The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-10
Crist Of the
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told in all apparent sincerity that
BOD" Dunn and S. r. Van SAINT have
formed gubernatorial trust and will
! syndicate their chances. Sammy is to
Oack Robert as long as Robert looks
70 De running with the pole horse, but
II the Princeton man discovers the
pace is too hot for him he is to pocket
the stretch sprinters and let the gov
ernor OF Minnesota canter down to the
nomination for third term.
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All this political jockeying is to be
done by Robert and Samuel we are
told solely for the purpose Of frustrat-
Ing the abominable designs of Joel
| Heatwole, Frank Eddy, Babcock and a
few other political mercenaries reeking
with corporate lucre which they are
ready to spend for the chance Of cap
turing the executive chair and laying
the state PROSTATE at the feet of the
capitalistic moguls. Good. Now the
| people know that the octopus is back
ing only three candidates for governor.
and that Dunn and Van SAINT have
combined to down this unhoIy attempt
at triangular distribution Of guber-
material honors.
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Ali this might not be especially i'm
! portant even if there were a chance
of it's being true. That Dunn is in the
lead in the race for next years Repub-
lican nomination can hardly be sue
| cessly contradicted. Mr. Dunn is per-
| haps personally the most popular man
| in Minnesota. His acquaintance are
numbered by thousands and his ac-
! quaintances are his friends always
barring the exigencies of political ami
| mos1ties. For years he has been gen.
| orally considered as a logical sue
cessor TO the gubernatorial seat after
he had got through with the auditors
office. Had he not intended to try for
the gubernatorial nomination in all
! probability he would not given up the
| auditors office, which he could easily
retained had he desired. Taken all in
! all no one will be inclined to row over
the statement that Dunn is in the lead.
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But when it comes to the question
| of an offensive and defensive alliance
| between Dunn and Van SAINT and those
| gentlemen in the role Of AIphonse and
| Castor, it's going more than an inch
| too far. Conceding Dunn's candidacy,
| he would undoubtedly like the sup
| port Of the Van SAINT faction and every
| other faction in the party. In meas
ure too he would be justified in ex-
| pecting the Van SAINT support. Time
| was when Van needed Dunn out of the
| way and moreover needed Dunn's
| emphatic announcement of it mighty
| bad. There are too, many many men
| more or less conversant with state
| politics who believe firmly that Van
SAINT told Dunn that If the auditor
would keep out he, Van SAINT, would
| help Dunn land the nomination in
| 1904. Many of these men are, how
ever, now inclined to believe with a
prominent Republican politician and
withal eminent student of political
human nature, who remarked apropos
this very situation:
Its a mean man that wouldn't
| promise something"
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The story of this alleged alliance be-
tween Dunn and Van SAINT is justified
| on the theory that it has been forced
by organized opposition to Dunn, the
chief co-conspirators being Heatwole,
Eddy and Babcocz. This would be i'm
portant, if true. But it is heavy odds
that if Dunn is not beaten for nominal
| ton and denomination until Heatwole
and Frank Eddy get together to beat
him in favor of either Eddy or Heat
wole, Dunn will be undisturbed in the
leadership Of his party for a long, long
time.
Chief Clerk julius Schmahl in a let
ter to the Worthington Advance cor
roborates the statements made in this
column anent the controversy over the
Wilson Josh" resolution giving mem
bers of the last house their chairs and
desks. Mr.. Schmahl says that the
resolution was not adopted and found
it's way into the journal copy through
error of the journal clerk who was, as
is always the case, at last sessions,
overwhelmed with work. The mistake
has been the cause of no little unjust
criticism Of Representative Wilson.
The members of the press who ac-
cepted the journal as accurate are not
to be blamed for rubbing it into Wilson
until the mistake was shown up. And
| it is entirely probable that majority
of them will now, on the strength of
Mr.. SchmahIs statement, hasten to set
| Wilson right with their readers.
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TITS no trick at all for Congressman
McCleary to be elected to congress, and
| it has become of such small impor-
tance the novelty of the situation has
lost all attraction. We believe the
congressman has his eye on the Office
of United States senator. Since he
cannot be president of the United
States, his birthplace only precluding
this possibility, the next best thing is
senator. Why not give the man
nce?"-Lake Crystal Union.
There is more than a fine sense OF
humor in this, but about the only
chance the Little Schoolmaster is now
looking for is the opportunity to enjoy
his present sit undisturbed
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"Hon. Joseph Chamberlain has at
last awakened to the fact that there is
merit in the protective system. 1t
may take an Englishman a long time
to see the point, but he sees it eventu-
United States will feel it."-Carlton
County Vidette.
Strange as it may seem, the Vidette
man is not the only Minnesota now
aware of the good rule that works both
ways possibilities of the high protect
i've tariff scheme
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Editor McKeon. of the Graceville
Enterprise, is apparently not in with
the boom designed to nominate E. T.
Young of Appleton for attorney gen.
eral He saws