little sympathy has been with Zaza, but in the wonderful scenes, Mitch has the audience to such a pitch of enthiasm that they recognize only one sentiment, and that is pity for poor heart-broken Zaza. The engagement will be for one week, with the usual Wednesday and Saturday matinees. The destiny of every Afro-American in the North is identified with that of his Southern brother. If the Democrats of the South succeed in wrestling the franchise from the people of the race in the South, the same thing may be tried in the North. STAND BY THE PRESIDENT. Watchword Which is Being Passed This Week to Republican Campaigners. The slogan of the Republican campaigneers in this last week of the Congressional contest is to "stand by the president." This is done, it is said, at the suggestion of Postmaster General Payne, who informed Chairman Babcock that he thought it would be a good rallying cry for the party. Accordingly it has been suggested to the party workers in the various Congressional districts. The faith of prominent Republicans in a triumphant majority at the polls next Tuesday for the support of the administration is strong. They believe this week will mark decade-long battles with the political addictions and that by the diligent work being done, the party will gain votes daily. "STAND BY THE PRESIDENT." During the recent war with Spain, Afro-American soldiers traveling in the South were fired upon by Southern Democrats while they were asleep on the train, and many killed. As the boys in '61 buckled on the knapsack and clutched the gun, resolved that the government should be preserved, so today the same spirit animates them and their progeny. The bugles have sounded the charge! Up, boys, and rout them; chase them from the hiltops, from the woods, from the fence cormen, from every cologne of vantage they may possess. At a recent Democratic meeting one speaker declared: "The Negro has no more right to the ballot than a two-year-old child has with a pistol." That's straight Democratic doctrine. Bring out the halt, the lame and the blind, the sound and lusty of limb, the young men who cast their first votes, and blast anarchistic hopes by piling up a great majority for the Republican candidates. The importance of pure reading matter for the young cannot be overestimated. The Youth's Companion, published at Boston, Mass., is the best periodical in the world, published for young people. Who was the first county officer to give an African-American an appointment in his office? Ans. M. J. Bell, then register of deeds, now Republican candidate for county treasurer. Don't fail to vote for him. The National Republican party is all right on the color question. The so-called "lily white" Republicans of the South are not the real thing as they'll find out when the next National Republican convention meets. Republicans have reason to be proud of the financial condition of the state under the Yates administration. The debt left by the Altgeld administration has been paid and on October 7, 1902, there was in the state treasury a working balance of $3,042,070. The phenomenal run made by Judge Grier M. Orr, at the recent primaries is evidence that he will land on the district court bench. His eight years' service as judge of the municipal court made him so many friends that almost everybody knows him. That one of his most esteemed candidates, at the election goes without saying. The following Republican candidates are as good as elected, having no opposition: "Senators A. R. McGill and W. W. Dunn, Representative Ambrose Tighe, County Commissioner James Powers. In the First and Second wards J. E. Gregory and Walter Lemon are the nominees for the two places in the election, and the Democrats have had the best Berndt Olson, so one of the Republicans is sure to be elected and probably both. The Kansas City Star (Ind. Rep.) is of the opinion that Roosevelt will gain more than he could lose by fighting the trusts. It predicts that if they should try to defeat his renomination they would fail, and adds: "As for his election, if opposition in his party should be confined to trusts and would gain in the form of Democratic votes—and in spite of any nomination or platform that the Democrats could present—a great deal more than he would lose by this defection." GEN. CLARKSON'S LETTERS "NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 13, 1902. "My Dear Mr. Person: I am glad to have your letter. I need no thanks for what I did in opposing the lily white' party in Alabama and other southern states. No self-respecting Republican can tolerate any such attempted departure from the cardinal doctrine of the party. The president has no sympathy with it and you may assure all your friends, and your whole race, that he is as sound on the doctrine of human rights and manhood suffrage as I am. "I shall be glad to hear from you whenever you have anything to communicate. Sincerely yours," "JAMES S. CLARKSON." The man to whom the letter is addressed is a prominent Afro-American politician of North Carolina and the letter was read Friday night at a meeting of Afro-Americans held in Raleigh, N.C. to protest against the exclusion of Afro-Americans from the Republican state convention of North Carolina held some time ago. STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Ramsey, ss. Probate Court. In the Matter of the Estate of Charles Brown, deceased. Letters testimonary on the estate of Charles Brown, deceased, late of the County of Ramsey, and State of Minnesota, to the late of the County of St. Paul. It is Ordered. That six months be and the same is hereby allowed from and after the date of this Order, in which all perjury shall be made against the said deceased, are required to the same in the Probate Court of said County, for examination and allowance, as be required. It is Further Ordered, That the first Monday in May, 1903, at 10 o'clock a.m. at a general term of said Probate Court, in the City of Saint Paul, in said County, in said Probate Court will examine and adduce said claims and demands. And it is Further Ordered. That notice of all claims and persons interested in forthwith publishing this order once in each week for three successive weeks in the county, printed and published in said County. Dated at St. Paul, this 18th day of Octo- Dated at St. Paul, this 18th day of October. By the Court: Valiant Fight for the Rights of the People Makes His Name a Household Word Through- - out the Whole Nation, Fearlessly Braves Bitter Opposition of Great Rail- road Combine That Is Now Doing All Money Can Do to Defeat Him. Will Be Re-elected by an Overwhelming Majority as an Indorsement of His Action and a Rebuke to Monopoly. LOOK OUT FOR THE ROORBACKS Deriiocrats Resort to Despicable Tactics Early in the Campaign—More False and Staftling Tales May Be Expected. Few men are as well known today im the United States as is Samuel R. Yan Sant, governor of Minnesota, There are not many people in this Great land who cannot give the name St the governor of this state; and yet ‘there are but few other governors of all the states “In the union whose ames even thé best informed citizens know. To be ore of the distinguished men of a nation of 80,000,000 of people 4s an honor not to be lightly treated; it is a matter of great pride to every Joyal Minnesotan that our governor is Known and honored throughout our country. No citizen can but feel a thrill of satisfaction to have those of distant states speak in high words of raise of tho official head of our state. Gov. Van Sant deserves this honor and tis distinction, for he has won it by being true to the people. That he Is a man of courage every incident 4n his life shows. Never has he winced fn the face of danger, never has he turned his back on @ public or private duty, He is every inch a man and a Zoe Sete ree Lees ee:¢ o @ The Democratic campaign is @ @ not a campaign for Rosing, but is @ @ against Van Sant, No reasons @ are being given why Mr. Rosing @ should be clected; he outlines no @ $ pottey, and has he record. But ¢ @ every effort is made to discredit @ @ Gov. Van Sant and personal @ abuse is the chief weapon used. ¢ fighter. Yet full of fighting blood as he is, he never seeks for trouble, and there is not in his nature one trace of the vindictive or of the spirit of re- Yenge, He is as gentle as he is brave, and as kindly as he is courageous. In- deed, it has often been said of him that if he has a fault it is his too big- heartedness. He will often do himself injury or injustice in an endeavor to help otbers, or to avoid doing others a possible hurt. He is eminently a man of the people, and like that other great champion ‘or popular rights, President Hoosevelt, he never hesl: tates in the face of an emergency, no matter what the personal result may Be to himself. ‘When the question of the merging of tho threo great railroad systems, the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Burlington, came to his official notico he did not shirk or temporize. He grappled at once the situation and the danger to our state. He saw that two-thirds of Minnesota, the territory mow most rapidly developing, was completely in the grasp of two of Democrats Resort to Desp Campaign—More | Tales May ‘This next week will doubtless be full ef Democratic roorbacks. They have been using this sort of argument free- Ay even early in the campaign, and wil probably fill the last week with them. ‘A roorback is simply a falsehood used for two purposes: First, to keep the other side denying, and, ‘second, with the hope that some peopie will believe ft. It is safe to take it for granted that any startling tales, sprung late in the campaign, are absolutely false, or they would have been used earlier. As samples of a Democratic roor- ack up to this time is the interview Brvesesecrororres ° ®@ There are two men in the Unit- @ @ ed States who stand out con- @ spicuously in public life for the @ protection of popular_ rights; @ those two men are Theodore @ @ Roosevelt. and Samuel R. Van @ @ Sant—Oscar Hallam, St. Paul. used by the Globe, in which Gov. Van Sant was represented as being opposed to the striking coal miners. The Globe ¢1a not stop to ask if this interview was true or false, though Gov. Van Sant’s well known friendly feeling to- ward labor and his many public and Pittate sore in behalf of labor: marked it as false to all who knew him. ‘The Globe published the fake interview, and’sent out a large oxtra edition. It ‘was compelled to retract the next day, ‘and to apologize editorially; but w/s careful that no extra’ edition of the retraction was sent out. Next was the assertion that the antt- merger suits were all “bluster,” and that not a sult was pending in the courts against this railroad combina- tion. At this same time everyone Anew that there were three suits pend: frg, and are well.advanced in the eouree of trial in the courts. Next was the tale that Gov. Van Sant and tho Republican leaders had taken an “oati” not to give office to any Swetes. This was put in a Swed {sh paper, and 100.000 efreulars con- taining it have been sent out. Yet Feter B. Hanson, secretary of. state, -wras Swodish-born, and is op the ticket these roads; that in all that vast por- tion of our state there are no other means. of railway transportation. He saw that the combination of these two reads meant a shutting out of all other Toads and an absolute monopoly of the transportation business of two-thirds of the state. He saw that it was the death of railroad competition. He Enew, too, the power of such a combi- nation to wreck the political future of any citizen, but he never faltered or wavered. As on the field of battle he saw before him only his country’s flag and the state’s welfare. Ho was elect- ed to stand between the people and Just such a danger, and he instantly Gecided upon action. The letter of the law of the state was plain. There could be no questiou as to its intent, and the legislature hed passed it to meet just such an emergency, The only question was the ability of the state to break down the barriers of technical law points raised by keen corporation lawyers, and 60 force the matter to the plain issue, The ma- chinery of the state’s law department was at once set at work on behalf of the people. ‘The governor grappled the problem, and not discouraged by temporary failure, nor deterred by threats, he pushed the sults until he las now the satisfaction of knowing that there are threw well under way against the merger “company, the Northern Securities Company of New Jersey. That these suits will be fought to a finish is a certainty if Gov. Van Sant is re-elected. He has braved the bitter opposition of the railroad combination, and it is doing all money can do to defeat him; but he has not, and he never will, hesitate to do his