The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-10

SIilI a SnanCeg however,, TO Lana a
Place on Board of Control or the At
torney GeneraI-Four Supreme Judges
to EIect-Prospects of Three-Cor
nered Fight In the Sixth District.
The appointment of Attorney General
Douglas to the supreme bench will knock
down all the Hennepin county card houses,
with their schemes Of advancement for
local jurists and attorneys. 1t will mean
that all the candidates for preferment in
this county will stay right where they are.
Hennepin lost another chance for recog-
milton by her usual mistake of having too
! many candidates -. -. -.
There is still a. &cIiar nee for some ap-
| pontment3 to come toy thisa county, either
q position the board of control to sue
coed James \. Martin OF Che attorney gem
| eralship While some az the states being
| made up include w. y. Donahower, e. T.
! Young Or Oscar TIallam for attorney gen
| eral, there are strong arguments against
| the appointment of any Of these three
candidates All have beenF active candi-
dates for the nomination, and to recog-
| nize one of them with an appointment
would be to give him a great advantage
in the race. 1t might put the others out
of the running entirely, when of course
they would be inclined to take out their
! revenge on Judge Collins With these
l
| some new man be named to succeed Cen
| eral Douglas-some man who will not be
a candidate for the nomination himself
| This would leave the three candidates now
| in the field on an even footing, and none
Of them could object seriously to such
+ treatment.
1t is likely that the whole matter will
be settled within very few days, as the
| delay is embarrassing. The many delicate
considerations involved, and the difficulty
OF taking any course without weakening
the influence of the administration, makes
the situation very pleasing to the Dunn
supporters, who are getting all the fun
out Of 1T they can and making all the
trouble they can for the administration
slatemakers.
If General Douglas is appointed to the
bench he must come up for nomination
and election for the. remainder Of Judge
Collins term, which ends in January
1917. The appointment only holds good
until after the next election. That means
that four supreme judges must be elected
next fall, Chief Justice Start Being the
only one to- hold over. Three will be
+ elected for the full term and one for {
snort term of Two years: :!F: -
General Douglas will be a candidate fol
the short term, with a good prospect O
, success, judging by the strength he ha.
shown in the contest for the appointment
For the other three places there is sur.
to be a contest. Judges Brown, Lewis ant
: Lovely will all ask for denominations
Judge Elliott of Minneapolis has been al
announced candidate for some time anl
VIII no doubt continue in the race. Judge
Jaggard of ST. Paul may be presented
and no one knows how many others
From present indications Judge Brown !;
: sure OF place, while the other two nom
| Wi hn Io1 So, =
Lovely, Lewis, Elliott, Jaggard and others
Congressman G" 3. Buchanan of Littl.
Falls may have two opponents in the pri
maries next year. DR.. J.. w. Babcocl
OF Wadena, speaker of the last house, i
being .industriously doomed in the north
ern end Of the sixth district by element
hostile to buchanan. and A. r. Foster o
Litchfield is already resuming his cam
palgn where he left it off last year.
A curious thing about it is that Will
the present congressman is for Dunn an,
is pulling wires in behalf Of the Princeto,
candidate, DR.. Babcock is also a brigade
In the same army. He is around fixin,
things for Dunn, and, like John Alden O
OLD, he also puts in a word for himself
He is hostile to Buchanan on account o
the appointment of his rival, G. c.. East
man, as postmaster at Wadena, and woul
like very much to compass the congress
mans defeat He evidently does not thin
: that Mr.. Foster can swing the undertake
ing, and has a mind to try it himself
or course, with both Babcock and Eos
ter in the field, the opposition to Buckma
) would be split up. and if he showed any
think like the. strength that the sittin
member usually commands in his district
he would win out. The opposition be
lieves that the showing of last fall mean
that Buchanan is very weak and can
, defeated by a well conducted effort.
, three-cornered fight in the sixth wouI
be decidedly interesting. With complica
lions arising from the governorship con
test, the outcome would be hard to pre-
, dict.
The Faribault Journal says it is no
i in position to deny the story of quar-
/ rel between Heatwole and Davis, an
! really has no interest in the matter.
The esteemed Faribault contemporary sci
dom does take any interest in polite.
come to think of it.
: Charles B. Cheney.