The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-22
MINNESOTA POLITICS

Edward L. Young of Appleton, who is
charging the publisher of the st. Paul
Dispatch with criminal libel for calling
him the merger candidate for attorney
general. just now holds the center Of the
stage in state politics. He has only been
| mentioned as a possibility before, now it
Is considered practically certain that he
will be candidate, and on a pronounced
antlmerger platform. In letter to one
or his home papers, the Appleton Tribune,
| he enters specific denial to the Dispatch
story, saying that as far as he is con-
| cerred it is "villainously false in every
word and every syllable" Many of the
alleged parties to the combine he has
never met nor has he discussed state pol
| 1t1cs with either Heatwole or Dunn while
ne has declared himself in favor Of Sena-
Tor Clapp's reelection, and always. expects
to be supporter Of Senator Nelson. He
| mas always been an opponent of the mer-
ger On this point he says emphatically:
In the last campaign, and prior there
TO, made that question the subject Of
my public speeches, and I have always
| peen hearty supporter of Governor Van
| SAINT and Attorney General Douglas in
their attitude and actions with reference
| TO that question, as all who know me,
know. And want to say now that
whether Governor Van SAINT is candidate
Tor reelection or not, the stand he has
taken and the example he has set on this
question entities him to the grateful re-
mempfance of the people of this state and
feel sure that in the coming election the
people Will see to it that whoever Is
elected to succeed him will measure up to
MS standard on this question. I want to
say further that would not support any
| one regardless of personal friendship, who
IS not In favor Of pushing the litigation
/ against the combine, now pending, to a.
final decision in the highest court of the
nation, until it Is determined in either
the state or federal case, whether the laws
OF the people are not stronger than the
articles of Incorporation of the railroad or
other trusts. believe further that some
one who entertains the same views az
4 governor Van SAINT on that question is
necessary In the governors chair in this
state In the future, in order to stand vigil
lantly on guard against any further at
tempts in the future to overturn the laws
Of the state.''
There is every indication that there will
De war IN the seventh district between
Eddy and Young, and friends of them
poth are already beginning to take sides.
Two OF the seventh district papers noticed
ALREADY this week have declared for Young
rather than Eddy. -
The Wanda Pioneer Press says:
1t Is our opinion that Mr. Eddy is one
'it o"o POLITICIANS VINO only make
patriotic remarks when they are LOOKING,
Tor an office, but after election nothing
more is thought or said of reform, nor
eltner or making good conditions better. y
ior ne certainly had the privilege of show
ing MS colors In that direction during the
long period he served in congress- We
peheVe the seventh district would rather
tk,a D. l. Young for attorney general of
TINS state than Eddy for governor, If a
cholce Tor state office is to be made of
one Of the two
The OrtQnvile Herald-Star saws.
IN late newspaper interview Hon.
- T. Young Of Appleton does not deny
the possibility Of his becoming a candf-
GATE Tor attorney general. This is the
the seventh district ~
b. j. Jones Of Norris former state sena-
tor has been receiving much compli-
, mentary mention for the governorship
He is excellent material, being a level
headed, conservative man, strong with
FMS friends, but with nothing of the spec.
. tacular IN his make up. However 1t Is
not at all likely that he vii consider !,
} seriously He is an old seventh district
man and one of the wheel horses in the
old Eddy machine, and besides a close
friend OF Senator Young. He would MOI
be induced to get in the way OF either OF
, them.
Bob Dunn could not be expected tt
keep still after that combine story, an(
2 everyone looked at the Princeton Unio1
T this week for some hot stuff. They wer,
not disappointed One paragraph says
1T is unnecessary for the Union tt
+ state that the Hll-Heatwole-Dunn com
i bination SO graphically portrayed in tn,
= st. Paul Dispatch Of the 18th inst, exist
: only in the vivid ina gination of the write
Of the yellow article. The Lowry-v
8 Sant-Munn crowd Is getting desperate"
: Again the candid editor Of the Unio1
4 declares: '
4 "Things have come to a, pretty pass IL
: Minnesota If a man cannot seek politica
: preferment unless he will consent to wea
+ a Tom Lowry or Jim Hill collar. Boil
Dunn; may remain a private citizen tn,
: balance of his natural life but he will
r wear no mans collar
Is Frank Eddy to be the only collarles
, / candidate?
State Printer Dare goes after the pri
Q mary election law in his Elk River Star
e News and his declaration that it will ge
just one more trial is echoed by some O
his newspaper colleagues. 1t is fully ex
pected that an earnest attempt will b,
r made at the next legislative session to re
! peal the law.
The Thief River Falls News falls in lin,
with the following: =
t Careful observers are of the opinion
h that 1t is a'reform that does not reform
, that 1t is cumbersome, expensive beyond
: reason, and does not furnish as good
:, class of officials as under the old sys
n tenn. The law would probably have beef
!, repealed by the last legislature. but tina
: the members imagine the people wanted
it so badly that it would be bad polite
r to repeal it. At the next session, how
: ever, a strong movement will be made t.
knock it out, and if there are any gooc
arguments for the law, it is up to, thos
> advocates Of it to furnish them. The op
: ponents are loaded and it will have to g
d unless there is more pronounced sentf
= ment favorable to it than it is nov
thought exists"
e Editor Saylor says In the Buffalo Jour
nal, which has been a strong anti-merge
paper:
@ 'The campaign for governor ha
: progressed to stage which demonstrate
T that there is no demand for Van SAINT 70
n a third term The papers of the stat
n reflect public opinion pretty well and witt
! one or two exceptions the papers are op
Il posed to the third term proposition. It i
y really better for the governor to retir
n with flying colors than to make fight TO
. another term. If 1t should win there woul
= be nothing to gain and he would be ex
e pected to smash Jim Hill and his merger
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