The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-27
I'm THE FIELD OF POLITICS
DUNN DENOUNcES
NEWSPAPER PRESS
Republican Candidate for Gov
ernor Defends Himself and
Brands Criticism as Rot

R. C. Dunn, Republican candidate for
governor, spoke at two ward meetings
in St Paul last night and considering
the fact that these were Mr.. Dunn's
first appearances on the stump in st.
Paul, other than his appearance at the
Peoples church at the Fairbanks meeta
ing, rather small audiences greeted the
Princeton man.
Mr.. Dunn spoke at LuclIer's hall
Margaret and Forest streets, in the
Second ward, first, and followed it with
a second speech at the meeting at c.
S. P. S. hall, Western and Seventh, in
the Fifth ward. Both speeches were
very much alike in general argument,
and consisted for the most part in a
defense of the means by which he was
nominated; an arraignment of the
newspaper press of the Twin Cities; a
declaration that he would have sup
ported Judge Collins or Frank Eddy
had either one been nominated; de-
fense of his action in the Duluth &
Iron Range and Of the Little Falls &
Dakota railroad grants; an attack on
John A. Johnson for his attitude to-
wards the board of control bill; high
praise for his own record as state au-
ditor; ridicule of John Lind as a poll
tician, and a defense of his own per-
sonal character from assaults of his
enemies.
mo slander has been too low, moth
ing has been so contemplate that my
opponents will not use it to create a
sentiment against me- Mr.. Dunn said
at the Fifth ward meeting. Here in
your city words have been incompetent
to express their opinion of me. Here is
the st. Paul G o b e. If you have seen
anything in Th Gil b favorable to
me for the last seven months should
like to have it pointed out. The Dis
Minneapolis Times is almost as bad as
he GIob e. But the worst of all is
the mugwump venal Minneapolis
Journal, paper that never supported
a winner. don't want its support. If
the Journal would turn around and
support me 1 would throw up both
hands and confess defeat
Dunn Cares. Not
But 1 don't. care for the support of
these newspapers. The people think,
and when they think they act right. I
am willing to submit my cause to the
plain, common people, for it is to them
I owe my nomination"
Referring to the board of control
bill, Mr.. Dunn said that Johnson put
the state university and the normal
school under the provisions of the bill
in the hope Of killing it. He compli-
mented the board of control in the
state as having made great saving in
ethe administration of the state institu-
lions and in the mana cement Of the
FtWlne plant at the state prison, but
neglected to say that credit for the
Irvine plant is due Ignatius= Donnelly,
and not the Republican party. john
son was opposed to the bill, he charg-
ed, and he might mention half dozen
other measures of Importance that he
opposed.
81 shall not enumerate list of the
bills which / recommended or drafted
for the legislature that were in the in
tereste of the people, for it would take
too long," said Mr.. Dunn, with becom-
ing modesty, and he then proceeded to
a defense of his action in timber tres
passes.
He declared that in very many in
stances the evidence was not sufficient
to weigh in a court in collecting double
or treble trespass from the offending
lumbermen, but where this could be
done, it had been done. He assured
his hearers that he had collected more
than all his predecessors in timber
trespass money; had enriched the per-
manent fund almost to the bursting
point; had poured untold millions into
the permanent university fund and had,
in short, sold the states pine for high
er prices than anybody else had ever
been able to do. The growing value of
pine in Minnesota during the past ten
years was not touched upon in this
connection.
Mr.. Dunn defended his action in the