PAGE SIX MR. HILTON IS al objections*. FOUGHT TO GET treasury. It is,"a2 the utmoatT"Siporfcance now pending in tfc* state- sstrand But he'reached America to findl ft In Clifford) L. HHttao the people of that the Attorney Gentecvii be* a court, of which 3 have* been- cascidd to full of disappointments. His first setback Minnesota have- at despendable and man well quantified to protect th« the United States. Supreme- Court. came when he learned that sudden ABLE OFFICIAL cient public servant Because ot his state's interests. In Clifford b. Hiltton, Fourteen cases hav.e been, aagjied in SNTO_AUNIF0RM orders had sent the 151st to familiarity with important cases now the present Attorney General tbft the United Stat*** Suprenaft Court, France. He had passed the outfit in pending and' the: many legal problems state has such a man. eight of which w^re d&cid&d favor mid-Atlantic. of the. state, if for no other reason, he Wa« Born in Minnesota.. of the state and four cas«& aire now He decided to follow it back to should be elected for a second term. Mr. Hiliteta was born a* Kenyon, pending before that tribunal Eleven France, but getting out of America, He deserves it and the best interests Minnesota* December 8, 2866'. When cases have bee& argued is the United was serious business. Unselfish Devotion to the Affairs of innesota require it. 13 years of age he moved to Fergus States District Court sevea before the Louis L. Collins, Candidate for Gets Senator's Aid. of Minnesota by Attorney Falls, Minn., where he still retains Department oS the Interior two before The state department refused to The Rubber-Tired Goraf Lieutenant-Governor, Has his residence. He attended the common the Interstate Comnatertse Commission grant him permission to leave and he General Should be Rewarded Among the strange animaJs that schools of Minnesota and graduated and two bet&re other departments. Notable Record as went to Senator Knute Nelson. He cftme under the observation of Mr„ from the Fergus Falls High at Polls. 10,000 Opinions Rendered. told the senator that he asked only Upy Chapman Andrews, who conduct* Soldier. School in 1884. He then entered the The criminal eases in the State Supreme the privilege of paying his way to ed an expedition into farther China University of Wisconsin, receiving the Court have numbered one hundred France to enlist as a private soldier. under the auspices of the American degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1888. By J. C. McDermott. ten and in the district courts forty-one. "Scores have come to me to help Museum of Natural History, was the He was admitted to practice law immediately The opinions rendered by the "The best corporal in the A. E. P.," save them from the draft or to get goral, a mountain goat of extraordinary after his graduation and has Attorney General and his assistants is what Colonel George E. Leach of them commissions in the ordnance or ability. been actively engaged therein ever during this time number about 10JD00. quartermaster corps," Nelson said. the famous 151st, Field Artillery, dubbed I have seen a gowl, says the ex* since. In 1911 he was admitted to Among the important cases argued "But I'll be doggoned if you aren't the Louis L. Collins, Republican candidate practice before the Supreme Court of Poorer, run at full spaed down the face and won during this period in out Supreme first that has begged me to be a private." for lieutenant governor of Minnesota, of a cliff that appeared to he almost the United States. Court are the Hobart Iraft Company Nelson was a Civil War''soldier who has a war record of which perpendicular. Tfee dogs did not venture General Hilton's life is a record of case, which determined that the and has a warm spot in his heart for no man need be ashamed. faithful and Ifficient service, all offices to follow iti As the animal landed state was entitled to royalties from the men who carry the packs. Collins was working on a Minneapolis held by him being in the line on a protesting rock, it would state mineu based on crude ore measurements, Together they went to the state dopartment newspaper when the clouds of his chosen profession of law. For bounce off ass if made of rubber and and the Soldiers" Bonus Law to see Secretary Lansing. of war lowered over America. On the two years he served as city attorney leap eight ten feet to a narrow case, in which an act of the legislature "What's this I hear about your refusing day that Congress made its momentous of Fergus Falls. He was county attorney ledge that did not seem large enough granting a bonus to soldiers and sailors a passport to my friend Collins?" decision, Collins closed his desk, put of Otter Tail County for ten to support 8 rabbit, Youth's Comoanion. was .sustained against constitution­ the senator demanded. Mr. on his cap and coat and visited the years. In 1909*he was appointed Assistant Lansing explained the rules. army recruiting office. Attorney General. Nelson Gets Action. He is only 5 feet and Vz inch tall Succeeded Lyndon A. Smith. "Well, rules or no rules, he's going and his poundage totals only 102. But Upon the accession of the late Lyndon the stout heart that beats within his to get a passport, even if it's necessary A. Smith to the office of Attorney diminutive body is out of all proportion for me to go to the White House," Attention Auto Owners General, Mr. Hilton was appointed first Nelson thundered. Collins had his to his other dimensions. assistant, and when the office of Deputy passport in an hour. Finds "Nothing Doing." Attorney General was created, he In Paris, the future looked dark. No The army recruiting officer smiled and Garage Men was appointed to that position. Upon indulgently when he asked to swap his one seemed to want to tell where the the death of General Smith, Mr. Hilton business suit for the O. D.'s of the 151st was located. More than a month was appointed attorney general. He was spent in fruitless quest. One day, CLIFFORD L. HILTON. was nominated republican candidate he found some members of the regiment Do Not Let Zero Weather Find You With a Leaky Radiator and elected to that office in 1918. on leave. They whispered the The legal department of the state Showing the magnitude of the department's name of the town. It