The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-30
MINNESOTA POLITICS

i MINNESOTA POLITICS
Dunn Campaign VIII BE centered on
Hennepn County, Which They Must
Have In Order to WIn-chances Strong
Iy Against Them Here-Signficance OF
Judge SteeIe's Appearance at Dunn
Meeting Is Discussed.
|! Hennepin county is to be the battle
ground in the contest for governor, which
will be settled in st. Paul one month from
to-day.
Mr.. Dunn and his managers have been
forced to the conclusion that "they must
have Hennepin." After careful canvass
of the state they have been compelled to
admit to themselves that without Henne-
pin county they can hardly hope to COM
mand majority in the convention. They
believe that with Hennepin's 113 votes
they can win, SO all efforts are to be CEN
tered on capturing the delegation from
this county. No stone will be left I'M
turned.
Mr.. Dunn himself has announced that
he is going to speak in every section of
Minneapolis and see the voters personally.
He is not going to make trips out into
the country, but spend his time the
|
| The Dunn managers realize that they
| have hard proposition here, and that
the odds are strongly against them. They
have great faith in the potency Of the
| parrel," however, and are going to use
their large campaign resources for all
I they are worth. From now on the bulk
OF the money spent in Mr. Dunn's in
| terests will be put in circulation right in
| Minneapolis.
! a VI0NrNnS 20 nm a oy,
will be made on the platform of hostility
| TO the public service corporations. At
the Friday evening meeting strong play
was made to the plain, ordinary,
everyday citizen, in an effort to
arouse his prejudices by referring
| to the Collins men as silk
| stockings riding in automobiles. while
the poor Dunn men walked the streets in
| plain, Inexpensive hose Of cotton This
| style of campaigning is apt to come I'M
der the charge Of demagogy, but it takes
with some people, and it will be pushed
to the limit here in Hennepin
No one Is inclined to underestimate the
strength of the Dunn campaign in this
county. It is not a spontaneous move
ment. but has been worked up by corps
I of men on the payroll Of the organizat ton
by personal solicitation and appeals to
prejudice. However, it has formed
strong organization, and will put up
hard fight. Old residents of Hennepin
county know that it is always possible
to get fight here, and a good one.
| The Collins supporters here are awake
to the situation. They are strongly in
trenched in the big republican precincts,
where the Dunn organization has not
been able to get a foothold. The fighting
will occur in the other sections of the
city, where both sides have strong orr
CARNATIONS and will meet on the evening
of the primaries, June II, in a battle
royal. The Collins managers here figure
that they have 335 votes that cannot be
taken away from them, and they are
going after every one Of the other 242.
The appearance Of Judge John H. Steele
at the Dunn meeting Friday evening has
given rise to considerable talk. AS Judge
Steele is a close friend of William III.
Eustis. and managed his campaign in 1898,
his action has been taken as a sign that
) Mr.. Eustis is no longer a possibility for
governor However other friends Of Mr.
Eustis say that Judge Steele acted on
his own individual motion. He explained
that he was for a Hennepin county man
first, and that If none entered the field he
. would support Dunn.
Friends of Mr.. Eustis have been advising
} him against making active race, and
1t Is understood that he will remain quiet
just as now, until the convention meets
Then, if there is deadlock and the
3 available dark horse.' OF course, thi,
4 position on the part of MIR. Eustis re.
leases his friends who have been holding
e back, and they will now be seen alignina
themselves with the other candidates
! Nearly all Of them are said to prefer Col
Ilins to Dunn. -
Judge Steele did not originally intend to
y speak Friday evening, and so told h q
q T n =, r I h n 7 {ol ~ a..
y Friday evening on Judge Steele's author
9 ity, and was roundly denounced for II
from the platform of the meeting by Mr.
Dunn himself. Judge Steele himself ex-
plains the circumstance as follows:
r when you asked me Thursday morn.
e ing If was to speak at the Friday evening
n meeting, l knew nothing about it. My
e name had been put on the program with
II out consulting me, and until then I did
g not know 1t had been advertised. said
o then that I had no intention Of speaking
t at the meeting. I had another engage
s ment for that evening anyway. After
Z ward they came to me and asked me to
tspeak, and arranged it could attend
the meeting and still keep my other en-.
& gagement So consented to go. Wher
h you asked me the question I had nc
r knowledge of it, and no intention OF speak
s ing. Later I decided to do so. That is
n all there is to it,
Y But it isn't quite ALL This corrobora tel
0 and vindicates ournai.
Minnesota populists are not going tt
= hold any state convention for selecting
: delegates to their national convention al
!. Jacksonville. They do not consider il
: worth while. The state committee has di-
~ rected the three national committeeman
!, q. H. Austin Of this city, Thomas ]
= Meighen of Forestville and n. r. Moer
: Of Ada, to prepare a list Of twenty-foul
delegates, and submit them for approva
to such counties as hold conventions Thi:
will save holding foriorn little remnant
g Of state gathering. AS to whether ar
s independent state ticket will be put In THE
: field, the committee will determine later
: The Faribault Pilot says Of Mr.. Heat.
J, wole's interview in HI ] ournal:
= Senator Clapp's friends in this city regard th
= threat of the Mortified politician to enter the
:. senatorial lists against the senator at
tempt to intimidate them from making further eff
forts to secure anti Dunn delegation from Rice
e county. But the threat has had the opposite eff
e feet intended, and has caused the friends Of
Judge Collins to redo,ble their efforts to squeicf
% and defeat Heatwole in Rice county. They con
:, slider Mr.. Heatwole's statement "to let Rfct
: county go by default ridiculous. they
say he has nothing 'to let CO.: he is hopeessl,
e bankrupt politically in thn county.
i Charles B. Cheney.
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