The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-31
MINNESOTA poL1TICs
Entry ofs William II. Eustls Makes
Quartet ofacandidates for the Repub-
Iican Nomnation--Talk of Collins
Withdrawal a Fake-They Probably
Meant to Say "ResIgnation"-Frank

! Eddy Gives Collins Three Counties
! There are four candidates for governor
The statement of William Fl. Eustis, pub
lshed in The Journal to-day, makes
him a candidate in nearly every sense
lie will let the others play the game this
winter and when the birds come again.
ne Will return and enter the contest
The situation Is the field against Dunn
The anti ti-administration forces are CEN
tered on Dunn as their candidate. The
merger Interests, which plotted against
Governor Van SAINTS denomination last
year, will back Dunn. He has the sup
port of the corporation interests of ST.
Paul and the steel trust interests at the
head of the lakes. Dunn's personal popu-
larlty makes him strong factor in the
race without figuring on this support
which is powerful in itself.
The other factors in the republican
party of the state are divided among three
candidates.
The state administration is backing
Judge L. w. Collins, who is expected to
! make an announcement of his resgna-
| tion from the supreme bench not later
| than next Monday and enter the fight
! vigorously. A canard was started yes
terday to the effect that he would with
| draw from the race. The exact opposite
is true. He is just getting in. He has
| been confined to his house with an attack
of grip, and of course has been very quiet
! lately
Mr.. Eustis naturally expects to have the
delegation from Hennepin, if he decides
on his return to be an active candidate.
| Frank NJ. Eddy Is making a hard cam
paign among the voters, and expects to
get his strength largely from the western
and northern counties of the stage, where
he is best known.
Eddy persists in saying that the fight
Is between himself and Dunn, and re-
| peated that, statement on reaching St
Paul yesterday evening. He says Dunn
stands a good show, and the only man
who can beat him is Frank M. Eddy. He
undoubtedly takes this tack In the hope
of gathering strength from Collins or Eus-
tis, but another construction has been
1 placed on his reiterations Eddy was nat
urally piqued when the administration
failed to take him up after his stronger
antimerger talk and now it is limited
that he would rather see Dunn win than
the candidate Of the administration. If
he could not win himself he might throw
his strength to Dunn. This view of the
case is probably an injustice to Eddy,
who seems to be making q square, open
fight up to the present time.
Eddy was interviewed again by the
CroolSston, Times, when passing thru
there, and made the frank admission that
Marshall, kittson and Roseau counties be-
long in the Collins camp. He said to the
| Times:
! The tier of counties to the north of
\ Crookston is the only section Of the state
inewhich l have found real Collins spirit
Collins will lead all of the other candi-
dates undoubtedly in that section. The
4 people in Roseau, Kittson and Marshall
RI counties are staunch supporters of the
administration and will go it blind with
the administration candidate. Personally
l received considerable encourag cement,
, and altho I do not count on very much
support in that territory, 1 shall not be
totally forgotten
! There must be something in that Collins
I talk when Eddy makes the statement and
a Dunn organ gives it circulation.
# Alvah Eastman says in the ST. CLOUD
Journal Press:
'"The newspapers who are bowling fol
\ Judge Collins to do his plain duty by re-
. signing, Will in a few days be suffering
from plain pain, when the judge gets of
:: the bench and into the fight. Then they
Wi}ffbe sorry that they Wrote.N'9s; y5i 95fs
r; Thisj displays considerable. assurance r
the long deferred event. = Friends of the
: judge have been looking lately for the
s. man who wanted to bet $500 there WOul(
4 The Roseau Region says: ....,.
And still there is no vacancy in the
/ supreme court! Judge Collins has not re:
, signed, and candidates for his position are
numerous. It. is, however, practically de-
oided that w. B. Douglas, attorney gen
eral will be elevated when Collins drops
t out The trouble is in filling the attorney
generals place. The Region again sub
rnits the superior claims Of First Assist
ant DonahoWer to the office. Douglas and
Donahower should both be promoted. They
:, deserve it and are entitled to it-=politics
tileft out. "rE'$ ,t.~,,, !.
- Politics. or no politics, that is the out
look. r } rgss:.. :>-g.
t:s-t- :r-E.. fz1- So
The Litchtield Independent takes notice
of a campaign argument recently put into
fcircula ton, as follows: e. -2r
"Objection to the reelection of Judge
!, Lewis as supreme court judge in this
state is made on the ground Of fake Tex
as oil company, which lost the invest
rnents of those foolish enough to, buy
stock. This certainly was bad move on
, the part of Judge Lewis"
d Charles B. Cheney
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