The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-19
MARTIN KNOCKS THE
HOOPS OFF BARREL
Original Dunn Men Not Allowed
to DabbIe With Slnews
of Campaign

publleans who are not supporting r. G.
Dunn for governor to come and see
me-, he was making bid for the Col
Inns strength in Ramsey county. While
there have been accessions of a few
Republican ward workers in st. Paul,
the situation in the Republican state
campaign is admitted to show no i'm
provement, and the greater action in
favor of r. C. Dunn, which was prom
ised as soon. as James A.. Martin had
! settled to his work of attempting to
save the party from defeat. has not
materialized.
On the contrary, the breach grows
constantly wider, and, there are evil
dences that while limited few We're
brought into the Dunn camp with the
acquisition of Mr. Martin, there were
larger losses resultant from the change
of front of the Republican candidate
for governor.
During the past few days the feeling
against Martin and his crowd has be-
come accented. The original Dunn
men, rebellious from the time Of Mar
tins connection with the Dunn cam
paign, have had cause in the last week
to break into open revolt.
Campaign Fund Tapped
The melon is being cut at the Re-
publican state headquarters. 1t is an
open secret that the campaign fund
has arrived, and that its proportions
are sufficiently generous to warrant
general distribution of the funds. But
the Dunn men-those who were for
Dunn when Martin and the coterie of
his personal followers were fighting
him from the Collins citadel-complain
no f1nxy
distribution of the means to bring sup
port to Mr.. Dunn. They charge Man
! ager Martin and his personal friends
with being in the saddle and if there is
money to bezSpent in a county to brace
the local Republicans in their desire to
support Mr.. Dunn, it is sent to the
Collins men for distribution, and the
Dunn men, loyal for years and anxious
to remain in. the fight for their friend,
are coldly ignored.
Martins defense is that the so-called
Dunn counties need no cultivation, and
that he is justified by party expediency
IN negotiating with the leaders of the
Collins counties to get them into line
for Mr.. Dunn. He is said to be acting
on the theory that is not necessary
to carry friends the right way. while
with the men practically opposed to
the Republican for governor he believes
it is good politics to eoddle them along
and make them forget their griev-
ances, if it is possible.
The Dunn managers and leaders in
the different counties do not take kind
ly to scheme of politics which elm
mates them as active workers and de-
prives them of the prestige of dis.
Iebursing the campaign funds in their
bailiwicks.
Collins Men on Top
Evidences Of the fact that Manager
Martin is treating only with his own
confidential men have been accumu-
lating daily. Original Dunn men now
have to be introduced to the new
corps at the Republican headquarters,
and resentment natural to being
crowded out of the orbit of influence
is being displayed by the Dunn men in
| different quarters of the state.
Howard Dyckman,: of Breckenridge,
Dunn member of the last years state
central committee, accompanied by
Editor James, of Breckenridge, called
at the Dunn headquarters few days
since. They were unknown to almost
every man connected with the head
quarters but finally man was found
who knew them and they were prop
erly presented to the managers J.
L. Putnam, of Granite Falls, country
editor devoted to Mr.. Dunn, was a WIS.,
itor yesterday. In the absence of Mr..
Dunn, he was a stranger among
strangers.
Quotations from the country press
have been made recently, showing the
change in sentiment of formerly ardent
Dunn newspapers. The Brycelyn Sen
tinel, printed in Faribault county. last
week ignored Dunn for the first time
since the opening of the Republican
campaign for the nomination for gov
! ernor almost a year ago. These are
but sample instancess of the detection
| from Mr.. Dumas personal following
because of the Change of managers.
An instance of failure to secure Col
Inns support by the capture of Mr..
Martin by the Dunn management is
shown by the attitude of the St Cloud
Journals Press, In analyzing Senator
Clapps defense of Mr.. Dunn in his
Saturday night speech at st. Cloud
After saying that theseportion of the
speech referring to Mr.. Dunn was @re-
ceived in absolute silence by his audi
ence," and that. '.it failed to evoke .ex-
pressed approval from a single mem
Der of the audience" the ST. Cloud
Republican newspaper says of the
test vote that decided the fate of the
rival candidates for governor:
"A Great Political Crime
In the first place, there were many can
| didates for other positions on the state
| ticket, and these candidates Econtolled del
egates who were not committed to either
candidate for governor, and were working.
wholly and exclusively for themselves
! When it became clear that Hennepin
! county was to be DISTINGUISHED every
delegate knew that this defeated Judge
| Collins, and naturally the candidates for
minor positions threw their votes to the.
man who would control the conventions
1t was asclinb for the band wagon Joel
Heatwole who managed sDunnss cam
paign, very frankly stated that the Dunn
because we needed the votes. Another
thing-had there been no contests in Ram
sey and Hennepin counties, and with the
| prestige these counties gave him before
the convention, Judge Collins would have
undoubtedly been nominated. The bolts
| in these two counties cast doubt upon the
outcome and gave the Dunn people,
! backed as they were with corporate inter-
ests, opportunity to gather in one by one
/ delegates who were sent to st. Paul to vote
for CollinS-and who would not have
dared to vote against him had his name
| been before the convention. Therefore
/ the vote to unSeat the Collins delegates in
Hennepin county was the desperate move
of desperate gang. 1t was the most
! damnable outrage ever peTpetrated in the
politics of MinneSota-zand if Dunn had
! had enough votes to nominate him with
out it, he and his managers have not
even the excuse of necessity Senator
/ Clapp did not as an honorable man. at
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