The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-09
MINNESOTA POLITICS
Business Reasons" Urged to Prevent a
Fight Against Dunn III ST. Louis coun.3
ty-simllar Argument Used In ST. Paul
chlsa0o County Wants a Little Recog-
milton In the Fourth, District. Z

The latest report from Duluth is that
the republicans friendly to Judge Collins
are being persuaded not to make fight
for business reasons The business men
OF the zenith city are particularly anxious
not to antagonize the Great Northern just
now. There are plans on foot to improve.
the tract along st. Louis bay and up the
river, and to build up great manufacture
Ing district supplied with waterpower.
from the falls of the st. Louis. The CO.
operation of the merger lines is needed
q q carry out these plans. They must not
pe otTended by a political fight, SO the
county is toI.send delegation for Dsnn.
1t is thought that the Collins men will
oppose instructions and that they will
have hand ,in naming the delegation.
They hope Collins will be nominated with
out help from St. Louis county, but say
that If 1t comes to "a showdown and their
votes are needed the judge will get the
The same kind of business argument
is being used in ST. Paul, where a prom
inent jobber has been going the rounds
OF the wholesale merchants urging them
to support Mr.. Dunn and not to antago-
nize Mr. Hill by coming out for Judge
Collins
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1t will be remembered that in the cam
paign two years ago voters along the line
of the projected Great Northern extern
sion from Thief River Falls were told that
IL they voted for the democratic candi-
date they would get the road, but if they
voted for Van SAINT they would putt off
its construction indefinitely. They did not
pay much attention to the threat, as the
returns from Roseau county showed, but
1t is being worked again in an effort to
swing Roseau for Dunn.
Chisago and Washington counties have
the misfortune to be linked in the same
congressional districtnwith Ramsey coun-
ty which controls the district, while the
other two counties supply the republican
majority Attic Ramsey has the congress
man, and Senator Clapp is going as q
delegate at-large to the Chicago conven-
ton, the program is to give Ramsey the
two district delegates, and put off Chisagc
and Washington with the empty honor Of
an alternate apiece. AS Ramsey county
will have sixty seven delegates in the
district convention to seventeen 70,
Washington and fourteen for Chisago, il
seems likely that the program will be put
thru, and p. G.. Rogers and F. B. Kel.
| logg elected district delegates. However
Chisago county republicans have some
hope that Ramsey will take, one foot, GU,
of the trough, and they are going to pre-
sent the name Of p. Fl. Stolberg Of Harris
a well-known attorney and republican
wheel horse. t5z
Owing to an incorrect report there ha:
been considerable misunderstanding as Il
Judge Collins attitude toward the soldiers
home pension question, as he stated i
at the meeting Saturday night. On tina
| topic he said that it would be all right TO
the state to turn over all the pension
money belonging to inmates of the home
if the greater part of it could be turned
over to the families, but if the Legislature
should pass an act prohibiting the boart
of managers from withholding the none!
he would not veto it..
/ Chief Justice Start has put a quietus OF
the story that he intends resigning from
the bench. He has written to friends, say
ing that his health is much improved, AM
4 that he will return to-. take up the sWprl
Of the April terms siIIe says there is n.
truth in the Statement that. he contem
4 plates. resigning-s This .H4ntingency wa
considered before the holidays. \. when hi
health was very poor, but since then h
has so much improved that he has no in
4 tentionfef abandoning his work 81 SIS
sag..s; v: -3:g Charles B. Cheney..