INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS LIND NOMINATED vention by naming as temporary chairman when a motion was carried with a dents which have yearly crippled as moment fancy that a bill was introduced Make the Liver many workingmen, have been prevented. to provide for this tariff commission. W. S. Hammond, Democratic congressman whoop to make it by acclamation, and If that course hid been taken in the Republican 2nd district," in a roar of enthusiasm, even greater Thousands o'f dollars extorted from the measure would have been subjected Do its Duty common laborers under the pretense to the scrutiny of a committee composed said Mr. Day, in closing. The than that which sounded the knell of that it was charged for interpreters' of Republicans and Democrats in convention cheered enthusiastically. county option, Mt. Lind was named the a fees, has been returned to the men the house of representatives and similar through the efforts of the bureau of Escorted to the platform by M. C. party's leader. The rest of the ticket committee in the United States senate. t&e Nine times in ten when the liver right labor. BOISTEROUS CONVENTION AT It would have been subject to Brady, Hennepin County Richard T. went through with a rush. stomach and bowel* are right. 9-egnrdlng the Wor&tag Man. amendment also and might have been MINNEAPOLIS SELECTS EXGOVERNOR It O'Connor, St. Paul, and Col. A. ^C. CARTER'S LITTLE made an effective and useful law. Workingmen defrauded out of their was not a bill. It was a clause incorporated wages have been given relief and support LIVER PILLS Weiss, Duluth, Congressman Hammond BY ACCLA­ in an appropriation bill providing and their wages have been collected THE PLATFORM. was enthusiastically cheered and a large sum of money to be spent* gently but firmly for them. MATION. by, Oy a number of gentlemen appointed his speech, which he read, was received The women wage earners have been a*™ The Democratic party of Minnesota the president to investigate the tarifti given attention and protection such as with frequent applause. in biennial convention assembled, question and report to him. advising they never had before, and many other CoB strong in its consciousness of faithful Cures him of the result of their study and research. helpful services have been rendered to Committee on Resolutions. service rendered to the people, encouraged HE STILL REFUSES HONOR the working classes by a sympathetic •tipation, by an awakening public conscience Following Mr. Hammond's remarks, Need of Information. Democratic administration. Indigestion, which presages the return of "After reading Mr. Taft's declaration We pledge the working classes of the Committee on Resolutions was announced the party to control of the federal government, that in his opinion the Payne-Aldrich Minnesota that if the Democratic party solicits f^r Its candidates the Sick as follows: bill is the best tariff bill ever enacted is placed in control of the government suffrages of all friefias of good and In this country, one is forced to admit of this state, we will correct the defects Headache* aad Distress after At large, Martin O'Brien, Crookston popular government. that there is apparent need that he in existing laws which do not Sentiment of Delegates is Overwhelmingly We call upon the fair-minded people Small Pill. Saudi DOM, Saudi Pric* A. C. Weiss, Duluth Fred B. Lynch, have a great deal more information now adequately protect their health, of this commonwealth to rebuke sternly their limbs and their lives. We will about tariff questions before venturing Genuine mmbeu Signature Against the Temperance St. Paul. First district, L. L. Brown, the base and cynical deception practised strengthen the child labor law so that another opinion. But $250,000 is a pretty upon them, in common with all large sum to expend for the education Winona J. T. Meighan, Albert Lea. it can be more easily enforced, and we Proposition.— Hon. Jos. W. the people of the United States, by the will enact suoh laws as will better protect of the president. The so-called Second District. S. D. Works, Mankato Republican party in causing the enactment all men and women wage earners Folk and Congressman of the Payne-Aldrich tariff law, in following their daily tasks. in defiance of the universally made Hammond Speak. We stand committed to the enactment promise of that party to revise the tariff of a Workingmen's Compensation downwards. If the people will permit IV Pa7 rant when you can get a farm free, covered Act that will justly anrl fairly such political faithlessness to go with timber and near a good market? compensate without delay every person For particulars add. B. A. Burriss, Port Arthur, Qnt. unpunished our government will become injured in industry irrespective of utterly irresponsible. We denounce whether he assumed the risk, contributed the present tariff law as a repudiation to negligence, or, suffered injury THE TICKET. of the principles of protection, through trie act of a fellow servant. "PLAY WITH THE CHILDREN" as laid down by the Republican national Governor John Lind, Minneapolis. It was the administration of the late convention of 1908. Instead of Governor Johnson which inaugurated its schedules imposing tariff taxes corresponding