The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-05
eLAPP FOLLOWERS
REFUSE TO SCARE
Cry That. TO Save Senator,
Dunn Must Be Elected. Is
Laughed At

0NNNNo cChotO1 IcA La liz
cry that r. c. Dunn must be elected
governor to save Clapp" is laughed at
by the many Republicans of the state
who have gone on record against the
head of their state ticket.
The shadow of defeat which has set
tied on the Dunn headquartersshas re-
suited in a good many different
schemesto scare the Republican voters,
pbut none is more transparent than the
one now being worked overtime to
arouse sentiment among Republicans
that in order to insure the success of
Senator Clapp in the next legislature
r. G. Dunn must be elected governor
this fall. a,s1 esrs
An analysis of the results of the re-
cent primaries shows that Senator
CIapp has pledged to him enough house
with his strength in the hold
over senate, to insure his reelection.
In many of the legislative districts
Republican nominees have no partisan
opposition for the election. Taking
these districts, and the men who are
pledged to Senator Clapp's return to
the United States senate, and tits
found that sixty-eight Republican can
dIdateS for the house without opposl-
ton are committed to Senator Clapp
in the Republican caucus. Then there
are twenty Republican candidates for
the lower house who are pledged to
Clapp, put have Democratic opposition
at the polls. There are 119 members
in the house. Senator Clapp has more
h a clear majority of the number
committed to his candidacy n I'M
opposed for election. Give him one
half of the twenty men who are can
~d1dates, but who must maxi a fight at
the polls, and his reelection is a prac-
teal certainty.
Quite a number of Democratic can
didates for the house are also unop-
posed for election, the political situa-
ton in their districts being reversed
and overwhelming Democratic majori-
ties have resulted in giving them clear
fields at the election, now that The pri-
nlaries have settled the nomination.
But the Dunn boomers are going up
and down the state begging for votes
for the Republican candidate for gov
ernor, and one of the. most persistent
arguments in use is the claim that on
Mr.. Dunn's election depends thesre
turn TO the senate of Senator ,Clapps
1t is not understood that the senators
have usedsthis argument, but they have
not hesitated to use the prod of party
discipline and in one Southern Miune%s
soto county a United States senator
used very strong terms in urging that
the disaffected Republicans come to-
gether in the interest. of party har-
lnonys He was told that the Republic
ans sof4thatwcounty were past control
of the party leaders, and that nothing
could be done with them.
Ts.1 nrAmuses Anti. Dunn Men
This new-found interest in Senator
Clapp's success is causing much
amusement in Republican circles, and
the situation is such that it is easily
seen that while Senator Clapp doesenot
need r. &c. Dunn, the latter is very
badly in need of Moses E. Clapp, and
this has resulted in an effort to STAN
pede the Republicans of the state to
Mr.. Dunn's standard by means of rails
ing the issue of Senator Clapp's al
legged danger of defeat. ~
The recent movement, admitted to
have beer engineered by Senator
Knute Nelson, by which the manage
ment of the Dunn campaign was taxi
en- from Joel p. Heatwole and trans
ferred to James A. Martin, late man
ager of Judge Collins campaign, was
given out as the result of a fear that
the senatorial succession in Minnesota
was in danger. With Senator Nelson a
candidate for reelection two years
hence, this may have been true, but
when the transfer of managers was
made Senator Clapp's friends were
confident that the junior senator was
in no danger.
In comparatively few districts was
the senatorship an issue in the prima-
ries, but where it was made the issue
in practically every instance Senator
Clapp's candidates for the house were
Endorsed for the nominations. Where
a candidate for the legislature dis
played Affecting Of only passing in
terest in the Junior senator, he was
gently prodded by his constituents, and
when this failed to reach him not in
frequently a rival candidate appeared
to dispute the field with him. The re-
suit was that the primaries returned
Republicans for the legislative nomi-
nations who are nearly all for Senator
rGlapp's re- election, save in Hennepin
county, where a local candidate ap-
,peared during the ummer months in
the person of j. B. Gilfillan, and even
in Hennepin such stalwart Republicans
as w. p. Roberts, w. d. Washbutn Jr,
and John Lund are accredited with
being for Senator Clapp's return to
the senate.
Republicans for Clapp
The following Republicans, pledged
to Senator Clapp, have been nominated
and have no opposition in their dis
tricts for elections:
VIC. Fraser and Ed flaming. Fourth
district; Burdette Thayer and Q: n. Thun-
dale, Fifth; w. A. Nolan and CIV. Har-
den, Fifth; c. G. Dalen. Seventh: J. R.
Morley Eighth; Ole T.. opedam and VIII
liam Wahlhutter. Ninth; NICHOLAS Julien,
enth; ". A. Hinton and A. D. Palmer.
Thirteenth; r. H. Jefferson and -L.-O.
Teigen, Fourteenth s. O. Morse, FIJI
Erickson. Seventeenth; Elias Rackie and
]. o. Haugiand, Eighteenth; Frank
Clague. Nineteenth; William Wickman
and John A. DaIzell. Twenty-second;
Thompson, Twenty-eighth "A. ). Rockne.
". ii. Putnam and DR.. Gates, Twenty
ninth; John Zelch and Henry Yoliner,
Thirty-frst; F. c. Nelson and John L.
Olson, Thirty-second; David Hammer
gren and Walter T Lemon, T%hirty-third;
erts, Fortieth; w. d. Washburn, Jr.,
Forty-first; Carl Wallace Forty-third;
ohm G. Lund, Fofty-feurth; George III.
Wyman, F. Mark and H E. Craig. Forty
Forty-sixth: Z. e. bowling and John
Saari, Forty-ninth, r.. I: Levi and Ar
thur Miller. Ffftiefh; N. F. Hugo and
Harry Skinner. Fifty-frst; A. L. Cole and
Stevenson Swanson. Fifty.secend; E.
Hind and Asher Murray Fifty-third; R.
and l.. D. LARSON Fifty seventh; Z. 7.
Ofsthun and John Lundeen, Fifty-eighth;
Knud Bondy, Elmer Z. Adams, Hans Hille
and O.. NJ Haagen. Fifty-ninth; Ole J.
Weils. Sixtiefh: John NJ. Hetland and L..
S. Simons. Sixty-frst; b. s.. Bennett and
Gunder Krostue,t Sixty-second; O. 3. Eek
man. Sixty third. {