The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-27
MASK IS OFF;
DUNN FOR HILL
CONFESSION MADE THAT IIE is
MERGER CANDIDATE.
st. Paul Pioneer Press Contradicts Its
Previous Denials of the Charge in a
Play for Ramsey County Vote
Campaign There Needed This as a
Tonic.

denying that r.. G. Dunn is the merger
candidate for governor, the st. Paul
Pioneer Press came out yesterday in
an appeal to the business men of ST.
Paul, to stand by Dunn on Mr.. Hills
account. The Dunn leaders evidently
found their campaign in Ramsey
county needed the strongest kind of a
tonic, and dictated the appeal for local
consumption, regardless Of it's effect on
the outside counties.
The editorial in question absolutely
identifies Candidate Dunn with the
Hill interests. 1t is entitled "A Cues
ton for the Business Men of ST. Paul,
and reads in part as follows:
The Collins people seem to think that
however Improbable their other attacks
on Dunn they have one sure way of dis
crediting him with the people, and that
Is to charge that his candidacy is favored
by j. J. Hill. and is 50 favored because
years ago, when the state Of Minnesota
began its futile war against the merger,
Dunn is reported to have said he could not
see why Minnesota should mix in the
| fight between rival railroad companies.
| But the merger war is over. The question
| Of Its legality has been finally, completely
and forever settled by the highest court
| In the land
! Whether Mr.. Dunn's candidacy is IA
vored by Mr.. Hill, asserted by the Col
Inns people, we do not know, but If 1t is
why should that be held up as a reproach
! to Dunn? What has Mr. Hill done to make
| his Endorsement stigma and his friend
ship a title to obliquy? He has done a
| thousand times more to build up the state
| Of Minnesota and all the states Of the
northwest than all his enemies put to-
gether. More than any other American OF
the age he deserves the title Of 1.-The en-
pire builder" Every one Is familiar with
| the record of his achievements, all of
| them forward steps towards the same
LORE aS111f 4hn ant nf he nc.
sources of the northwest, the planting of
| the homes Of a prosperous people on it's
vast areas Of unoccupied land and the
building up Of its cities and villages by
placing the best transportation facilities
within the reach Of its producers at the
lowest possible cost. EIe had still grander
plans in view. He undertook to secure the
cooperation of the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific in working scheme the
object of which was to make the two
roads the chief highway of the commerce
Of the world. For this purpose the great
Burlington system was jointly purchased
by both in order to secure reciprocal mar
kets for the products of the Pacific coast
| and of the Mississippi valley, so that, by
running full cars both ways, rates might
be so reduced with the increased volume
Of traffic as to make this highway the
cheapest route to the Pacific. The two
biggest freight steamers ever built were
to carry the oriental traffic Of these roads
to and from the ports Of Asia at lower
cost than was ever done before. If Mr.
Hill had been permitted to carry out these
plans without interference the result
| would have been to have lifted the entire
belt of states from Minnesota to the Pa
cifc to far higher plane Of prosperity
than was ever before known, and to have
made St. Paul, with it's sister city, the
greatest commercial metropolis in the
west, except Chicago.
| "a Of ho oil r.
for carrying out these plans was disputed
by the government and finally denied by
a bare majority of the supreme court
against the protests of four dissentient
justices who upheld it. Whatever else
may be said of the decision, this is true
that it was plainly disastrous to the inter.
ests of the northwest and more particular
ly so to those Of St. Paul. While bowling
in unreserved submission to the authority
of the court, there can be no question thai
this decision has put back the growth o.
this city and state and Of all the states
reaching to the Pacific coast for man,
years. To what extent they shall be able
to recover from the blow depends more
largely J.. j. Eill than any othe1
man. When the business men of ST. Paul
therefore, are asked to vote for Collins be
cause he is opposed to MI. Hill, and tx
, vote against Dunn because it Is supposed
that Mr.. Hill favors him, they can be safe
ly depended upon to resent in fitting
manner so palpable an insult to their in
telligence.
Tomorrow afternoon between and
primaries will be held in Ramsey count,
{ to select delegates to the county conven
ton. 1t is the duty of every republica,
to turn out and vote. There is no doub
that Mr.. Dunn will carry the county, blu
, the republican voters owe 1t to themselves
to rebuke the vilifying attacks upon hin
| by a sweeping majority.