The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-11
MINNESOTA POLITICS
Young Of Mankato Looking over the Hen.
nepin Situation District VIII
Get Tosether-situation In Blue Earth
County, Contest Ahead In cass County
"A. r. Hall Files for Congress

w. p, Young Of Mapkato, candidate for
railroad commissioned, has been in the city
in company with Senator A. O. Eber-
hart Of the same place, interviewing local
politicians to see what prospect he had
for votes from this county. He, expects.
to be the second district candidate. as
the district will caucus BEFORE the con
vention and 60 solidly for either himself
or Thomas Crawford Of Lakefeld, His
friends, expect southern Minnesota to get
one Of the two nominations, and expect
the fight for that place to be between
Young and A. D. Gray Of Preston. Mr.,
Young said:
Our district has no place on the state
ticket, and the counties now in the dis
trict have not had such representation for
many years. 1t is one of the strong re-
publican districts, and will have 1876 Votes
in the state convention. I have proposed
to Mr.. Crawford second district caucus,
the one having a majority to get the solid
vote Of the district. am assured Of the
support Of eight or nine other counties in
| southern Minnesota outside the second
district, and will continue my canvass .
The Collins Dunn contest in Blue Earth
county will be fought out just the same,
and the Collins men are confident of win
ming. If they control the convention they
! will have a committee confer with Mr.
Young and select the delegation, which
wall 11Ot DS OIl Tie governor
| ship, but will be of Collins complexion.
| The Elbow Lake Herald says:
The who believes that Dunn's success
doesn't mean trouble FOR Senator Clapp is made
of pretty gullible material.
According to reports from Otter Tail
county, the senator's old neighbors have
not been caught mapping. but are wide
awake to the real situation.
Two contests for the republican state
convention to settle already seem almost
certain. Beside the tangle in Roseau,
there is a double county committee in
Cass, and the Dunn and Collins adherents
are likely to hold separate primaries and
conventions. The Collins men controlled
the county convention March Is, and APP
pointed new county committee, which
has called the convention to meet in
Walker. A part Of the old committee met
the same day in Pine River and called a
convention to meet in that place. The
new committee called the primaries to
meet from Z to In the evening, and the
one at Pine River called them to meet
/ from to g. The probabilities are that
the convention at Walker will be a Col
Inns convention, and the one at Pine River
will be run by the Dunn men, who will
thus come in with a contest.
A. III. Hall has filed for the republican
! nomination for congress in this district,
and a contest at the primary election is
three one. as w T. Coe has
made open announcement Of his candidacy,
and says he will file soon
The Collins meeting in the eighth ward
last night was the ,''real thing from the
4 standpoint of attendance; enthusiasm and
oratory. It set a mark which will be hard
4 to equal.
i The expected happened in Ramsey coun-
1 ty, where the anti-Hearst men had every
thing their own way In the democratic
primaries last evening. The seventy eight
4 delegates to the state convention will not
i be instructed, but will be opposed to
i Hearst. r. T. O'Connor of st. Paul and
Mayor j. G. Armson of Saltwater are men
toned for district delegates.
The antis are evidently far in the lead
in the sixth district also, SO that the Du-
i luth convention will not be all one-sided
i The influence of John Lind, which brought
Frank A. Day in line against Hearst, is
lcounted on to swing the second district.
. Judge Collins friends in his home towr
lof st. Cloud, j and that includes about
n everybody, have started out to nail the
Istory Of disaffectton there. At meeting
Il Wednesday evening 200 republicans signed
Il the roll OF. q. Collins club as fast as they
& could get to the paper, and others have
been coming In ever since. It Is predicted
a that 500 names will be enrolled within q
d few days Charles b. Cheney.
Z There were 5s5,es1 tons OF manufac,
tured iron prGduegd In France during
1903. decrease OF 43.74o tons as. com
pared with 1902. The approximate con-
sumption of coal, coke and briquettes III
France during 1908 was 47,000,000 tons
an increase OF 1850, 900 tons as compared