The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-12
MINNESOTA POLITICS

Comment on the Dunn Interview by
Friends and opponents-county COM
mIttee Meets Monday Evening-Some
Fletcher Supporters Out for Collins
Aspects Of the EustIs acknowledgements
Support In the Southwest Corner.
Bob, Dunns latest interview on the mer-
ger has been fruitful subject of discus
sion since it appeared. Some Of his
friends agree that it would better be left
unsaid, since his attitude for the last
two years is so well known, and any
change Of front now looks like an elev-
enth hour recantation. In the Pioneer
Press interview which he repeats and in
dorses, he held that he had no sympathy
whatever with the merger prosecutions,
and in his Princeton depot speech he re-
ferred to the antt-merger movement as
| rantings and rawlings of demagogic poll
ticians. AS the Collins supporters point
out, that arrangement included President
Roosevelt and Attorney General Knox, as
| well as Governor Van SAINT and Attorney
General Douglas The president took just
the same action in the case as Minne-
sOta'S governor, and was included in the
same denunciation.
Many who have commented on the last
interview say that it has come too late.
explicit declaration from him on the mer-
ger. He refused, and since then many Of
them have declared for Collins The wave
of sentiment has risen nigh in the last
few weeks, and the Dunn statement has
/, every appearance of having been forced
out, as concession to public feeling. And
fails to conceal his 'lack of sympathy"
fails to conceal his '1ack Of sympathy
for the moves that have been made toward
enforcement of the law. 49,.
The republican county committee has
been called to meet Monday evening at
1870, at the home Of Chairman George l..
Matchan, who Is confined to the house
| with illness. The committee will issue tho
call for the county convention and for the
primaries. The congressional committee
has been designated to call the district
convention, and will doubtless issue a call
making the two conventions identical. The
county convention will be on Tuesday,
March Is, and the primaries will be either
the evening before, or Saturday evening,
March u.
Julius schmahl says in his Redwood Ga
zette:
Frank Clague of Lamberton was in the
| city last Friday evening and Saturday
| morning. Mr.. Clague will be candidate
| for denomination and reelection as rep
| resentative in the legislature from this
county next fall. and his record in the last
legislature is sufficient to warrant his re-
| turn without opposition
| He says nothing about Clague as a pos
| sibility for speaker. Evidently. if there is
| to be a clash between the ambitions of
Clague and Schmahl, it will not take place
| in Redwood county.
Whatever may be the relations between
Former Congressman Fletcher and the
managers of the Dunn campaign in this
county, Mr.. Fletcher IS not doing anything
for Dunn at the present time, but is still
talking Eustis. Some Of his strongest sup
porters are out for Collins, and they were
wednesday night by Major w. D. Hale
and several others. AS Major Hale is
chairman Of the congressional committee
which is to call the district convention, IT
is not likely that the interests of Judge
Collins will suffer in that proceeding. All
the committee does, anyway, is to fix the
date, and that cannot have much bearing
on candidates. for governor
| The local Dunn organ says the Collins
men are trying to force Eustis into the
field to save this county from Dunn. Just
the reverse is true. At the meeting
Wednesday night it was impressed on
those present that it is too late to think OF
running Mr.. Eustis, and that the latter's
friends might as well jump right into the
Collins wagon. The only danger appre-
hended by the Collins men in this county
is continued attempt to bring out Eustis
as a candidate. Nothing would suit the
Dunn managers better than to SO Eustis
a candidate.
The Faribau1t Republican remarks:
AN old and successful politician once
said, when asked for the reason of his re-
tanning the confidence Of the people in all
| of no io1,1+ i,,~
been placed, that on any question that
came up when two courses were open for
action, he had always aimed to cast the
vote that did not need to be explained. The
trouble with Mr.. Dunns position on the
merger question seems to be, that it in
wolves the necessity for explanation
! Senator Clapp, who is back from Wash
ington to speak at the Lincoln Day ban
quet in Duluth this evening, declines to
discuss the question Of sending the SEN
ators as delegates at large to the national
Senator Nelson. Speaking Of public bust
ness. he says the Panama treaty will be
ratified inside of ten days, as there are
plenty of democratic votes assured to pass
it, and that work preliminary to canal
construction will be undertaken imme-
diately after.
He declined to discuss the report that he
is thinking Of becoming a candidate for
congress again, but did not conceal his
disapproval Of the stand taken by Con-
gresham Volstead against reciprocity
with Canada.
Speaking Of newspaper support. the
lPipestone Review has checked up the fou,
counties in the southwestern corner of the
state, Murray, Mobiles, Rock and Pipe
stone, and finds only three out Of the
twenty-one republican papers are fol
Dunn. In Pipestone county all seven have
declared for Collins. Four out of five ir
Rock. and four out of six in Murray, are
for Collins, and Dunn has only one out OF
six papers in Mobiles.
/ Charles B. Cheney
TWO LINCOLN STORIES
Senator Cullom in the Philadelphia Press
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