The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-28
REVIVE TALK OF
Dunn CANDIDACY
HE MAY ASK ANOTHER NoMINA
TIoN FOR GOVERNOR.
Propaganda Being Carried On in His
Behalf by Former Supporters, Both
Republicans and mocrats-J ohnson
Workers Encourage It-Dunn Held
Up as a Martyr to Islander.

Will Robert G. Dunn Of Princeton
ask to head the republican state ticket
again next year9
This is the question republican poll
ticians are debating with considerable
concern, wherever two or three are
gathered together. It is also the sub
lect OF gleefM discussion among the
supporters of Governor johnson.
Several signs have been noted lately
OF a revival of the Dunn movement.
Most politicians are unwilling to be-
lleve that the Princeton man or his per-
sonal friends will ask for his renomina-
ton. William II. Eustis did not de-
sire another nomination in 1900, and no
better reason appears now for putting
| terested parties are busy. stirring up
Dunn sentiment, and the object in
view is apparent. Several newspapers
in the northern part Of the state, which
supported Dunn last year with a sort
OF blind devotion, have revived the old
issues since the decision in the Mabel
Evans ease, which they are magnif.y Y
administration of the auditor s Office
They all use the same sort of tactics,
and are trying to create sympathy by
portraying the former candidate as an
innocent victim, a martyr to cam
paign of Islander. They are. appealing
| adTO1tly TO Inc average American s SYM
pathy for the "under dog
Outside of the newspapers, some of
Dunn s personal friends are busy STIR
ring up talk, and urging upon all the
! former Dunn men that there is chance
! to fight the old fight over next year,
and win it. It is intimated that this
talk will strike responsive chord in
the vicinity of Princeton.
~ can conceive Of circumstances in
which Mr.. Dunn might become candi-
date for governor again. said a prom
inent member of the state committee
to TheJ Journal. "The chances are
that he will not, but it is quite pos
sible' .~.,, ~,
This same committee member ex,
pressed the opinion that if Dunn did
become a candidate, it might result in
the track, and giving him the nomina-
ton by default. He reasoned that no
candidate would care to start next
years campaign by another bitter pre-
convention fight: A contest with Dunn
in it could not be anything but bitter,
the campaign. It is taken for granted
that johnson will be a candidate again
and that he will be hard man to beat
Candidates for governor know that they
have to figure on the election as wei!
as the nomination, and they will not
want place at the head OF the ticket
obtained at the cost of hard fight and
bitter feeling. ....-...
Don't Want Another Nightmare.
Such talk sends chill down the back
Of most republicans. They don It want
to see any repetition Of 1904, the worst
!, nightmare Of any campaign ever fought
I in the state. They have been hoping
to see the fractional fight laid away and
the party united on new lines. Every
one expects to- see some sort OF con
test for the nomination next year, but
has hoped to see it a friendly contest
Prospective candidates have been doing
their best to unite the factions, end the
acrimony, and put everything on new
basis. Most leading republicans in the
themselves up to Block or Lord or any
one else mentioned. They prefer to lei
various localities are refusing to tie
things drift and to let the choice come
naturally, as a popular expression
What they want is to win, and they
know that fight cannot be won on thu
old lines.
The loudest Dunn takers Just now
are mem who have nothing at stake, ant
don It care whether the republican party
is in the ascendant or not, unless Dunn
is triumphant. Some of them are Dunn
democrats, who prefer johnson to any
! republican but Dunn. Some Of the re
publicans who were for Dunn have beer
talking about supporting Johnson mex
year, Just to show the "bolters - Of las
wear that others can play the game. /:
Dunn were candidate for the nomina
ton, and should be defeated, a goot
many of his friends might take such =:
view. A nomination won under sucl
conditions would not be anything t,
chortle over, for the candidate woult
begin his campaign under the most dis
. couraging circumstances.