The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-21
REPUBLICAN, FIGHT
GROWS MORE BITTER
Revolt Against Dunn Becomes
Stronger and Talk of HIS
Big Plurality Ceases

The Republican faetionsl fight is on
and worse than ever.
Gov Van SAINTS statement, printed
in The Glob e yesterday, in his Mo-
line Qll.) speech. in which he said
that no nomination of a party
should be considered so strong that it
would result in the election OF an un IN.
worthy candidate, was considered as
| an open declaration of war.
The men in charge of the Repub-
lican state committee headquarters do
not attempt to conceal their uneasi-.
ness at the developments of the stu
alton during the past few days.
They refuse to discuss the renewal
of the outbreak in the party, but are
chances have fallen off very material
ly. Talk of $4,000 majority for their!
candidate has entirely ceased, and for
the first time since the Nomination of
Mr.. Dunn in June his political advisers
apparently realize that he is in very
grave danger of defeat.
The Van SAINT crowd has, it is said,
determined to carry the war into Afri-
ca. They take the position that the
aggravation has been amply sufficient
! and that the responsibility is on the
heads of the men whom they say
started it. And when they speak of
the man responsible for the practical
wrecking of the party in the state they
say his name is Dunn.
Dunn Detection in Hennepin
Reports from Minneapolis yester-
day said that the revolt against the
| Dunn leadership had broken out
afresh in Hennepin county, and that
indications pointed to an overwhelnl-
! ing majority in November against the
Republican candidates for governor
/ and lieutenant governor. A Minneap-
oils man at the state capitol yester-
day afternoon reported that the pri-
mary election, at which an unusually
heavy vote was polled in his city. had
operated to show the extent of the de-
| lection from Dunn.
In his precinct, where $50 votes We're
cast prior to 10 o'clock Tuesday morn
| ing, a poll of the voters was taken on
/ the gubernatorial choice of the voters
] and more than 80 per cent Of the Re-
publicans were found to be .>anti
Dunn. The precinct is solidly Repub-
| lican, and the Republicans there are
/ friendly to the present state adminis-t
4 tration. They gave as an excuse for,
their detection the candidates abuse
of the present governor, added fQs the,
methods by which he obtained, his
nomination in the state convention e,s
| The old fractional fight made its re :
appearance in two or three of the Re-
| publican legislative contests in st. Paul
yesterday, and it is said that the ten
/ dency to make the fight in many of the
i Hennepin cbunty districts yesterday
was even more marked than in Ramsey
county. {s;s 81 - -
/ In the Thirty third legislative DIS
trict the contest between the rival
candidates for the Republican nominal
] ton to the house was fought out
| the candidates on the question of the
4 governorship: Walter T. Lemon and
/ Joel E. Gregory were the disputants
for the nomination. Lemon had been
| active in the Collins canvass and all
the Dunn men in the Second ward
turned IN and worked for Gregory's
nomination yesterday.
Same Fight in Fifth Ward
The same condition of affairs pre-
vailed in the Fifth ward, where John
! F. Selb and Renville Chinook We're
| pitted against each other. Selb had
been connected with the Dunn head
quarters in ST. Paul during the pre-
convention contest. Chinook had been
lined up with the Collins men in his
ward. There was little deviation from
the June assignment of party strength
in the Fifth ward yesterday. The same
/ proved true of the contests in two or
three other st. Paul districts, but the
line of demarcation was not so distinct
The fact was known to the Repub-
/ lican state headquarters. but appar-
emily no effort was made by those in
authority to bring the factions togeth-
er. The recent clash between Mr. Dunn
| himself and the administration officers
had put an effective muzzle on any
harmony talk at headquarters
At the state capitol yesterday it was
said that Gov. Van SAINT was incensed
by the failure of Mr.. Dunn to include
in his reply to the johnson reports the
letter Gov. Van SAINT had written to
Mr.. Dunn in answer to his request for
copies of the reports.
/ Van SAINT indignant
/ Mr. Dunn had published his letter to
the governor, but had studiously
avoided any reference to Gov. Van
SAINTS reply. A close friend of Gov.
Van SAINT said that official had prac-
tically determined to make public his
reply to Mr.. Dunn, since the candidate
for governor had RETAINED from maxi
ing it public along with his own letter.
Gov. Van SAINT was not at his office
yesterday afternoon, having gone to his
home at Winona to vote in the pri-
mary election yesterday.
Another report. which could not be
verified, was that thf; governor had
written very tart reply to Condo
Hamlin, chairman of the Republican
state central committee. in response
to his invitation that the governor take
the stump for the Republican candi-
date for governor. The governor APP
preciated the irony of the request, it is
said, and wrote Mr.. Hamlin a letter
which ne has not seen fit to give to the
public. Van. SAINT has made arrange
ments with the Republican national
committee whereby he will make four
speeches next week in Chicago and
Iowa. His services on the Minnesota
stump promise to be limited.
"Pop" Electors Will Be Thick
JOLIET, Ill, Sept 20-The national