The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-27
MINNESOTA POLITICS
Serious Attempt Now Being Made to En-
list Former Opponents of Dunn to Help
His EIection-ResponsibII for SOL
dlers' Home Shortage-Hennepin Dele
cation Not Ready to Caucus.

Some members Of the republican state
committee have become alarmed over the
outlook for the head of the ticket, and are
making belated overtures to the men who
opposed Dunn's nomination.. The dispo
sition Of the candidate and some of his
most active partizans has been to ignore
the Collins and Eddy leaders; and to deny
them any participation in the campaign.
Chairman Hanlin's policy, however, is
more conciliatory, and he has been busy
Of late holding out the olive branch. Some
Of the men who supported Collins for the
nomination have been, brought into line
to declare themselves for Dunn and do
some work for him, but the estrangement
has gone so long and the feeling IS SO
intense that peace overtures. are rejected
| in a good many cases. The men: APP
preached say that they are in no way re-
sponsible for the condition In which the
party is placed, and that the men who
nominated Dunn are responsible for elect
ing him. ~
The Mortified News has gone after the
members of the last Legislature rather Sc
verely In the following:. * b. ~ -. 4. .
1t is nothing to its credit that the last legis-
lature should have failed to make sufficient
provision for the support of the Soldiers Home.
The deficit for the year ending June 80 amounts,
it is said, to $11 900. # candidates for the
Legislature had retained that, sympathy for the
VETERANS Of the civil war they gave such loud
expression to before the election until the legis-
1ature met this would scarcely have happened.
The majority of the political friends of the old
soldiers for some reason fail to make their ac-
tons square with their words. a.2
! The legislature is not to be blamed for
this deficiency. It is the result of the
amendment to the federal law, by which
| the Minnesota home loses a large proper
ton of federal aid for last year, because
| of withholding a part Of the pensions.
This year there is another deficit. because,
under the new rule the trustees take no
part Of the pensions. The circumstances
| could not have been foreseen by the legis-
lature. The new legislature. will have to
make up the deficiency. ~
Editor Paradis of the Midway News
comments on the reply Of Mr.. Dunn,
wherein he tells Of trespass settlements,
and says ''the weaker the case the strong
err the bluff / made Conversely, says
Mr.. Paradis. we may assume that the
Estronger the case, the weaker was his
| bluff. He continues:
Since not one single case of criminal prosecu-
ton appears to have been instituted by Mr..
upon the states enormous timber wealth, the
want Of s'scintilla Of proof alone can be ac-
cepted as satisfactory evidence that z..the best
interests of the state' were properly protected
in so vast number Of settlements. And tim
Der commissioner who can serve eight years
without even stumbling upon a scintilla: Of evil
i dence is about as likely proposition as that
i timber trespassers would unwitting1y carry away
J $4,000 worth Of logs, settle for the same in