duty and enforce the law. ‘The people ‘mew this. They know that if he is reelected the state’s suit, the one most feared by the railroads, will not be dropped. "And they are going to elect him by an overwhelming major- ity as an indorsement of his action in their behalf, and a rebuke to mo- nopoly that seeks to control not alone the transportation of the state, but its politics. Mr. Rosing says that the rallroad merger question 1s no longer a politi- cal issue, that it is in the courts end the courts may be trusted to take care of it. Through his committee, how- ever, he says that there is not a case now ‘pending in courts on the merger question. How easy it would be for Mr. Rosing, if elected governor, through the support of these same merger railroads, to repay them by having the sult brought by the state, which is the suit most feared by the rouds, dropped. ‘The people will take no chances on that. with Gov. Van Sant. Gov. Van Sant gave E. A. Nelson the office of state li brarian, and made Mr. Schulz assistant superintendent of public instruction, and a dozen other offices in the capitol Vuilding are held by Swedish-Ameri- cans, whilo a hundred or more are em- ployed in the grain inspection aud weighing departments, with Mr. Quist as chief weighmaster, and every insti. tution in the state’ employs many kore. Mr. Fullerton, state gaze ward: en, alon>, has had as many as seven teen Swedish-Americans under his em ploy at one time this season at the state fish hatchery. Again, the Democratic railroad or gan springs the startling statement that the proposed gross earnings amendment will lessen, and not in crease the tax on railroads. The im potence of this statement and its truth is sufficiently shown by the own ership of the paper which makes it the St. Paul Globe. Such are some of the Democratic rcorbacks thus far in the campaign Look out for more of them, even more absurd and ridiculous than these. SENATOR NELSON'S TRIBUTE. ita! CREA cer eee et eee State Has Had. ‘ Samuel R. Van Sant {s among the best governors this state hes had. At a great and momentous ‘juncture he stood guard, like the true.soldier he Is, for the Interests of the people of this state. When an attempt was made to consolidate two great trans- continental railroads, he: raised his voice to this menace to the welfare of the state. He did not remain an idle spectator to this attempt. At frst he was the object of ridicule by some; but when our great President Roose elt took up the battle against tho trusts and applied the Sherman ant trust law, the people began to appre cfate the manly stand and the fearless policy of our own great Van Sant. If we lay down our arms now, it will give these great corporate interests a taste) of blood, and they will feel strengthened to make an onslaught on our youne and vigorous prénldent Senator Knute Nelson. Even more "than on account of his ; Under the second Van Sant year the merger atand, the farmers of the state | profit. wad $25,458.07. No othier aru Saaorse Gov. ‘Van Sant because of tho] MONE Reedet record of his administration in regard has made a net profit ‘each year rang to the prison binding twine and the ing from $20,000 to $70,000, with th state grain inspection. ‘These two is- single.exception of the year 1900, un sues are sweeping the Tural vote into der the Lind administration, when the the Republican column. It is almost plant made ‘less than $16,000, after the irony of fate. It was upon these. forcing the farmers to pay 2 cents per Adentical issues that the Democrats |/pound higher than trust figures, where won their single victory In Minnesota. | in all other years it has ranged from 2 ‘Under the Lind administration, the | to 4 cénts lower than the trust price. grain inspection department lost over ‘These two facts alone defeat every $3,000. Under the first year of Gov. |/claim that the Democrats might put Van Sant’s administration, the de-| forward in behalf of their candidates. partment showed a profit of $9.493.82. "—ct Paul Tienstch ie co Gee > Co oY Coe (ie oS oo A fo ne eee cul | fee t*sCdés (2 ae ~~. is i ec eer SR Ba RW a Sh Ye (fe | ee NP Clee ie 2 ew ee CU ee elon vaaeal A ee ee io — aa ae n ae 3 we oe fs a ‘ Re » a ee e/ N 4 Se GOV. Ss. R. VAN SANT. ee FRIENDLY TO LABOR|NEW | VAN SANT’S ATTITUDE ON STRIKE | PLACE M Governor's Sympathy Was With the | Constituti Miners—Refutes Bogus Globe tion a Interview. Van | For the first time in the history of | One of our country organized labor has re-| sought to ceived national recognition. Prosi-| Sant is b dent Roosevelt distinctly stated that | passage o! he took part in the settlement of the | mission te coal miners’ strike merely as a private | calling an citizen, but the fact ramaing that he! tre to pa accomalished his purpose by virtue of | commigsic his high offéé as president, ‘The ptes-| unjust. 1 igents of the coal-cartying toads re-| ent demai fused to mect or treat with Mr. Mitch-| laws. ‘Th all, the representative of the miners’ | ang tho 1 vnion, but the president of the United | that end, ‘States did not hesitate to consult with | public se him, and they held many private con-| appointed ferences. Organized labor, therefore, | qualified 1 can well feel that it has had a higher | came to d seeseeeoocoresoes| sees, 2 % _ President Roosevelt and Gov. @|% Presi @ van Sant stand for the same | $ Van Sa $ political principle—that the rights @| @ litical oF the people must.come first. @1 © of ing. recognition than that from mere rail- road presidents, and that a Republican president of their country has reached out the hand of sympathy and fellow. ship to them. ‘The settlement of this great strike, which threatened positive disaster to the people, shutting off from them one of the necessities of life, has been a aistinet, triumph, for Republican, gov ernment. It marks an era in our labor history, and goes far toward settling ‘what is tobe the great problem of this century—the harmonizing of the relations of capital and labor, under the tremendous development of our in dustrial and commercial interests. The rights of the employer, the rights of the employed, and outside of and even above these, the rights of the people at large, are all to be considered. In this strike the sympathy of the great mass of the people was with the min- ers. This fecling was tersely stated by Gov. Van Sant in his interview re Teeseesereccosors ? @ Gov. Van Sant stands as the @ @ champion of the people against .¢ @ railroad monopoly. ° . ? 00600000000 0OOSSs futing the bogus interview published in | fhe St Paul Globe, ‘The governor| says: “The refusal of the operators and the willingness of the miners to arbi- trate, when in conference with Presi- dent’ Roosevelt, has justly enlisted public sympathy on their side, and I share it to, the fullest extent. “A great public calamity threatens ‘the nation, and I believe that the president would be justified in using ierole measures to”open the mines, ‘and I trast that he will find some mnethod,to-do a ammmgremammasspasiaa Defective Page ‘Under the second Van Sant year the profit: was $25,458.67. No other argu- ment 1s needed. ‘The prison twine plant, since 1894, has made a net profit each year rang: ing from $20,000 to $70,000, with the single.exception of the.year 1900, un- der the Lind administration, when the plant made less than $16,000, after forcing tne farmers to pay 2 cents per ‘pound higher than trust figures, where in all other years it has ranged from 2 to 4 cents lower than the trust price. __ These two facts alone defeat every cluim that the Democrats might put forward in behalf of their candidates. “St. Paul Dispatch. NEW ERA IN TAXATION PLACE MINNESOTA IN VANGUARD Constitutional Amendment on Taxa. tion a Long Stride Forward — Van Sant Unjustly Criticised. One of the grouds on which it fs sought to incite opposition to Gov. Van Sant is his agency in procuring the passage of the law creating a tax com- mission to revise the tax laws, and in calling an extra session of the legisla- tute fo pass the code prepared by that commission. Nothing could be more unjust. ‘There has long been an urg- ent demand for a revision of our tax laws. ‘The governor in recommending and tho legislature in taking steps to that end, were in entire accord with public sentiment. The gentlemen he appointed on the commission were well qualified for the task. But when they came to deal with the knotty problem peeeroerosoucvors % _ President Roosevelt and Gov. Van Sant stand for the same po- @ @ litical principle—that the rights @ of the people must come first. @ of taxing personal property they ran afoul of the constitutional provisions that made any radical change in the existing system impossible. ‘They rec- ognized this fact in thelr report, which was a. Very luminous and intelligent ‘treatise on the whole question of tax ation. They framed a law excellent in most of its provisions. The legislature enacted some of the provisions of their bill, which were a great improvement on the old law. After a long discus- sion, the chapters relating to personal Froperty were defeated; but the dis- cussion resulted in the framing and passage of the ‘constitutional amend- ment now before the people, which, although far from perfect, embodies the most advanced principles of taxa tion, and will, if adopted, place Minne sota in the vanguard of the states In the liberal power it confers on the leg- islature to place our tax laws on a sound and just economical basis. So Ste ese staceeesess @ | Be sure to vote for the consti- @ @ tutional amendments; they are @ @ in the interests of the people. that the final results of the governor's: initiative in this tax reform movement were worth many times the cost of the extra session. The educative value of the discussion in and out of the legis- lature cannot be overestimated, and one of the men it served to educate was the governor himself, who finally became and is mow an ardent champl- on of the constitutional amendment. That amendment is one of the great achievements of the Republican party, ‘and its adoption will mark a new era tn the tax logisintion of the Country, =St-"Paul Pioneer Press, ee BID FOR SUPPORT _ OF THE RAILROADS Democratic Party Comes Out Strongly Against an Increase in Gross Earnings Tax on Railroads. I The St. Paul Globe, the Absolute Property of J. J. Hill, Wages Fierce Warfare Against Proposed Amendment. Utter Fallacy and Inconsistency of the Arguments Put Forth by the Democratic Organ Against the Amendment. KIND OF “BLUSTER” THE PEOPLE WANT Democrats Brazenly Declare That Van Sant’s Anti- Merger Action Has Been All “‘Bluster’’—Clever Scheme That Will Not Work. The expected has happened. The Democratic party is opposing the amendment providing for an increase of the railroad gross earnings tax, and this is a part of the bargain of its lead ‘ers, to gain railroad support and rall- road money. ‘The campaign against this ameadment was naturally started in the Democratic railroad organ, the St. Paul Globe. The Globe is owned absolutely by James J.’ Hill, president of the Great Northern Railroad compa- ny. Knowing the source of this attack on the gross earnings amendment, there is little more that need be said to the people as to the merits of this opposition. The Globe argues that if this amendment is adopted, the tax paid to the estate of the railroads will be decreased, rather than increased. If this were true, would the official or- gan of the Great Northern, a newspa- Der owned and wholly controlled by the president of that company, oppose its adoption by the people? ‘Do the railroads in general oppose a measure that will decrease their taxes? Would ‘Mr. Hill's paper oppose a law that would decrease the tax of his merzer railroads? Yet this is Just what the opposition to this amendment asserts, in Mr. Hill's own paper. “Moreover, for the past ten years this fame issue has beon before the peo- ple, Every attempt to have this 1aw for an increase of the gross earnings tax on railroads adopted by the legis- lature and submitted to the people, has been fought by the railroads. Paid at- torneys of the roads have appeared be- fore committees to argue against it; paid lobbyists of the roads have used their peculiar system of argument against it, and money has been lavish- ly used to, defeat it. If it was to re- duce the tax of the railroads, why have they fought it so bitterly for the past ten years, and spent thousands of dol- lars to defeat it? Why have they used every argument and every means to keep the people from getting a chance to vote on it? Why, then, does the only newspaper in’ Minnesota owned wholly by a railroad president, take.the lead against it, and tell the people they should not vote for it? One thing {s absolutely certain, it is not because it will reduce the tax of Mr. ‘Bil’s railroad. : ‘What, in brief, is the history of this proposed law, making the increase in the gross earnings tax? It was drawn shortly after Gov. Van Sant came into office, at the request of Attorney Gen- eral Douglas, by ex-Atlorney General Childs. ‘The first draft of the bill was then thoroughly reviewed by Mr. Doug Jas, in consultation with Mr. Childs. ‘The Democrats, by their speeches and in circulars, have openly declared that the anti-merger action of Gov. Van Sant has been all “bluster.” They have had the effrontery to say: “What have we to show for all the bluster about the merger? After all ‘the talk and the lapso of a year, there is not a case even pending against the merger in’ the courts. There have ‘Deen dimeulties, we aré told. All the parties have not been summoned and the cases fall flat. If the law had been violated ,any lawyer with sufficient knowledge to secure a certificate en- titling him to practice knows that all the parties to the suit must be brought into court. Anything short of this is ‘subterfuge. ‘While this is what the Democrats say, what are the facts, and then what do the people think of a party and its condidat> that will. make ‘such: state- ments? Not many people in this state can fail to know that suits are pending in the courts against the Northern Securities ‘company. The daily papers this last week were full of the testimony of President Hill and others, taken before Examiner Mr. Fred G. Ingersoll, at St. Paul, in the suit ordered by President Roosevelt, under the Sherman anti-trust law. ‘This was the continuation of the testt- mony taken in New York the rst of this ‘month. Solicitor General Rich- ards of the United States; Assistant ‘United States Attorney Beck and As- Soclate Counsel Judge Day were in St. ‘Paul in-charge of the case in behalf of thé United States. Mr. Grover, gener- al counsel of the Great Northern; Mr. Bunn, general counsel of the Northern Pacific; ex-United’ States’ Attorney General Griggs, spectal counsel for the Northern Securities company, and Judge Young, the personal counsel of President Hill, appeared for the de- fense, making the most notable array of lawyers that ever were in court in any case in this state. If this case was not in court, and if it was not con- sidered a very s¢rious case and @ men. ace to the securities company, what were all these lawyers doing in our state? Mr. Ingersoll has also been appotnt- ed examiner in'the case brought by the ‘State of Misnesota against the merger Both these gentlemen spent a great deal of time and much labor in inves- tigating the law bearing upon the sub+ Ject;_and after the bill was drafted, Mr.’ Douglas requested ex-Gov. John Lind, who bad then gone out of office, to give his opinion upon the law as Grawn. Mr. Lind spent an entire day in the state library looking over the cases suggested by Mr. Douglas, and made several minor changes In the bill as submitted to him; but the language of the bill, covering interstate com- merce was not changed, and was fully, agreed upon by these three gentlemen, ‘Mr. Dougias has in his possession not. only the bill drawn by Mr. Childs, but the bill as changed by himself, and as separately drafted by Mr. Lind; and as to this clause covering interstate commerce, the three absolutely agree, PRAISED BY ALL ALIKE. Labor Bureau Under Republican Mane agement Accomplishes Great Work. ‘There is one departmert of Gov. Van sant’s administration which has been Setsseeseseroocos @ _ Single-handed and alone 8. R. @ @ Van Sant is making a fight @ @ againet all the enormous weaith > @ of that great railroad monopoly, # @ the Northern Securities company, @ @ which is being poured out to the @ @ Democrats. He is the champion @ @ of the people, and the people will @ @ stand by him. e praised alike by Democrats and Re- publicans and which will add great strength to the Republican ticket in certain circles. ‘That is the labor bu- reau. John O'Donnell, himself a la: boring man, took hold of the office that, since its inception had been run in a routine manner, and in one year made it the most-talked-of labor. de- partment in the United States. Such men as Carroll D. Wright have mani- fested great interest in the new lines of work undertaken by Mr. O'Donnell, and labor commissioners of other states have been wondering how Min- nesota’s bureau accomplished go much, It is not too much to say that, for the first time in the state’s history, Minne sota really has a labor bureau that is worthy the name. Gov. Van Sant was interested in labor, and placed a prac- tical, earnest man at the head of the department, and labor will not forget the benefits derived from the efficient operation of its own bureau under the past administration—St. Paul Dis patch. USTER” OPLE WANT EWA re That Van Sant’s Anti- ) All *‘Bluster’’—Clever Vill Not Work. company, and the testimony will soon be heard by him in it. As a matter of fact, this is the suit of which the Northern Securities company is most afraid, and undoubtedly the purpose of the Democrats in endeavering to make it appear that no merger suits are pending in the courts is a part of their bargain with the Northern Securities company. How easy it would be if the people could be made to believe this, and Mr. Rosing should accident. ally be elected governor by the liberal use of railroad money, for him to qui etly drop the state’s sult against these SPH eeoroovercese ® @ _ Last winter at Washington the @ @ great trust magnates declared @ @ openly that there were two men @ @ in public office who would never @ @ be re-elected; these two men @ @ were President Roosevelt and @ @ Gov. Van Sant. ¢ roads. It is a very clever scheme ‘on their part, but it will not work. ‘The People know what Gov. Van Sant will do, and they know that as long as ho 4s governor this suit will not be dropped, but will be pushed vigorous- ly. Moreover, a third suit is pending against the merger, brought ‘by the State of Washington, through the in- fluence of Gov. Van Sant, and it has been held good by the supreme court of the United States. With, these three cases, not only pending, but so far advanced in the courts, what do the people think of this bold and false statement of the Dem- ccrats, scattered broadcast over the state, ‘and what other purpose can it have than to make it possible for the State's sult to be dropped if the ral read candidate could he elected? “We teel grateful to you, Mr. Prest- dent, for the patriotle efforts which you have made to bring about en hon- ‘orable settlement of the strike: ef- forts which you continued: despite the remarkable spirit and conduct, which you at first found in the company's managets.”—Jobn Mitchell, President ‘of tho Coal Miners" Union, to Theodore Roosevelt, President of the Unitea States. * Lhe meme meer ener eee te ere 7EOPLE VERSUS THE RAILROADS Real Contest in the Present Campaign Is Between the People and the Great : Northern Securities Company. Pf DANGER LIES IN OVER-CONFIDENCE Only One Thing Gov. Van Sant Has to Fear im Com- ing Election Is That Too Many Friendly Vot- ers May Stay at Home. This Is the People’s Fight and Every Man Must Do His Share to Ensure a Sweeping Victory for the Anti-trust Forces. It is time the people of Minnesota knew who the real contestants are in this state campaign. On the ballots they will find the names of “S, R. Van Sant, Republican,” and “L. A. Rosing, Democrat,” as candiates for governor. But they are not the actual contest- ants, and it is time this fact was brought right home to the citizens of this great state. The real contest to be settled November 4th is not be- tween Mr. Van Sant and Mr. Rosing, it s not even between the Republican party and the Democratic party, it is between the people of Minnesota and the Northern Securities Company of New Jersey. The issue to be settled is whether the people of this state are to run their own affairs or whether they are to be managed by this New Jersey corporation; whether the peo- ple of this state shall say who shall be their governor or whether the North- ern Securities Company shall name him. This is said not haphazard nor for political effect, but advisedly and the facts show the truth of the state- ment. ‘Mr. Rosing, in his opening address, said of the antimerger suits brought at the request of Gov. Van Sant, that while the governor had done ‘what was right, that this merger ques- tion was now in the courts and was not a political issue; that the court would take care of it and that further agitation of the matter would waste time. At that timo it looked as though Mr. Rosing might be in a sense right, Gov. Van Sant has but one thing to fear in the coming election. That one thing is that two many voters whe wish to see him re-elected will not go to the polls next Tuesday and vote. ‘There is no question but that his acts as governor are approved by the peo ple. They want him re-elected, but such has been the confidence that he would have an overwhelming major ity, that there is a feeling that he does not need votes. There is always a light vote in the years when there {s not a presidential election, in the “off years” as they are called. This is an “off year” and there Is danger that the voters, al- ‘though friendly to Gov. Van Sant, will not take the trouble to go to the polls. ‘This supplement is published to show to you plainly the issues that have come up in this campaign. It is to show you the tremendous power of combined wealth that Gov. Van Sant is facing. The power of money in any Geeseseeccescsoes @ Gov. Van Sant is one of the > @ largest personal property tax- @ ‘@ payers in Winona county. The @ boat company of which he is @ @ president, however, was organ- @ ized by his father under the laws © of lowa, that being his fathers @ @ home until his death a few ¢ @ months ago, and naturally it pays @ @ its taxes there. * cause, however unjust, fs well known. As wo have said, there is no question = to where the sympathies of the people are, they are with Goy. Van Sant, and he needs the vote of every friend hé has in Minnesota, He needs it not only thet he may be elected, but ‘that he may have such a majority that the great railroad interests and trusts will not again try to dominate ‘the Politics of Minnesota and dictate to its people who they shall elect as gov- ernor. ‘This is your fight, and you should see to it that you are at the pals nest Tuesday and cast your bel lots. ‘There are 2.724 voting precincts tn ‘Minnesota, If but ten voters in each precinct stay away from the polls, that will mean 27,240 votes less tor Gov. Van Sant, for you may be sure that every opposition vote will be cast, as they have the money to take the voters to the polls. Every stay-at- home vote will be a Van Sant vote. He cannot afford to lose them and you cannot afford to have him lose them. The following table of the Repub- licdn vote in 1898 an “oft year” and 1900 a presidential year shows a loss of twenty votes to the precinct or ver 41,000. Can you afford to have Goy. Van Sant lose that this year’ Let us urge you not only to go to the polis yourself, but to take your neigh: tors and to” make this “Indeed a Fas hn Re Republican vote for governor: Counties— 1900. 1898. pvt Seerererre ee) 197 — 398 Anoka vocsscccscc 1269 811 Becker .........+,. 1,488 Luz Beltrami ........... 1,004 + 441 Benton ....-.-..+-- 732 634 Big Stone)... 884 623. Blue Harth 2.0/1) g136 2.4ae Brown .....-..-e+. | 1,287 904 but it is now a most important politi cal question, and has been made so, not by Gov. Van Sant, but by the Northern Securities Company itself which has made Mr. Rosing its can. didate, and by every moans in_ its power has been attempting to defeat Gov. Van Sant, until today the ques tion for the yoter to decide is not if he will vote for Mr. Van Sant or Mr. Rosing, but if he will vote that the people of Minnesota continue to be their own masters, or for turning the state over to a foreign railroad cor- Poration, Soon after the ssemoeratie head- quarters were opened evidences were shown of a generous campaign fund. ‘The committee did not take headquar- ters at the Merchants’ Hotel, they could not get rooms enough, they said. ‘They evidently needed much more rcom for the work to be done, and they engaged most of the upper floor of a business block. At once machin- ery was set to worx that meant a most expensive campaign, and ever since then money has been used by the Democrats with a.liberality never before known in Iumnesota politics. Newspapers have been subsidized, Re- publican newspapers have been paid for publishing the Democratic bulle- tins ‘and Democratic speeches as ad. vertising. Two Republican dailies were each offered $750 to publish Mr. Rosing's speech, and $500 to publish his biography, and it was refused. A Swedish Republican newspaper was offered $1,500 simply not to support Mr. Van Sant, and refused it. 