The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-15
MINNESOTA POLITICS

vet be colleagues In congress, PROVIDED
Mr.. Lind should be reelected next year.
Word comes from New York that the
Tammany leaders are greatly taken with
the silver-tongued orator, and that since
his Fourth of July Grafton they have sug-
gested that he run for congress next year
in one Of their reliable Tammany districts.
AS the suggestion means nomination. II
he will only say so, the ex-senator is said
to be debating whether he shall return to
politics by the Tammany route, or bide
his time and enter again under different
auspices.
Beyond a doubt Mr.. Towne would be-
come a leader and a forensic malnstay OF
the democratic minority. In this same con-
nection comes the gossip that eastern dem
ocrats expect to see John Lind take
prominent place in the next congress, and
If he can secure q reelection they expect
to see him the actual leader Of the minor
ity. If times whirligig should bring Lind
and Towne together in the lower house,
they would make strong team, and one
that should pull we'll together.
Editor Verify Of the Wadena Tribune,
who used to give Attorney General Doug
las credit for being an upright and fear
less official seems to have Jumped him
with Governor Van SAINT, and involves
them both in his attack for failure to
smash the iron ore roads merger. In his
answer to criticism in this column he
gives his argument away when ne says;
probably the man who wrote that
bright paragraph for r e j o u r n l Is
not aware that the Great Northern IS
owned by one company, the Northern Pa
cifc by another, and that the Northern Sc
curities company owns the other two
No. he Is not aware Of any such con-
dition of things. Neither is Mr.. HILL Mr..
Grover nor any of the court and counsel
that have reviewed the case. Such a de-
Tense was never entered. The Northern
Securities company is we'll known to own
a majority Of the stock Of the two compa-
MES, the Great Northern Railway COM
pany and the Northern Pacific Railway
company. These are the companies that
actually operate the two parallel lines, and
| it does not change the case In the least
that the Great Northern operates part Of
| it's trackage under lease, and that the
| Northern Pacific Railway company is
! lessee under the Northern Pacific Railroad
| company, and owns it's stock
Mr.. Verify picks up the Dunn statement
of a promis. from Governor Van SAINT, and
amplities it in the following:
| Zone phase Of the gubernatorial sit
| uation which has apparently been over
| looked by the workers is the fact that
Governor Van SAINT Is ineligible for a third
term until he can release himself from
obligations which he himself has volun-
| tarily assumed. This obligation is moth
ing less than a promise made by the gov
ernor that he would support R. G. Dunn
for the governorship during the coming
campaign. More than that, Mr.. Dunn has
exactly the same promise from Mr.. Private
Secretary Jamison and from Mr.. James
A. Martin of the state board of control.
These men have repeatedly assured Mr..
Dunn Of their friendship and their inten-
ton to rally round him, and there was no
break in the harmony until last winter
when Mr.. Dunn chose to exercise his
prerogative and lend his influence in favor
of DR.. Babcock for the speakership."
A. N. Dare stanch supporter of
Dunn. wants to know in his Elk River
Star-News:
Twill those state senators who prom
Used to bring in their county delegations
for Ray Jones for governor deliver the
goods when the time comes?"
This is interesting and rather more
definite than most Of the rumors that have
been going abroad, chasing Governor
Jones as an aspirant for first place on the
, ticket. A bill of particulars, giving the
names of the senators referred to WoulC
be still more interesting. ...-.
, The lieutenant governor is out of towr
and cannot be seen about the report
There Is some reason to think, however
that the bee has been buzzing in his di
rection. Certain outside politicians say
they have been informed that Governor
Jones will go to the state convention will
! the Hennepin county delegation behind
. him as candidate for governor.
Andrew Bromstad Of the Appleton Tri
bune sends out an appeal for a new can
ddate for governor, "some able man free
from all disreputable and entangling pc
litical alliances and makes the following
suggestion, which is not entirely new, ane
I not practical unless the objections of tn,
gentleman mentioned could be overcome
but nevertheless a suggestion Of the RICH
. sort. Says the Appleton paper:
I ''The editor of this paper does not know
S him personally, but such a man appear
I to be ex-senator H. ]. Miller Of Luverne
E Brethren if we could unite on him o
some equally good man, the country pres
o might prove the agency by which. the re
y publican party in this state was dragge,
S out of the dismal swamp of mediocrity
e boss rule and timber ring domination
n Charles b. Cheney.