The Saint Paul globe., 1904-01-28
COLLINS, EDDY AND
DUNNARF GUESSING
Only so oflthe 400 Republican
Papers Have Lined Up on
Candidates.

THE newspapers are the only present
barometer of the Dunn-Collins contest
in the Republican party" declared
former state officer and one VINO mas
thus far taken no part in the guDefna-
torial contest that is stirring the G. ..
P. in Minnesota. The speaker is spend
ing the winter in st. Paul and is IN
close touch with the men who make the
states for later ratification by the peo-
pie. He Is a close observer and one
who is up-to-date, unprejudiced either
in favor of the former state auditor or
the present judge.
when it is considered that there are
over 400 newspapers of the Republican
way of thinking in this state and less
than sixty have declared their prefer
ences in the matter Of the governor
ship. all guesses as to the success or
failure Of this or that candidate are
worthy of little If any weight. Not
only the newspapers, but the politi-
clans in the greater number of the
counties, are thus far uneommitted, and
it is to be a contest for the next three
months between Dunn's managers and
those of Collins to line them up and
create sentiment for their candidates
,
give one or the other the nomination.
Eddy may be factor In the fight,
but at present he has developed no
strength. In the Red river counties,
where his strength, if he has any, lies,
nothing can be heard of him. Two of
the biggest counties in his old district
Clay and Polk-have practically lined
up. Clay will be for Collins and Polk
for Dunn, and Pope is the only county
in his old district which is certainly
for the Glenwood man. Eddy has been
making gumshoe campaign up the
state, but nothing has developed to
frighten the friends of the other two
candidates.
Eddy Becomes Editor.
"In this connection it has developed
that Eddy has blossomed into a full
f1edged newspaper man, having re-
Gently bought the Sauk Center Herald.
The editorial page of the Herald is rea-
sonably hot stuff and it needs no
Sherlock Holmes to learn the author.
For the past two weeks his ire has
been developed towards Dunn, as the
leading candidate in the field against
him, but should Collins gain the lead
1t is not to be doubted that his appar-
ent fondness for the little judge will
be turned to feeling decidedly some
thing else. Dunn's platform and Dunn's
personality have been toasted to a
crisp brown by the GlenWood states
man. turned editor. and asbestos is in
demand in the Herald office to replace
the patent inSideS.'
"The literary features of the cam
paign have been sorely neglected up to
date, and if the campaign for the NOM
ination is to be made worthy the name
some hard work will have to be done to
enthuse and vivify the average country
editor. With less than 20 per cent of
the Republican weeklies taking the
fight seriously, there is great field
for missionary work along literary
lines, and Dunn is credited with being
about to start a press bureau at st.
Paul to fill the long-felt want.
Lectures Judge Collins.
1.-The Little Falls Transcript reads
Judge Collins lecture upon his alleged
prediction for consulting and advising
with the attorneys who come before
him at the supreme court. While Col
Inns resignation has been heralded far
and wide, as everybody knows, he is
still performing his duties at the cap
itol; and, according to the Transcript,
is using his official position for gaining
an insight into political conditions i'll
remote corners of the state. 1t is not
very hard for an attorney, who has
ports from his home county and then
gets an adverse decision from the court
to think that there is something in the
theory of cause and effect.
The bitter legislative fight in Todd
county of two years ago has found
pretty lively sequel in the fight already
begun there soYer the control of the
county in the matter of the nomination
for governor. ia Senator Woods, Editor
Shaatc and fbn fa otio91 lad nv tbopo q
for Collins, and the faction led by Will
liam E. Lee, late of the board of con-
troll, is as hot for Dunn. Both sides
claim to be able to deliver the goods,
and the preliminary skirmishing is of
such nature as to assure the spec
tators that the real fight will be wor-
thy the name. The situation is further
complicated by the fact that Sheets,
who owes his pOstoffice position and
salary to Congressman -Buckman, is
leading the fight for Collins in the face
of the Little Falls mans open advo-
cacy of Dunn's candidacy. What is
said of Todd county is true of Wadena,
in the same sera torial district, where
the Woods faction is headed by C. c.
Eastman, and Dunn's canvass is in the
hands of DR.. Babcock and W. E. Verify.
Senator for the Forty Eighth.
"The voters of the Forty eighth sena-
torial district will be called upon to
elect successor to the late Senator A.
F. Ferris, of Brainerd, at the general
election in the fall. John T. Frater, for
the past fourteen years county treas
urer of Crow Wing county, has declared
himself a candidate for the Republican
nomination. Frater has tired of the
treasurer's job and is willing to quit if
he can have the toga. S. A. Alder
man, Brainerd lawyer and politician
of some experience is also an avowed
candidate for the place. AS the dis
trict is overwhelmingly Republican it
is probable that one of these two will
land. Chances somewhat favor F'rater's
nomination.
Half a dozen Democratic newspa-
pers Of Central Minnesota, which get
their inspiration from James r. Ben
nett Jr., ST. Cloud lawyer, have be-
gun to boom William r. Hearst for the
Democratic nomination for the presi-
dency. Bennett has just returned from
Washington, where he was one of the
Hearst boomers during the meeting Of
the national committee. He is prob
ably at the head of the Hearst junta in
Minnesota, for he is the only Democrat
of any prominence who is openly advo-
eating Hearst's nomination at st. Louis
Bennett Is Democrat of recent date,
having left the Re publicans on the sill
yer issue, and his advocacy of Hearst
is doubtless due to his regard for Bryan
and Towne, both of whom are claimed
by him to be for Hearst. The Little
v-ly II he a,s1n I.r