The Minneapolis journal., 1902-05-10

in county are distinctly to be congrat-
Lated on not allowing any volcano to take
ut license to do business in this county.
We have always been opposed to volcanoes
nd earthquakes on principle, and cannot
ow5 in view of what has happened in the
antilles, see our way clear 10 modify our
osition. - j. Russell.
!. MINNESOTA POLITICS
Now that opposition 10
WHO WILL DO Governor Van SAINTS
reorganization a
THE WORK? ceased it's activity,
speculation is busy
With the probable attitude of the opposition
eaders during the campaign, They will say
II course that they are republicans, and will
support the nominee, but it is quite likely
hat their support will be half hearted, and
much on the order of that given William H.
1ustis by the same element. Tams Bxby has
laid that he will not serve again on the COM
nittee and Eli Warner is understood to be
tut of it this year. There is plenty of good
material TO draw from. however, and pos
;ibly some new faces on the committee would
lelp. This is not said with any disparagment
If the valuable services rendered by Messrs.
3ixby and Warner in 1900 and previous cam
oaigns.
Democrats have not
DENIS LOOK quite given up hope
- that John Lind will be
FOR A MOSES. candidate for gov
ernor but in view of
he very slim prospect Of thatevent they are
tasting about for other material. L. a.
Rosing may consent to be the sacrifice but
there are elements in the party which prefer
some other man. Overtures have been made
from some quarters to l.. L. Brown of Wi
mona, the brainy lawyer who gave James A.
TaWney a good race two years ago.. Brown
does not care to make another uphill fight i'll
the first district, and it is question whether
he could be persuaded to take the even larger
contract of defeating his distinguished towns
man at the capitol. 49,.
There is the same difficulty in getting demo.
cratic candidates as there was in bringing
out republican candidate against Van SAINT.
The candidate SO brought out would have the
support of the railroad influence, III itself
a strength. but the general knowledge Of
that fact would be an even greater weakness,
and hard handicap to overcome. ~
.-r- .-z. :. -.,. - When Tams Bixby first
COULD NOT arrived in Red Wing
-.-,~- .r--- this week, he met OH
--. STRIKE the street John Stone
Pardee, the editor of
BARGAIN. the democratic state
organ. Pardee asked
Bixby il he was going to run for governor,
and Bixby in turn asked Pardee if Lind would
run Then they took new tack. BiXby sug-
gested that race between Rosing and him
self would be interesting, both being Goodhue
county men and former private secretaries.
'Well,' said Pardee, Il will help you bring
that about. 1 will undertake to get Lind out
nf tfag
Bixby refused. He said that Pardee had
set an unequal task. -
Isanti county seems to be we'll satisfied with
the congressional prospects in the eighth, if
the following from the Cambridge Press is
any criterion:
]. Adam Bede's prospects for receiving the
republican nomination for congress at tho
primaries in September grow more rosy daily.
The voters in this section of the district are
for him to man. In Bede they feel they
Will have representative in congress whom
they know apd who knows them. There is a
strong personal sentiment in this friendship
fer Bede. We all feel that if elected he will
never give us the cold shoulder and that how
ever frivolous our demands and complaints nc
deaf ear will be ever turned to them. Du-
luth man be he ever so clever and honest
and worthy, could never make us feel a:
Bede can. that we each and everyone of uE
were individually and collectively represented
in congress-
COL. A. F. FOSTER At last sixth distric,
republican has beer
GOES FOR found with nerve
enough to come out
BUCKMAN. against c.. B. Buck
+ as candidate for
the congressional nomination A dispatch
to T e Jour n a | from Litchfeld says: :
Colonel A. F. Foster of this city, at prtsen
county attorney If Meeker county, has an:
nounced his candidacy fer congress on the
republican ticket, subject to the action of tn,
voters as expressed in the primaries.
Colonel Foster is highly respected citizen
popular in MeekeE county, and an old sol.
dier He formerly lived in Minneapolis
Without doubt he will be cordially sup.
ported at home but it remains to be seer
whether he has sufficient strength in the
other counties of the district to cause the
Little Falls man serious anxiety.
RAISING THE The friends Of Samue
G. Iverson in his can
LOCALITY didacy for state audi
'- tor say that he is not
ISSUE. the candidate of any
section of the state
and does not lay claim to the support of any
locality except on his own merits The fact
is that while Mr.. Iverson has been employed
at the state capitol for about sixteen years
and is in a sense attached to Ramsey county
he has maintained his residence at Rush
ford, Fillmore county, and has cast his vote
there. AS Fillmore county is in the frs
district, and the governor also comes from
that locality, friends of the other candidate:
are raising the cry that the first has tot
much. Sam Langum looks on Iverson's can
didacy with unfriendly eye, and has de-
clared for Jacobson. In reply to jibe il
the Duluth News-Tribune about the first dis
tricts ambition, Re says:
The first district has no candidate for audi
tor. We presume tie Tribune refers to Mr.
Iyerson who was a resident of this diStTlC
about fifteen years ago, but who has for tht
same number of years resided IN Ramse!
county. -
send AN Iverson delegation to the conven
tiou and that the first district will be pTac'
tically solid for him.
The twin cities will come pretty near de-
Gliding the authorship matter. Each will
have candidate for another state Office, anc
HeEnepin has no prospect OF trouble in land
ing it's man However, neither county cal
tie up to candidate for auditor unless fol
value received, and the 1S0Svotes from Hen,
nepfn and Ramsey will be more or less un
certain until the ballot is cast.
| There was talk of changing the order o
nominations but no heed to it was paid By
the state committee Thursday, and the cal
will provide for nominations in the regular
order. beginning with governor, lieutenan
governor, and secretary of state. The otheI
countless will have to deliver the goods tt
Hennepin before this delegation votes OF
the two contested Offices
| A. O. Eberhart, well-known young attor
ney of Mankato, has announced himself as
| republican candidate for the state senat
from Blue Earth. Has Senator Benedic
quit?