was Coetquidan. We repair, rebuild and recore all makes of auto, truck and is a most Important one. The Attorney operations since January 1, a "A first class fighting man wants General, in addition to being the tractor radiators. Our twenty-four hour repair service 1917 and up to May 1, 1920, it has collected job with a first class fighting unit," chief law officer of the state is a eliminates laying up your car for a long time.. .Estimates for the state a total of $4,861,522.47. Collins toid Colonel Leach. member of numerous boards and has gladly furnished and workmanship fully guaranteed. "First class fighting men are just duties involving the exercise of unusual Since January 1, 1917, 280 civil cases what we need," answered the C. O. skill and ability. All the many Express us your work today and'we will return it tomorrow have been handled in the district The examining officer, Captain John legal complications of the state's affairs court, of which 36 have been appealed Smith-Lewis Auto Radiator Co., Bemidji, Minn. Rosenwald, who later died gloriously are referred to him. Each department to the supreme court. Of the cases demands a portion of his fa battle, was perhaps a little careless so handled, 198 have been brought to time. Through his activities millions about ascertaining Collins' weight and a final determination. Seventy-nine of dollars that would be otherwise height. Anyway, before night, he was civil cases have been argued or are lost are annually turned into the in uniform. It was a little long in the sleeves and a little liberal in the legs and the blouse coujd have done without quite so much cloth—but it was the goal he had fought so hard to "Pull liimesota Out of the Muf reach. On Lorraine Front. A few days later, the 151st went into action on the Lorraine front. And as it swung along the road to its destination, Collins was astride one of L. L. COLLINS. the pieces. He asked to be assigned to the guns American soldier. They explained and in a short time he was "No. 1" that army requirements would have and had the personal satisfaction of to be materially changed if he were pulling the lanyard that opened the to be admitted. iron throat of the "Soxainte-Quinze" He tried to do business with the Make Every Road a Good Road to bark back the Yankees' answer to navy and marine corps but at each the Boche hymn of hate. place he met the same rebuffs. Instead Through all the sanguinary engagements of going back to work, satisfied that in which the 151st played such he had done his bit, Collins tried a Without Increasing Road Taxes an epic part, Collins stuck to his guns. new tack. At Chateau Thierry, in Lorraine, at He closed his business affairs and St. Mihiel, on the Ourcq, on the Vesle started for France. He had heard of and in the tangled mazes of the bloody the renowned Foreign Legion, where Argonne he played his small part in brave hearts count for more than large laying down the barrages, those great VOTE 'YES' frames. curtains of steel that saved thousands At the headquarters of the Foreign of good young American lives. Legion in the shadow of the tomb of With the signing of the armistice, Napoleon, Collins became a private the 151st moved across the Rhine and soldier in the French army. for several months, Collins was a memmer He was at once appointed pilot of of the Army of Occupation. an ambulance in the 26th Division, a Home Once More. shock unit with a great fighting record. It was May 7, 1919, that the 151st— Within a short time he was in the pride of Minnesota—marched action on the Picardy front before FOR through the streets of Minneapolis and Saint Quentin. St. Paul. The returned boys received Enters American Army. OD ROADS the greatest ovation ever recorded in In October, 1917, the French government Minnesota. granted honorable discharges George Leach, at the head of the tinhatted to all Americans enrolled under the warriors, was wildly acclaimed tri-color, so that they could enlist in but his welcome was not a bit more their own army. stirring than that accorded the "best Collins knew it was folly to run the corporal in the A. E. F." gamut of enlistment officers again, so At the republican convention in St. NO 1 he got in touch with Colonel Leach, Paul, May 8, Collins received a remarkable then at Camp Mills, L. I. Leach indicated tribute when he was unanimously that he might overlook some selected as candidate for lieutenant of the enlistment requirements. That's governor. His nomination was seconded why Collins boarded a New York by a "buddy" from the 151st. bound steamship one rainy in the day fall oi' 1917. Put a cross mark (X) opposite the constitutional amendments On the Pink Ballot Nov. 2 you wish to vote for in the squares indicated by the arrow. STATE BALLOT. Constitutional amendments to be voted on by the people. Nobody Is Opposed to Good Roads Proposal to Create Trunk Highway System, Tax Motor Vehicles, Etc. —YES Amendment to constitution by adding thereto a new article to New Minnesota Plan Benefits All be known as_ article 16, and creating a trunk highway system authorizing the taxation of motor vehicles to create a fund for the construction and improvement of the same authorizing the enactment of laws providing for the issuance Automobile Savings Pay Entire Cost of bonds of the State, and the payment of the principal and interest of such bonds. —NO Proposal to extend term of Judge of Probate to Four Years Commercial —YES Endorsed By Farm Bureau, Federation of Labor, \mendment to section seven (7) Article six (6) of the Constitution of the State of Minnesota, providing for extension Associations, Women's Clubs and Many Others of term of office of the Probate Judge to four (4) years. —NO .Proposal for giving Legislature power to make Tax Exemptions, also to Tax Incomes, Etc. —YES Amendment of Article nine of the Constitution, relating to taxation, This Publicity Contributed by to take the place of section one. ... —NO THE COMMERCIAL CLUB Subjecting Railroad Lands to Certain Local Assessments. International Falls, Minn. —YES Shall Chapter 533, Laws of Minnesota for 1919, amending section 2226, General Statutes of Minnesota, 1913, so as to make real property used for railway purposes subject to assessments, be adopted and ratified. —NO