The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-06-27
CONVENTION
TOMORROW
Finish Of Dunn.COllins Fight
Locally Comes On
Tomorrow.
BOTH SIDES CLAIMING VICTORY
Tn COl'NTY.
Convention Will Have Total Re
presentation Of Ninety.Nine
Delegates fall Attend.

The finish OF tho Dunn Collins
fight in BeltrImI county. Which
! has been particularly warm and
Interesting Tor some time past
will come NTH the holding Of the
lcounty convention tomorrow.
when the delegates to the state
convention will be elected and
the preliminaries to the most
sensational tight for the Repuba
lican gubernatorial nomination
| in the history OF Minnesota will
! be overas faras lSeltrami county
is concerned,
Both sides are claiming the
l.convantion as favorable. The
| Collins mon claim 4 certain VIC
Itul.N and expect. to have. slNtN
delegates in the convention. The
| Dunn claims are not SO el,lborate,
but Nm McCuaig, chairman Of
1.-the county central committees
who has been handling the Dunn
Icanpaign does not admit the dc
! feat Of the Princeton man. lhe
con yention will be called at one.
Io,clocl1 at the city bail and the
Iprelimary test OF strength will
lconlc With Jurisdiction Of chair
man. Both sides are straining
every nerve and the convention
will be one of the most interest
ING ever held in thisscitY.
It has SO far been impossible
Flo obtain any sort Unreliable in
formation on the result in the
county 1t large. There IS sub
stantially no news from the out
living country precincts and Upon
this fact tile hopes 81 the Dunn
mon are built. They say THAT
the country will rally TO the Dunn
standard with enough votes to
carry the day over the victory
scored by tic Collins workers III
Blackjack, lscnlid.li and a mum
her Of the country towns so far
heard from. The Collins mon
Ewllo have been working +quitely
for three months past and have a
strong organization, refuse to
giveout any figures but state
with the greatest apparentseonii-
dencc that there isno question
las to the result
Telegraphiea adVlces from the
various managers i'm this city To
the ST. Paul and Minneapolis
headquarters OF the gubernator
I.ial candidates have clalmad the
Icounty bothFWays, but the Collins
claimssappear to bcthe strongest
| and the Twin Cities generally
}.conceded the county to-Collins.
I.I)iscussing the effect OF tlce-Gols
Klins victory in Beltraml county.
fthe st Paul dispatch yesterday
lcontaincd the following interest
ling Ditoi gossip:
Z, AS tol5eltrami county every
estimate made by the Dunn man
ayers had it as a Dunn strong
hold What makes the loss Of
Beltrami so keen is that Verify,
| the glad hand artist of the Dunn
| headquarters, withanotllcr party,
conducted the Bemidji Sentinel,
and it's columns, ever since the
campaign began, have tcemcd
with boosts for Mr.. Dunn. Mr.
-HeatWole was understood to he
| the silent partner in this en-
| tcrprise.
That there is some little truth
=iil1=tte i0rrg0iing most ardent
/ Dunn men do not deny and there
lis no hesitancy il expressing the
! opinion that the Dunn candidacy
suffered by its friends in this
county as it didin Wadcna county
and it was freely predicted that
G.. G. Eastman, the able editor OF
the WadcnaPloneer Journal who
takes anaactive interest in politics
and IS a member Of the Rcpnbli
| can state central committee had
t1net his Waterloo and was no
match for Nh. Worthy The
county went straight for Collins,
Mr.. Eastman and his Pioneer
Journal are endorsed and for
local reasons There are not many
tears being shed over the out.
cerne=iH= certain sections oiZtlfe.
Dunn camp in this city.
J'ninStructpd Delegation,