The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-20

nepin will have 1877 delegates this basis,
without delegates at large. Ramsey will
have "a and st. Leuis 40. Otter Tail will
have 49, Polk % and 'stearns 30.
LIND DOES NOT Who will be the can
date? Democrats are
ENCOURAGE asking themselves,
what will John Lind
THEM. do? Those who have
talked with him shake
their heads, and say he will not be the can
didate There are othersa however. who say:
he will be forced to take the nomination, and
the convention will nominate him without
asking his consent. IT his present mind holds
he is likely forgive this element a rude Jolt in
tho same way that he rebuke1 the St. Paul
man who introduced him as "our next gov
ernor."
If Lind does not take it, say the wise ones,
Rosng will be the nominee. He is regarded
as the most available man, by reason OF his
statewide acquaintance, his political astute-
ness and his nationality. 'All other booms, -
say the knowing ones, 'are Just brush fires
The democratic county committee will meet
tomorrow night at the office of Elijah Bar
ton in the Guaranty Loan building. It will
follow up the action of the state committee
ty calling the primaries to select delegates.
REPUBLICAN The republican county
committee will meet at
COUNTY O'Clock to morrow
afternoon to issue the
COMMITTEE. call for primaries.
They will probably be
held on Friday evening, June 20, preceding
the county convention on June a The pre-
cincts will be represented on a basis of twen-
ty-fve votes or major. fraction cast for Will
liam Mckinley in 1900. This will make a
Son ~ al n a
committee will also include In the call pro-
vision for selecting the new committee. At
each precinct caucus the voters will select a
precinct committee Of five, which will choose
a chairman. The precinct chairmen will be
members of the ward committee. which. will
elect a chairman. and will choose the wards
representative on the county committee, who
may belong to either the ward or precinct
committees.
J. A. SHEPARD The country towns Of
the forty third legis-
FOR THE HOUSE. lative district will
have a candidate for
representative in ]. A. Shepard of Long Lake
Mr. Shepard Is northwestern manager Of the
Gsar- Scott Threshing Machine company, and
a well-known business man. He, is an old
resident Of Long Lake and very popular along
the north shore. He will make an excellent
running mate for L. H. Johnson, and should
the two be the nominees the district would be
fortunate in it's. house representation, both
being clean, able business men, who will be
heard from in the legislature.
HAS BOWLING The Clara City Her
aid, Bowling paper,
FIGURED A has It all figured out.
On the basis Of the
WINNER vote for lieutenant
governor two years
ago, and dividing each county among the
candidate on percentage basis, it gives
Bowling 6,so5 votes at the primaries, Young
6,255. and volstead $3.50. This shows COM
mendable impartiaaity, and doubtless the
friends of the other candidates could take
these figures and change the result by slight
twist of the wrist
The Brainerd Dispatch says that Bouck, Of
Royalton, and Williams. OF Little Falls, will
be the Morrison county republican candidates
for the house.
C. j. McCollum Of Hallock has declined to;
be candidate for the senate In the sixty third;
district. and his Kittson county neighbors are.
disappointed. 81 n 4 4 80.
The bowling men have q story that after
the wabasso Standard came out for Young
most OF the republicans Of the village signed