the movement of this kind of legislation, to the difference of the cost Fabled Fountain of Youth Could Not Lieutenant Governor M. C. and we pledge our party to bring of production nt home and abroad, hundreds it to a successful termination, assuring Be More Potent Than Association Tifft, Long Prairie. of them impose a tax greater both capital and labor of our desire than the entire cost of production at With Little Ones. to do each exact justice. Secretary of State—Fred W. home or abroad. There grinding taxes Johnson, New Ulm. were raised or renewed at a time when Vicious Legislation Deplored. "Play with the children!" was the the masses were staggering under' an The aggressions of monopolistic ancl Treasurer—Charles F. Ladner, appaling increase in the cost of living, recurrent advice of a wise and successful lawless wealth are fast becoming a menace St. Cloud. brought about largely by the malign influence to the state and nation. Fostered man. "This will keep your of a long established protective and encouraged by vicious legislation Auditor—T. J. Meighen, Pres£ tariff system. In addition to the excessive which_ gives them undue advantage, heart young, your viewpoint fresh, ton. taxes levied through that system, these interests depress the price to the your wit sparkling. The child heart is it has corrupted the economy of Attorney Genera!—J. M. Freeman, producer, while unwarrantedly raising the nation, encouraged and propagated the cost of living to "the consumer. at once the purest and the happiest Olivia. graft and prolifically littered public and Through them the integrity of our in all nature the child tongue is a private extravagance and waste. We courts are threatened and our legislatures Clerk of the Supreme Court— call upon the people of Minnesota to are debauched the heritage of transfiguring power." Fred E. Wheaton, Minneapolis. register this fall their emphatic denunciation the people is filched from them to Something of this indubitable power of a system fundamentally further enrich those who have already Railroad and Warehouse Commissioner—J. wrong, both morally and politically, too much they seek to control our conventions, attaches to good stories of those naive C. Tracy, Rochester, which, as they now know by grievous dominate our politics and impoverish and innocent "little ones" scripturally experience will never be reformed by W. S. HAMMOND. the people. The Democratic Justices of the Supreme Court its friends. party is unalterably opposed to these Congressman from Second District of declared specially blessed and potent. —Justice T. D. O'Brien, St. Paul. President Taft "Handed One." interests and would take from them undeserved Minnesota. The child mind transforms, the child HON. JAMES C. HAYNES. advantage given by law. and Judge A. H. Snow, Winona, We deplore the weakness and timidity We are in favor of such measures as touch lifts to glad laughter incidents of President Taft wiio, with his Dr. L. A. Fritsche, New Ulm. Third commission has the power to investigate, for the terms beginning Jan. 1, will make public education truly Democratic, own campaign promises still fresh, but but not the power to act. It has and accidents not otherwise wgrth practical and efficient, and offer district, Albert Schaller, Hastings 1911 and Justice C. L. Brown, dominated by the predatory interests, the power to study rates, but not to opportunities for every boy and noting. Witness this little tale of the weakly failed to use the tremendous change them. It has the power to discover Julius Coller, Shakopee. Fourth district, Morris, and Judge P. E. Brown, girl in Minnesota to receive the full forces of his high office to force a recreant defects, but not to remedy them. careful mother to whom came a tiny measure of benefit for which the public Luverne, the Republican nominees, Louis Betz, D. W. Lawler, St. congressional majority to do its But it is said to be a step in the right school are established. son all agog over the acquirement of solemn duty of tariff reform. No subsequent Paul. Fifth district, S. A. Stockwell, direction. It is not even that. If the for the terms beginning Jan. We strongly favor the establishment effort to fulfill party promises board would make a fair and impartial new and forbidden knowledge. of practical and progresive courses in F. G. Winston, Minneapolis. Sixth 1, 1912. can atone for this supreme failure or and careful investigation of the tariff agriculture, manual training and domestic "Mother!" cried the child, baby restore public confidence. rates and tariff conditions, and submit district, J. D. Sullivan, St. Cloud E. science in all state high and We condemn the national administration its report to the president, and through eyes shining, baby cheeks glowing, graded schools. We recognize the demand F. Shaw, Little Falls. Seventh district, for its initial effort to prevent him to congress ancP the people, showing for the study of agriculture in "do you know what 'I'll be hornswoggled' the conservation of natural resources, Minneapolis. Hon. John Lind conditions and stating facts relevant Ray Farrington, Ortonville J. the rural schools, and pledge our support and have nothing but contempt for its means?" to the matter, the information was nominated by acclimation