The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-06-16
ROBERT c. DUNN.


The most unique political person
atty that Minnesota has ever pro-
duced, and she has more than filled
her quota of unique politicians, is
the man from Princeton, who just
now is making such vigorous
fight for the republican nomination
for governor.
He is a big hearted, big Drained,
sunny haired, but not sunny
tempered, Irishman, possessing all
the virtues and all the faults,
especially the faults, of the genial
sons of Erin's Isle who come pretty
near running every country in the
world except Ireland.
A cynic once defined an honest
man as ga humbug who sincerely
believes in his own humbuggery. "
and he must have had Mr.. Dunn in
mind when he wrote the definition.
No man has been more successful
in fooling the people than he has,
but he fools himself worse than he
does the people. He constantly
pirates about personal and political
independence and he thinks he is
Independent, and he is not the only
man in the world who thinks he is
independent when he is only con-
trary.
There never was man more
completely and thoroughly managed
than he is, as matter of fact he is
as closely chaperoned as an English
boarding school miss home on a
vacation, by horde of managers,
big and little, who not only direct
his every action but his speech as
well, and these managers live in
constant dread lest he make some
break when they are not looking,
and their terror is justifiable, for if
he were turned loose without any
management he would ruin his own
chances in an incredibly short space
of time.
There is no doubt that personally
he is very friendly to Senator
Clapp, and if left to himself, would
give him a ringing endorsement
from the platform and through his
paper, but he is SO thoroughly held
in that his silence on the subject of
Clapp's reelection is SO dense that
you could chop it with an ak and
the handle would have to be longer
fhan the ak handles of Congressman
Buckman's loggers, that reached
across a section, in order to reach
through it.
His great hobby is enforcement
of the law, yet his official record is
full of violations of the law. He
and his friends claim, and the claim
is true IN many cases, that the state
was financial gamer by such viola
tons but they remain violations of
the law just the same.
He talks glibly about opposing
the ''enToachment of corporate
greed" and he is in earnest about
what he says, yet the head and
front of the greatest combination
that has ever been formed since the
foundation of the world and all his
satellites, big and little, are ardently
supporting him, and feeble, indeed,
is the intellect of the man who
thinks they would do this if they
did not believe and have reason to
believe, that in case of Mr.. Dnnn's
success he could be so managed that
If the supporters of mergers should
transgress the law in the future, as
they. have in the past, he would not
be perniciously active in setting the
machinery of the law in motion to
thwart their schemes. Men who
manage corporate interests and who
are interested in the formation of
trusts, never extend their powerful
support to men whom they have
reason to believe will throw obsta-
cles in the way of their success. If
the magnificent, perpetual7motion
mechanism of Mr.. Hills ever active
and scheming brain should evolve
another plan of combining parallel
and competing lines of railway, in
other words if he should attempt to
form another merger, as every sane
man knows, and knows full well
he will, and the '.hounds of the
law" should get on his trail and
Mr.. Dunn was in the executive
chair, Mr.. Hill knows very well