The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-04
MINNESOTA POLITICS

MINNESOTA POLITICS
Big Collins Club Organized In Northfeid
Last Evening ~ Increased Activity In
HennepIn-H. j. Miller Says Merger Is
sue Is Not Dead-Judge searle Is Loyal
to coIlins-WelIs' Withdrawal Denied.
The war has been carried right into
Africa. A Collins club was organized last
evening In Northfield, which will work
from now till the primaries to carry
Northf1eld and the adjoining towns. In
spite OF rainy evening, there We're about
forty present at the meeting, which was
held in the city hall, and about eighty
republican voters have already been en-
rolled, tho the town has not been half can
Vassed. 1t was the sentiment OF the meet
Ing that Northfield would be carried for
Collins, and that without question Rice
county would send a Collins delegation
to the state convention. The club organ
lied with S. Singleton as president; D. F.
Kelley, vice president: D. A. Adams, Sec
rotary, and Frank Wy1nan, treasurer.
Increased attention to Hennepin county
Is being paid by both sides in the gov
ernorship contest r. c. Dunn held two
meetings last evening, and will be in the
eleventh ward Monday night. Judge Col
Inns Is meeting many people, and will
hold one or more large meetings next
week. James A. Martin, manager of his
campaign, was in the city yesterday con-
ferring with the local leaders Of the Coll
| Inns organization, and expressed himself
as we'll pleased with the progress that has
been made In organizing the judges
forces.
Attic H. j. Miller Of Luverne has an
nounced himself candidate for congress-,
| he has not in the least abated his efforts
In behalf of Judge Collins, and in this
weeks issue Of his paper he handles the
governorship contest in the following Wig
orous style: ltt%
The managers Of Mr.. Dunn's campaign are
making special effort to persuade the people that
the railroad merger is not issue in the present
campaign. Es..-
But even If the claim be admitted that the
merger issue is dead, the fact must be conceded
that the men and the interests that organized
| the Northern Securities company. that projected
| ride and trample under foot the sovereign will
of the people as expressed in a statute Of this
| state and in the Sherman antitrust law, are still
very much alive and very much in evidence.
| The merger was 1--we issue in the last cam
paign. and on that issue the republican party,
standing for the principle that the will of the
will Of the people-that the law must be obeyed
by the great corporations we'll by the indi-
gdaa1 citizen and thta no corpora ton or comb
enough to override statute Of this state-won
glorious victory
By virtue of the triumph of the people in that
contest he merger dissolved, but the forces
that were thus defeated again arrayed
against the victors in the last campaign and
victory they lost in 1902. That end they are
seeking to accomplish by nominating a candidate
OF their own for governor and by defeating
triumphed under the leadership of Governor Van
SAINT. aE:Cl- s-..st . r.
Whether, then, the merger issue is dead or
alive, the conflict Is still between the forces
that stood for the merger and the forces that
stood against the merger In the last campaign.
Accordingly cord the question at issue appears to
the opponents Of the merger, shall triumph.
The Mankato Free Press says on the
same question: "p
1t has been said by Mr. Dunn that the merger
case is settled far as the state is concerned
and TO inject 1t into this campaign is demagogy.
Is it? Possibly In the eyes of Mr.. Dunn it is.
But what would have been the. result If Mr., Dunn
had been governor in the plsce of Mr. Van SAINT
And If it is settled SO far as Minnesota is con-
ccincd, the people owe no thanks to MFR. Dunn,
and his position OF great moral and commercial
question is still so fresh An the minds of the
people as to maze them extremely cautious about
reversing themselves when glasping corporations
The Winona Independent, speaking Of
the timber trespass reports of Public Elk
aminer Johnson, says: .-- ~.%
Unless Mr.. Dunn furnishes conclusive proof
that the reports are false the Republicans Of
this state will make great mistake if hi
name Is even considered in their convention.
The Rochester Post and Record handle!
the subject in the following style:
|
been made, for the records are open to genera
inspection, and Mr.. Johnson's report can b.
everthrown If it is not correct. 1t cannot b
done by ridicule anathema. Mr.. Dunn mus
show that he complied with the law and tina
Mr. johnson is guilty of fabrication, or he mus
acknowledge that the report is true The pub
y the public examiner. It is facts that ar
: wanted-not mere words.
: The plot to damage Judge Collins can
: didacy by bringing out Judge Searle TO-
n the supreme bench has stirred up the st
Cloud Journal-Press. In reply to a news
@ paper story to the effect that Judge Scarf
r was a party to a deal to take Stearn
: county away from Collins, Editor East
a man says: -.a.,..
Judge Searle is not only loyal to the cand
. dacy of Judge Collins, but he is not a candidat
f for place on the state ticket. He believe
. | that Judge Collins is an ideal candidate. Judg
. Collins has the unanimous support of the reput
If means OF StearnS county, ana Cney WILL COera1
no attempt at disoyalty from any one. Judg
y Searle has already demonstrated his interest
. the success of his old time friend, and to chare
him with treachery is rank injustice to a
Is honorable gentleman.
The Cambridge Press says:
Judge Steele of Hennepin is working for Dunn
% That signifies that Mr.. Eustis' friends will NJ
u support Collins.
- And Grimshaw, Wallace and a host
:, other Eustis men are out working for Col
j Inns, which signifies that the Press
n mistaken. 1924
% The Breckenridge Telegram says the re
. port printed in the Fergus Falls Journa
" that R. ]. Wells would not be a cand
to date for the house again, is unauthorized
n and says she will be heard from at til
proper time"
Charles B. Cheney.
to COMMENCED EARLY
- The Reader Magazine for June.
a There are many who consider the bra,
SO est act Of Roosevelt's career the orde
"a to Attorney General Knox to investiga1
- the great railroad merger. 1t is in cor
~ nection with such acts that the presider