The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-09
The Election in Minnesota.

So it seems that it does make differ
ence what kind of a man is nominated
for governor by the republican party of
Minnesota, and it does make a differ
ence how that nomination is brought
about.
When the character Of the candidate
and the means and methods which
brought about his nomination are seri-
ously objected to, and on good grounds,
it is no longer possible to drive the re-
publican voters Of the state to the polls
like so many cattle. The effort to &C
complish that result was made in the
late campaign by public men and pub
lie press, with degree of intensity and
desperation which makes the revolt
against such coercion under the party
lash all the more significant. In view
of the probable 100000 majority for
Roosevelt, the defeat Of r. G. Dunn,
even by a small margin, is well calcu-
lated to make republican politicians and
public men in this state realize that
they must consult the intelligence and
moral sense of the people of Minnesota
if they would command their following.
That fact ought to be worth good
deal to the state and to the republican
party of Minnesota. The defeat Of the
republican candidate is no ordinary re-
verse. 1t is in no sense the result of
the usual fuctuation of success between
parties common in close states. It was
republican voters by the tens of thous-
ands who defeated Mr.. Dunn-voters
who were just as good republicans yes
terday as they ever WERE and are to-
day as loyal to the principles of their
party as the men who voted for the de-
feated candidate. In a large sense
they were more loyal because they stood
for party principles with Roosevelt,
while condemning an unrepublican can
didate for governor, and the unrepub-
.lican means by which he got his nomi-
nation. ". ~ s.e -. B.. .i-s
We hear talk Of trouble for the
future. We are not in the least ap-
prehensive. The verdict of the polls
in spite of the ties of the political
family, was that the nomination was
mistake. Cannot the republican party
correct its mistakes without danger tc
itself9 If it cannot it is not deserving
of future success. If it insists upon
standing by it's blunders it is not the
party of progress and advancement
which it processes to be-. r. "
But that is misjudgment of the re
publican party of Minnesota. The feal
of future trouble is only the rather
natural result of present disappointment
and temporary resentment.
We want to congratulate the repub
lican party that thru the defeat of r
G. Dunn it does not have to stand for
lot Of things that it could not afford t.
be identified with as a part of itself.
It does not have to stand for tn,
record of R. G. Dunn in the auditor
office. ~<@s 49,, s..
1t does not have to stand for the cleo
ton of a man Of his unfortunate per
sonality. =
h. It does not have to repudiate tn
stand which it took on the merger il
! 1902. =
1t does not have to stand for politica
crimes committed to control .conven
lions, crimes which we read about bu
which we all mean shall never becom
common in the state of Minnesota.
With these things cleared off the slat
and the erasing done by republican
themselves, rather than by the shattere
and scattered democratic opposition
there is no reason why the party shout
not presently realize that 1t is stronge
in this state than ever by reason o
having demonstrated it's ability to col
rect it's own mistakes.
We feel quite sure that such will b
, the result.