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"sss 677 Waseca ....0000.... nat a3ag Washington ...:.... 2109 1626 Watonwan ..00.../). 1127 164 Wilkin 2.020, “628 aT, Winona $205...2005. 3,052 2,372 Wright 2.0.012.... 21596 2,911 ‘Yellow Medicine -:! 1/272 ‘961 Totals .-.-...,...152,905 111,796 | | | WHO HAS FILLED THE DEMOCRATIC “BARREL?” © ___ The campaign for L. A, Rosing, Democratlo candidate for governor, 4 © is the most lavish Minnesota has seen in recent history. Democratic @ managers are spending dollars whére they used to spend dimes. ¢ © Speeches and circular letters are sent out in lots of a hundred thou- ¢ @ sand. Workers have been hired by the dozen and special epeakers to ¢ ® reach every nationality. . + There has been a general suspicion that the bulk of the Democratic 4 ¢ fund is furnished by the same Interest that gives all these speakers and ¢ © workers free transportation. No such fund could have been raised by 4 @ individual subscriptions. No such fund has been available in recent 4 @ years. 4 4 Information now at hand confirms the general suspicion. It seems ¢ # that the financial center of the nation Is taking an interest In Minne- 4 © sota politics this year. Promoters of.the Northern Securities merger ¢ have persistently declared that public séntiment In the Northwest sup- ¢ © ported Mr. Hill, and that Gov, Van Sant’s” position’ was not popular. 4 @ There is nothing that. dealers In railroad stocks fear so much as hostile ¢ legislation, and the Wall street brokers are anxious to see whether 4 @ Minnesota is going to permit the merger to go on unmolested. Gov. 4 @ Van Sant's defeat would prove to them that Mr. Hill's influence was 4 @ paramount in Minnesota, and able to unmake a governor who opposed ¢ @ hirh. Gov. Van Sant’s election would mean a drop in Northern Secur- ‘ @ ities. o So Wall street is watching the Minnesota campaign, and the “tip” ¢ @ down there is that Rosing will be elected, and elected by the influence 4 @ of the merger railroads. This is stated with positive faith that the ¢ @.railroad influence is paramount in this state. 4 ° The Democratic campaign is centered on Rosing. The other candi- 4 @ dates on the state ticket are working for him. All the literature is 4 @ booming him, and the workers mention no other name. In half the 4 @ counties there is no local Democratic ticket, and all the work is being 4 @ done for Rosing. P ° The fact is, and all Minnesotans know it, that popular opinion Is 4 strongly behind Gov. Van Sant. Railroad influence is not paramount, 4 @ unless it is exerted secretly. The danger is that the mass of voters 4 @ will not realize until too late the nature of the fight being ‘waged. 4 o The sole purpose of the Democratic campaign is to get the scalp 4 ¢ of Gov. Van Sant. Anything else they get will be a gift, as they are 4 working only to beat Van Sant. If he cannot be defeated, the inter. 4 @ ests opposed to him want to cut down his lead to a ridiculously small 4 @ figure. 4 ° : Republicans seem to be waking up, and Gov. Van Sant’s success 4 @ is as sure as anything ever is in politics. This strenuous effort of the ¢ @ Democrats, however, may make his margin much closer than it should 4 @ be. A “bar’l” is powerful in politics, especially if it is deep enough. 4 @ It takes a good deal of enthusiasm on the other side to counteract the 4 ® effect of a “liberal campaign.”—Minneaplis Journal. 4 ee Holes have been published in Chicago ‘and Milwaukee newspapers, and these ‘Papers sent out by the tens-of thou sands to the voters of the state. Cir eulars and pamphlets have been sent out by the one hundred thousands. A force of from fifteen to twenty sten- ographers and typewriters ‘have been kept busy for weeks. Expensive lith- ographs have plastered the state, and hired workers have everywhere ‘been sent out in the guise of peddlers, spec tacle venders, book canvassers, and even tramps. ‘These things are but a few of the-evidences of a lavish use of money. Where did this money come from? The Demberats do not now have the grain inspection department to assess monthly, as two years ago, and they have no state officials to voluntarily contribute to the cam- paign. Where, then, do'they get’ tneir money? THE TWO CHAMPIONS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND GOV. van sant. These Two Men Stand for the Same Principles—The People Before the Trusts. Every voter who admires President Roosevelt should vote for Gov. Van Sant. These two men stand for the seme principles in public life, and this fight in Minnesota now being waged by the trusts against Gov. Van Sant is but the forerunner of the fight to be made against President Roosevelt. When the governor began the now-famous merger suits, he aroused the bitter op- position of that great combination of wealth, and When President Roose- yelt, at! the request of the governor, had the suit brought under the Sher- man act, that hatred and opposition descended to him. Balked in its gi- gantic scheme, of stock-jobbing, Wall street vowed vengeance on both of them. “Railroad presidents and Wall street magnates freely made the threat in Washington that they would defeat both President Roosevelt and Goy. Van sant for re-election. They will doubt- less now be joined in the effort by the coal barons. It is well known that the merger railroads made every effort to prevent Gov. Van Sant’s renomination. Utterly failing of even getting a can- didate againstjhim in the Republican Party, they de(ermined to beat him at the polls, if money could do it ‘The money has been forthcoming and is being freely spent; but if money can peat Gov. Van Sant, money without limit Will be used. to corrupt and de- bauch the voters of this entire country to defeat President Roosevelt. Voters of Minnesota, there is more in this campaign than the mere re- election of Goy. Van Sant. Here is an opportunity to rebuke the arro- gance of wealth, and to teach it that Minnesota, stands with . President Roosevelt and 8. -R. Van Sant and against combined wealth, . Again, every source from which the Republicans might get active support in the campaign has been cut off wherever these railroad interests have had thé necessary influence. very Republican speaker, every Re: publican committeeman and worker traveling on these merged railroads has paid his fare. Gov, Van Sant him- self,pays for every mile he rides on their trains. Yet the Great Northern “Flyer,” which is supposed to stop for no one, is stopped to accommodate Democratic speakers. ‘The St. Paul Globe has for weeks been filled with personal abuse of Gov. ‘Van Sant and other Republican can- didates. The governor has been car- tooned in the most iasulting manner by that paper. He iiaé been accused of paying no tax on his steamboats in ‘Minnesota, when it is well known that he personally does not own a single FALSE STATEMENTS. JAMES J, HILL'S ORGAN AGAIN GRINDING. Desperate Campalgn Against the Rall- road Gross Earnings Tax Being Waged. ‘The St. Paul Globe, owned by James J. Hill and operated in the interests of the Democratic state ticket, has ovened a desperate campaign for the defeat of the railroad gross earnings bill. The bill was passed by the legislat ure of 1901, in spite of a powerful rail road lobby, and is submitted to’ the People at the coming election. It in /ereases the gross earnings tax on rail ‘roads from 3 to 4 per cent. __ Now the organ of the Great North em, which made such strenuous ef. forts to defeat the bill, says the amend ment, if adopted, will save the Great ‘Northern money. /_ The situation would be farcical were ie not evident that the Globe is making desperate effort to beat the bill by misleading the voters. . ‘The opening article is a tissue o! misstatements from start to finish, most of them apparent on thelr face ‘The Great Northern has shrewd at torneys and good bookkeepers, “and ‘when the bill was introduced it was carefully analyzed. ‘The Great North ‘ern knew what was in the bill then as "well as it does now. Yet its lobby fotight ‘the bill before the legislature, and its newspaper now opposes it be fore the people. : ‘Whe Democratic campaign in the state is inevitably connected with the campaign against the gross earnings bill. ‘The Globe has turned over both {ts editorial and“tts news columns to the Democratic state committee, who is using them for all it is worth. ‘The Globe's attack on the bill is evidently made ‘with the knowledge of the Dem. ocratic committee, and “‘tips it off” to the public that the Great Northern a fluence is behind the campaign ‘against Goy. Van Sant.—Minneapolis Journal. ee VAN SANT AND UNION LABOR In His First Message to the Legislature He Recom- mended That the Laborer Should Be Pro- i tected by Legislation. Union Labor Was Recognized When He Appointed a Member of the Union to the Head of the . é Bureau of Labor. boat. The boats that he is interested in belong to a company organized in Jowa, a great many years ago by Gov. Van Sant’s father, who lived in that state and died there but a few months ago, and being an Iowa company of course it pays its taxes there, But Gov. Van Sant’s own Personal tax is very large, larger than some men who are supposed to be millionaires, The Globe has also attacked Mr. Ray Jones, candidate for lieutenant gov- ernor, and Mr. Jacobson, who for years has fought the® battles of the people in the legislature, because he is supporting Mr. Van Sant. It has Tidiculed the proposed tax code, aimed at concealed wealth, and has in one day had as:many as four leading edi- torials abusive ‘of Republicans. No other newspaper in the state on either side has shown one-tenth of the ac- tivity in this campargn that the Globe has. Who owns the St. Paul Globe? Mr. James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern Railway Company and of the Northern Securities Company. The Globe, moreover, has openly op- Posed the constitutional amendment for the increase of the railway gross earnings tax, and it is significant that the Demoorats receiving financial sup- port for their campaign wholly from the railroads has made no effort to bring this amendment favorably to the Attention of the people. Is not this part of the bargain, a payment by the Democrats for tue railroad money to ron thelr campaign? ‘The ‘Globe claims that this amendment will re- duce, not increase. the tax on rail. Gov. Van Sant is recognized by la- bor as one of the strongest most sin- cere and earnest friends it has ever had in this state. He never has missed an opgortunity in his public or private life to do everything in his Fower to help the laborer, and organ- ized labor has always had recognition at his hands, Almost his first act as governor was to include in his first message to the legislature the following recommenda- tion: “Of all the triumphs of our Amer- ican civilization, there are none to compare with the advanced position of the laboring classes and no one thing has so much contributed to our won- Gerful progress as the condition of our working people. Where labor it well paid and enjoys equal rights there will you find not only a wealthy and prosperous state, but also an in- telligent and progressive people. “Minnesota takes a front rank among states in labor legislation, To our bureau of labor are we indebted for many wise laws, Upon our statute books you will find enactments guar- anteeing to wage earners the right to organize and protecting them against blacklisting; laws for the regulation of child labor; those requiring health- ful sanitary conditions and protecting them against accidents in their places of employment. These and other laws have rightly placed Minnesote ina high rank. I would suggest one more law and urge its passage—a law mak- ing eight hours a legal day’s work on ll public works authorized by the state, “We must take no backward steps Lut must continue the legislation nec- essary to open‘ to labor new safe- guards of protection and other fields of employment.” This was followed by such effective efforts on his part that the eight-hour law was passed at that session of the legislature, . ‘Moreover, he appounted to the head of the labor bureau a thoroughly qualified member of union labor; a jan who was a wage earner, a man @ The new gross earnings tax @ law is fair, it is constitutional, it © # is simple. ‘It lets the state keep @ @ close watch that it gets what is 0 $ ite due, it stops all leaks and will @ @ very largely increase the tax on'@ @ railroads. That is why the rail. @ roads oppose it. : ¢ POCOSOOOOOOOS OCOD of recognized ability and information of: this department without fear or favor to any person or class and with- out regara to politics. ‘This has made Minnesota’s bureau of labor so prac: tleal and so progressive’ alorg new lines of