The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-06-03

FOR DUNN.
Landslide Starts Throughout
the County For Prince
ton Man.
--as.A
DUNN SENTIMENT PRONOUNCED
IN ALL SECTIONS. St.. 800,
CONSERVATION in Collins Camp
and Third Candidate Talk
Is Rife.

The developments of the past
ten days are believed sufficient
to warrant the statement that
Beltramii county will send a Dunn
delegation to the state conven.
tion by those who are taking an
active interest in the pre,conven.
ton canvass for the guberna,
-torial candidates. Pronounced
Dunn sentiment has developed IN
many d quarters quite unexpected
and the prediction made earlier
in the campaign that the strong
natural Dunn sentiment in Bel.
trami county could not be over:
come is apparently confirmed.
While the state at large has
been an interested spectator to
the spectacular fight for the gu.
bernatorial nomination Beltrami
county has been unc certain ground
for both candidates. In the re-,
cent claims Of strength given
out by the Collins and Dunn
forces Beltrami county was
claimed by both, but the real fact
of the matterSis that but little in
terest has been taken up to the
present time.
The organization of the county
for the convention fight has been
progressing quietly for some.
|;time and the Collins claims have
all,along been Efficiently extrayi
agant to say the least. The claims
|of the Collins forces do not ap.
pear to be standing upWell, how
ever, and as the time. for the hold
ing Of the primaries approaches
and interest in the contest is
aroused the Dunn sentiment,
which has been dormant among
the voters who take little part in
the preliminarieslis more evident,
and to the Collins forces has
taken the form Of the hand writ
ing on the wall.
Reports from every section OF
1.-THE country are that the Dunn
people are up in arms. The vii
|lage Of Kelliher, where Collins
men were claimed to flourish like
the green bay tree has organized
| a Dunn club and Dad" Palmer,
the veteran editor and employe
of Martin & Christensen of this
city, who.are claimed as friendly
to the Collins cause, isa member
From the extreme north OF the
county comes the report that the
delegates to the county conven-
tion from Baudette and the out
lying towns are coming down for
Dunn and in the city of Bemidji
the Dunn sentiment is being fosa
tered carefully by strong Dunn
club and is growing daily.
The canards of the state house
ring have been circulated quite as
freely in Bemidii as in any sec
ton OF the state but they are
proving a boomerang to the Col
Inns cause.
Recognizing the inevitable the
Collins forces are casting about
a good deal and there is a very
great deal of third candidate talk
in the Collins camp. Z, II. Bailey,
who has been credited with the
leadership of the Collins forces
in this city is said to be freely re-
marking his friendship for Frank
Eddy, and is said to have made
the statement that he always adj
mired Mr.. Eddy, anyhow This
is regarded as very significant by
those who have played ball with.
Mr. Bailey in other campaigns
and is taken as a certain indica.
ton that he is about to scuttle the
ship and elbow his way to a front
seat on the Dunn band wagon.
Interest is daily increasing, but
unless new life if infused into the
Collins cause forthwith thecounty
convention will be merely a mat
ter Of form and the Dunn men
will be in the saddle from the
start.