The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-16

P!eo9ed to Clapp-Does Voting for
Roosevelt Make Men Republicans -
John Barry Said to Have Been Prom
ised Johnson's Place.
The st. Cloud Journal-Press, which is
a strong Clapp supporter, gives list of
thirty-eight house members who are
pledged to the support of Clapp. This
lacks considerable of the fifty-five votes
which Will be necessary to control the
house organization. A majority Of the
ffifty-tWo republican senators are under
stood to be pledged to CIapp bat the
majority IS not heavy enough to- overcome
much OF an adverse ma jority in the house,
and unless Clapp can muster better than
thirty weight in the lower house he is in
for fight. The members claimed to be
pleoged to Clapp are as follows:
FIRST observation-disclosures Of Houston,
Thayer Of Fillmore, Tanning Of Olmsted,
Harden and Nolan Of Mower
Second District-Julan, Lewis and
Gates OF Blue Earth, Palmer Of Martin.
Ramsey, zelch and sVellmer of Washing
ton. f ....-r ......v ~ q
sixth District-Murray of Wadena, T
Kinds of Hubbard and Cole of Cass. Il
Seventh Decentralization of Yellow
Medicine Carl OF Chippewa, Hogue of
OW1ll -
Eighth Distrct-Mark of Mile Laos,
Swanson of Carlton, Bowling, saari,
Lewis, Miller and Hugo of st. Louis, |
Skinner of Lake. ~ i
Ninth District-Welis of Willkin, Per
ley Of Clay. Biorge of Becker and ST.
mons of Red Lake
There are half a dozen others who prob
ably should be added to this list, includ-
ing Mork of Faribault, the four members
from Otter Tail, Gandrud of Kardiyohi
and Hanson Of Marshall. On the other
hand, there are three or four in the list
that Clapp would doubtless be glad to
be sure of. --'iE :
There is trouble in the Ramsey dele
cation. Four of the new members Has
kell, Selb, Rosenthal and Rowe, held
caucus yesterday. They claim that Lem
on and Fulton. the old members, are try
ing to monopolize the patronage and the
six new ones may combine against them
to run the delegation. This may have:
bearing yet on the senatorial contest
and is quite likely to- divide the rdelega- :
ton on the speakership. ,,is%.% .4# Z
when it comes to the primary election
| two years from now, about. two thirds
| of the voters will have some sort of a
claim to vote the republican primary bal
lot. Those who voted for Roosevelt at
| this election will, with some justice, claim
| title to the name republican," and there
may not be much disposition to deny It
| to them The question may come up,
however, and it will be a knotty point
for the attorney general to settle. This
lyear a ruling was made but it was with
reference to the election of two years
ago. when there was no presidential tick
| ct. The primary law gives the voter
right to the ballot Of the party whose
candidates he ''generally supported' at
| the last election. The attorney general
| held that this applied particularly to the
candidates for congress and for state Of
fees, which stand more for party prin-
ciples than local candidates do. If a.
voter cast his ballot for a democrat for
governor, and for the rest of the re-
publican state ticket, he should be classed
as a republican.
| Now the voters have declared them
selves on national issues, and it must be
decided whether a vote for Roosevelt and
Fairbanks. is sufficient to make a man a
| republican, even If he voted the demo-
cratic ticket on all the other offices The
fact is that a great many voted for Roose-
welt who stood by the democratic state
and local tickets, and 5sconsider themselves
DEM crats. 81 sss4fEsH.$3.> ;, IT, ,5,..
PARTIAL returns frpnasHse vote ION. judges
for the supreme court show that Judge
Jaggard is getting a heavier vote than
any of the candidates for the three terms
beginning in 1906 Judge Brown who had
the nomination of both parties, leads Ell
lott and Lewis, but not by a. very large
margin Evidently the double nomina-
ton did not mal1e#a great deal of diff
ference. 81 The full returns will probably
i show that great many voters failed to
vote for three under the one bracket, and
that the lighter Vote Of Brown, Elliott
and Lewis can be accounted for in this
way. Jaggard and Hall were bracketed
4 alone, and between them got practically
the full vote. = - -. = -
The official returns from Mile Laos
county show that Dunn did not run SO
! well at home as expected The first re .
ports gave him a plurality CT 100 in the
county. The official vote, gives Dunn
1 1,315 and Johnson 556, Ia plurality of only
! 759 Roosevelt's plurality in the county
was nearly 1900. &theayote standing=1 ,451
4 for Roosevelt and 1855 for Parker. Prince
ton gave Dunn an Overwhelming vote,
but in the outside precincts his run was
nothing remarkable. i: 49,. 49, >.s.F
| NicOllet county was carried. for Roose-
welt more than three to one, the vote
standing 1857 to 513, but on governor the
county gave Johnson an even better vote
than it did Roosevelt Dunn received 649
/ c. r. DAVIS, for congress carried the
/ county even stronger than Johnson, but
/ that was to be expected, since he is a
republican. '5. ~ E r ;.
One of the sorely disappointed men
over the defeat of Dunn is John Barry,
| the expert accountant who started the
investigation Of the state auditors Of
ice under Public Examiner Johnson, and
dropped it SO suddenly last December. 1t
is asserted that he had promise of sue
ceeding johnson as public examiner in
case Dunn was elected Others who were
supposed to have lines on that position
were Captain Henry A. Castle and Cap
tain j. J. McCardy of st. Paul, and at
one time Mr.. Dunn stated that he 1Woud
appoint an old soldier to the position if
elected, so Barry's hopes may not have
had solid foundation.
i #@ ..E3-Charles B. Cheney.