The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-14

Political ruin for Governor Van SAINT is
being plotted by a powerful cabal Of Min
nesota politicians. An organization
strong enough to be dangerous to any
man Is spreading through the state, hav-
ing for its present aim one thing only, to
edo up Van SAINT" The plotters expect
to profit personally by success, OF course.
but have not been able to map out very
definite program for division Of the spoils.
To all appearances, there are two inde-
pendent elements at work against Van
SAINT, without any reference to each other.
One is the new Heatwole movement. The
third district congressman is going outside
his territory, perfecting an Organization
by counties all through southern and
any secret about it. Current gossip at
the capitol and the St. Paul hotels has
it that twenty-five counties In five differ
ent congressional districts have Heatwole
representatives at work They are op-
posed to Van SAINT and for Heatwole. The
third district is thoroughly organized, as
it has always been. There is large
disaffected element in the first district,
headed by S. A. Langum of Preston, and
said to include in its ranks even some
Van SAINT appointees. In St. Paul it has
footing, but there it is working in with
the other element of opposition.
Alex Mckenzie Butts In.
This second movement is distinctively
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I|bSsrAlex "A sKenzles the North Dakota
warwick, who is finding Minnesota a
fruitful field for his talents this winter.
Mckenzie has gathered a following in ST.
Paul, from among the gangsters. He has
lines out in the Red River valley, among
the 1enchmen Of Judge Mills. Duluth
| which is for the most part strongly anti
Van SAINT, is in touch, and is counted on
to help the combine in the state conven-
ton The new counties of northern Min
nesota are full of Knockers" who threat
en- to carry every county north of st.
Cloud against Van SAINT. They have nc
candidate to lead them, and may come
down to the convention without can
didate If Heatwoles plans work IN
southern Minnesota. however, there will
be coalition. Bob Dunn is to be nomi-
mated for governor, despite his protests
They will "cram it down, his throat"
Heatwo1e and Dunn.
| Heatwole will assist in this. He and
Dunn have hardly spoken to each other
since 1898, when they quarreled over the
reelection of G. X. Davis. They have
nothing to do with each other now, anc
scorn any idea OF working in harmony
The Indications are many, however. that
Heatwole has decided, to bring about the
own ambition lies in the direction of the
senate, and his organization is undermin.
ing Clapp already. He figures on secur'
| ing Dunns strength in northern Mime.
sofa three years hence to land him in the
senate.
| The strength of this new movement is
apparent in the attitude of the country
press. Newspapers that stood I'D for
| the governors every act up to three
months ago, are now questioning his mo-
tives in opposing the railroad merger
Those in the northern part of the state
are shouting for Dunn. In the south they
are making googoo eyes at Heatwole.
| Strange Bedfellows.
| The situation is peculiar. In the anti
Van SAINT camp are a good many sore
heads, opposed to Van SAINT for personal
reasons, who find themselves for the firsi
time in their lives fighting, side by sids
| with the Great Northern influence. They
| quiet their consciences by saying that il
is only fight between railroads and tina,
Van SAINT is put up to it by the 500 ane