The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-21
CLAPp's FRIENDS
BUSY At PRIMARIES
His Return to United States
Senate the Issue With Re-
publican Candidates

Legislative nominations were made
In s1xty-three legislative districts of
Minnesota yesterday. In only one SEN
atorial district were candidates for the
state senate selected. This is in the
Forty-eighth district, where the death
of Senator A. F. Ferris, of Brainerd,
since the adjournment of the legisla-
ture of 1903, caused a vacancy. Dr.
Werner Hemstead, of Brainerd had no
opposition for the Democratic nomina-
ton, and John T. Frater of the same
city, had-a clear field for-the. senatorial
nomination of the Republican party.
In numbers of the strongly partisans
districts the result of the primaries
Will practically settle the question of
the representation of these districts in
the next house. There are number
OF districts where no Democrat filed
for nomination, and there are several
districts notably in Scott and Stearns
counties, where no Republicans had
the temerity to offer themselves on the
altar of party loyalty.
OF the .119 members of the house to-
be elected as the result of the pri-i
mar1es held yesterday, nearly seventy
VIII have no opposition at the polls.
The primaries are equivalent to an
election in these cases, and political
manipulators have therefore been ex-
tremely sabusy during the past few
weeks in attempting to influence the
results of the primaries in districts
where there were rival candidates for
the Republican representative nominal
tons.
CIapp's Friends Active
The United States senatorship at the
disposal of the next legislature en-
tered into, the calculations of the poll
aticians, and Senator Clapp's friends
have been very active during the past
two weeks. Pledges of candidates for
nomination to the lower house have
been secured, it is said, in number
of instances, and candidates have been
forced to publicly declare their SEN
atorial preferences in districts where
sentiment is friendly to Senator CIapp.
The fight in the Republican pri-
maries in the Twenty eighth district
Rice county-where there are two
house members to be nominated, was
one of the contests that had attracted
state attention. Rice county is the
home of Joel p. Heatwole, former con-
gresham from the Third district, and
is said to be hostile to Senator Clapps
reelection.
ciapp VS.. Anti cIapp
Here there are nine Republican can
didateS for the two nominations, with
three Democrats out for their party
nominations. Between the Republic
ans the issues was almost squarely
Clapp and anti Clapp. There was also
said to be senatorial feeling in the
contest in the Seventeenth district,
composed of Lyon, Lincoln and yellow
Medicine counties, with four candi-a
dates for the two places. The Forty
fifth district, consisting of Isanti, Mile
Laos. Sherburne and Anoka counties,
was another district wherelthe election
of senator might be considered by
Republican voters as expressing
preference; for candidates for the
house. Here there were six candidates
for the three nominat tons, with no
Democrats in the field. xssgf5s
In the Fifty-third district, Hubbard,
Wadena and Todd, the fight between
Asher Murray and William Dover for
:one of the two representative due the
district, is charged in measure to
differences Of opinion as to who Sem
sator Clapp's successor should be.
There were also senatorial influences
at work in several of the Hennepin
county districts. Definite returns were
hard to obtain last night, but returns
will be awaited from the state at
large with considerable interest by the
politicians, for it is quite generally
conceded that the primaries will large
ly influence the senatorial situation.