The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-03

hOrsed, Would Again Tilt a Lance
with Lind-Bob Dunn Gives Joel
HeatwoIe a Raktng over the
Goals.
The friends of Judge Loren w. Collins
are wondering on what grounds they will
have to meet Moses E. Clapp. That gen
| tleman stands high In the estimation of
his fellow party men, and If his posi-
ton was a little better understood by
the friends of the ST. Cloud jurist it
would save them deal of worry. Repub
licans are united in the belief that who
! ever gets the nomination for governor
next year must be the unanimous choice
| of the party. Collins friends have
picked up the tomahawk early and sew
eral political conferences of late at the
Merchants have enabled them to canvass
|. the situation somewhat but the uncer-
| tainty of Gen. Clapp's position leaves
them all In the air. Both men are look
ed upon as likely candidates for the NOM
ination. but 1t is promised by the party
leaders that there will be no fight In the
convention, and the man will get the
nomination who develops the most
strength and creates the most enthu-
siasm in the party.
Gen. Clapp goes about his law prac-
tice in this city and mikes very little
in politics, but he is being talked of
great deal.
| Judge Collins is busy with hts judicial
duties, but to the contrary notwith-
| standing his friends are particularly
Jealous in his behalf and the last two
weeks has seen an unusual number of
| Sixth district politicians around the
| hotels
The Republicans say they have prof1ted
by the experience with william H. Eus-
| tbs last year and will put up man who
| is the popular choice of the party in
| stead of allowing some ambitious poll
tician to force himself upon the party
| and then as result of the disintegra-
| ton lead the party to defeat They do
| say, however, that since the removal of
| the chamber of commerce in Minneapolis
| has greatly reduced the rental value of
| William Henry's property holdings he
| has determined to return to politics as
| a livelihood rather than as diversion
and that within few weeks his lectures
| on 1.-The Moors of Spain" and 1.-The
| Conquest of Granada will be awakening
| the echoes OF the rural school houses,
while he himself shakes hands with the
fair school ma am, her youthful classes
and their venerable sires. William Henry
must not be reckoned out of the field
in his own mind at least, any more than
it must be supposed that John H. Steele
| can be made to realize that his manage
ment of the campaign Of 1898 was not
| farcical.
It is also believed that the next candi-
date for governor put up by the Repub-
Is%o,
both these qualities are pronounced In
the gentlemen named neither will have
a decided advantage. Judge Collins
would make strong personal handshak-
! ing campaign, while Gen. C1app would be
seen to the best advantage on the stump.
where he has distinguished himself IN,
the service of the Republican party for
many years.
1t is expected that Gov Lind will re-
ceive the Endorsement of his administra-
ton by his party with denomination.
and Of necessity there is much dickering
among Republicans for vantage a year
to come.
The matter of timber from which to-
make selection Is not the greatest of the
is puzzling the local Republicans and
will continue to worry them until the,
national convention is held. They figure
however, that the national campaign will
help out, and even if they don't have a
platform other than sound money to
stand on they will be able to pull
through.
Many on the outside wonder If Gov.
Clough will ever again cut conspicu-
Gus figure In North Star politics. It IS
the consensus of opinion among the bet
ter element that the party already has to
carry more dead weights than the mar
o,f,, Of act ar,c 10 MIR w
would indicate was safe.
Sam Langum will be back, in the race
for secretary of state again, but many
think that Sam has been treated pretty
we'll by the Republican party, and it is
up to him to give some other deserving
First district man a chance next year.
Albert Berg IS another who says that
the glories of political life have lost their
charm for him. He will practice law, he
says, for a livelihood in the future, al
though he would like to dictate his sue
cessor,
Kenyons appointment to a $500 job has
caused a howl to go Up all over the state
from hungry, deserving Republicans, who
believe that the party is suffering from a
case of TOO much Kenyon" And then
Powers might be adde to the refrain.
Bob Dunn and Joel Heatwole have
dug up the ak. When both were enjoy
ing fine official places, obtained through
the Republican party, these loving Re-
publican editors of high-class out-of-
town weeklies preserved respectful ST
lence when speaking of each other for a
long time. That is, not to continue the
Celticism, they did not speak of each
other at all. But Minneapolis paper re-
Gently published screed rejecting on
Dunn's loyalty to Eustis, and the PriINNh-
ton man suspects that Heatwole inspired
the publication. Mr.. Dunn says frankly
that he does not think he could vote for
Heatwole for governor. He even init