The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-14
MINNESOTA POLITICS
Wonderful Landslide to Roosevelt Shown
by the Hennepin County vote-Post-
Mortem Comments on the Result In
Minnesota. .,+a -

Hennepin county is fair sample of the
Roosevelt landslide. -Four years ago Nc
kinley carried the county over Bryan by
a plurality of 12,404, while RooSevelts
plurality over Parker is 2S,45S. The total
vote cast this year was 1900 greater than
in 1900, but Roosevelt got 5000 more votes
than Mckinley did, gaining 5000 demo-
Gratis. The socialist vote increased nearly
eight-fold, and at the expense of Parker,
whose vote was 5000 less than Bryans.
The comparative vote is as follows:
Wooley
nsoo. ns sssSs 1szss 81 RsP: 'r:9Ss}
1904 R g. s d Pagber 9 Rsss PF Is
Now that the election is over, we have
to turn to the back files of the Duluth
News Tribune to learn how hopeless John
A. Johnson's candidacy was, and what
rainbow chasers they were who thought
Dunn could be defeated. About two weeks
before election the News-Tribune said:
The idea that Dunn's election could be seri-
ously threatened was merely the illusion of those
who walk in vain show. The whisperings of
malicious hope persuaded only those whose wish
was the illegitimate father of the thought, but
that wish has recoiled on the fatuous minds that
conceived 1t.
Joel P. Heatwole is after Clapp harder
than ever since the election is over. In
the last Mortified News he hands out
several hot ones. This is for Instance:
If Senator Clapp had commenced to support
the republican ticket in July instead of October,
the result might have been different.
The Echo Enterprise is looking for 3
row in the republican party two years
from now and says:
There will be trouble in store two years hence
for the Van SantCollins crowd when they make
| an attempt to rule the roost and take the reins
Of the state republican party.
The Rush City Post, which ardently sup
ported Dunn, is SO cut up over his defea
as to be unable to see Roosevelt's $780, 00t
plurality in Minnesota. The Post says:
| There is excellent opportunity for the demo
! Gratis to secure the state for the next presden
| tial contest The governor-elect is honor tt
| his party. He did not win on the nationalit,
| issue, Lind did; he by good generalshil
in taking advantage of the internecine accuse
| lions and errors of the enemy. John A. John
there will be danger of losing United States
senator four lit two) years hence.
The Bemidji Pioneer says: go
Every "silk stocking precinct in the twi,
l cities went for johnson. Every precinct i,
which the plain, working people lived went To-
| Dunn. Under the circumstances, we are not a
all ashamed Of having given ardent supper
| to Mr.. Dunn.
You have to go a long way from hom
to get the news. Analysis Of the vot
shows that Dunn carried only 10 out o
139 precincts in Minneapolis. Consequent
ly there must be 1926 "silk-stocking'' pre-
cincts in the city, while the 'plain, work
| ing people" are confined to 13 precincts.
Frank NJ. Eddy predicted Dunn's cleo
ton by 10000 or more. In his Sank Cen
ter Herald he acknowledges his mistake
but claims some credit for getting tn
figures nearly right. He says:
| Again the Herald is indicated We said al
| the time the governor would be elected by a
least 10000. We hit the majority, but MISE
Charles 3. Cheney