The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-08-08
MINNESOTA POLITICS

MiNNEOUIA TULiiIOo
The third district muddle still refuses to
clear up. The organization does not seem
satisfied with any Of the five candidates now
III the field and the ambitious quintet are
kept very much in suspense waiting to see |
which way the Heatwole men will jump All |
five are hard at work, and each one is gather |
ing to himself fragments of the organization |
The longer 1t lacks Moses, the harder 1t
| will be to hold the "masheen" together and
| deliver it, ~
e. A. Whitford is very seriously consider
Ing the question again. 1t is possible that
1 he will think better of his former decision,
| withdraw his withdrawal, and go after the
| nomination. In that case, it is believed the
personal influence of Mr.. Heatwole will be
for Whitford. If Whtford stays out it may
go to Morrison of Chaska, who is strong in
the western end Of the district. s-l.a
| Ives and Wilson are not acceptable to Heat
| Wole. Both are strong men and will be fac
tors In the fight Wilson has been promi-
| nent figure for twenty years, and served
with honor in the legislature ten years ago.
He Is aggressive and outspoken and has many
| enemies, but 1t is said that he has more
nearly united the elements in Goodhue coun-
| ty for his candidacy than they have been
brought together for many a long day. He
and Heatwole have not been good friends,
| but. Wilson hopes that Joel will keep hands
off, II he cannot help him., - - =.
=, Governor Ives has been before the public
longer than Wilson, He was in the state
senate in 1886, and elected lieutenant gov
ernor In 1890 He is prominent in Grand
Army and Masonic circles and his most dis
; tinguished public service was as a member
of the late tax commission He. has been a
| strong Van SAINT and is, therefore, non
grata to Heatwole, although the administra-
I ton is entirely guiltless of his candidacy.
He's Still a Republican,.
The straight ticket bugaboo has been
raised to frighten away voters from the pri-
maries. Mower county republican writes
to the Austin, Register: %".~,... ~' ~.5~.
According to the ruling of the attorney gen
eral am knocked out SO cannot vote att the
primaries as I did not vote the straight re-
publican ticket two years ago, as I stood for
Brown and Lind. I think that law is an in
Justice. have voted the straight republican
I ticket for thirty-two years with the only one
exception of two years ago. go
The Register replies editorially:
This voter evidently understands the law
ago he. cannot go into the republican prim-
aries and help nominate republican candi-
dates, Why should"a man who tried to defeat
republican nominees two years ago by voting
Il the democratic ticket be permitted to vote In
! republican primaries? =.
That's cracking the party whip. with a ven
geance. The primary law does draw party
lines, but not SO tightly as the Mower county
| 1SQuUllCdA luAole. -r1u6 PRIMARY INV says d
voter shall be given the ballot of the party
with which he declares that he affiliated, and
whose candidates he generally SUPPORTED
at the last general election. .t * -. -
! faEThat' does not compel him to swallow the
whole ticket, and 9 IL the Mower. county man
only scratched two three names. he has
ta perfect right to vote at the republican
primaries. He does not have to wear a party
straight Jacket The attorney generals .rul-
ing does not contemplate any such state of
! affairs, but it has evidently been given a
E / strict Interpretation in some quarters Good
supported a majority of the Republican can
8didates, he is still republican and entitled
t to vote at the republican primaries. Is.
Harvesting Votes in the Ninth.
In=That refreshing breeze from the northwest
means that the five candidates for congress in
}. the ninth district are out whispering to their
farmer constituents. They are at ii, day in
/ and day out. >allgfive of them, They are not
. making much noise and no news. but nearly
q every weekly paper in the Red river valley
4 contains a paragraph saying that .Ezra; Val
\ entine called on his friends in Blankville and
4 vicinity this week." orxffcandidate Grindeland
b dropped into the Bassoon office Tuesday; he
is very pleasant gentleman" To-. /
II NJ j. bowling is nothing il not original and
= enterprising HIS latest is a pocket map o.
81 tricts The back of the map is covered will
a convenient statistics, and, incidentally tells
/ Esome interesting facts about Michael ]. BOWL
i ling aid the primary election. s>'.
al }-Caadidates in the Thfrty-eighth. .
es ~ Charles Fust and p. F.. Herbert, the demo
4 cratic representatives from the thirty-eightl
district, are both candidates for grenomin alton
IN Their constituents are not entirely satistle
as with their records, and they will have som
Us opposition. Matt Smith and John schroede
i viii probably bescandidates. and others ma
: come out Both Fust and Herbert vote
ba against the gross earnings bill The latte
ut stood for the tax bill. but Fust was agains
be everything. IS
Senator McGoyern says he is not candi
IS. date for congress in the first district if L.
a. Brown will run. With Mr.. Brown out of il
he will be a candidate. las, Mr.. Brown refuse
to run, it comes right back to the origins
u proposition-McGoyern for congress on th
ay democratic ticket.
ay A Mankato doctor has sent out circula
ay letter to- his medical friends in the .sevent
a district, asking them to support NJ. J. sDowlin
because he lis "a monument to the achieve
ito ments of modern surgery.
tut q - Belden has opposition for the senator
he shin Al Mower county. Former Mayor Camp
lys bell Of Austin has filed for the reputlica
nomination.
as gSstt%zsl
a 1t Will he Senator Ward.
ng ,ao,,,t dive q b Ward OF sAlexandr
Aled tod as a republican candidate for Il
state senate in the Douglas-Pope district M
he Ward is conceded the nomination, which !
an earned Inv faithful and honest service TO u
nd state In the last house. His good busine:
ro- sense was valuable on a good many occasion
~ es458sfs -
ice loren G. Stevenson, one of the younger lie,
to islators in the last House, filed yesterday Z
be denomination in the forty-nrst olserlel IN. ~
and made a good record.
9o4 Charles B. Cheney.
BILE ----- 81 s. 3
his $500
the AMUSEMENIS
i'll, -.
he Foyer Chnt.