investigation that it has won a. national reputation. Moreover every assistant employed in. the de- partment is a practleal workman in some branch of labor and:is in touch with the needs and rights of his fel- low wage-earnors. For the first time therefore, the bureau of labor is fully- in sympathy with working. men and is operating. conservatively but effi. ‘on Iabor subjects, and he especially instructed him to’ carry on the work | roads. If this is true why did the rail- roads move heaven and earth and Pour out their money to defeat the Passage of this amendment in the legislature and so” keep the people from a chance to vote upon it? The leading Democratic speaker in the state, in an address at St. Paul, has sought to belittle the antimerger suits, calling them bluster and assert ing that there was not then a single case pending in the court on this sub- Ject. Yet at that time three cases were actually pending and_being pushed against this merger company, and testimony in one of them was be- ing taken in New York city. Which side, let us ask, 1s shown to be inter- ested in pushing and which in killing these merger suits? If the people could be convinced that not a sult was really pending, how easy {t would be if Mr. Rosing’ were accidentally elected governor for him to quietly drop the Minnesota case, the one most feared by the merged railroads. Is, then, the merger out of politics? Which candidate is the merger sup- porting? Which candidate is it op- posing? It is time, we say, that the people Anew that the merger railroads are supporting Mr. Rosing by every meana in their power and opposing Gov. Van Sant. It is time that it was known that the contest is between the people and the merged roaas, and that a vote against Gov. Van Sant is not so muck a yote for Mr. Rosing as for the North- ern Securities Company, of New Jer- ‘Urigin of Attack on Gross Earnings Amendment. ‘The Dispatch can only regard with suspicion the origin of the attack upon the amendment to incresse thé tax upon the gross earnings of the rail- reads. It so plainly comes from rail- way sources, whence came the opposl tion in the legislature, that the hypoc- risy of the warning that the effect of the law will be a great decrease tn revenue from that source, as John Ran- dclph once sald of some act of Clay, “shines and stinks, and stinks and shines, like a rotten mackerel in the moonlight.” There is a Pecksniffian snifie about auch protestations, from mnt @ eourne % Not a Demcratic speaker and @ @ not a Democratic paper has had @ @ & word of fault to find with the @ grain inspection department, the ® @ state's prison twine, the state @ @ labor bureau, the department of @ public-instruction, the food and @ @ dairy commission, or any other @ department under Gov. Van @ ‘ Sante administration. 3 ° PCOUOOOOOO OOOO OOS The proposed amendment has the further merit of substituting certainty for ancertainty, simplicity for com- plexity, and removes both temptation and opportunity for suppression of facta and juggling with accounts by which the companies might escape tax- es. Any other method demands ac- counting for earnings made upon each separate article carried over more than the State of Minnesota. One has but to contemplate the immensity of the work of such a method, with the impossibility of detecting’ suppres- sions, to make desirable a simpler Plan, such as the proposed bill pro- vides. Even the Democrats admit that the Republicans did well when the extra session of the legislature passqd the proposed tax amendment, ‘This amend. ment prepares the way for a new tax law covering personal property. ‘This is the hardest class of property to Teach for taxation, as all know, and un. der the constitution, as at ‘present, much of it cannot be reached. ‘The provisions of the amendment have been fully explained by the Republican press, and all voters are urged to vote for 4." Te will permit an income tae, Provides for two methods of taxing Dublic franchises, for a registry law on mortgages, for a tax on inheritances, and, indeed, places Minnesota. first among all the states in modérn meth- ods of taxation. SUPPLEMENT To. APEBAL, St PAUL, Tes, ams. piss LRN 18 SN Ae SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1902. z . B.! | ii A WEEKS RECORD IN MINNESOTA'S CAPITAL. The Saintly City and Saintly City Folk-News Item of Social, Religious and General Matters Among the People, Belled Down. VOTE FOR REPUBLICAN NOMINEES. "STAND BY THE PRESIDENT." Look out for the testimonial to Prof. J. W. Luca, Nov. 6. There will be elections held in forty-two states next Tuesday. Mr. G. S. Foster, of East Seventh street, is on the sick list. Mrs. William Aston and son have returned from their trip to the East. Don't fail to vote next Tuesday, and don't fail to vote for good Republicans. Don't forget the Men's Sunday Club at St. James Church to-morrow afternoon. Dr. J. E. Porter has moved his residence from Carroll street to 569 Igle-hart street. St. Peter Claver Church has had a bazaar in progress at hall corner 8th and Wabasha during the week. Don't forget the concert to be given for Choir Master J. W. Luca at St. James Church next Thursday evening. Mr. Arthur Winstead left last week for Seattle, Wash., where he will assume the position of valet for Mr. Hill, a son of Mr. J. J. Hill. The original and world-famed Fisk Jubilee Singers will give a concert at Pilgrim Baptist church, Nov. 12. Look out for further announcements. The Elite Shoe Shining Parade, No. 12 West Sixth street, J. B. Johnson, propietor. Shoes shined or polished. Special chairs for ladies. Shoe dying a specialty. The most popular place for people who take their meals down town in John Godfrey's, No. 552 Wabasha street. Everything neat, clean and well cooked. Is your hair straight? If not, send 50 cents to Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. 76 Wabash avenue, Chicago, Ill., for a bottle of Ozonized Ox Marrow and you can easily straighten it. Gentlemen wishing nice furnished rooms, with all conveniences, by the week or month, at reasonable rates, should apply at the Benton House, 228 West Third street, up stairs. WANTED—Girls and women from 16 years to 15 for Feeders, Cop winders and Weavers. Nice work, good wages. Apply at American Grass Twine Co. Front and Mackubin streets. The hall which was given by the Forty Social Club at Gardner's Hall, last Tuesday, was a pleasant and successful affair. There was a large orderly crowd, and everybody had a jolly good time. The Excelsior Night Lunch Wagon is the place to go to get good sandwiches and coffee. Open from 5:00 p. m. to 2:30 a. m. Wagon stand at the corner of Sixth and Jackson streets, J. S. Mills, proprietor. Mr. John S. Mills, who formerly had his night lunch wagon on West Third street, has moved to the corner of Sixth and Jackson, where he is prepared to serve all comers. Give him a call when you wish a lunch. For good home cooking go to the Metropolitan restaurant, No. 378 Minnesota street. First-class meals at all hours. Regular meals 20 cents. Meals to order at moderate prices. Mrs. Lou McLaughlan proprietor. Dr. John E. Porter, physician and surgeon, office suite 410 Bradley building. Fifth street, opposite court house. Office hours: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 m., 2:00 to 4:00 p. m. Telephone, Main: 1738-J1. Residence, 569 Iglehart street. Telephone, Dale: 589-J2. The Ramsey County Afro-American club held a rally at its clubrooms, 378 Cedar street, last Wearday evening. The auction took the hall. Witnessed by Senator Hiler H. Horton, E. G. Krahmer, M. W. Fitzgerald, Capt. Berger, Nici Potgiesier, E. W. Bazille, E. P. Wade and F. McCracken. J. W. Woodford presided. Now, gentlemen, its up to you! You may get suits made to order in latest cuts and patterns with fit guaranteed by calling upon our tailors, Messrs Howell, Martin & Payne, No. 156 East 6th and 63d Selby avenue. Also clothing cleaned, repaired, sponged and pressed on short notice. Moderate prices. Goods called for and delivered. The Third and Fourth Ward Republican club held a rally last Wednesday evening at the county headquarters, 30 East Fourth street. The speakers were Jeremy B. Horton, Manapolis Senator Hilar H. Horton, Capt. Berger, Henry Johns, E. P. Wade, D. E. Beasley and Columbus Waldon. Music was furnished by an orchestra and quartet. Judge Johnson presided and Richard Farr was the secretary. The attraction at the Star Theatre next week will be "The Big New York Success," a $1.50 show at Star prices,—the "Tiger Lillies" Extravaganza Co., comprising all star vaudeville acts, grand array of gorgeous scenery, and the famous "Tiger Lillies Beauty Chorus." Notice: There will be three performances given option day. These Nov. 4 performances at matinee performance at 2:30 p. m., evening performance at 8 p. m. Night performance at 10:30 p. m. Election returns will be received by special wire, and read from the stage. Edward G. Krahmer, the Republican nominee for county auditor, is by experience and training well qualified for the successful administration of that office. Those who best know his past record speak of him in terms of unreserved commendation. His candidacy inspires that same degree of public confidence which he enjoyed in the past as assemblyman and register of deeds. All his interests as citizen and taxpayer are closely identified with the welfare of this city, in which he was reared and educated. Moreover, his wide acquaintance with local business and real estate conditions would constitute invaluable factors in making his incumbency of the auditor's office a matter of general satisfaction to the public. There will assuredly be no mistake made in his election. A very delightful birthday party was given by Mrs. D. C. Cotton, 615 Fuller street, for her daughters, Miss Florence and Laura, last Friday evening. The usual pastimes, including dancing, were indulged in, and seasonable refreshments were served. Among those present were: Irene Wynn; Misses Carrie Mills, Nellie Brown, Ella Charleston, Mae Williams, Hattie Loomis, Efe Manning, Florence Bodenhamer, Sadie Thomas (New York), Annie Shappard, Crystal Teabeau, George Davis, Bertha Williams, Mary C. Messrs., Fort, W. French, C. William S. Harrington, H. Mickham, H. Diper, P. Caldwell O. Highgate, H. Brown, H. Pearce, F, Folks, J. Murphy, W. Alston, W. A. Weir, W. Martin, A. McDonald; also Messrs. P. Manning, C. McCullen, M. Diggs and A. Dodson, of Minneapolis. "STAND BY THE PRESIDENT." Republican Candidate for Judge of the Probate Court. Judge Bazille is one of the wheel horses of the Republican party as well as one of the most popular of the county officials. It is seldom that an official is so admirably fitted for the responsibility of his office that he is enabled to give universal satisfaction. Judge E. W. Bazille has elevated the Ramsey county probate court to the position of dignity commensurate with its importance; has purified the court of many objectionable practices and by the exercise of keen legal mind and the application of a practical knowledge of men and affairs administered the difficult tasks imposed upon the probate court by the satisfaction of public and bar. Without exception members of the legal profession speak in most complimentary terms of Judge Bazille and the dignified yet unostentious way in which he discharged the multitudinous and arduous duties of his most trying office. His re-election by a handsome majority is generally conceded. EDWARD G. KRAHMER Republican Candidate for County Auditor. Mr. Krahmer's candidacy for this important office is being received with general satisfaction. Born, reared and educated in Minnesota, he has been identified with St. Paul since the days of his infancy. He is a substantial tax-payer, engaged in the real estate business, and this, together with his four years' experience as register of deeds, and earlier, as an assemblyman of this city, have familiarized him with real estate conditions and the administration of public affairs to an extent which has peculiarly fitted him for the office he seeks. His administration of the office has enabled the delivery of efficiency and of business methods applied to public affairs. The side popularity of Mr. Krahmer enjoys among all classes promises well for his success at the polls. ROBERT H. SENG. Republican Candidate for County Commissioner, Ramsey County. Mr. Seng, who served in numerous official positions and especially as assessor of Ramsey county, is too well ROBEKT SENG known to need special mention. He is a candidate for county commissioner on the Republican ticket and will be elected, is the general opinion. He is the business man, affable and courteous to all and will make an ideal commissioner. HARVEY E. HALL. Republican Candidate for County Attorney, Harvey