The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-15

oHooo OF Change In the Con.
ventional Scheme Of ApportIonment-
our GovernorshIp Possibilities Now
Leading In MentIon-EIghth District
N'ckins on DuIuth's Monopoly of
Places.
Inc final outcome Of all the discussion
over representation in the next state con-
vention Is likely to be that the same old
pan Will be followed-the presidential
Vote Will be taken as basis, and the
counties Will be allowed five delegates at
.aase' ms Will mean a convention Of
l,2so people, the largest ever held in the
state, and it will mean that unless st.
raul has new auditorium by next sum
tner the convention will be held in the
minneapolis auditorium or the Duluth ar
mory. There is some objection to so large
d convention, but sentiment Is strong
against returning to the old system of
>4oo or 500 delegates, under which two or
three men from each county were able to
deliver its vote and everything was done
ny trades. The larger the convention tho
more genuinely representative of the
people
or course large convention may be
mad without the five delegates at large
oy changing the ratio to one delegate for
every zoo votes, but in spite of the mani
Test injustice Of it the state committee
members from the smaller counties de-
TEND the five delegates at large, and will
not give them up, claiming that other
wise the city delegations will have too
much influence Alton Crosby of Will
mar, the seventh district member of the
committee, voices that sentiment in the
Wlllmar Republican, Gazette, saying:
1T Is true that with five delegates at
large the country may have a little more
IMAM equal representation, but it is also
true That 1t is safer to have the balance
OF power rest with the country rather
than with the three big cities of the
state, Where machine politics is a fine
art A return to the old system of one
delegate at large from each county would
mean absolute control Of conventions by
the large cities If they pulled together,
and under such conditions WAYS and
means would be found to get their dele
gates together. The present system has
worked all right and Should be con-
tinued" .-' aga - s
AS far as the choice goes between the
Roosevelt and the Dunn vote, sentiment
among party leaders on both sides of the
late unpleasantnesS has been expressed
strongly OF late in opposition to the
| punishment" program. The verdict is
That IN the present situation everything
that would revive the old trouble should
be avoided. The presidential vote has
| been used for the basis for the last de-
| cade. While Roosevelt got more than the
| party vote, SO did Mckinley, and his ac-
| cretions from the democracy were so vel
distributed over the state that there
| would be no unfairness. The result would
be the same proportionately as it woulC
in taking the vote for secretary Of state
| Or n1lC yN{n -
| This is the way sentiment is at present
running, and the probabilities are strong
against any change in the time honorec
| system. .. .....
| Hanson. Block, Lord and Jacobson
seem to be the leading quartet now il
the public eye, out of all the string O.
mentionees for governor The two stat,
Officials are doing considerable effective
| work In a quiet way, and their wire
have begun to cross occasionally, causins
some short-circuit sparks. In their fou
and half years Of incumbency at tn
capitol both men have added greatly t,
an already wide acquaintance and influ
| ence, and each has nucleus for organi
| zat1on in good many counties. Senate
Lords name is figuring prominently il
the discussions everywhere, and recen
development is the prominence he is at
tanning in the northern counties, wher,
personally he is hardly known.
An effort is being made to divert tn
Jacobson boom for governor and brinl
| the Lac qui Parle man out again TO
state auditor, on the plea that he coult
not secure the governorship. Jacobson
| friends will not stand for this PROPOSE
| ton. The Glenwood Gopher-Press de
| clares that the great need is to nominal
a man for governor in whom the peopl
have confidence, land it will be just a.
well if that nominee is not popular wit
the professional politicians.
Eighth district papers are taking som
shots at Duluth politicians, favorit
term being "the Duluth political hog.
| The complaint is made that with littl
| over 5000 voters out Of 10000 in the dis
trict, Duluth has practically monopol.
of the federal offices Of the district. T,
this the range papers add that Duluth
| has cornered the state and county jobs
The Virginia Virginian figures that GU
| Of seventy-nine elective and appointiv
county places Duluth has all but three
Duluth has thirteen state appointment:
| and 100 holders Of minor state positions
and the, range towns have none. Duluth
has also manned the life-saving station
! IllS lighthouse dIlu tIlS isl
| hatchery. Out of 179 federal positions
Duluth has all but two, the register O
the land office, who is from Wrigh
county, and a deputy internal revenu
inspector. OF real good things Dulutl
has a civil service commissioner a
Washington, a minister to Norway an,
Sweden, and federal judge. NothinI
slow about those Duluth republicans.
The Wadena Tribune, whose editor wa
in the Heatwole campaign to defea
| Clapp for reelection, tells some post
election history. 1t says that Eli War
ner had entered into the anti-Clapp com
bination, but got "cold feet" and owe
night developed into a full -fedged Clap
supporter and practically manager of tn
senator's campaign. Since the senatoria
election, strange to say, Mr.. Warner
son was assigned a position at Washing
ton, first as messenger, and later sup
planting John Swift Of Minneapolis as
senate doorkeeper. Some trace a con
nection between the appointment an
Warmers advocacy Of Clapp.
Cha rios r Cheney