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

Senator Moses E. Clapp has votes
| enough pledged to re-elect him United
| States senator next winter, and the
cry that R. C. Dunn must be elected
T 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 headquarters has re-
suited In a good many different
schemes to scare the Republican voters,
but 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.EDunn must be elected governor
/ this fall.
| An analysis of the results of the re-
cent primaries shows that Senator
| Clapp has pledged to him enough house
members,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 C1app's return to
the United States senate, and it is.
found that sixty-eight Republican can
| d1dates for the house without opposi-'
| 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, but have Democratic opposition
| at the polls. There are 119 members
in the house. Senator Clapp has more
! than a clear majority of the number
| committed to his candidacy and I'M
opposed for election Give him one
! half of the tweffty men who are can
didates. but who must make fight at
the polls, and his re- election is a prae-
! 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 MAORI
| ties have. resulted in giving them clear
fields at the election, now that the pri-
maries 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 the re-
! turn to the senate of Senator Clapp.
| 1t is not understood that the senators
| have used this argument, but they have
not hesitated to use the prod of party
discipline and ini one Southern Mime,
sofa county a United States senator
used very strong terlnsfi in urging that
the disaffected Republicans come to-
| gether in the interest of party har-
mony. He was. telds that the Republic
| ans. of that county were past control
| of the party leaders, and that nothing
could be done with them. .:siea
| Amuses Anti Dunn Men
This. new-found, interest in Senator
| Clapps success is causing much
amusement lin Republican circles, and
the situation is such that it is easily
seen that while Senator Clapp does not
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 Clapps al
| legged danger of defeat
The recent movement, admitted to-
have been engineered by Senator
Knute Nelson, by which the manage
mentz of the Dunn campaign was TAX
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 fear that
the senatorial succession in Minnesota
was in Danger With Senator Nelson
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. -et.s ~ ga
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 a. feeling 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
Clapp's reelection, save in Hennepin
county, where a local candidate APP
peared during the summer months in
the person of J. B. Gilfillan, and even
in Hennepin such stalwart Republicans
as w. p. Roberts, w. d. Washb1ln Jr-,
and John Lund are accredited with
being for Senator Clapp's return to
the senate.
Republicans for Clapp
Inc following RepuDncanS. pleuSeu
to Senator Clapp, have been nominated
and have no opposition in their dis
triets for election:
W. c.. Fraser and Ed Tanning Fourth
district; Burdette Thayer and 0. N. Thun-
dale, Fifth; w. A. Nolan and G. w. Har-
den, Fifth. CseG. Dalen, Seventh; j. r.
Morley, Eighth; Ole ]. Opedahl and Will
liam Wahlhntter, Ninth; Nicholas Julien,
John T. Lewis and Ezra w. Gates, Elev-
enth; w. "A. Hinton and A. d. Palmer.
Thirteenth; R. H; Jefferson and L. Q.
Teigen, Fourteenth: s. O.. Morse, Fiji
tenth; Neis Jacobson. Sixteenth; 6;
J. o. Haugland, Eighteenth; Frank
and John A. Dalzell Twenty second;
Frank A. Carlson, Twenty third; George
Thompson, Twenty eighth: A. j. Rockne,
W. II. Putnam and DR.. Gates, Twenty
ninth; John Zelch and Henry Vollner,
Thirty first; F. G. Nelson and John l..
Olson, Thirty-second: David Hammer
gren and Walter t. Lemon Thirty third;
M. D. Flower, sThirty-sixth; w. P. Rob
erts, Fortieth; w. d. Washburn, Jr.,
Forty first; Carl Wallace y-third;
John O.; Lund, Forty-fourth; George H. |
Wyman. F. Mark and H. E. Craig. Forty
fifth; Adam Wood and "a. Hannford,
Forty sixth; p. e. Bowling and John
Saari, Forty-ninth; r. T. Lewis and Ar
thur Miller, Eiftiefh; N. F. Hugo and
Harry Skinner, Fifty first; a. L. Cole and
Stevenson Swanson. Fifty-second; E.
Hind and Asher Murray Fifty third; r. I
A. Ganduruds Fifty-f1fth; Ward Stone
and L. d. Larson. Fifty-seventh; Z. T.