The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-06
MINNESOTA POLITICS


S. Mitchell Will Stay with the st. Louis
MISUNDERSTANDING o. Heatwoie In
the Preliminary Stages of the Campaign
Collins Men Will Hold an Open Meet
ing in This City "Wednesday Evening.
The Dunn campaign certainly is not lag
ging for lack of managers. More or less
authority in the conduct OF the Dunn
boom appears to be in the hands of Joel
p. Heatwole, George Finn, G. S. Mitchell.
w. E. Verify and A. N. Dare. Each has
his peculiar field of work, but they some-
times overlap and cause confusion. All
of them have had more or less to do with
lining up newspapers. Practically all their
work is outside the twin cities Henne-
pin county is entrusted entirely to James
A. Peterson, while Ramsey county is being
managed by Oar Reese Eli Warner and
Fred Schiffman. G. G. Hartley, Senator
e. B. Hawkins and two or three others are
looking after the head Of the lakes.
Charlie Mitchell has been prevailed upon
by the st. Louis exposition commissioners
to stay with his work and not desert them
at this inopportune season. He was to
have resigned to take charge Of Dunn
press bureau campaign, but it is under
stood that he decided for some reason not
announced to heed the call of the com
mission and stay with them. He will con-
tinue to do some work for Dunn and act
in an advisory capacity.
When the campaign approaches crisis
it is understood that Joel Heatwole will
assume general direction of it. He spends
considerable time 3 in st. Paul, meeting
people by appointment ;at the Merchants.
He remains in partial s6clusion there, and
is always attended byafRepresentative J..
B. Kelly of Dakota county, who locates the
people wanted in the hotel lobby and
guides them to Heatwole's room upstairs.
The Mortified man is also out over the
southern and western part of the state a
good deal Of the time, meeting local lead
ers and talking Dunn to them.
OF course every one knows that Heat
wole is not spending his time and money
because of any regard he has for Dunn
personally. They have disliked each other
cordially for the last fifteen years. Neither
are they held together by any great prin-
ciple, and the only issue on which their
views are believed to coincide is the ques-
ton of the merger. Dunn has publicly de-
clared the anti-merger fight the work OF
| demagogues. Heatwole has been more
discreet, and his newspaper criticism has
always been covert, attacking the con-
duct of the case rather than the prin-
ciples involved, but in private converse
ton he has not hesitated to ridicule the
whole proceeding. The merger issue, an6
hope of the spells of victory, seem to be
the only bonds Of union between the two
They are enough for present purposes.
The Ortonville Herald-Star said last
| week:
.To an outsider, dropping into the cities
| for a few days, the impression is gained
that r. G.. Dunn is far and away the most
| popular candidate in the field, and thai
it will require a landslide to defeat hin
! for the republican nomination."
| m ioI, ~ Pox will 70
plies:
well, now, it's funny how people see
things. The editor of this paper was ii
ST. Paul not long ago and it seemed tt
him that every man in the city was fol
| Collins. If anyone succeeds in prying
| can safely bet your last dollar that the
slide will come towards the Collins camp.
Senator HI. l.. Barker, one Of Dunn!
close friends, says in his paper, the Cam
bridge Press:
1--WE do not think Mr. Dunn is indebted
/ to Senator Clapp but vice versa, and tina
| it would be more proper under the cir
cumstances for Mr.. Dunn to ask why doe!
not Senator Clapp take position on thu
gubernatorial question? We do not blam,
| Mr.. Dunn for not announcing his position
on the senatorship under the circum
stances. It seems to us it will be tim,
enough when Senator Clapp indicates
where he stands on the governorship."
It is understood that Joel Heatwole i
not urging Dunn to commit himself t,
/ Clapp
Judge Collins supporters in Hennepil
county will hold an open meeting at thu
Nicollet house next Wednesday evening
They are going to play the game openl.
and. above board and not use a free ban
quet as drawing card. The feasts hell
here in the interests of Dunn must hav
made quite a hole in that $4,000 campaign
fund. which will not last long at such
rapid pace. By the way, several who at
tended those dinners have remarked sine
that they did not go as Dunn supporters
but merely accepted an invitation to din
ner; that they were not then and are no
now in favor of Dunn's nomination.
Quite a change has been noted in loca
sentiment this week. since She fourth war,
banquet, which demonstrs ted the empti
ness Of the Dunn claims in this county an,
the latent strength Of the Collins move
ment, which is now beginning to appear.
4 The Appleton Tribune says:
\ James A. Peterson, the able Minneap
oils jurist. is the leader Of the Dunn force
4 in Hennepin county. Mr.. Peterson was
candidate for congress at the last primal
: election and controls an effective organiza
1 ton. His support will go far towards Sc
curing Hennepin county for Mr.. Dunn
1 The Albert Lea Standard comes out 70
i Frank Larrabee az a democratic candi
i date for governorssand says 'the carries tn
4 right platform right along with him. 'ss
4 Representative T. G. Mclean Of Anok
i has sent word back from California tina
he will be a candidate for denomination
i He was prevented by i'll health from TAX