The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-13
ESCAPE FOR dunn
NOW IMPOSSIBLE
His Name Heads Sample Bal
lot and He Will Stick
for the Funeral

iHere was a sigh of RELIEF at Demo-
cratic state headquarters yesterday
when the sample state ballot made its
appearance from the Office of the sec
rotary of state, and it was found that
X. e. Dunn's name appeared on the
ticket as the Republican candidate for
| governor.
There had been a deep-seated fear
that Mr.. Dunn might be induced to
withdraw from the race for governor,
! in view Of the veritable revolution that
has been inaugurated throughout the
state in the Republican party against
his candidacy
The appearance of the sample ballot
| with Mr.. Dunn's name as the Repnb-
lican candidate is taken to mean that
he has decided to remain and take the
consequences of defeat, instead of re-
firing in the face of the Overwhelming
avalanche of votes that are sure to be
cast against him by members of his
| own party.
The Democratic committeeman have
been keeping very quiet regarding ru-
mors that Mr.. Dunn would quit, and
have done nothing to encourage the
suggestion which has come from half
a dozen different counties in the state.
The movement to secure Mr.. Dunn's
retirement from the field as candl-
date, which the Democratic state CEN
trail committee has been cognizant OF Tor
some weeks, was an entirely Repub-
lican movement, and the Democrats
have done nothing to encourage it. On
the contrary. good party politics sug-
gested that the situation, from the
e r,f Tn6y A
Johnson and his associates on the state
Democratic ticket, could not be i'm
proved upon, and the Democratic lead
ers refused to sanction anything that
looked like aiding plan to remove
Dunn as a candidate and substitute
new man. With victory for Johnson
and Winston practically in their grasp
because of the nomination of Mr.. Dunn
and Ray Jones, they argued that 1T
would be bad politics to encourage the
withdrawal of Mr.. Dunn from the
ticket.
Petitions Are Too Late
Petitions had been prepared for cir
culation in at least two counties where
the opposition to Mr.. Dunn is strongest
in his own party, setting forth the
facts that his nomination had totally
disrupted the party, that the shadow
of defeat was already upon him be-
cause of the opposition of thousands
of independent Republicans who pro-:
posed to rebuke his nomination at the
polls, and that his Withdrawal as a
candidate was the only penanee that
would suffice for the damage already
done the party organization by his
nomination.
Word came TO the Democratic state
headquarters thatathese petitions, if
putin circulation, would be signed by
hundreds of the Republicans of the
counties where it was proposed to cir
culate them, and asking the indorse-
menti of the Democratic committee to
the movement. Chairman Day, upon
consultation with his fellow members
of the committee, declared at once that
his committee would not approve the
contemplated action; that the Demo-
cratic committee was perfectly salts
fed with present conditions. The plan
when met with so decided frost from
the Democratic leaders was imme-
diately abandoned, and nothing more
| was done.
Democrats Relieved
The Democratic committeeman have
been fearful however, ever since that
Dunn might be induced to withdraw
in favor of some man like Gov. Van
SAINT, Chief Justice Start or former
00ueTdlt1 he lSSQ-
ance yesterday of the sample official
ballot, with Mr. Dunn's name at its
head as the Republican nominee for
governor set their minds at rest and
| the appearance of the yellow sample
ballot was greeted with every evidence
of relief at Democratic headquarters.
There, that settles it," said ]. A.
NOVEL;, a st. Paul member of the state
| executive committee, at the Democratic
| state headquarters yesterday, as he ex-
citedly pointed to the name of Mr..
Dunn on the ticket 81 have been afraid
that he would mot stay in the game
to the finish and participate in the
funeral as it's chief attraction. Under
the law Mr.. Dunn must now remain
as the Republican candidate. and take
his medicine. Holm A. Johnson will
defeat him by fully 10000 votes, if all
| the signs of the times are any indica-
| ton. 1t is going to be landslide for
! Johnson, and the best informed men of
all parties admit it,
Chairman F. A. Day and others at
state headquarters were equally pleas
! ed that Mr.. Dunn remained a candi-
date. 'Gov. Van SAINT, should he go
on the ticket as the candidate for gov
ernor, even at this late date. might be
elected by $4,000 majority" he said.