to lead H. Driscoll, Madison. Eighth district, to such measures as will raise the insincere efforts to appear to support would be of value some time. But in rural school to a higher plane of efficiency, "No, dear," said the mother, solemnly conservation after public disapproval of the Minnesotae democrats in the coming order that credit be given such report Chas. d'Autremont, Duluth W. A. and make it the me&ns of its course was manifested. The appointment it ought to be made clear that a fair seizing the opportunity to implant campaign. County option was laid training the youth for useful service Blanchard, Anoka. Ninth district, J. and retention of Ballinger, the investigation preceded it and by men and intelligent interest in profitable a lesson. "I'm sure I do not." attorney for the raiders of public property, firmly, and none too gently on the unprejudiced by preconceived notions B. Hompe, Fergus Falls W. E. Reau, farming. as secretary of the department or personal interests. "Well, I do," was the ecstatic answer, table. Crookston. charged with the administration of that On Rural School Consolidation. Why Not Non-Partisan the suggested lesson being utterly property, is a national scandal. The Mr. Lind still persists in his determination When the convention resumed after a We favor the granting of special "If it were intended to take step discharge of Gifford Pinchot, the faithful ignored. "It means just the to decline the nomination. state aid to encourage consolidation of in the right direction why not have luncheon, M. J. Daly, Perham, was guardian ,of that property, is a national rural schools, thus placing them upon same as 'I'll be gol-darned!'" this investigating board a non-partisan crime. In a telegram to his partner, Waldron made permanent chairman. Organization a broader basis, where their work may board? As the measure was introduced, National administration by a party M. Jerome, addressed with the intention result in higher conceptions of the was completed, and then Z. H. a provision of the sundry civil appropriation whose cardinal creed involves the exploitation equality of all classes, whether agricultural, bill, when an attempt was of the common people for the of having it read before the convention, THE LIMIT. Austin introduced the resolution he commercial, industrial, or professional. made to provide that the commission benefit of the favored few Is necessarily but received after the convention be non-partisan, objection was raised had sprung on the Hennepin county wasteful and no relief from national We recognize the duty which rests that such amendment was out of order, extravagance, oppressive taxes and .. adjourned, John Lind asked convention last week, declaring Lind upon the university and state normal and, of course, the objection was sustained. ruinous cost of living can be expected the convention be advised he would schools to make added provision for The effect of introducing it in the foremost citizen of Minnesota, etc., until government is placed in the hands training teachers for the practical work the way it was introduced, instead of of "the party of the people. not run, and in a reported statement, but recording the convention as preferring which is demanded of the public schools. by original bill, was to deprive the We commend the Minnesota insurgent Provision should be made for closer given out at Everett, Wash., Mr. Lind house and the senate of the opportunity not to insist on his nomination. Republican representatives in congress supervision of rural schools, for an educational of amending it so as to make the board who futilely voted against the tariff is again quoted as stating positively Uproar greeted this, and it was standard for the office of county non-partisan and thus Bring about a law, but cite their defeat as irrefutable superintendent, and a more liberal that he will do as he had said, and will blocked for the time being, at least. fair and unprejudiced investigation of proof that no tariff good can come out compensation for their services. the tariff schedules. of the Republican party. decline the nomination. County option was definitely excluded We favor the levying of a tax on "Inasmuch as there has been no revision We declare that those members cf state lands for the purpose of local of the tariff that will square After nominating a man who said from the platform in the resolutions the delegation who so faithfully supported improvements. with the promises made to the people Cannon and Cannonism knowingly he would not take the nomination, and committee. S. A. Stockwell introduced We hold that all questions affecting of this country during the last campaign, misrepresented their constituents who is still reported as persisting in resolutions pledging the party the moral, political and economic welfare and which, by their votes, the and should be retired rrom congress by of the people should be directly electors directed should be done, it is the action of their own partisans, as, that statement, the Democrats are in for fair consideration of a county subjoct to the conscience and will of now the duty of congress to revise it failing which, they will inevitably be the position, of compelling an acceptance the people. option measure in the