The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-27

notorious mineral leases. He detailed
! the methods by which the mineral
lands are leased to prospectors.
'It makes no difference to the state
who pays the fee and takes the lease"
Mr.. Dunn said. 1T makes no difference
whether it is state officer or coun-
| ty officer. There is nothing in the law
governing mineral leases specifying
who shall have these leases. But /
did not know any employe Of the state
auditors office, directly or indirectly,
to be connected with a state mineral
lease, and certainly was never inter-
ested to the extent of 5-cent piece.
This stuff in Th=e Gl OBJ e is pure and
unadulterated rot, this stuff about the
state begin deprived of untold millions
| of dollars in mineral leases. You can't
deprive the state of its rights, for the
royalty must be paid"
Mr.. Dunn was about to conclude, when
Oar F. Reese asked him to explain the
| Duluth Iron Range land grant The can
| didate for governor then proceeded to give
! his explanation, how he had secured an
appropriation from the legislature to pros
ecute the suit against the advice of for
mer Attorney General Childs; how the de-
ciSion was against the state, and the fact
that the decree contained $4,000 acres of
land belonging to the state, institutions
! allotments.
MIR. Dunn Astonished
st was astounded when 1 learned of this
fact Mr.. Dunn said and set about to
recover the lands. The time for appeal
had passed and it could only be obtained
| by consent of the parties. I finally Sc
cured the consent of the attorney for the
| steel trust to have these lands conveyed
to the state, and on his motion the de-
cree was reopened and the state did not
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the corporation deprived the state of the
privilege of selecting these lands. Not SO.
Under the amended decree the road is
| compelled to select. its lands as soon as
| the unsurveyed lands are surveyed, and
| there are only three unsurveyed townships
| in the three counties involved. Mr.. Lind
claims he offered the company a deed for
| 404 900 acres in settlement in full for its
| claim. But he forgets that the law of
! 1898. under which he made that deed,
i was declared unconstitutional by Judge
Lochren in the decree in which he includ-
| ed the $4,000 acres. If the company had
accepted the deed they would have re-
ceived $4,000 acres more than they claim
ed. Lind didn't know this was in Loch-
ren's decree or he wouldn't have made that
! deed. And he will be much surprised
when he meets Jim Peterson Saturday
night in the debate at Minneapolis to find
this fact put to him.
Mr. Dunn repeated his offer to give Mr.
Lind $500 if he would produce his apology
written to the railroad attorneys. ct new
er have apologized to any railroad official
| for any official act of nine,'' he said ..and
by the eternal, 1 never will"
Dunn's Version of Land Grant
He gave his version of the Little Falls
& Dakota land grant matter and insisted
| that by his compromise he had saved to
| the state 10000 acres of land worth
! $400, 900.
1 "If it was not for me- the state would
not have saved an acre. the excessively
modest candidate explained. "If Lind be-
| Heved that the compromise should not
have been made, why did he not, as gov
ernor, begin an action. to compel settle
ment in full. Lind is all right as q man,
but he is a tricky politician He is a con-
vincing talker, but 1 doubt his sincerity
John T. Selb presided at the Fifth ward
meeting and E. G. Rogers and other local
| speakers addressed an audience which by
| actual count numbered 112 men and boys
Ed Parish presided at the meeting in the
/ Second ward. and there were $50 present.
Here Mr.. Dunn denounced stories in Re
publican papers of his private character
as calumnies.
"Tne venal press" he declared 'sTas
taken every opportunity to libel and vilify
me- But the people can't be Influenced
by the rot in these papers. The people
of the state, irrespective of party, trust.
! will not be influenced by these assassins
of character. They will turn down the
jackals who gloat in lies and attacks on
private character. 1 hope they will show
| by their votes that they do not believe in
these traducers and slanderers. that they
viii not be Influenced by the venomous
press of this city and Minneapolis and vote
for the man best qualified to serve you as
| governor
By a singularly equitable division of
labors, Capt" Joseph Berger proposed
three cheers at the Second ward meeting
and Darius F. Reese performed a similar
i scene at the Fifth ward fest. The alb
sence. OF Attorney General W. J. Dona-
hover was noted from the Second ward
meeting. J. c. Nethaway, of Saltwater.
with a number Of local Republican candi-
dates, also spoke at the Second ward
gathering.