THE MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE OF 1909
Larson, Lewis R.
the minnesota legislature of 1909 A Review of Lynn Haines' History of This Session By LEWIS R. LARSON IN AN article on "The Saturday Lunch Club" of Minneapolis in the July 31, 1909, number of La...
...Lynn Haines as its secretary...
...pie and a Remedy...
...It does in a very efficient manner as to the last session of the Minnesota legislature what La Follette's is doing so well in "The Roll Call" as to the sessions of Congress...
...An investigation of Secretary Ballinger under the direction of Senator Aldrich ought to be as thrilling a performance as a moving picture of Ajax defying the lightning.— The Montana Lookout...
...This movement was organized for observing the doings of the last legislature and its individual members, "with the purpose of giving the informaton gathered to the people of the state...
...PERTINENT COMMENT WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE, editor of the Emporia Gazette, and an undoubted authority on national politics, is of the opinion that Cannonism will not outlive the Sixty-first...
...and this Minnesota story will have its lesson for them too, and help improve representative government for the whole country...
...They want to feel free to represent their people as Republicans and not as puppets who have been bought and paid for in advance by the Cannon-Aldrich outfit...
...One result of that work is a volume by Secretary Haines just from the press, of which the following is the table of contents: Introduction by S. M. Owen...
...Paper bound copies of this book may be secured from the author at 720 New York Life Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for 60 cents each, postpaid...
...Direct Legislation and I. Corporations, Politicians, Pre-election Pledges...
...and the Press...
...The Minnesota Citizens' X. The Street Railway's League...
...Haines is a former newspaper man, a keen observer, an accurate chronicler of what he saw and heard, and he has made a volume of extraordinary interest...
...System...
...President Taft's reply to the complaint of the increased cost of living—that prices are advancing all over the world—is not a sufficient answer to the consumer's query as to the reason or his plea for relief.—Boston Herald...
...I know of five Insurgents running against Cannon congressmen in Kansas who do not want a cent of the National Committee's money if they are nominated...
...fPresident Taft based his campaign for election upon two claims or professions, one that he favored a genuine downright revision of the tariff and the other that he would carry to completion the policies initiated by President Roosevelt...
...The Speakership...
...Haines says so...
...New Members and the ployees...
...Some Suggestions about ganized...
...Supplies and Em-V...
...Legislative Program...
...A Classification and Two Sessions...
...The Pool and the Primary...
...Everybody's Magazine...
...VII...
...For essentially the same conditions obtain in every state where the contest is on between the people and the interests...
...W'hite in his editorial sanctum: "I hear that Representative McKinley says that all Insurgent nominees who are nominated will have to be elected without the aid of the National Congressional Committee...
...What he accomplished with the tariff is known of all men.—New York Journal of Commerce...
...Bad Bills...
...Haines' volume ought to have a general circulation in other states as well as in Minnesota...
...Saloons and the Legisla- Members...
...Congress...
...As to others whose records seem not much better, conforming to the evident restraint all through the book, the writer leaves the reader to make his own condemnation...
...Reforms...
...Smith and the Senate...
...Still, if Mr...
...As to some men, their record is damning, and Mr...
...Notwithstanding many of the facts stated are startling to those not familiar with the methods of corporate control of governmental affairs, it is obvious from a reading of Mr...
...Haines' book does not put an end to the official careers of some men now very prominent, who hope to be continued in office, the voters of Minnesota are indifferent as to the character of their public servants...
...He said, though, that notwithstanding that domination there were some bright spots in the outlook...
...To provide against this party upheaval—which does not appeal at all to the editor of the Gazette—Mr, White has inaugurated an Insurgent Congressional movement in Kansas, and the strongest Progressives to be found will contest in the primaries with all of those representatives who supported the Cannon rule...
...The Battle for a Ton- XVII...
...Said Mr...
...So far as Kansas is concerned, Mr...
...White believes that, if riie Cannon representatives are not defeated in the primaries, the state will send a Democratic delegation to Congress—saving only Representatives Murdock and Madison, Republicans, who are practically certain of re-election...
...the minnesota legislature of 1909 A Review of Lynn Haines' History of This Session By LEWIS R. LARSON IN AN article on "The Saturday Lunch Club" of Minneapolis in the July 31, 1909, number of La Follette's, the writer stated that the political situation in Minnesota was controlled by a union of the Steel Trust and the Hill interests, supported by some lesser corporate influences, including daily newspapers, making a combination apparently invincible...
...The Railroad Ring in XVIII...
...VIII...
...Haines' book that his treatment has been restrained by a desire not to overstate, nor to draw inferences not entirely justified by the facts...
...Reforming the Rules...
...Gas Trust...
...A Final Word...
...Minneapolis and the VI...
...Characterization o f IX...
...III...
...A Few Fundamental nage Tax...
...Already the movement has gained great headway, and the news of it has commanded the attention of the Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee, who, it is reported, has let it be known that no financial help will be forthcoming to Insurgent nominees...
...XIII...
...Log Rolling, an ExamII...
...How the House was Or- XIV...
...One mentioned was the work of the Minnesota Citizens' League, having in its membership leading men of the state of all political parties, with Mr...
Vol. 2 • January 1910 • No. 1
