The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-28
Pacification and Another camnai1n.
Crist Of the
Political Mill

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Strenuous times political are not
only promised. but are beginning to
arrive for a stay of two, if not four
years, or until after the election of
Senator Knute Nelson's successor. in
1907: The warning Republican fac
| lions have evidently taken cognizance
| or the methods L. A. Rosing EMPLOYED
to elect John Lind governor and organ
lzauon is the order of the day.
Ihe administration forces are in a
fair way to study the subject of divi-
sion, and apparently it is only a uues-
| ton of how much time will elapse
| before the break up comes. Several
! months ago numerous officials and
functionaries connected with the Van
SAINT administration got on the c. A.
Smith gubernatorial wagon with both
| feet.
At the inception of the Smith boom
the governor of Minnesota was busy
managing a speakership fight and lay
| ing his pipes for control of enough
delegates to the next national conven-
ton to secure honorable mention as
! candidate for vice president on the
| Roosevelt ticket. His strikers who
| lined up for Smith evidently thought
they could turn their whole attention
to the delectable job of trimming Bob"
Dunn, not looking upon the governor
of Minnesota as a possible factor.
| Things are different now. The vice
presidential bee fell out of the hive
while the governor of Minnesota was
engaged in his last prospecting tour
| of Washington. The governor Of
| Minnesota, according to the boasts of
| some of his friends, is not half sure
| that he would not prefer to remain
| governor until such times as he may
have an opportunity to show Knute
| Nelson the alighting station.
If the governor of Minnesota does
hear an impatient public demanding
| that he again sacrifice himself to their
| interests to the extent of another try
for gubernatorial honOrs, there will be
a promiscuous break for cover among
| his henchmen and appointees who
| have lined up with the Minneapolis
| man.
One Of the political prophets an
| nounced few days ago that Congress-
men J. T. Cleary, of the Second dis
trict, and Andrew ]. Volstead, of the
| Seventh, will be returned without op-
| position. This is probably not meant
| to be construed as an intimation that
Volstead and McCleary have arranged
| for joint campaign. Volstead's head
| still aches as a result of the assistance
| he received from the Little School
master" in the last campaign.
| The prophecy was probably correct
| insofar as it prognosticated the re-
| election Of both McCIeary and Vol
| stead, but the no opposition theory will
| disappear when the pipe goes out.
| Some of the best informed Republic
| ans in the western part of the state
| think Volstead can be beaten for re-
| nomination by Michael ]. Bowling
| On the face Of the situation they have
everything against them, but that Is
not going to keep them from a trial.
! Ed Young is being systematically
| doomed as the candidate for attorney
| general, is undoubtedly in with the
| Block combination and in consequence
out of the reckoning in the Seventh
| district That will again put Bowling
| III possession or the old machine
forces unless Volstead is strong enough
| to wreck the machine and build a
new one. To the outside observer it
| would appear that Volstead will be
| able to do that very thing.
In the second district the anti-Mc-
Cleary forces are beginning to tumble
to the fact that the only way to get
rid of the Little Schoolmaster' is
| through organization and in all prob
ability after more than one campaign
That they are getting together is I'M
deniable, and that they will be in tho
field behind Bert Miller, of Luverne;
Judge Hughes, of MankatO, or one of
several other strong men in the dis
trict is hardly open to question. The
man they pick will be the one with
nerve enough to go in and lose ons
fight and come back for a winning race
two years later, as Joel Heatwole did
when he went out to Mexicanize the
old Third district.
Geo. A. Van Smith.