The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-17
SCHEME TO PRO[ONG
RULE OF VAN SAINT
OR OF bob JAMESON
Administrators Faction Is Out
to Perpetuate Itself, and IN
seat Senator Clapp in Favor
of Thomas Lowry = Eddy's
Candidacy Explained.


sues, the Republican fact1onal leaders
are launching a fight for control Of
that convention which promises to be
the bitterest in the history Of the party
in Minnesota.
The fight precipitated by the admin
istration faction is, of course, primarily
to insure the denomination of Gov. Van
SAINT, or, failing in that, to nominate
his private secretary, Robert Jamlson,
and SO shape the legislative nomlna-
lions and election that United States
Senator Moses E. Clapp may be I'M
seated in favor of Thomas Lowry,
president of the Twin City Rapid
Transit company. and in 1906 elect Van
SAINT to the United States senate over
Senator Knute Nelson.
The administration is in control of
the state central committee, almost as
unit and, while administration rep
resentatives strenuously disclaim any
political activity, their work has been
an open secret for six months This work
has progressed so rapidly that Gov.
Van SAINT, who has publicly denied any
further political ambitions, and who, at
the last convention, promised his sup
nort next year to new candidate, last
week told a prominent First district
Republican editor that he cannot be
den confidence of the governor is in
part due to the new, one-sfded alliance
with Eddy, and is qualified not lit
tie by the sudden acceptance OF the
Eddy idea that late convention is es-
sential to Van SAINTS success.
Playing Eddy for the "FaII Guy"
NorninaHy only one candidate
Frank Eddy-is in the field. The Van
Sant-Lowry forces are attempting to
play Eddy for what is known in the
argot of politics as the fall guy and
if there ever was any doubt about
Dunff'S candidacy, that is now at rest
by very virtue of the fact that the ad-
ministration has passed the fight along
to him, so that there are now really
three candidates in the field. If Dunn
ever really believed that Van SAINT
would keep his promise of assistance
in the coming campaign, that belief
must now be shattered by the more
than obvious attempt to show the
friendly relations existing between the
administration and the. former con-
gresham.
The issue between Van SAINT and
Dunn was fairly Joined when Dunn, as
state auditor, tried to raise the assess
ment. of Lowry's street car property,
and Van SAINT, with the majority Of
the board of equalization appointed by
himself, voted down Dunns proposition.
The most recent result of that compact
is the violent assault upon Dunn by
the Lowry organ, and it's sudden solicit
tude about United States Senator
Moses E. Clapp, whom it so bitterly
and uncompromisingl fought two and
a half years ago.
Machines Fixes up Slate.
The administration programme does
o@A e,+ mir, fJlt11ra
of Van SAINT and Lowry, but in the
first instance includes complete slate
for nominationgby theeneXt state con-
vention. Secretary of State Peter Han
son and Treasurer julius Block are not
to be disturbed in their third-term am
45itions, If they come quietly into the
combination and are prepared to de-
liver the requisite amount Of political
goods in the shape of Instructed or
comfortable delegations.
Attorney General Wallace B. Douglas
and Judge Elliott,of the Hennepin coun-
ty district court, are to be nominated
to the supreme bench, preferably in
the places Of Justices Lovely and
Brown, because Lovely, as a First dis
trict candidate, might prove er1barrass-
ing to Van SAINT, and the defeat Of
Brown would, in general way, help
remove possible geographical objec-
tons to Douglas.
Oscar Hallam, of st. Paul, is slated
for nomination for attorney general,
with the contingent stipulation that he
deliver the Ramsey delegation to Van
SAINT A late convention is an essential
part of the programme for obvious rea-
sons. George Thompson, of st, Paul,
who, with M. D. Mum, divides the
honor of first. lieutenancy to Lowry, Is
slated for national committeeman.
Why They Want Late Convention.
A late convention will not alone en-
able. Thompson to get in some good
work for himself and enable the state
central committee to further perfect its
organization, but it will bring the con-
vantion close enough to the primary
scramble for legislative nominations to
permit the Lowry forces to fix up leg
islative fences and escape under the
smoke Of general warfare.
From the very fact of the many adj
vantages enjoyed by the administra-
ton, the fight on it's part to really es-
tablish and perpetuate its control of
the party and of the senators and lead
ers outside the ring for self preserva-
ton and part in the spoils, must be
one of the most bitter in the political
history Of the state.
Van SAINT or his advisers created the
present state central committee and
placed at its head James A. Martin,
afterward made president of the board
of control. majority Of that commit
tee must necessarily be looked upon as
faithful to the power that made them
Martin, as president of the board Of
control, is in possession Of one of the
most powerful weapons ever created.
G. G. Whitney, late state expert
printer, is relied upon to handle the
country press and does occupy PROM
fnent place in the state press associa-
ton.
Under the new state oil inspection
law the governor is in possession of a
small army of deputy inspectors, while
the public examiner, with 8 string on
the county officials who are compelled
to submit their books to his inspec-
ton, and the game and fish commits
sion are towers of strength, regard
less of other boards and commissions
numerous and some Of them large in
personnel.
Their Transparent Tactics.
The humor of the situation lies in
the peculiar cross fire methods en-
ployed in the preliminaries and the
effort to draw Dunn into the open.
Dunn has, for three years, been almost
universally recognized as candidate