The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-04
zINS OF ST. CLOUD
is OUT FOR PARKER
The Antl-Hearst Sentiment In
Stearns County Is Becom.
Ing Pronounced.
Special to The Globe.

Special to The Globe
ST. CLOUD, Mimi, April 3.-If VIII
liam r. Hearst's candidacy for the
presidency is not received more kindly
in other centers of Democracy than in
Stearns county, his chances for Min
nesota delegates in the st. Louis ma
tional Democratic convention are not
brilliant.
st. Cloud is the home of James F.
Bennett Jr.. Hearst's reputed Mime
sofa manager, and interest in the re-
suits of the convention for this county
is natural throughout the state.
Every indication points to the cleo
ton of delegates to the congressional
convention from Stearns county openly
hostile to the Hearst candidacy. The
opponents to the newspaper man are
many, and they are inclined to be
bitter in their treatment of the man
and what he stands for in Democracy.
Their opposition to Hearst is directed
to quite a degree to his local manager
and there is warfare open and de-
clared between the elements
Mr.. Bennett is an attorney former
Republican, who followed Charles A.
TOwne into the Democracy, and if he
was active in Republican party affairs
before joining the Democrats, his ac-
tivity has been doubled in his new
party relation. He, plunged, with the
enthusiasm of convert, into politics
upon joining hands with the Demo-.
Gratis, and his presence has long been
a thorn in the flesh of the old-Iine
Democrats of Stearns county, who did
not hesitate to say that Bennett should
wait a reasonable time before becoming
so prominent in their party councils
and assuming a leadership that they
were by no means willing to surrender.
In city politics, however, he has pros
pered. and for the past two years has
been city attorney, while, by means of
frequent Eastern trips and correspond
ence with the national leaders Of the
party, he has attained, his political
enemies say, position in national af-
fairs out of all proportion to his de-
serts and his abilities
Helps to Bring Hearst Out.
Bennett attend the meeting of the
Democratic national committee at
Washington some two months ago and
was one of the Western Democrats
who first began to boom Hearst for
the presidency. His candidacy had up
to that time not been consider serious
ly, but the hundred or more enthusi-
astS like Bennett who crowded the
Washington hotel Hobbies and shouted
the young milltonaire's claims to rec
ognition aroused an opposition which
has eliminated in the beginning of a
fight which the prophets say will leave
Hearst very far outside the breast
works when the delegates ballot at st.
Louis in June.
Bennett returned to Minnesota, was
int n 80
newspapers, and began an organization
of the state in the interest Of his can
didate. Some Roadway was made at
Duluth and start has been made in
Minneapolis, but Bennett has been re-
ceivfng cold comfort at st. Cloud. He
had brought two candidates into the
field in his congressional district for
delegates to the national convention in
the persons of Charles E. Vasaly, of
Little Falls, and Tip" Mealey, Of Mon
ticelIo, but a development came last
week in this city which has disar-
ranged all his plans and bids fair to
break the slate into fragments.
Frank Zins, owner of Der Nordstern,
a big, strong German weekly paper,
which has consistently supported Will
liam ]. Bryan in his two presidential
campaigns and Charles A. Towne in
both his congressional contests, on
strong urging of his friends and the
Democrats who could not stand for
Hearst, announced his candidacy for
district delegate, and is determined
to win. Zins is the present member
of the Democratic state central COM
mittee, and his paper gave L. A. Rosing
strong support in his candidacy for
governor two years ago. He was I'M
able to attend the recent meeting of
the committee in ST. Paul, and gave
his proxy to G. F. Ladner, another
stalwart Democrat of the old school.
Ladner was in St Paul at the date of
the committees meeting, but he could
not be present, and Bennett, who was
in the meeting by virtue of Benton
county proxy, had a motion made by
which Mayor J. E. G. Robinson was
given Stearns county's voice in the
proceedings This had the effect of
tying Robinson to the Hearst cause,
and Robinson, who is a candidate for
reelection tomorrow, is sadly handi-
capped in this direction. While the
conservative Democrats will not bolt
him, they are not showing that en-
thusiasm in his interest that they have
displayed in two previous campaigns,
and the issue is in doubt.
Zns for Delegate.
Stearns county has about one third
of the delegate representation in the
councils of the Sixth district Demo-
Gratis, and it is almost a fOregone con-
clusion that if Zins' friends are able to
control their own county convention,
he will be a delegate to ST. Louis. OF
this premise there Is said to be little
doubt. Zins' canvass Is in the hands
of John D. Sullivan, as manager. Sui
Ivan was county attorney Of Stearns