E. Hall, Republican candidate for county attorney, is one of the best equipped men for that responsible position at the Ramsey county bar. Mr. Hall was city prosecutor for two years during city attorney Markham's first term, and performed the duties of that office to the entire satisfaction of the public. He has had a large experience both in civil and criminal practice, and is widely and favorably known throughout Ramsey county. Mr. Hall is American in every sense; he lives very years of age, and has resided in St. Louis for the past twenty years; is a loyal Republican who has always worked for the best interests; his party and its chosen candidates; he is esteemed and respected by all classes of citizens alike; and has never been before the people for their suffrages. In our judgment, Mr. Hall would make an ideal county attorney and we earnestly recommend him to the voters of Ramsey county. Mr. E. G. Krahmer, candidate for county auditor, is making a winning race. He is all right. Everybody who is somebody will get in the band wagon by voting for him. VOTE STRAIGHT REPUBLICAN TICKET. M. B. THE APPEAL: A NATIONAL AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER Republican Candidate for County Surveyor, Ramsey Co. To re-elect a competent county officer is a step toward that ideal political condition of the merit system; for this reason, many others, Gates A. Johnson, who many others deided an efficient county surveyor, ought to be again elected to fill that responsible position, for which his years of service so admirably qualify him. Then, too Mr. Johnson is one of the staunchest Republicans in the party who has stood by it through prosperity and adversity, always true. See to it that you vote for Gates A. Johnson for county surveyor. Republican Candidate for County Commissioner Ramsey County. Mr. Nash is one of the best known of the old-time Republicans of this city, in which he has lived for so many years. He has always been an important factor in the councils of the Republican party. He also a good business man, having been engaged in insurance for many years, and is the state agent of the Union Mutual Life Insurance company, of Maine, and has an office in the Germania Bank building. He is a resident of the Seventh ward. He will make a good commissioner and should receive the support of all PERSONAL TAX PROPERTY PERSONAL TAX PROPERTY VAN DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL ANANIAS COMMITTEE ROSINGS PERSONAL TAXES EDWARD G. KRAHMER. The election of Edward G. Krahmer to the important office of county auditor is a matter of the most vital interest to the voters of Ramsey county. A proper discharge of the duties of that office requires no slight degree of intelligence, integrity, and industry, in none of which qualities would Mr. Krahmer be found wanting. His public services as register of deeds and assemblyman were characterized by a thorough mastery of the details of his work and by an unflagging fidelity to the public interests. Important as are these traits to a successful administration of the county auditor's office, it is of equal consequence that the auditor should have an extensive acquaintance conditions, estate values and business conditions, estate values, such as Mr. Krahmer has acquired during his long and successful career in public and private life. He is a native of this state and a territorial pioneer of this city. Temperament, training and experience conspire to make him an unusually strong candidate for the office, and his uniform courtesy and obliquity ways as register of deeds have gained for him a well-deserved popularity among all classes. In the office of county auditor Mr. Krahmer would be the right man in the right place. M. W. Fitzgerald for Register of Deeds is a sure winner. "Fitz" is all right. Does anybody doubt that Judge Grier M. Orr will be elected to the district bench? We haven't seen the doubter. M. B. E. G. KRAHMER Candidate for County Aubitor. M. W. FITZGERALD. Republican Candidate for Register of Deeds. Mr. Fitzgerald, the present incumbent of the office of Register of Deeds, has filled the office to full satisfaction of the public generally and is really one of the most painstaking and efficient of the county officers. He has employed, at various times, Afro-Americans in his office and will do so again. He deserves your support, and will doubtless get it. GATES A. JOHNSON. Republican Candidate for County Surveyor, Ramsey Co. RNOR VAN SANT ADMINISTERS A GOVERNOR VAN SANT ADMINISTERS A RÉBUKE. PETER H. Republican Candidate for Clerk of the District Court. Mr. Rogers, the present incumbent, is one of the best-known men of St Paul, and bases his candidacy upon the record he has made as clerk. He asks a re-election upon his merits, and refers the voter to any attorney as to the method and manner of his conduct of the office. He argues that the position is a most responsible one, and demands that the voter give the give of the future is his record for the past. Certainly has made an enviable record, and if re-elected, as he M. B. H. E. HALL Candidates for County Attorney. Republican Candidate for the Legislature Thirty-Fourth District. Mr. Mills is a native of St. Paul, born in 1869. He is a graduate of Central High school. He also took a regular and post-graduate law course in the Minnesota State University and was admitted to the bar in 1866. He is now following his profession with much success and has an office in the National German-American Bank building. He has lived for fourteen years in the thirty-fourth district, comprising that portion of the Eighth and Ninth wards south of the Great Northern tracks and east of Western avenue. He is a son of Henry L. Mills, present justice of the peace. The election of M. W. Fitzgerald as a register of deeds seems to be a foregone conclusion. No man better deserves the office, and no man ever ran for it with so many friends in both parties. Mr. Fitzgerald stands for decency and honor in politics, and his great executive and business ability have more than once cemented his reputation for a factory when internal strife threatened the office. He is a member of many fraternal societies and a believer in fraternal principles. His ability to fill the office is beyond the necessity of assertion. DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL ANANIAS COMMITTEE. REBUKE. —From the St. Paul Pioneer Press. assuredly will be, there is a certainty the office will be as well administered in the future as in the past. As is known the Republicans opened this campaign on a very high plane and have conducted it since along the lines of honorable, clean political. The grature sent out and the campaign books issued discussed state issues wholly. The Democrats were challenged to meet these issues and discuss the management of state affairs by the Republicans and especially Governor Van Sant's administration. It was felt that this was the only legitimate issue and Governor Van Sant wanted to come before the people for endorsement of his record. The Republicans, both spoken and heard, have avoided all personalities, all abuses of candidates, and have even avoided the use of cartoons. How has it been with our opponents? The Democrats have from the first dodged all the legitimate issues of the campaign and refused to discuss them. Indeed, Mr. Rosing's committee not only refused to meet these, the only proper issues in a state campaign, but they at once began their campaign by the narrowest appeals to the Swedish-Americans and Germans, because of the nationality and by efforts to arouse prejudice and personal bitterness among the voters of the state. Evidences of a lavish use of news media for using newspapers were paid liberally for using articles written for them. Large sums were offered for the support of papers, especially those published in the Swedish language. One Swedish newspaper was offered fifteen hundred dollars M. A. S. H. L. MILLS Candidate for Representative. DOINGS IN AND ABOUT THE GREAT "FLOUR CITY." Matters Social, Religious and General Which Have Happened and are to Happen Among the People of the City on the Falls. VOTE STRAIGHT REPUBLICAN TICKET. The Christian Endeavor meets every Sunday 6:30 p. m. at Bethesda Baptist church. You are most cordially invited. Miss M. Jackson, milliner and modiste, ladies' tailoring. French cleaning and curling feathers a specialty. No. 1409 South Fifth street. Dr. R. S. Brown has moved his office into the Century Building, No. 40th street south, rooms 405 and 406 Office 'phone N. W. 2271-J-1 Main. The Appeal is mailed to most of the homes of the people of the Twin Cities, and if you wish matters to reach these homes you must publish them in the Appeal. Pride of Minnesota K. of P. lodge will give a drama, in the near future, entitled "Damon and Prythias," and have secured some of the best local talent of the Twin Cities. Mrs. Celestine Brown has opened the "Creole Kitchen," boarding-house style, at 405-407 Fifth ave. S. Regular meals, 25 cents. Short orders served. First-class furnished rooms in connection. N. W. Tel. 343- L2, Minneapolis. NICHOLAS POTTGIESER. Republican Candidate for County Commissioner. Ramsey County. Nicholas Pottgierson, one of the Republican candidate for Missouri, missioner of Ramsey county, is a typical St. Paul man, having been born and reared in this city. He is well and favorably known, having served in various political positions. He was elected county commissioner twenty years ago. He was a member of the state senate from 1894 to 1898, where he did good service for the city and county. During Mayor Kiefer's administration he was appointed a member of the Board of Public Works, of which he was subsequently made president. He is a heavy tax-payer and, in looking out for his own interests, he could not overly interest of his constituents. Mr. Pottgierson, honest, courteous, painstaking official, ever striving to benefit the whole people, and is just the sort of man for the position. M. J. BELL. Republican Candidate for County Treasurer. Mr. Bell is one of our best known men, he having been in public life for many years. He was Register of Deeds some years ago and was the first of the county officers to appoint an Afro-American in his office. He served as a member of the council and is well posted in county and municipal affairs. He is a whole-souled, generous gentleman and will doubtless make a good treasurer. Vote for him. merely to keep still and not support Governor Van Sant, but refused the offer. A daily paper in St. Paul was offered $750.00 to publish Mr. Rosing's campaign speech, and $500.00 to publish his biography, and refused the offer. Space was paid for in other papers to run the articles prepared by the Democratic committee and Democratic speeches. From $100.00 to $300.00 was paid for such space at various times to a large newspaper. Special editions of a book as one hundred thousand copies of Swedish newsreapers have flooded the state. Emmanuel from these papers and from Mr. Rosing's biography, and the bulletins of their committee, have been sent through mail by the tens of thousands. From one end of the state to the other Mr. Rosing's pictures on paper and cardboard, large and small, of a dozen different kinds, are found in windows, on billboards, on fences and posts, and sent direct to the voters through the mails. Paid agents have been sent as peddlers, spectacle men, book agents and even tramps to go through the state from house to house and talk for the Democratic ticket. Paid men have been kept at work among the laboring classes. A force of fifteen to twenty stenographers and typewriters have been constantly at work for weeks writing in chalky personal letters. voters. Money has been spent in nearly every precinct in the state to work against Governor Van Sant and they are trying to earn their money. M. On Burlington Route Limited trains afford the traveler all the comforts of a good club. Easy chairs, a writing desk, current periodicals and duplicate whist are provided. People of the kind you like to meet are the patrons of these cars. That means a pleasant evening before retiring to the sleeping car. A competent attendant serves light lunches and refreshments from a well-stocked buffet at moderate prices. ASK YOUR HOME AGENT TO MAKE YOUR TICKET READ BY THIS LINE A Happy Combination of Comfort Luxurious Travel and Perfect Accomodations THE NORTH-WESTERN LINE C. S. P. M. & O R Y Inquire for rates and information should you contemplate a trip well rounded out with pleasure. : : : T. W. TFASDALE, Gen. Pas. Agt., St. Paul, Minn. During the alterations now being made in the Rudenbush building we are offering the greatest bargains ever known in Good New Uprights, $148. Fine second-hand Uprights in makes of Sons Schiller, Wesley, Schaffer, Ives & Chuckler Chickering, Wesley, Brisker, Fischer, Bruiser, and others at prices ranging from $85 to $215 All put in first-class condition, and on payments of only $5.00 per month. Square Vance Almost Given Away At 85, 815, 825, 835, 845, 855, 86 and 875. 