The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-07

AID Condemns Delegates at Large
Judge p. e. Brown Not Candidate.
Candidates for attorney general are
nervous over the resignation of Judge Col
lins. If Attorney General Douglas should
set the vacancy, it would then be up to
Governor Van SAINT to name a new attor-
ney general. w. j. Donahower, now as
s1stant attorney general would claim the
appointment. and it would be hard TO pass
over his claims to the place. But he is
a candidate for the nomination next year,
and 1T would give him long lead to ap-
point him. 1t would be very distasteful
to E. T. Young of Appleton and Oscar Hal
lam of St Paul, if Donahower got this ad-
vantage over them. If they were fore
closed by such an appointment. they would
have Srudge1 against the administration.
The appointment of Young or Hallam
would produce the same result To name
a new man would be only to create a, new
candidate for the nomination, and alien
ate all who are candidates now.
There are political lions in the way of
any course the governor might take. Hen
nepin county presents more than the usual
difficulties, with dozen candidates in
the field for a possible vacancy on the
! district bench, and half dozen fgur-
ling on Judge Holt's place il he should
be elevated from the municipal bench.
| 1t is hard to see how the administration
jCdu gain dny pOiltlCil pTSStiSe Dy the ap-
| pointmentS to be made.
However, it is quite possible that an at
! tempt will be made to fill the vacancies
with the best talent available, regardless
| of pull
e. 7. Young was in ST. Paul Saturday
| looking after his political fences. He is
understood to favor the appointment of
| IAttorney General Douglas to the Collins
vacancy, provided a prominent Appleton
attorney is named to succeed Douglas.
| J. II. Burns of Lanesboro, a leading
member Of the last two legislatures, ha S
announced himself as a candidate for rail-
road and warehouse commissioner. To the
t1Ianesboro journal he said last week that
after many friendly offers of support from
! different parts of the state. both from the
press and the public he had decided to be
a candidate, subject to the Endorsement
Of the Fillmore county convention. With
Governor Van SAINT out Of 1t. the only first
district candidate in the field was Judge
Lovely, and this gave Burns an opening.
He is a railroad man himself. being con-
ductor on the Southern Minnesota division
of the Milwaukee road, but he has also
a legal education, and his ability is un-
questioned.
| With Burns and Jim Sargent of Duluth
two railroad men, in the field as candi-
dates, the contest for places on the com
mission promises to be interesting. Judge
Mills will ask denomination. and other
possible candidates are Ezra Valentine or
r. J. Wells of Breckenridge, and j. F.
jacobson of Madison. There being two
nom nations to make. there is a good
chance for q. lively mix-up-
The Sank Center Herald says that T h c
Journ a position on the question OF
! delegates to the state convention "fs Sc
manifestly just that those papers that OPP
/ pose it merely subject themselves to the
ridicule of fair-minded men, The edito,
of the Herald continues:
How the unrepublcan system of allow
ing five delegates at large to each county
ever was allowed to become the policy OF
the republican party of Minnesota we
cannot understand. 1t does not prevail in
any other state in the Union. and the
sooner we get rid of it the better =
every republican voter in the state
ought to have an equal power in selecting
the candidates of the party and in formu-
lating its platform, but under the absurd
system now in vogue such is not the
case.
Cook county. which cast Us votes fol
Van SAINT, will have five delegates. one TO,
about every twenty five votes cast
/ Pope county. which cast 1.754 republi-
can votes will have twelve delegates. one
for every 1871 votes.
"Hennepin county, which cast 81 100;
votes. will have eighty-nine. one for every
246 votes.
"a republican voter of Cook county has
five times as much representa- ton in the
state convention as a voter in Pope. anc
nine times as much as one in Hennepin.
''The only just. fair and equitable wa!
} to base representation is on the vote:
cast"
Hear: A Daniel come to judgment.
Judge p. f. Brown of Luverne will no
be considered as a candidate for place
on the supreme bench. The I.uverne Her
aid says the proposition has met will
strong public favor, but that 'tall attempt
r to induce him to accept an appoin tment OF
nomination would be utterly unavailng,
That is a dangerous way to talk The
: state convention might conclude to try
: man who was not an applicant for tn,
} place, and give him a chance to refuse.
81 Governor Van SAINT and Judge Collins
) appeared on the same platform Saturda.
/ night, and addressed the meeting Of thu
! Union Veterans and Sons League. Alth,
: new allies, both are old comrades.
$ Charles B. Cheney.
William Mackabee. inmate of the nava
home in Grays Ferry road. Philadelphia, and tn
Oldest living veteran OF the American navy, cele
brated his one hundredth birthday recently. III
was born I'm Baltimore and went to sea Ia 1S:
II when IL years old on the old frigate Constitu
tion. During the civil war he served on tn