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The record made by Mr. Lee while !
superintendent of the Reformatory at ■
St. Cloud is an event ol what may be
expected oi him in every department of
the state government, and particularly
in the administration of the several
state institutions. During one year he
saved over SIO,OOO to the state in the
conduct of the Reformatory. This does
not indicate that there has been, or now
exists, any disbonestv or compact prac
tices in the management of affairs, but
simplv that there are leaks and extrava
gances which may be checked without
in any way militating against the effec
tiveness of these institutions. Mr. Lee
is a man of affairs. He is a strict and
yet liberal business man. He believes
the same careful methods should be
applied to the affairs of the state that a
president would applv to his private
business. He recognizes the fact, which
is patent to all who have given the sub-,
ject even cursory attention, that there
are scores of sinecures attached to the
states, men who are drawing salary for
little or no equivalent, and seores of
more who are drawing pay in the way
of fees for in excess of the value of their
services. In fact, thousands upon thou
sands of doilars are taken from the peo
ple every year for which no adequate
return is made. Some o.t these highly
feel offices are very valuable to the party
machine, it is true. An officer collecting
from ten to twenty thousand a year can
afford to be generous in the matter of
campaign assessments.
But it is an unwholesome condition of
affairs and protends no good to the
state that such conditions exist. Mr.
Lee is personally pledged to use his ut
most authority, if elected, to search out
and correst these, and kindred evils. He
is pledged to the strictest economy con
sistent with efficient administration. It
is natural—inevitable, that his candi
dacy meets |i ith fierce opposition at the
hands of the “ins.” The present admin
istration has practically singled him out
as the man upon whom their fight is
concentrated. Every art of political
warfare is being employed to make it
appear that he is out of the race. It has
ever been reported that he has with
drawn, Do not be deceived, Wm. E.
Lee is in the race to win, and he will
win just as sure as the power of the
people is greater than that of the ma
chine bosses. Clean out and lay bare is
what the people want—and they can
have it, but not from the machine.
Frank G. Carpenter, in a Washing
ton letter has this to say of Senator
Davis:
Now we se; the form and features oi
one oi the best-known men of the great
North .vest, the great lawver of St. Paul,
and a man who can make, it is said,
from $25,000 to $50,000 a year at his
practice. His name is Cushman K. Da
vis, and, though hehas withdrawn from
the presidential race, his name may yet
be mentioned among those' which come
up at St. Louis. Cush Davis is a curi
ous looking man. He is very tall. His
shoulders are slightly bent, and his little
semi-bald head is fastened to them by a
short neck. He is one of the most stud
ious men of the senate, and one of the
best read. He has one of the finest pri
vate libraries of the country. He is a
great lover of books, and when he wants
to rest from his studies he drops what
he is at and takes up some work in a
different literary line. When he is tired
of thinking of politics he translates a lot
of Virgil or Horace for. a change, and
■when he finds—as he does sometimes, I
venture, for he is a trifle lazy—his ambit
ions flagging, he bolsters himself up by
reading the life of Alexander the Great
or that of Julius Caesar. To him the
greatest man who ever lived was Napo
leon. He was an admirer of Bonaparte
long before the present craze concerning
him broke out. He has already about
400 Napoleonic books in his library, and
and he is always picking up more.
The conclusion of the house committee
on "Ways and Means not to report a bill
providing for a restoration of the recip
rocity policy originated by the late
Ja mes G. Blaine, which was benefitting
American producersand manufacturers
when repealed by the democratic tariff
bill, is on all lours with common sense.
The hearings before the committee left
no doubt that public sentiment favors a
return to the reciprocity, but that re
turn being impossible while a democratic
president in office, the committee
wisely deciGcu not to waste time in pre
paring a bill «*u*i putting it through the
republican house only to have it hung
up by the non-descript senate, as the
revenue tariff bill was or vetoed by Mr.
Cleveland if it got through the senate.
Reciprocity will come along with the
other good things which will follow the
restoration of the republicans to the
control of all branches of the govern
ment.
Ihe establishment of fire limits in
this city is a movement in the right di
rection, as will be seen by reference to
. • the council proceedings. Thecity attor
ney has been directed to draw an ordin
ance to embrace the business center of
the citv within such limits. It is a
duty the council owes to the enterpris
ing property owners to prohibit inflam
mable structures in close proximity to
the brick blocks.
Ex-Senator Buckman has taken
upon himself the Herculean task of de
livering Morrison county to Governor
Clough,.in the state convention. Theie
was a time when that genial gentleman
was all-powerful in that bailiwick—just
s Mr. Gilmau used to be all-powerful I
i Stearns. But both are now posse I
oliticians. Younger blood with better I
methods —methods of fairness and can— I
lor, methods which they do not under- I
tana and which are repugnant to them
—prevail now. Mr. Buckman expects
:o be, it is said he has the specefic prom
se. a member of the railroad commiss—
on in case the present administration is
:ontinued in power. Now, while the
Senator is a royal good fellow as no
one can deny, yet he is not an ideal man
for that very important position, Nor
will he be able to purchase it by deliver
ing Morrison county, Mr. Lee will have
that county—as he will practically the
solid Sixth.
The Paynesville Press, formerly an in
dependent paper, announces in its last
issue that hereafter it will be a "dyed-in
the-wool” Republican production, and
gives as its reason, that some of the pat
rons “are witling to contribute some
thing extra for such a policy.” We are
surprised to see Bro. Stephen "bought
up, but as "money makes the mare go,
we presume that he finds it hard sled
ding as an "independent,” and hereafter
will have no trouble in expressing his
views under dictation.
