The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-28
MINNESOTA POLITICS

avowed object of the league is to secure rep
resentation for Norwegian Americans on the
republican state ticket. An appeal has been
issued to Norwegian republicans to join the
league and work through it "to restore the
lost prestige" of the nationality in state poll
tics. The appeal states that there are 257,-
945s citizens of Minnesota of Norwegian birth
or parentage, more than any other nationality
except the American, and yet there is no
Norwegian holding state office. G. H.
Biorn, st. Paul attorney, is secretary of the
league
This organization will not hurt anything,
but the nationality seems in a fair way to
| get place on the state ticket without much
| of an effort. The three leading candidates for
| This is reckoning ]. F. Jacobson as can
| didate. While he still keeps silence, recent
1 editorial in the Dawson Sentinel sounds un-
| mistakably like an announcement Of his can
didacy. The Sentinel, which is published in
Lac qu1 Parle, INDUCES in a column exposition
| of the virtues and qualifications of the we'll
| known legislator. By way of introduction
| the Sentinel says:
| There is at the present time but little doubt
| that Representative ]. F.. Jacobson will be
candidate for the republican nomination for
| state auditor next fall His friends are anx-
| ious to see him secure the nomination, and
there. are hosts Of those friends, especially
l
friends coincide with his personal ambition
| That ambition is a justifable one. we'll
earned reward for past service to state and
| party. The republican party Of Minnesota
owes MT jacobson this recognition. @-:.
! Mr.. .Jacobson''s long service in the legisla-
ture has peculiarly qualified him for the
with the affairs Of the state. He is intimate
ly acquainted with the requirements and
1 needs Of its institutions, and has had hand
ter qualified by ability and experience to
! ceptably discharge the duties Of the Office OF
! state auditor
His record as a consistent republican is
clean. His voice has been heard in every
campaign, and his influence has added mate
due the increased republican vote for the
head Of the state ticket at the last election
He sounded the key note and furnished the
basis for many of the most effective argu-
/ ments used in that campaign. s~. .'
Samuel G. Iverson, deputy state auditor,
| and Odin Halden, county auditor of st. Louis
county, are active candidates for the nominal
! ton. They are both men, of experience and
ability, and the selection of either would not
be mistake. The friends Of Mr.. Iverson
base his claims largely on the civil service
principle. He is serving his eighth year in
the present position, and his sixteenth in the
! capitol. The auditors Office is not polit-
ical kindergarten, but business Office. and
| on that theory they argue that Mr.: Iverson
is best fitted to succeed Robert c. Dunn.
/ st. Louis county is enthusiastically back
| ing Mr.. Halden, one of the veteran county
| auditors of the state. He has made an excel
| lent record in office, and is popular and a
/ good campaigner.
G. B. Franklin, county auditor of Faribault
county, is likely to enter the race He will
| have to contest for the second district with
l Colonel Everett Of Fairmont, who is a candi-
date for clerk Of the supreme court, and one
or the other will doubtless be out of it before
| the convention. Henry Lee of Anoka is also
in the lists for the authorship.
! There are still those who predict that r.
G. Dunn will be renominated. He has put his
| foot down hard on the proposition, but in
the event Of deadlock they predict that the
convention will be stampeded for him.
Mr.. Dunn has left st. Augustine, Fla, and
will be in Washington; D. c., tomorrow. He
will probably remain there several days be-
fore returning to Minnesota. '.''
Chairman Matchan of the Hennepin county
I republican committee says he will call
meeting Of the committee early in April, as
a preliminary to the campaign work 1t is
for the committee to say how the new cam
paign committee shall be selected, but every
one seems satisfied with the pyramid plan"
! followed in 1900, and no change is likely to
be made This means that precinct commit
teemen will be chosen at the primaries which
select delegates to the state convention, The
precinct committeeman will select the ward
committeeman, and the latter will select the
| county committee ~.
This primary is likely to be held by June
L. Sentiment generally favors early state
convention, not later than June To- J. Adam
Bede presents very good argument for this
He says the primary campaign for nomina-
tons will be great thing for the party, be-
cause it will bring out great many speakers.
The state ticket should be named and all the
questions that, it involves should be settled
before the primary campaign begins, so that
the candidates will have something definite
to talk for.
Henry Hanke, the well-known eighth ward
politician, is said to be candidate for chair
mar of the county committee this year. Mr.
Hanke and James W. Nash are managing
the Ray Jones campaign for lieutenant gov
ernor. ..
\ A. J. .VoAstead OF Granite Falls Is making
his word good. He is carrying the war inc
the old seventh district territory with ven
geance. He has invaded Big Stone county.
anc has spent the week getting acquainted
with the Political leaders of that section.
l. John H. Steele is back from Washington. He
fraternized with Frank M. Nye while in the
capital city, and denies that the district at
torneyship was discussed, though he saw both
the senator's. Judge Steele is satisfied that
the Minnesota congressman have taken the
i right attitude toward Cuban reciprocity, .
| Republicanjsm at the head of the lakes will
have a high time tonight at the annual ban
quet of the Garfield Republican Club Gov
ernor Van SAINT, Lieutenant Governor Smith.
Attorney General Douglas, and other we'll
known Minnesotans from other parts of the
state will attend. Senator Clapp and Con-
gresham Morris were unable to leave Wash
| ington, but ]. Adam Bede will look after the
interests of the latter
The Montevideo Commercial (dem.) saws:
The ungratefulness of politicians was never
better exemplifed than in the case of Jacob
son and Dunn. For the past ten years and
possibly longer, J. F. jacobson has stood by
Bob Dunn as no man ever stood by another
and yet when Jacobson's strength for state
auditor began to gather Dunn lost no oppor-
tunity to knife him; Not that Dunn wanted
the office again. oh, no! But he did want
something better, and in order that his plans
should carry we'll, his deputy should be elect
ed to the office Of the state auditor. While
there may be some truth in the things The
has said about jacobson, we are inclined to
think that ne Is up against it, for there is no
doubt but, If given chance, that a majority
of the people of the state would prefer ia
cobson, for auditor to any other man.
| 1t all depends on the point Of view. Auditor
! Dunn's friends say that Jacobson's attack on
I him was an example of base ingratitude
| How sharper than serpent's toooth," etc.