The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-26
MINNESOTA POLITICS
DENIS PLANNING

THE SENATE. state senate. Wher-
ever there is fighting
chance for democrat to be elected, available
men are being carefully groomed to make the
run. Where the populists are weak they will
be pulled in line for the democratic candidate
Where they outnu1nber the democrats the lat
ter will quietly work for the election Of the
populist candidate. .r.
In most cases democratic senator's will try
for reelection. This is the case with Sena-
tors Fitzpatrick of Winona. Gausewitz OF
Steele, Viesselman Of Martin, Schaler of Da-
kota, Collier of Scott. Everett of lie Sueur,
McGovern of I1ennepin, Ives and McNsmee of
Ramsey. Senator McGoverni of Waseca viii
run for re-election If he does not run for con-
gregs,, and IN the latter case John Moonap will
try. to duplicate McGovern's performance of
four years ago. Senator johnson Of rNfcollet
will also be candidate again unless he is
drafted to run for congress in the third. In
the thirty-ninth district F. C. Mcmillan has
been deDuted to run again. g. W. Stanton
Of Appleton will try to succeed his townsman,
E. IT. Young. In other districts strong men
are being selected with systematic care. :
The desirabiity of capturing the senate is
obvious It would be great chance for max
ing political capital out OF tax legislation next
winter. The democrats would again have a
program which they would put up to the
house for adoption. - r .- , e.. :.
There is a better chance to carry the senate
than the house, as most of the districts which
elect two, three and four representatives are
republican. Then the senate holds over till
1905, when Ia successor is to be elected to
Moses e. Clapp, and in the remote contingen-
cy of a democratic turnover in 1904. giving
them the house, 1T would be very desirable to
also control the upper branch. -. p. t....,.
The demo-pop combination made good
showing in the last senate, in spite of some
unlooked-for reverses in the populst counties
of Polk, Red Lake and Kittson. which re-
turned solid republican delegation from the
northwestern corner of the state. The demo-
Gratis carried Steele, Waseca, Martin and Wa
tonwan, Jackson and Cottonwood, Meeker.
and one pf the st. Louis county districts, all
supposed to be safely republican. They got
nineteen senators to forty-four republicans
The opposition carried the senate Just once,
in 1890. when, the alliance wave swept the
state. The doings Of that legislature did much
to restore republican rule, for it was not only
extravagant In spending public money, but as
easily influenced by large interests as. any
legislature that ever assembled in the state.
TAWNEY AND THE One of the hardest Of
So Il ~; 4s stacles for T. " Knat-
70 DAIRYMEN. n void in his fight on
NJ - Congressman >Tawney
will be. the feeling among the dairy interests
that Tawney has been their victorious cham
pion in the oleo war. and that he should be
rewarded for his part in the passage of the
present law. Snatvold's friendsebeHeve this
will be largely counterbaianced by the fact
that their man comes from the banner. dairy
county Of the state, that he has always been
at tho fore in dairy legislation during his
eight years in the senate, and that he engi-
neered the memorial to congress last winter,
asking for. the passage Of the cleo law.
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WILL BE SEVERAL The :. solid seven y
which has always
NEW FACES. stood together at
Washington has been
sadly broken intoS Eddy and Morris are re-
tired. and the feeling grows stronger In the
third district that Heattwole will keep out
this year and fight only in the ranks. Fletcher
and Tawney have opponents who are ham
mering them hard for their position on Cuban
reciprocity, and McCleary is also threatened
with a tight Fred C. Stevens ds the only one
Of the seven who appears to have clear sailing
for nomination.
The contest in the first district in some
ways resembles the local imbroglio. Senator
Knatyoldas declaration of principles is in al
most every particular concordant with the
position taken by Eugene Hay, and James A.
Peterson is expected to take a similar stand
when he opens his oratorical batteries:
FOR o The Appleton Press
fdem) says:
NoN-PARTIzAN
Judge Powers has
JUDICIARY. fled his certificate for
nomination by the re-
publican party. It is probable that he Will be
given a clear field with no opponent. We are
glad that the ermine is not the object OF po-
litlicai strife in the twelfth district
There Is feeling of the same kind in this
judicial district, fostered especially by the
friends Of Judge Brooks, who would like to
see him supported by republicans two years
hence. They would like to see no democratic
opposition this year to Judge Simpsons 8 re-
election, in order to set a good example. This
is a; hard thing to arrange under the primary
law, however, where every man Is his own
Judge OF his qualifications and decide for
himself.
1t is possible that there will be two Judges
to elect instead Of one. II John Lind re-,