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Hanson, Secretary of State -Sir; Pursuant to Chapter 157 of the General Laws of 1887, I herewith file in your office synopsis of Amendments to the Constitution posed by the General Laws of the State of Minnesota enacted at the General Session of the Legislature in 1901 and the General Laws of 1902 posed by the Chapter 150 of the General Laws of 1901, being an Act involving the taxation of railroad property, to be submitted to the General Assembly for rejection at the next General Election. STYNOPES OF AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, LEGISLATURE OF THE SAID STATE AT THE GENERAL SESSION IN 1900 AND THE EXTRA SESSION IN 1902, AND THE EXTRA SESSION AT THE 150 OF THE GENERAL LAWS OF 1001, PROPOSING AN INCREASE OF THE GROSS EARNINGS TAX UPON RAILROAD PROPERTIES. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 32a, of Article IV of the State Constitution, April 6, 1901, known as Chapter 19 of the General Laws of 1001, present to the electors of the State for rejection or approval, the voting, to witt. Section 32a of the railway company owning or operating any line of railway and equipment, shall, during the year 1900, in this state shall, during the year 1900, thereafter, pay into the treasury within this state owned or operated for railway purposes by such company, in conjunction with the franchise thereof, a sum of money equal to four (4) per cent of the sum of such line of railway within this state; and the payment of such taxes shall be in property and franchises so taxed. The amount accounted by public grant shall be and received by public grant shall be sold or contracted to be sold or converted sold or contracted to be prospective acts whereby such grants were made. Sec. 2. The term "the gross earnings of railway within this state" includes the gross earnings of railway within this state, section one (1) of this act, is hereby defined, and earnings on business beginning and ending within the state, and a proportion of earnings on all interstate business passing through the state, collection, time of payment, enforcement, or reports involving the railroad companies within this state, or railroad companies within this state, or non-payment of such taxes are hereby defined to be this act so far as may be, and all parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of such taxes are hereby repealed. 4. Upon failure to pay the amount of such taxes legally due by law the heretofore provided by law for the payable remedies, collection may be incurred civil action brought in the name of any county. 5. This act shall be submitted to the commissioned revision or rejection at the next general election for the year 1962. 6. The omitted revision refers to the method of submitting the ballot and submitting the act for ratification. This act provides for an increase of the amount of taxes collected by the railroads situated within the State, from three per cent upon the gross amount of such lines of the State, to a sum of money equal to four per cent upon the gross amount of such lines of railway lines of the State, to a sum of money equal to four per cent upon the gross amount of such lines of railway lines of the State, and will become operative if adopted by a majority of such electors voting at the next general election. By An Act of the Legislature of the State of Minnesota, approved February 28, 1901, it is proposed to amend Article Eight (8), Section Six (6) of the Constitution. This Section as now existing reads as follows: The effect of the above amendment, investment of the permanent school and university fund of this state for a period of not less than five (5) or more interest rate not less than three (3) per cent per annum, in the bonds of the town, or village of this state, when the bonds to be issued or purchased in the bonds indebtedness of such municipalities exceed fifteen (15) per cent of the assessed valuation of the taxable investments when the entire indebtedness of the property question, does not exceed fifteen (15) per cent of the assessed valuation of the property proper in such municipalities, under existing Constitution loans are per cent only where total indebtedness of such municipalities is (7) per cent of the assessed valuation. III. By An Act of the Legislature of the State of Minnesota, Approved April 13, 1913, the Act of the Legislature is proposed to Amend Section Sixteen (6) of Article Nine (0) of the Constitution. The Section as now existing reads as follows: Section 16. For the purpose of lending the construction and improvement of buildings hereby created a fund to be known as the building hereto created a fund to be known as the building that may hegather accrue to said fund, shall include all monies accruing from the income derived from investments in the building that may hegather accrue to said fund, shall also include all funds accruing to any building that may hegather accrue to said fund, and is authorised to add to such fund for the purpose of constructing or improving roads and bridges of this building an annual tax levy upon the property of the building one-twentieth (1-20) of the (1) mill on the taxable property within the state. provide for the appointment by the governor of the state of a board to be known as the board of the building listing of three (3) members, who shall be permitted by law, without salary or compensation other than personal expenses. perintendence of the construction of state roads and bridges and shall use such roads and bridges to distribute the same in the several states of state upon an equitable basis. Provided, county shall receive in any year more than half (1/2) of the total half (1/2) of one (1) per cent of the total fund thus provided and expended during the construction of such roads more than one-third (1-3) of such fund for bridges, in no case exceeding than one-third (1-3) of the cost of con-crete be paid by the state from such fund. It is proposed by said Act to amend the It is proposed by said Act to amend the same so as to read as follows: Section 16. For the purpose of lending to public highways and bridges, there is hereby created a fund to be known as the investment interest derived from the investments fund, or that may hereafter accrue from the investment fund shall include all moneys accruing funds accruing to any state road and bridge fund however provided. To add to such fund for the purpose of constructing a state road and providing in its discretion for an annual tax levy upon the property of a state year one-tenth (1-10) of one mill on all the taxable property within the state. legislation providing for a levy of a state tax of 1-20 of one mill for a state road to contribute at least double the amount provided by said Commission and provided for under the direction of a State Highway Commission in such counties where the amount to contribute at least double the amount provided by said Commission for such purpose, subject also to certain By the proposed change, a tax of 1-10 of one mill is authorized to be levied for this purpose; the highway is admitted, will be to place the result, if the proposed amendment is adopted, will be to place the result, if the proposed amendment in the hands of the Leg's sluture, without limitation or restriction. By an act of the legislature of the State of Minnesota, known as chapter one (1) of the constitution, it is proposed to amend sections one (1), two (2) and three (3) of article nine (0) of the constitution. These sections as now existing read as lows: "Section 1. All taxes to be raised in the state may be, and all property on which taxes may be, levied shall have a cash valuation, the state provided, that the legislature by general law or special act, authorizes any assessments for local improvements upon the property on the property to be benefited by such improvements, or both, by such improvements, or both, in such manner as the legislature may preserve; and provided, further, that for any such property, the legislature authorize any such city or municipality, more to levy an annual tax or assess upon the line foot of all lands from the property by such city or municipality, to levy an annual tax or assess supplying water to the citizens thereof, without regard to the cash value of such property for failure to pay the same, or penalties for failure to collect any such tax assessments, or any penalties for failure to pay the same, or penalties for failure to collect any such tax assessments, or any water rate due for the same. 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The Legislature is authorized to provide for the levy and collection charges granted by public authority, in addition to the tax on real property or corporation holding the same. 5th. The Legislature is authorized to provide a tax upon the gross income of a person holding such a franchise, conditioned that such gross earnings tax may be in lieu of a tax upon the franchise and personal property as well. 6th. Authority is conferred upon the Legislature to provide for the tax upon all real estate mortgages which shall be in lieu of all other taxes the debt secured by such mortgages. 7th. The Legislature is authorized to provide for a tax upon incomes excess of $1,000 per annum, not including property or from property otherwise taxed in this State, and also property or from property otherwise taxed in this State, and also credits as well as from personal property. Such tax shall be uniform throughout the State and may be graded, or progressive, or both, and may be exceeded ten percentum upon incomes derived from credits and personal property, and at a rate not exceeded ten percentum upon such other income. In case of the imposition of the registry tax above referred to, or of an income tax property, and at a rate not exceeded ten percentum upon such other income. In case of the imposition of the registry tax above referred to, or of an income tax property, and at a rate not exceeded ten percentum upon such other income. In case of the imposition of the income tax imposed such income or registry tax is in force. In other words, where an income tax other words, where an income tax or earnings or earnings of individuals is provided for, all personal property and credits must still be imposed upon the case of the imposition of an income tax arising from credits and personal property or of a registry tax property are exempted from taxation. Sth. 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The state campaign is about to close and we briefly review the contest. On the Republican side it has been straightforward, manly and above board and along lines of clean and honorable politics The Republicans have frankly and openly given an account to the voters of what the party has done while managing the business of the state, and Governor Van Sant has asked reelection on his record—a record so good that the Democrats have not been able to find a flaw in it. On the other hand, the Democrats have made their three months' campaign on cannards, roo backs, personalities and straightout willful and malicious. The word 'lie' is a strong one. It is a good old Angle-Saxon word, however, and no other fits the occasion. We use it advisely and propose to prove that it applies to the stuff the Democratic committee have been publishing and that they are now sending out broadcast over the state in big posters. WHY MERGER RAILROADS HATE REPUBLICANS. Soon after the campaign opened the Republicans found that they did not have Mr. Rosing to fight, nor the Democratic party, but the merger railroads committed by the Northern Securities company of New Jersey. This foreign company, led by Mr. Rosing and his committee with which to try to punish Governor Van Sant and the their great stock-jobbing scheme whereby they were adding $200,000,000 of water to the stock of these railroads and proposed to make that much more clear profit out of the already burdened producers of the Northwest. When all three were from stealing $200,000,000, they naturally cure the law, and therefore it is not love of the people' but an attempt to turn $200,000,000 of water into the Democratic organization DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN DICTATED BY NORTHERN SECURITIES CO. The Northern Securities company put itself in the place of Mr. Rosing as the candidate for governor of the state of Minnesota. Its organ, the St. Paul organ, owned solely by the president of the company, became the Democratic organ. One of