legilature but by the people. in accordance with the mandate of the To this end we demand of the incoming people removing, as far as possible, from John Lind or of filling the as this was rejected, he put through Congressman Hammimd Indorsed. state legislature, regardless of the inequalities in rates and giving consideration We commend and applaud the wise, the political affiliation of its members, vacancy caused by his declination a substitute pledging the party to to the consuming public by faithful, consistent, statesmanlike that it submit to the voters of this substantially cutting down the excessive through action of the fitate central work for a constitutional amendment course of the Hon. W. S. Hammond, state at the next general election a charges contained in the present Minnesota's distinguished Democratic constitutional amendment providing for Landlady—Mr. Hall Roome is about committee, over which Frank A. Day providing for adoption of initiative, law. A genuine, honest, straightforward, representative in congress, and declare the initiative, the referendum and the downward revision of the tariff the meanest man I ever met. is expected again to preside. referendum, and., recall, as the most that he has generously earned re-election. recall. in the interest of the consuming many democratic way to deal with moral We hold that with this instrument of Mrs. Slowpay—What's the trouble? as well as the manufacturing few. If, Mayor Haynes in Reserve. fundamental democracy at their command, We favor the direct election^ of in connection with such revision, it and. economic issues. Stockwell also Landlady—Wants me to reduce the United States senators by the people. the people can settle all questions If Mr. Lind persists in his refusal, seems best to establish a tariff board, in accordance with the will of came within an ace of getting through We favor federal income tax law. price of his board because he's lost whether that commission or board be the majority. empowered to change rates or simply to a single tax plank. two teeth. We pledge the nominees of this convention gather information, it should be a nonpartisan and the Democratic members body, and its reports should Confusion in the Convention. of the state legislature to do their utmost bo made to congress so that all may Yes, indeed. in support of this policy. know the results of the investigation, W. L. Comstock of Blue Earth moved Hostess (at party)—Why, so sileat, and so that these results may go to that the convention proceed to nominate the reading and thinking people of the Miss De Muir? You've scarcely said candidates. Chairman Daly seemed country uncensored, unabridged and unamended, THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS. a word since you came. and not changed or held back confused, and despite points of because of political necessities. The establishment Mr. Hammond delivered the keynote Youthful Guest—Really, Mrs. Leader, of such a board or commission order he held the motion to be regular speech of the Democratic state convention I am having a very enjoyable time, will be a step in the right direction in Minneapolis today, and arraigned in every respect. but the present board, or so-called Taft's tariff commission in but my father has told me 100 times commission, was not born of an earnest In an instant pandemonium broke terms no less scathing than his attack never to say anything unless I have desire to learn more of the intricacies on the Payne-Aldrich tariff. He paid loose and for an hour confusion reigned,' of the tariff situation, but of the hope something to say, and I suppose— a fine tribute to the memory of Gov. the chairman being overwhelmed that it will answer to relieve a desperate John A. Johnson, and then launched Hostess—But, my dear child, think political situation." directly into the tariff. He said: with motions and countermotions and what a stupid and tiresome thing society "Because of excessive rates and inequalities cries for points of order. When the the demand for a revision FAIL TO CLIMB MT. McKINLEY. would be if everybody followed and rearrangement of the tariff schedule situation had become so involved that that advice! hals come from the entire country, few in the house knew what was going and in the last election both prominent Cook Another Party Declares Dr. as political parties in their platforms on, Richard O'Connor, of St. Paul, I poster. promised the people that following the Not His Fault. appeared with ex-Governor Joseph W. election there should be a genuine revision "Oratory is a gift, not an acquirement," Polk, of St. Louis, who happened to of them. The people supposed, Seward, Alaska.