The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-05
MINNESOTA POLITICS

+ g Liners are d SO9Q many people VINO
would like to see Congressman McCleary
enter the race for governor, and they
Keep up persistent agitation in favor Of
the schoolmaster solon. {. Most of the talk
comes from opponents of the state adj
ministration. who do not favor Bob Dunn,
and are anxious to see some other man
with positive strength come out. The
.McCleafy shouters urge that he could go
into the convention with the second dis
trict solid, and with support from the first,
third and seventh The second would sup
port him sOlidly because the anti-Mc-
Cleary men would welcome any chance Of
pulling him loose from his seat in con-
gress aSss 81 ss4as fs 2
Mr.. McCleary has refused to heed the
siren song. He is not ambitious in the
direction of the governorship. Doubtless
he would make strong bid for 1t If he
tried, but there is only one thing that
would tempt him to enter. That would be
a prospect of using the governorship as a
stepping stone toward the United States
senate. AS the outlook for such g. move
is not very suspicious at present, the
Mankato man Is not tempted tn.
The Hills Crescent, which has been
booming H. J. Miller for railroad and
warehouse commissioner, says it has been
informed on good authority that he does
not care for that position, and that This
eyes are cast on theAcongressional nom
ination in this district" Of course, ]. T.
and George w. Son1ervile may also put in
a claim.
While still declaring against the third
term for Governor Van SAINT, H. J. Miller
reiterates his adherence to the merger is
sue, and says in the last weeks Luverne
Herald: -
o.. .-H
Whether the contention of the state
on the various legal questions involved is
Governor Van SAINT were eternally right
in declaring that incorporation is pow
erful enough to override a statute of this
state with imp'lnity and that the laws
must be rigidly and impartially en-
forced at all ii times and under
all circumstances. This position must be
steadfastly maintained. Manifestly, hav.
| ing made a magnificent fight and won ar
overwhelming victory: on this. issue in thu
last campaign the republican party can
not in the next campaign. abandon it:
position and stultify itself by nominating
for governor a candidate who does no
stand. unqualifiedlyE for the principles TO-
which Governor VanSSant and Attorne.
General Douglas have fought so valiantly
| THE objections to- a gubernatorial thirt
term heretofore urged by the Herald ar
good under all ordinary. circumstances
It cannot be, admitted that under any
thing but the most extraordinary condi
tons there is only one man in the state fl
to fill the office of governor. The con
| dltions at the close Of Governor Val
SAINTS present term are not likely to b
extraordinary and it. may be safely as
sumed that candidate for governor cal
be found who can safely be trusted t
uphold the laws
| Colonel J. A. Everett who did not LAM
| as insurance commissioner and who mad
a gallant but unsuccessful fight as tn
second district candidate for clerk Of tn
| supreme court last year, says In his Fair
mont News: 49, -'.*'"&
In all this talk about a candidate TO
governor it is well for the second con
gressional district to remember that
| owes none of the proposed candidate
anything and can take such part in tn
fight as it pleases, untrammeled by an
former. political obligations. Van sar
has had two terms In which to show hi
gratitude to the district that gave hi1
the largest majority and has given :
one $1,000 position, which was some
thing the district did not want. Til
leaves us entirely unhampered in tha
direction, and as the other candidate
never had a chance to do anything fc
the second, Of course there is no obliga
ton there. This being so the district !
in a position to get together, stick togetf
er and swing the next convention in an
reasonable direction it wishes. It has a
opportunity to convince the politicians
other districts that it is still on the map .
Minnesota, agfact that could not be learne
by scanning the list Of public official
} either elective or appoiiltive. Let us fir
consider the good of the state, but at II
. same time see that the strongest republ
can district in the state is recognized"
The Waseca "Journat=Radical in a di
cussion of the gubernatorial situation
says: 49,
:, From Minneapolis source comes IL
: information that Eustis is entitled to al
other nomination; that he was defeated
. 1898 because Lind could have beaten an,
! body that year; that he has been loyal al
useful to the party each year since;< tn:
l he was euchered out Of te office of al
l praiser in New York when he supposed !
t was sure of the position that was got
n for $1,000 a year for life, and that as
matter of fairness to a, bright and usef
. REPUBLICAN who always stands I'D to tt
Y rack, it would be good politics to nomina
him for governor and elect him. Mea
time, let us not. get committed to an
body until the lists are full and we kno
exactly just who the candidates are
a be- - : $500 ,S.
I. The Lakeheld Standard is after sa
= Fullerton. The animus. Of the EDITORS a
tacks may come from. his friendship +
: VIM. Kerr, the reputed owner Of the 2,5
Z ducks recently seized by the wardens, W
2 has been battling with the protectors
the states game for years
Il People who have been ~reviling= ETC
~ Lowry's board Of equalization seem
" hesitate about attacking that dish of Gro
!, / "9.-s. Is ~. Charles B. Cheney,
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