The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-26
MINNESOTA POLITICS

Alyah Eastman Of the ST. Cloud Jour-
NALL Press is an old friend Of Bob Dunn,
and wants to see him square himself on the
railroad issue, $50 the Journal Press can.
support Dunn for the nomination without
any compnnc tions.s He takes to task Az
~ Dare state printer. and publisher Of.
the ELK River Star News, who is now
Dunn, s chief sponsor among the weekly
press. In a recent editorial qleted4in this
column Dare declared that the: merger is
sue was now. dead a and should not be,
brought into the next campaign. Editor
Eastman takes the position that this is
doing an Injustice to Dunn, and says In
part: So sss II ~ ,g S5 s
;Sj{s he journal Press has only the kindest
feeling toward r. c. Dunn, and personally
at has abundant; faith that he would make
an excellent governor. and would be a
fearless champion in the peoples interest.
There are a. number OF; papers. however
the grounds that. saIe exhibited too active
a. sympathy wit hi the attacked merger,
sandsWas. not sufficiently pronounced in his
support of Governor Van SAINT When the
merger>fi light was On. AS an astute politf-3
tician; Brother Dare Of the Star-New
knows that this contention is the one
thing that prevents a. Unanimous indorse-
Fment. BY republicans for Dunn for gov
ernor. AS one Of Dunn's close political
advisers, Brother Dare will be wise to in
sist that the public mind be set right as to
Mr.. Dunn's attitude. The sooner this is
idone,a the quicker will opposition to his
candidacy Stop.4f ~.
There is no question but what r. c..
Dunn is being wrongly judged by at least
a portion of the state press and the peo-
pie There never will be greater neees-
as1ty OF correcting that wrong impression
than right now. 1t will not only cover
his enemies with confusion but comfort
"a host of friends who want to see him
governor. But this correction cannot be
made by sneering at the merger issue"
In fact it only increases the doubt, and
thereby Brother, Dare unwittingly does his
candidate an injustice -.
j The recent interview attributed to Louis
w. Hill goes to show that there will be
controversy between the state and the
railroads for years to come no
matter how the present suit results. Mr..
Hill says that even if the. Northern Sc
curities should lose the suit, some other
way would be found to: continue the prop
critics under joint control. If the state
wins this suit, very likely it will be COM
PEELED to bring another to break up some
other evasion of the law against CONSOLE
dation, That would certainly perpetuate
the merger issue. =.
7: a number of state newspapers are
roasting. the state board of equalization
for raising personal property values in
the. country, and not taking the. same
course toward the public service corpora
TONS. These editors are little quick in
the. trigger. The board will take, up fran
ch1ses Tuesday morning, and large ad-
vance In the assessments is promised.
Joel P. Heatwole comments in the
Mortified News as follows on the Eustis-,
Hay appointment Incident: sf~
1T is said that much sympathy is being
expressed for w. H. Eustis of Min
neapolis because he did not succeed in
getting, an appointment as one Of the ap-
;praisers Of customs at New York. It is
also limited that the successful aspirant,
D.. G.. Hay, crowded Mr.. Enstis out
Of the, running. While the writer of this
paragraph, knew nothing about the can
didacy. Of MIR. Eustis, he does know about
the standing of Mr.. Hay at the White
House. It may be ,truthfully said that
Mrs sEusttse did not, have the slightest
chance of winning so long as Mr.. Hay
desired to be recognized We have known
for over six months that President Roose-
Welt had Mr.. Hay in mind for the first va
can't position suitable to Mr.. Hays abili-
ties and accomplishments. MI Hay can
really date his good fortune from the day
helmet the president last February. The
president was very favorably impressed
with him and. at that time as well as
sincel expressed a. desire to give him a
goods places Mr. Hay does not. owe the
politicians anything for his appointment
Peter Lsa Sehwarg of Dodge Center is
still carrying on a still hunt for the nomi-
nation for state = treasurer. Evidences
crop up occasionally to show that he has
done. some effective work. He is using
the third term argument, which has a
very. catchy sound for opponents Of the
present state admins tSation. mo one has
seen fit to make that issue with Peter
E. Hanson, and it is now conceded that
he will have no opposition for a third
term nomination. ~, .6z. ~,
The Wanda Pioneer Press; has the slate
all fixed up in Redwood county. When
I s.. j. Race county, superintendent, is
named as state superintendent by /, Bob
Dunn, a year from next January, County
Auditor Tompkins will succeed Mr.. Race
as county superintendent. Have these two
old eronies, Julius Schmahl and A., M.
Welles, been consulted?
- Charles B. Cheney s.