The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-20
MINNESOTA POLITICS

governorship. The talk Of split between
the Dunn and Heatwole forces, and Of a
Van Sant-Dunn alliance, is the most in
teresting phase under discussion. The |
Northfield Independent, published at the
home Of one of the principal characters in |
the play, is gleeful over the prospect, and |
says:
IF it is true that Governor Van SAINT |
and Bob Dunn have united their forces !
there will be business for some one in |
the near future. Dunn Is no novice in the !
political game and will come near to de-
livering the goods in northeastern Mime |
sofa. For that matter, Doc Babcock will |
be kept busy in his own section to escape
the flood If Dunn takes stroll that way.
The governor stands well and pulls a
strong oar in eastern Minnesota, where
forty years more or less, of active bust
ness and square dealing have given him
clear footing. Coming closer home
there's an ominous sound that bears a
close resemblance to that made by long
knives held down hard on a big, round,
revolving grindstone, and it Is said that
one large cutlery house is running over
time supplying knives, tomahawks, hair
trimmers and similar weapons on orders
filed by Rice county politicians whose
slogan Isl Remember 1902 and in the
background one might fancy he saw Dunn
forming ranks for the assault
The Wadena Tribune, published by one
of Mr.. Heatwole's most enthusiastic ad-
herents, and no friend of either the gov
ernor or the former auditor, comments
on their reported alliance as follows:
1T is safe to predict that no matter
how much certain parties would like to
consummate a Dunn-Van SAINT conlbina-
ton, the situation, in view of past history
is such that both the men mentioned by
entering into such a. combine, would only
succeed in making themselves ridiculous,
and this would be especially mirth- pro-
voking when they might endeavor to
justify such deal on the ground that
any good principle was being served AS
| matter Of fact Governor Van SAINT can
not afford to entertain the thought of
| such combination, while it would mean
ruin to the gubernatorial hopes of the
former auditor. And whatever else may
be their failings, no one can deny that
both are expert politicians
| A.. N. Dare, the new state printer, who
| is one of Dunn's closest friends, says the
politicians will not be able to manipulate
the nomination next year. but that the
! people will decide it. He announces in the
Elk River Star-News:
Bob Dunn is not candidate this year
| and is doing no active work, but along
| about the first Of next January he will
announce his candidacy in dead earnest,
no matter if there are a hundred other
candidates in the field and from that
| time on will push his candidacy with
vigor and energy that will make the well
kin ring =
l. On the third term proposition the state
printer, who is not. as often reported, an
appointee of the governor, says:
| While we have no reason to doubt the
sincerity Of Governor Van SAINT when he
Estated lately that he was not a candi-
Ia fn ,f1-1 soto,
which his name is brought into all spec
ulatlOn, leads to the suspicion that there
is some motive power back Of it. and con-
ditions may arise which will bring him
into the field with the action of a we'll
organized machine. The tactics of all
the, Barklses have been and will be to
kill off Bob Dunn who is the one man in
the state most feared, and in pursuance
of this policy Dunn has been charged with
being in an alliance with Heatwole, and
with Van SAINT, with Tom Lowry, and
with Jim Hill. Eddy, Collins, Hugo and
others have been doomed to weaken Dunn
in the northern part of the state, and it
is the aim of the combination to have a
multiplicity of candidates in the hopes
that when the convention meets there
will be such confusion that a hurrah cam
} paign may land the governor for third
time .... r."
The st. Cloud Journa1-Press, whose edi-
: tor is friendly to both Van SAINT and
= Dunn, says:
"At the present time there are three
names more or less discussed-Van SAINT
Dunn and Eddy. The former has served
, two terms with great credit to himself
and honor to the state. Conditions may
arise which will make him the candidate
, of the people for a third term.
It is too long before election to deter
mine this question now Individually con.
I g oh T0J1ro ice
back of his personality he has grea
record as state auditor If he becomes
a candidate, he will have an army Of
strong personal friends in every section
of the state to espouse his cause. Franz
Eddy is much the same stamp of man
has friends by legion, and is especially
strong In the western and northern sec
ton of the state. Governor Van SAINT is
handicapped somewhat by the sentimen
against a third term, while Dunn suffer!
, somewhat from condition of affairs fol
which he may not in the least be tt
8 blame. Eddy also has his disadvantages
the principal one of which is his lacl
| of acquaintance in the southern section
, of the state.
when the time comes the people will
: undoubtedly give attention enough to thi
i question to select a candidate who will
stand as the representative of the people
' fearlessly, who will insist upon the obser
e lvance of the law by citizens and corpora
t tions-one who shall be the governor O
the state and not the agent of corpora
tons. There are plenty of the right kin,
l. Of men in Minnesota, and when the tim
r comes the people will make their own Sc
. lection
There have been persistent rumors tina
Justice Lovely of the supreme court woul
: not ask for a reelection, but he has nc
= given out that impression in his HON
% city. The following paragraph in the Al
e bert Lea Tribune is Significant:
: THE indications are that all three su
:, preme court judges whose terms expir
- a year hence will be reelected next yea1
= and it is doubtful if better men could b
st secured, even if an effort was made wit
!. that end in view
y The first break in the ranks of the 1910
y legislature came June II, when John Tay
Tor of LIE Sueur, democratic member fc
LIE Sueur county, passed away. Mr.. Tay
= lor was only able to attend part of tn
III session last winter, being very near deaf
e with cancer of the throat
The Granite Falls Tribune approves
IS the suggestion of Ed Weaver of Mar
kato for governor, and says: "Soutf
western Minnesota should keep that ba
rolling
Charles B. Cheney.
i CAPITOL OF INDIAN TERRITORY