The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-20

Iy-EditorS Snow I hetr resentment at
Attempted Bossism by Political Man.
agers-An Excellent Candidate sacri-
feed by lI-AdvIsed Action of Some of
His Frlends-Democratic State Com
mittee Meets Next Friday.
We learn 'be the papers, as Mr.. Doc
ley says, that the election of G. F. Mac
donald as president of the state editorial
association had no political significance
Just the same, if the fortunes Of the con-
hict had favored Mr.. Whiteman, it would
have been heralded far and wide as a
editors are for Dunn. Mr. Whiteman was
good timber for the presidency, and in
every way worthy of the honor, but he
suffered at the hands of some of his
friends, who started out to get votes for
him on a political plea. They insisted
that editors who were for Dunn must
support Whiteman, to show how the as
ISOLATION stood on the governorship.
This attempt at partizan dictation
proved a boomerang. 1t Immediately
lined up the editors opposed to Dunn on
the other side. and dragged a political is
sue into the contest, which respon-
sible for the intense excitement that at
tended the baloting Not all the Dunn
editors were pulled in line, and on the
other hand several Of Mr.. Whiteman's
loyal supporters were IflcnOS OIL SOul1iS VI
Eddy, who stood by him on grounds of
friendship or locality. So the lines were
not closely drawn, but the issue was plain
enough SO that the result was pretty
good index of the temper Of the editors.
They are rot enthusiastic enough for
Dunn to allow his managers to use the as
ISOLATION for his political preferment, and
the anti-Dunn sentiment is practically as
strong as that favorable to the Princeton
man..
The result of the association meeting
was bitter disappointment to certain
hereditary and self constituted shep-
herds of the political flock It increased the
"grouchiness" which has been a marked
charac teristic of these same shepherds
during the last month or two. They had
| expected to turn the association meeting
! into a Dunn demonstration which would
make fine "band wagon argument, but
instead Of that the Collins element reaped
all the advantage. Many newspaper men
who had come to Minneapolis with the
| idear that Dunn had q WalkaWay. left
with the feeling that there is a big fight
on, and a very doubtful outcome. Their
| confidence was sadly shaken.
The confidence which prevailed before
the meeting is shown in this weeks issue
of the Ortonville Herald Star, which, after
claiming that the state committee meet
ing was a Dunn victory said:
1.-THE prediction is freely made since
/ the committee meeting, that the state
at large is quite likely to give the Collins
followers a similar jolt when the time
comes. And the time seems to be about
the date of the state convention to be
| held in Minneapolis March II, just a
/ month after the meeting of the editorial
association in the same city.
"'Two such events only separated by the
; short space Of thirty days are well cal
culated to give somebody a severe chill.
est. Paul can be taken care Of later on
If the Collins followers do not get any
f worse "jolt" on March II than they die
81 yesterday, they will survive beautifully
AS for the "chill." well-enough said.
5 A headline in morning paper declares
Editors Refuse to Be Stampeded." Sc
2 far the article is correct but the subse
quent statements are very wide of the
Q mark
; Dunns political speech at the editoria
$ banquet offended the taste of many, ant
considerable comment was heard on i
$ yesterday. Judge Collins who was in
$ vited to the banquet as an afterthought
. in the interests of .tfair play" CAREFUL.
! avoided the subject of candidates.
Some eighth district editors are talking
$ about Granny Pease for one of the dele
t gates to the national convention from
: that corner Of the state.
The Dawson Sentinel editor says:
a '"The Sentinel is inclined to think tina
4 if an election was held to-day to deter
il mine the peoples choice for governor
e Judge L. w. Collins would be their choice
Somehow or other, Mr.. Dunn seems tt
have pulled himself away from the people
: He don't stand with the crowd that h
= 11Sad to stand and fight with -
It has often been remarked that nearl.
all the leading republicans who helped
= fight Dunn's battles eight and ten year
, ago are against him now, and his strong
est supporters are men who were fight
ing him them. The battle front seems t
I; have shifted.
. In the spicy editorial column of tn
Sank Center Herald we find the following
: neat bit of burlesque:
s '"The greatest CONSERVATION prevaile
: in the office of the Northern Securitie
company on the publication of Mr.. Dunn
, antimerger views in those Stanch anti
+ merger papers-the Pioneer Press and tn
Globe. Northern Securities stock at one
fell UP two points
d The democratic state central committe
: will meet in st. Paul next Friday to al
t. range for the state convention. AT thi
e or two conventions shall be held. Th
: sentiment seems to be in favor of tw
'e conventions for reasons stated in TIL
j column recently. The first convention wi
le then be held the last of June, followin
s. the republican national convention. Thel
s. after the democratic national conventio
- has been held, there will be another stat
IS gathering to nominate a ticket. This wi
IS be held late in July.
+ The Princeton Union prints the 70
lowing from the Morton Enterprise undo
.. the heading. Hard Cash Talks:
ne .'R. G. Dunn contributed $500 to tt
is and has the check to prove it, and he W.
Mt not candidate for office, either. w
+ Van SAINT do as well %
st Sentiment in the fifty seventh Iegi
Z lative district seems to favor the r
es election of Ward Stone of Morris and
n D. Larson of Herman to the house. Bo
~ achieved considerable notice for ne
lie road rate bill passed by the house ov
ito painlessly killed by the senate, and La
ng son as father of the red oil car"
Charles B. Cheney.
New Ulm Journal-HoWevsr able /
Ia speech may have been from a litera
in standpoint the general opinion is til
,st Representative Volstead of the seven
district did neither his district nor
ter state honor in his recent stand again
he Canadian rectprocitys 2 ~ 3
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