The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-21
.Crist Of the
Political Mill

According to the Washington dis
patches the president yesterday called
time on an ugly scrap in the ranks of
the Minnesota Republicans, and set
tiled the location of the general land
office. The, president signed the COM
missions of J. D. Jones, register, and
Bert Oakley, receiver, which means
that the Cass Lake proclamation
stands.
v1 The settlement of the long drawn
out land office fight is not alone a de-
7cisive victory for the Sixth congress
SIGNAL. district, but it is q brilliant
feather in the new congressional cap
Of Congressman Buchanan, of Little
Falls. Six months ago the Sixth dis
trict stood to be torn up by the re-
movaI of the ST. Cloud office to Cass
Lake or some other point in the upper
end of the district and see two offices
settled upon the Ninth district. AS
it is st. Cloud and Cass Lake both
ihave land offices and the Sixth district
stalwarts the plums incident thereto.
It was Buckman's first fight as
congressman. If st. Cloud lost its
land office Buckman's pick would be
broken in turbulent Stearns county.
If the upper end of the district were
not equipped to transact it's land bust
ness at home, the northern leaders
were prepared to be FESTIVE. The new
congressman managed to pull Off the
proclamation and then found that he
had to fight a movement to reverse
him led by Tams BiXby, who wanted
the land office located at Bemidji.
e If Buchanan lost after the signing of
the original proclamation, it meant a
loss of prestige that would go a long
way to offset the remarkable majority
by which he was elected last fall. If
he won after Bixby had given it out
that he would make the president
listen to reason his prestige would be
increased several fold. Plainly it was
up to Buchanan to bestir himself. The
Little Falls man heard Bixby would
be in Washington to finish up the
Sixth districts discontinue. He drift
ed through st. Paul, managing to
evade his friends and the newspaper
men. and reached Washington day
ahead of the reported smashing of
things by BiXby.
Frank Eddy called on the president
yesterday to say a pleasant farewell:
Eddy is returning to Minnesota, which
means that in few days gubernator1al
gossip will again occupy prominent
place in the affections of the para
graphefS ana pOlIlCdl WTlIerS. Euuy
has been out of the state three weeks
hut his friends staid behind and now
NO one pretends to believe that Frank
Eddy is not hunting the gubernatorial
nomination with large ammunition.
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Members of the legislature, and 9TH
CPS I'm, close touch with the political
pulses of their several communities
who have been in ST. Paul recently
have taken cognizance of the fact that
the Eddy boom, though comparatively
noisless, is a very lusty infant. 1t
may be bad form to run for the NOM
ination year before the convention,
but strong men here and there pledged
ito do their best will bring others into
the fold and unless the Eddy tire is
effectually punctured by some unfor-
seen circumstances, the gentleman
from Glenwood will go into the next
convention formidable quantity.
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b Pease, of the Anoka Union, is not
impressed with the practfcability of
: the alleged schemes for consolidation
to. beat Robert c. Dunn out of the
nomination as Van SAINTS successor.
He says:
whats this? A combination being
formed to put Bob Dunn out of the
race. Isn't that biting off more than
can be safely masticated?"
George A. VanSnlth.