its reporters, paid by the president of the Northern Securities company, wrote the full page biography of Mr. Rosing. A man paid by the Northern Securities company has for weeks accompanied Mr. Rosing all over the state as his confidential adviser and to send in glowing accounts of his meetings. This paper, directly representing and personally owned by the president of the Northern Securities company, has descended to the politics of the gutter. Its methods would make a highwayman blush and for replying to its attacks, we perhaps an apology to the people of the state. But we wish to appeal from the villification and assassin-like methods of this trust-owned organ to the sense of fairness of honor and right of the people. A BOGUS INTERVIEW governatic trust organ opened its attacks with lie NOW in which Governor Van Sant was quoted as a coal miners. A large extra edition was sent out the state with it. Governor Van Sant's publisher traction, forced an apology making it were sent out. PUBLIC FRANCHISE ASSESSMENTS, accused the governor of voting against an increase in railway assessments, but the records show just the vote for an increase of $822,000 on the assessment company's total assessment $5,752,941 and $25,000,000. The case was made possible by the law passed in 1897 are permitting the state board of equalization to N. Because of this Republican law passed to reach the state board, however the record shows to increase the Minnesota's assessment's assessment of $000,000, and the St. Paul University's assessment of $000,000, and the St. Paul University's assessment of $000,000. So much for that lie. This Democratic trust organ opened its attacks with lie No. 1: It was a bogus interview in which Governor Van Sant was quoted as opposed to the Pennsylvania coal miners. A large extra edition was sent out and they were prepared to plaster the state with it. Governor Van Sant's prompt and vigorous denial and demand for a retraction, forced an apology but no extra papers containing it were sent out. PUBLIC FRANCHISE ASSESSMENTS. Lie No. 2 accused the governor of voting against an increase of the Twain City Street Railway assessments, but the records show just the contrary and making the street council an increase of $82,000 on the assessment of last year, making the street council $5,729,911 and increasing its taxes about $25,000. In 1896 this assessment increased immense increase was made possible by the law passed in 1897 by the Republican legislature permitting the state board of equalization to raise individual assessments. Because of this Republican law passed to reach just this case the governor voted to increase the Michigan Company's assessment $250,000, making a total of $000,000, and the St. Paul Company's assessment $125,000, making a total of $800,000. So much for that lie. THE RAILROAD GROSS EARNINGS TAX was the statement that Governor Van Saut and worded the proposed gross earnings tax law that their roads. This opposition to railroad taxation was by the Democrats got railroad money to run Mr. Koch's campaign for governor John Lind the law and who approved of the road they it to keep down the tax on railroads. Hie No. 3 was the statement that Governor Van Saut and the Republican committee so worded the proposed gross earnings tax law that it would reduce the tax on railroads. This opposition to railroad taxation was a part of the bargain where the Democrats got railroad money to run Mr. Rosins's camp and the Republicans got the terror John Lind was one of the men who drew the law and who approved of the wording they were obliged to drop this effort to keep down the tax on railroads. THE ASSESSMENT OF LANDS. lily was that Governor Van Sant voted to increase lands 50 per cent. In 1896 the assessed value used by the state board because of the great reducible hard times and this was just and fair, nor was to bring back the assessment on lands to out value. The total increase on all real estate of the total was $44,959,800. Of this $20,000,000 was on land that much more was on city and village than a 10 percent assessment for 1894, which was $55,517,100. The total for 1900, which was $490,587,171, instead charges. Moreover this makes the assessment to exceed one-fourth of their selling value. The next lie was that Governor Van Sant voted to increase the assessed value of farm lands 50 per cent. In 1896 the assessed value on lands was largely decreased by the state board because of the great reduction of values caused by Democratic hard times and this was just and fair. The increase made this year was to bring back the assessment on lands to what was considered a right value. The total increase on all real estate made this year $49,959,800. Of this $20,000,000 was on iron ore lands alone, and practically the much more was on city and village property, leaving but about $54,000,000 and a little at 10 per cent increase on the total assessment for 1894, which was $555,310 and less than 12 per cent on the total for 1900, which was $490,571,157, instead of 50 per cent, as the Democrats charge. Moreover this makes the assessment on farm lands for 1902 at not to exceed one-fourth of their selling value. EXTRA SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE. organ next attacked Governor Van Sant for can legislature and repeatedly called attention to the pt pass the tax code, nor the Jacobson bill. Yet, though not a member, lobbed persistently against all that would hurt the moneyed class and in his city of St. Paul admitted it and said he was proud to this end. Where interests did he represent a talk for those measures? The trust organ next attacked Governor Van Sant for calling the extra session of the legislature and repeatedly called attention to the fact that this session was not a law-making session. The trust organ, that session, though not a member, lobbied persistently against these bills and against any bill that would hurt the moneyed class and in his opening speech told Paul admonition and it said he was proud of it. Day and night he worked to this issue. Those did he represent and what room he has he mow to talk for those measures? GOVERNOR VAN SANT'S TAXES after seeming to have run the gamut of low and the governor of being a "tax dodger," they sent勇 Van Sant's personal business affairs, and the dlines, declares that he does not pay his taxes, cartons paid for with railroad money make the their Rosing's committee got their reports from their bosses, and they don't tell what they deliberately publish and send to the people a bai state and hide the facts? Finally after seeming to have run the gamut of low and nasty politics they accuse the governor of being a "tax dodger." They sent detectives to pry into Governor Van Sant's personal business affairs, and their trust organ, in faring headlines, declares that he does not pay his taxes. Huge posters with abusive cartoons paid for with railroad money make the same charge. Losing his comeback gave their reports from their detectives why did they not tell him? Why did not tell what they really found? Why did they deliberately publish and send to the people a bald lie about the governor of their state and hide the facts? GOVERNOR VAN SANT'S STEAMBOAT TAX. I found that Governor Van Sant had no interest in Le Claire, Iowa, and he never claimed that he had is interested in and is president of a company organ which owns steamboats, and they found that this paid taxes for years on those steamboats, which owns steamboats in other cities. They found in the state of Iowa because the law says that paid. OTHER THINGS THE DEMOCRATS DISCOVERED, moreover, that the governor is one of the lay leaders in Winona county. That last year this perio. was $242.88. The chairman, who is Governor so knows that the governor has the reputation in generous and public spirited in the return of his WHY DID THE DEMOCRATS HIDE THE FACTS? and that for several years, moreover, the governor is in Minnesota lands. That he has had that con- loyalty to it, that, while far from a rich man, he is a poor man, that he did that in every county in which he has land hold the assessed valuation and the governor sure he thinks it fair and just. They really found that Governor Van Sant had no interest in any company of any kind at Le Claire, Iowa, and he never claimed that he had, but they also found that he is interested in and is president of a company organized at Muskegon, Michigan. They found that the taxes and taxes has paid taxes for years on those steamboats, which are the only ones the governor has any interest in of any kind. They found, too, that these taxes are paid in the state of Iowa because the law says that that is where they must be. OTHER THINGS THE DEMOCRATS DISCOVERED. They found, moreover, that the governor is one of the largest personal property taxpayers in Winona county. That last year this personal property tax, paid there, was $242.88. Their chairman, who is Governor Van Sant's townman, also knows that the governor has the reputation in his home of being unusually generous and public spirited in the return of his property for WHY DID THE DEMOCRATS HIDE THE FACTS? They found that for several years, moreover, the governor has invested all his savings in Minnesota lands. That he has had that confidence in his own state and loyalty to it, that, while far from a rich man, having only the savings from a long and active business life, he has put all these savings in the bank, and that he has had holdings, the state board increased the assessed valuation and the governor sustains that increase because he thinks it fair and just. LOOK UPON THIS PICTURE. of Mr. Rosing's record in public life? On what Governor Van Sand does he have his claim to the Minnesota? What has he ever done for the farmer for the laboring men? How has he even shown to the people of the state? He was a Republican unrate in the Republican convention of his county, a chance to convention, his biography says, "the man who defeated his colleagues as most men would he do if governor and what influence wol of his acts? AND THEN LOOK UPON THIS people of Minnesota all know Governor Van Sand is for and what he represents. They know that And what of Mr. Rosing's record in public site? On what besides personal abuse of Governor Van Sant does he base his claim to the high office of governor of Minnesota? What has he ever done for the farmers? What has he ever done for the inboring men? How has he even shown sympathy with the farmers? How has he been a delegate in the Republican convention of his county, and because he could not dominate that convention, his biography says, "he walked out a Democrat." He changed his political principles as most men change their coats. What would he do if governor and what influence would be behind him and control his actions? AND THEN LOOK UPON THIS. But the people of Minnesota all know Governor Van Sant. They know what he stands for and what he represents. They know that he stands for the enforcement of the law against great and powerful corporations and combinations of wealth as well as against the poor and humble citizen. They know that him, his inspiration the dairy and food commission has been active in the fight against the opium trade. They know that he won for Minnesota the name of "Bread-and Butter State." They know that the labor bureau, through his apportative power, is in the hands of practical man, thoroughly in sympathy with the needs of the wage-earners. They know that the department of public instruction has been doing earnest, thorough work. They know that the bank examiner's department and every branch of this Republican administration is being so conducted as to defy honest criticism. The people have looked upon these two pictures. This of honest, capable republican administration in the interests of the people. This of Democratic administration in the interests of the people. This of great foreign railroad trust. Having looked; they will vote, not for the candidate of the Northern Securities company, but for their friend, Samuel R. Van Sant. WEISKOPF PAINT & WALL PAPER CO. SOCIETY DIRECTORY. ST. JAMES' A. M. E. CHURCH, cor. Puller and day streets. Sunday services: meeting 5:00 p.m. Pastor visits on Mon- day, Sunday, and Thursday. Wednesday, Thursday. Weddings, on Tuesday and sick attended on notice. Rev. J. C. An- ziano. PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH, Cor. 12th and Cedar. Sunday services: Preach- ship at 12:30 o'clock. Monday, Sunday school at 12:30 o'clock. Friday eveni- ng general prayer meeting. Friday eveni- ng general prayer meeting. Funeral and weddings promptly attended. Rev. W. D. Carter, Pastor, 559 Eileft St. ST. PHILIP'S EMPHOSIPAL CORPISON corner Aurora avenue and Mackinab street. 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