The Saint Paul globe., 1904-11-01

loui every city ana lOWn 1T the
state having a company of the national
guard come protests against the i'll
advised attempt of the Dunn managers
ito draw the national guard into state
politics
The prominence given in the move
ment to III. J. Wiley. deputy state oil
inspector for Ramsey county, has
caused revival OF gossip as to the ap-
pointment of an adjutant general in the
somewhat remote event of r. C. Dunn's
election as governor. Gen E. d. Lib
bey, adjutaDt general for the past four
years, has been understood as having
assurances from those high in authority
in the Republican machine that he need
have no fears as TO his reappofntment
to his present berth.
1t looks to the uninitiated as though
the Dunn managers were playing both
erds against the middle Capt. M. j.
Wiley is claimed by his close friends
TO have James A. Martins promise that
he will be named as adjutant general
IL Mr.. Dunn has the naming Gen.
Libbey has the promise of Eli s. War
ner and others of the original Dunn
men that he is to be appointed. Wiley
was one of the ColliEs leaders in Ram
sey county and was lighting Dunn
when Gen. Libbey announced himself
for Dunn, when the fight was the
thickest and the moral effect of his
announcement was worth hundreds Of
votes to the Princeton candidate be-
fore the state convention
If, as many I-epublicans reason, Dunn
is simply using the Collins men as
catspaws to pull his chestnuts out of
the fire. the militant Mr.. Wiley win go
TO the garage for the next two years,
while the veteran Libbey will continue
to wear the gold lace and draw the
salary of his Office.
Mai. Wood Is Emphatic
One of the members of the national
guard has put himself on record as
deploring the attempt to drag the ma
tional guard into partisan politics is
F. B. Wood, major of the Second regi-
ment of the Minnesota guard. He was
ir ST Paul yesterday, and in speaking
of the Windsor hotel meeting and its
unexpected developments. said
Il have been a member of the ma
tional guard of Minnesota for twenty
years, and this is the first time have
ever known politicians to attempt TO
drag the guard into politics Whenever
We have gone 10 the legislature to ask
for appropriations for the increased
efficiency of the guard or for the inn
provement OF it's property we have gone
as citizens and taxpayers and not as
politicians. We have always obtained
what we sought, for the legislature has
always been confident that the state
had value received for the money ex-
pended on the guard.
"The national guard has never mixed
IN politics, and 1t has no place in poll
tics This wholly gratuitous effort of
Capt. NJ. j. Wiley to make the guard
an adjunct of r. c. Dunn's campaign
viii fall, and it should fail. The mem
bers of the guard will never rest until
Mr.. Dunn and Mr. Martin, who were
responsible for the abortive attempt to
capture the state militia, are made to
repent for their action. ~
State Trusts Its Soldiers
"An evidence that what I say is
true Of the guard obtaining its legis-
latiye appropriations without indulging
in partisan politics is shown in the
condition of our camp at Lake City.
The state has spent $4,000 in the i'm
proyement of the camp and rifle range,
and In all the time that the state has
been spending money at Camp Lake
view We have had but one member of
the legislature at the camp to see
whether or not We We're expending our
appropriations economically and wise
ly. AT the time the last appropriation
was made. but one member of the
house, a Ramsey county Republican
member. voted against the appropria-
ton"