The above from the St. Cloud
Times, is credited to the Sauk
Centre Herald. Please don’t force
that abtrocious insinuation upon the
Herald. It never uttered anything of
the kind, and furthermore it believes
that Bro. Stephens is not only sincere
and honest, but that he is merely the
vanguard of a vast army of men who,
actuated by principle, will be “dyed-in
the-wool” Republicans from and aftei
this date.
The Sauk Rapids Sentinel sometimes
talks in riddles. Here is one for the pol
iticians: “And now the knowing ones
of this village declare that there is really
a fullfledged candidate for Congress,
and that a big fight is going to be made
for him bv even some who were strong
enemies of his, and we are told that from
the encouragement he has had from St.
Cloud people he is confident of being the
nominee.—St. Cloud Times.
That’s right—name him, and let us all
know who is to be the next congress
man from the Sixth empire.
The candidacy of Wm. E. Lee pro
gresses with increased and ever increas
ing force and favor. Wherever known,
and there is no section of the state where
he is not, he has devoted friends. No
man that served with him in the legisla
ture but recognizes his worth and his
fitness for the governorship of this great
state.
The Evening Herald of Duluth not
only occupies the evening newspaper
field in St. Louis, without competition
but fills it so that competition is wholly
unnecessary and superfluous. The Her
ald is a credit alike to its publishers and
the city. The Commonwealth gave up
the unequal fight after a long and ex
pensive struggle, and the Herald inher
its its clientage. One vigorous, able,
clean sheet, such as it is, is worth more
co the community whose sagacious
champion it is, than a score of weak
lings.
A party consisting of between forty
and fifty ladies and gentlemen, members
of the I. 0. 0. F. visited Alexandria on
Monday evening, leaving here on the
6:30 p. m. train, and returning on the
early morning train. The occasion was
a banquet given by the Alexandria lodge
on the occasion of the anniversary of
its institution. There were 300 present
at the banquet, which was truly Alex
andrian in its gorgeous and generous
appointments. M. C. Kelsey oi this
city responded to a toast.
The following is a list of those who
attended from this city.
Messrs, and Mesdames—Wm. Scherffi
us, M. C. Kelsey, W. O. P. Hilsdale, D.
Cleveland, R.J. O’Connell. Geo. Cleve
land, John Hickman, L. S. Bishop, Wm.
Lewis and R. T. Greene.
Messrs—C. M. Sprague, A. Larson,
Nels Christensen, John Irwin, W. P.
Chase, A. Rien, J. Ringsmuth, C. A.
Whipple, Wm. Pangburn, E. G. Tait, A,
Canfield, A. E. Erwin, A. Peterson, A.
Nickerson, 0. B. Boobar, J. M. McMas
ters, H. Parker, S. A. Irish.
Misses—Josephine Mac Kay. Clara
Richaids, May Hoffman. Mabie Parker
and Mrs. Ada Sptague.
The divisional officers of the St. Cloud
& Fergus Falls division of the Great
Northern have been notified that they
will be removed to Melrose, where the
division now is, between the present
time and the first day of May. It is
probable that the superintendent’s office,
the trainmaster’s office and the dis
patcher’s office, which are all that re
main of the original division, will be
removed to Melrose about the 26th or
28th inst. The change is not appreci
ated by those whom it will effect. They
had hoped to be permitted to remain in
St. Cloud at least until the several
houses now being* built at Melrose were
eompleted. The general manager was
in the city yesterday however and it is
supposed that it was while he was here
that the order was given removing the
division officials to Melrose. The new
office building at Melrose is completed
and ready for their occupancy but un
fortunately it is provided with neither
sleeping apartments nor kitchens.—Jour
nal-Press.
F. A. Pangburn, better known xs
“Dock,” removes to this city today, where
he will reside in future. For some time
he has been living at Clarissa, where his
wife has been continuously, and where
he has made his home when not em
ployed in brick laying elsewhere.
Senator KeHer left for Germany for a
visit ®f indefinite duration, on Saturday
last. The Minneapolis Times says this
of him and his tiip:
Senator Henry Keller, of Stearns coun
ty, started yesterday for New York,
whence he will sail the last of this week
for Europe. He will visit the home of
his childhood in Hesse Darmstadt, and
will remain abroad for an indefinite
period. Mr. Keller left Germany when
a young man, in 1864, to avoid Service
in the German army. Arriving in New
York just before the close of the civil
war in America, be enlisted in the Tenth
United States infantry before he had
been three days in the country. When
the war was closed, he came with his
company to Fort Ripley, where he
served until his discharge. Afterward
he located at Sauk Centre, and has ev:r
since been one of the west known busi
ness men and politicians in’ northern
Minnesota. He has friends all over the
state. While being a somewhat eccen
tric gentleman, he is also known to be a
very honest and sincere one. Those who
have had business and social relations
with him will regret to learn that? the
recent death of hts father in the old coun
try may make it necessary for him to
remain permanently in Germany. There
are large property interests involved,
which Mr. Keller wilt be compelled to
look personally after.
It was Mr. Keller’s mother who died
some time since, in Germany. His fath
er is au aged man and considerably
broken in health, a pensioner on the civ
il list of Germany as a superannuated
railroad employe. Mr. Keller has been
making arrangements for some time to
visit Germany, and takes ths occasion,
at the season when his services chh best
be dispensed with in the factory,
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THE SIGN OF THE TIMES!
You will find it in dress as well as
in anything else. If you want to b e
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merchant and get “up to date” suit.
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