The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-06
The Heatwole Organization Will
Try to Nominate Him for .
Governor.
The Plan Is Not TO Interfere With
Federal Patronage, but to Con-
troll the State.
MI. Fletcher Will Return With the
Flowers and Look Over the
Fifth District.
From The Journal Bureau, Room As, Post Build

From The Journal Bureau. Room IS, Post Build
ing, Washington.
Washington, March Gas soon as the
ocean breezes at Atlantic City restore
him to his accustomed health, Mr.. Heat
WOle will return to Minnesota to begin at
short range the work of completing his !
reorganization Of the republican party. |
From the Washington point Of view it
looks as if he would succeed-had already
succeeded in fact. He began the work
of extending his organization beyond third |
district lines last summer. under pretext
of an intention to oppose the renonlina ton |
of Governor Van SAINT. The preliminary
skrmish intended to test the strength OF
the organization. was fought last
January and won by the Heatwole forces
in the election of a speaker of the Mime
sofa house of Representatives. That VIC
tory had the effect Of giving the Heatwoe
movement additional impetus and i'm
proved standing, for nothing succeeds like
success
Just what the plans of the new organiza-
ton are to be nobody yet knows; prob
ably Heatwole himself cannot tell; events
as they develop must determine very
largely any political program. All that is
certainly known is that Heatwole and R.
c. Dunn have a hard and fast alliance,
and that the organization will under
take to make Dunn the republican nomi-
nee for governor.
Beyond this nothing has been deter
mined Heatwole may or may not be a
candidat tie for the senate. Circumstances
will decide that question. Whatever hap
pens personal to himself, he will retain
the control of the new organization. and
doubtless endeavor so to manage 1t as to
cause the least degree of friction and out
side opposition.
have been credibly informed that the
organization will not undertake to NEEDLE
with federal patronage but will conf1ne it.
tn
state. which are to go to organization
men.
The two United States senators have had
no part in the reorganization scheme.
Several Of the house members, however,
have been identified with it. on Heat
wole's side, among them. I understand.
Messrs. Tawney, Stevens. Fletcher and
Eddy. OF the new house members 1t is
said that Stevenson. Bede, Buchanan and
Davis are friendly to Heatwole. Mr.. Vol
stead is not known to have declared him
self. = =
n President is lnfor~sc I'd.
~ Within the, past month the president
has been receiving as good deal of in
forrna ton regarding Minnesota politics.
- from several different points of view
First, he had the benefit of Mr.. Heat
woes opinion. Then he had that of Gov
ernor Van SAINT and last came J. S. Nc
Lain, editor Of h e Journ a !, for
whom the president sent, and who spent
couple OF hours WITH MIN one AFTERNOON
last week, going over the situation in
Minnesota and in the northwest generally.
Out Of these several interviews 1t is likely
that the president has been able to get
very correct idea Of politics in the
northwest. He has been anxious to be
fully advised so that he might treat the
subject intellgently when he comes
northwest on the forthcoming tour.
As to the Trusts.
An impression was created here among
some of the more cautious and skepti-
cal observers that because the presi-
dent did not make more Of Governor
Van SAINT, during the governors recent
visit, he was weakening bit on the
trust question. Nothing could be farther
from the truth than that The trust
cases which were instituted last summer
are now in the federal courts and are to
be pushed to speedy trial, as witness the
action of the attorney general in the
Northern Securities case, pending in St
Paul; nothing that the president could do
short of dismissal Of the suits, woulc
affect them in the slightest degree. The
ablest counsel available for that purpose
is being engaged, and the department o.
Justice is prepared for a record battle
During the visit of Governor Van SAINT the
president busy with the closing O.
congress. He had short talk with hin
one afternoon in the presence of Secre
tary Shaw. who was acting as escort, ant
was present by special invitation, will
Mrs. Van SAINT, at the closing Whit
House musicale. There was nothing t.
suggest any lack Of cordially on tn
presidents part, and only the piercin.
vision of professional trouble maker
r could have seen the things that have beel
published regarding the governors sta.
in Washington.
There is this much, however. that ma
in all fairness be said on the question
The president Is just earnest as eve
he has been and intends to enforce tn
laws to the best of his ability. But h
does not regard the northwestern merge
as the only issue now before the America
people. AS president of the entire coun
try his horizon is much broader tina
that of the governor and he is natural
DESTROYS Of steering clear of anythin
which would give the impression that h
is man of one idea, or has tendenc
toward hobbyism. The knowledge Of tn
fact no doubt contributed to the assumr
ton here in certain places that the pres
dent was not paying the governor prOpe
attention No such thought entered tt
governors mind, for he went away great
pleased over his stay in Washington, de
lighted with the president, and at peae
with himself and all the world besides.
Mr.. Fletcher Is Thinking.
AS soon as Mr.. Fletcher reaches Mime
apolis, which will be after the passing
the cold weather, it is expected that
will begin to look about with a view
determining whether to be candidate fl
the fifth district republican COMPRESSION.
nomination next year At present +
thinks that he will be a candidate, but I
is reserving formal announcement unit
after he has had time to look the hon
field over and to think a little
w. w. Jermane
CHIEF JUSTICE MAY G.