—The Portland, said the proud politician, as and had a rig-ht to suppose from the be in tHe city and the chair seized Oregonian-New York Herald Mt. statements made by the candidates of he sat down after an hour'- harangue. the opportunity to end the confusion the political parties and the platform McKinley expedition, headed by C. E. "I understand," said the matter-offact pledges, that the excesses would be removed, by introducing Mr. Folk. The gentleman the inequalities eliminated and Rusk, of Chelah, Wash., which sailed chairman. "We're not blamin' from Missouri spoke for thirty the tariff rates substantially reduced. from Seattle on the revenue cutter Tacoma, you. You done the best you could." minutes, reviewing briefly the past and Republicans' Answer. April 24, and which followed Dr. present of the party and predicting a HON, JOHN LIND. "In March following the general elecon Cook's route up the Susitna and Chulitna HON. JOHN JENSWOLD. a special session of congress was general victory in Minnesota this fall. rivers, failed to reach the summit then Mayor James C. Haynes, who was lied for the express purpose of carrying He ended by promising to come and out these platform pledges and of Mount McKinley, and is now on Know How practically nominated, and whose nomination The three state adm?n!strations making a proper revision of the tariff. stump the state during the campaign. the late Governor Johnson were the the way back to Seward. would probably have resulted From the 15th of March to the 5th of most progressive, clean and businesslike First Test Vote on Option. August congress remained in session in the "state's history, and fully The climbers ascended the peak alleged in his acceptance, may be named. and labored and then presented to the To Keep Cool? demonstrate the capacity of Minnesota A roll call vote was taken on the by Cook to be the summit, but The convention was one of the most people of the United States, in answer Democracy for constructive administration proposition to nominate the ticket before to their demand for a genuine tariff revision, it is ten miles from the topmost point and have earned for it a restoration exciting and boisterous, as well as genuinely and in redemption of the promises to that power of which it was deprived presenting the resolutions, but of the mountain. The Rusk party was enthusiastic that the democracy of such revision, the most unpopular by the death of the great governor, this was lost to amid great 544 501, legislative act of the last quarter whose sudden taking off in his unable to see the flag which the Thomas of Minnesota has seen for several campaigns. of a century—the Payne-Aldrich tariff prime was an incalculable loss to the confusion. The county option fight When Summer's sun Lloyd party is alleged to have planted There was a great deal of bill. The most excessive rates were party, the state and the nation. His was thrown onto the floor of the convention not removed. The inequalities were not care.er is a bright page in Minnesota on the summit last April and the members acrimonious quibbling over minor and daily toil heat the eliminated. The party promises were history and through his legacy of a then by Prof. Frank W. Anderson are disinclined to believe the points, mostly hinging on the contest not kept. The most-vicious schedule noble life, replete with great achievements, blood to an uncomfortable of the State University by his in the bill, the woolen schedule, was story told by the Fairbanks expedition. will long continue to affect the between the option and anti-option not touched. The legislation itself was attempting to introduce the Bryan resolution destinies of Minnesota and spur ambitious degree, there is nothing forces. Neither side seemed to care youth to well doing. accomplished by trades and bargains of the Nebraska convention as among those who were to be beneficiaries to come into the open and raise a Another irreparable loss has been Spring The Only Time. so comforting and under it. The interests of the people sustained by the state through the follows: It is the contention of Thomas Lloyd fight on the question, but every artifice were ignored and the proceedings death, after a long period of uncomplaining cooling as a glass of "We favor county option as the best suffering, of the Hon. I* A. leading to the passage of the act were and other Alaskan mountaineers that was used to get a hidden expression little more than a scramble on the part Rosing of the state bo4rd of control, a method of dealing with the liquor question." on the subject through. Mount McKinley cannot be climbed of bounty hunters to get the best of man whose name the Democratic party one another in the fixing of the rates. Frank A. Day, chairman state central of Minnesota is proud to inscribe on from the Cook Inlet side at any time, Iced They could stand together, however, the long list of those who have given Mr. Anderson moved the adoption committee, called the convention and that it cau be ascended from the when it came to getting the best of the standing and influence to the party. of the amendment, but a motion to consumers of the country. to order shortly after 11 o'clock, with We are unequivocally in favor of a Fairbanks side only in the spring, refer it back to the resolutions committee reapportionment of representation in while the snow is hard and the crevises the hall and balconies well filled. His A Republican Law. the state legislature with a view to was carried by an overwhelming making the composition of that body a in the great glaciers are bridged opening remarks were characteristic of "This law is a Republican law. It is true reflection of the distribution of vote, only about seventy-five delegates, named the Payne-Aldrich bill, Mr. Postum by the snow. In the summer the crevices the man. population. Payne being the Republican leader of