Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1904 — ABOUT GOV. VAN SANT. [ARTICLE]

ABOUT GOV. VAN SANT.

Gov. Van Baut of Minnesota, who speaks here next Tuesday night, is a man of national not* for still another reason besides his ability as an orator. It wa9 he who started and bore the brunt of the great fight against Pierpout Morgan and the rest of the g r eat financiers, in preventing the merger of the two great continental railroads which cross Mianesota. The Northern Pacific and the Great Northern. It was the most celebrated tnd most successful fight ever unde against great corporations, in this country It is understood that the governor will toll some of inside facts of tbi9 great case, in bis speech.