The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-27
MINNESOTA POLITICS
Trouble in the Dunn Ranks over Heat
wole's AvoWal Of Opposition to clapp-
Dark Horse Candidate Located-Trouble
In Ramsey-Reason for Dunn's Activity
In HennepIn -

Wole's AvoWa Of Opposition to Clapp-il
Dark Horse Candidate Located-Tro
In Ramsey-Reason for Dunn's Activity
In HennepIn.
Joel Heatwole was busy yesterday ex-
planning how he happened to make the
statement he did about becoming candi-
date against Senator Clapp, and what he
really did say. Coming right down to the
facts, 1t is generally agreed, even by his
friends, that he madeth statement quot
ed in 7 he Journal. The best excuse
found for him is that he was joking. On
the contrary, his week spent in humping
against the Collins stone wall down in
Rice county had gotten the best of, his
temper, and he was very much in earnest,
SO much so that he made the statement
half a dozen times, in substantially the
same way
This new development has increased the
friction among the Dunn managers, and
those who are affiliated with Dunn rather
than with HeatWole are not slow to criti-
else the latter for talking too much They
say he must have had some purpose in
making such a statement, and it could
not have been sto help Dunn.
There is current report that the Dunn
people have fixed ON dark horse candi-
date to bring out whenever it appears that
Dunn cannot get the nomination. The
man decided on is H. W.. Childs of St.
Paul, the former attorney general, who is
one of Dunn's leading supporters in the
capital city.
The Collins men in ST. Paul insist that
they are going to carry Ramsey county
handily when the time comes, but the
Dunn men have all kinds Of confidence.
They are relying a good deal on the .alli-
ance formed with the democratic city adj
ministration in st. Paul, commonly called
de gang, which it is understood has
agreed to loan the Dunn men plenty Of
voters to carry the precincts they need
at the primaries. The Collins. men are
preparing for this contingency, and as the
democratic primaries will come first, they
are going to spot all the democrats that
/ turn out at that time and challenge them
] If they show up at the republican pri-
maries. The same tactics are to be fol-
| lowed here, where it is claimed that the
| influence of the lccal Hearst organization
| will be used to- get out: voters at the
primaries for Dunn.
The Lake City Graphic Sentinel says:
i It Isl estimated in st. Paul fthat the printing
/ bill OF Candidate DunE has already aggregated
900, and5that tons of Documents are ready to
be shipped cut to2the faithful Indifferent parts
Of the state. The poor printer is certainly
prohting by the mistakes Of the republican can
|
/ takes made there would have been no necessity
/ of explaining away the MANY suspicious.
/ The Faribault Republican rises to in
quire:
/ Ex-Audftor Dunn has assured the voters that If
| he is elected governor he will enforce the laws
Of the state. 1t appears, however. that he
failed to enforce them i'll the timber trespass
cases, but chose to exercise his own discretion.
j It Is claimed in his behalf that he believed he
i acting q
4 If law enforcement is subject to the officers
discretion, what probability is there that Mr..
/ Dunn would have taken any action to prevent the
1 violation of the state law thru the merging Of
the two great parallel railway lines?
/ ST. Paul papers to-day made quite q
i point of the advertised appearance of
Judge John III. Steele at the fourth ward
/ Dunn meeting this evening. AS Judge
I Steele was Chairman Of the state COM
| mittee when Mr.. Eustis ran for governor,
and is still a strong Eustis man, his APP
pearance on the platform with Dunn is
! heralded as a sign that Eustis will not
| get into the fight.
!. The trouble is that Judge Steele is not
going to speak. Since his name was adj
vertised as one of the orators tonight he
1 has received a good deal Of "joshing,"
/ but he has told all Of his friends that the
use Of his name was unauthorized, and
that he will not appear this evening.
The other speakers advertised are R. G.
Dunn, Oar Reese of ST. Paul. w. I. Nolan
and James A. Peterson.
There is no doubt but the Dunn men
have some hopes of carrying Hennepin
county, but it is believed that strong
reason for the activity here is the moral
effect it is hoped to create outside. By
| having been sent broadcast that Dunn is
! speaking to large audiences in the strong
1 republican wards Of Minneap polls they can
i create the impression that his candidacy
4 is sweeping the city, and influence some
1 band-wagon votes. There are good
many republicans, some of them men of
influence, who are still waiting to see
i which way things are going, in order
4 to declare themselves with the winners,
4 and it is to catch this element that the
Dunn managers have been claiming the
earth lately.
i The fact is that in this county the Col
Inns men have been waking up lately, and
4 there is more genuine work being done
4 for the judge than in some time before.
The recent muss between the candidates
4 hurt Dunn here, as it did elsewhere, and
1 it drew quite number of republicans
who had been talking Dunn to talking
third candidate.
i Charles B. Cheney.