rising to oppose the motion. "This is a good old-fashioned, freefor-all, are perilous. the house and Mr. Aldrich the Republican Conservation Commended. Mr. Anderson hurried to the stage, leader of the United States senate. fighting Democratic convention," Conservation of natural resources for The disappearance of the flag from a It was heartily approved by Mr. Cannon, handed his resolutions to Chairman the benefit of all the people is problem the summit of Mount McKinley was said Mr. Day. "A convention the Republican speaker of the house of the first importance. The state Works and demanded a report, Chairman of representatives. It received the sanction to have been expected, they say, on without a boss, without a steam roller, of Minnesota is In a position to accomplish of Mr. Sherman, the Republican Works called the committee to much in this direction by reason a slate, or prearranged committees. account of the high wind that sweep? vice president of the United States, and of its large ownership of land, timber the platform where a motion was it has been declared to be the "best "This is a convention of free and over the peak. .f and -.minerals and we recommend served with sugar and a tc tariff bill ever enacted" by Mr. Taft, made and unanimously carried lay as a first step In this direction the inauguration independent men, who paid 2 cents Asahel Curtis, of Seattle, a celebrated the president of the United States and or a prudent and businesslike little lemon. it on the table. The committee immediately the leader of the Republican party. out of their own pockets for every mile mountain climber of Seattle, had administration of the state's publicly "It is true that the bill was so rank reported on the death of owned natural resources, to be they traveled—and if it hadn't been not expected any summer expedltioc that a number of Republicans refused Surprising, too, how brought about by a centralization and the resolution. to vote for it. That does not make it for a Democratic governor, they would to succeed. He says that Rusk has systematic organisation or the -various any the less a Republican bill. It only The report of the resolutions committee the food elements relieve offices now onarged with their direction have had to pay three." no superior as a mountaineer and if goes -to show that it required Republicans along the lines recommended and was then adopted by a rising with the strongest kind of stomachs Here followed a eulogy of John A. urged by Governor Johnson upoft. an .unwilling Rusk cannot succeed in summer no fatigue and sustain one. to carry it through. The Democrats vote.' legislature. Closely allied to Johnson. one can. Mr. Curtis believes Thomas and a number of the Republicans conservation of natural resources are known as insurgents voted against it "Even the Republicans refuse to The Ticket Nominated. Lloyd's story of the ascent, as do all The flavour is delicious—and the works of drainage and the construction and individually those Republicans cannot of good roads. We favor a constitutional The nomination of a candidate for cheer the name ot W. H. Taft. the members of the Seattle Mountain be held responsible for the law. but Postum is amendment by which a one the organization and the Republican governor was declared in order, and on "Republican papers are united in (1) mill tax may be levied for the construction eers' club. Lloyd is a wealthy man party as It was then and is now constituted of roads and bridges. really a food drink. denouncing the iniquity of Cannon, roll call of counties, Aitkin waived for of high reputation and has made no must be charged with the responsibility We point with pride to the record of this enactment, and must Aldrich, Ballinger, Tawney and Wick«rsham. St. Louis and Hon. John Jen$wald of made by the bureau of labor under the effort to exploit his feat for financial stand or fall in with the coming campaign administration of Democratic officials, Duluth took the stage and in a tenminute gain. upon the judgment of the electors in which the rights and interests of "There's a Reason" upon that piece of legislation. "Adolph O. Eberhart wants to be speech in which he reviewed labor have been jealously guarded. Never before in the history of this governor so badly.that he is willing the long connection of his candidate Tariff Commission. Judge Geo. Baker Lake Dies. state has such careful attention been to accept the honor and let somebody with the fortunes of Minnesota he Omaha, Neb. Judge George Baker given to every phase of the life of the "Fearing the indignation of a people POSTUM CEREAXi CO., Ltd., working classes. The child labor law aroused by the repudiation of its -else run the office." placed the name of John Lind before Lake, for many years a leading has been vigorously enforced. Factory promises to them, the Republican organization Battle Creek, Mich. Hammond Introduced. the cbnvention. Four or five counties jurist in this state, died at his bom# and workshop inspection has been sought to allay the rising brought to a nigh standard of efficiency, storm of wrath by providing for the socalled "I the aSutfl usurp power ot coo- following seconded the nomination. here, aged 84 years. and ar result hundreds of acci­ Do not for a tariff commission.