The Minneapolis journal., 1906-06-08
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The county conventions have brought
). +. jacobson and A. L. Cole into the
llmelight. Lord and Somerville are still
regarded as compromise possibilities,
but their positive strength is smaller
than the they were credited with. Stephens
and Hanson are hardly considered fac
tors Block would make a good show
ing with the Hennepin and Ramsey
delegations, but they are not his yet,
and, his country strength, so far as It is
visible, does not loom very strong. 1T
IS not possible to locate hundred Block
delegates outside the cities. With the
two ewo cities he would count up probably
aoo, out ,sJust. as soon as the cities
g5arted pia11 to force the, nomination of
BLOCK, country delegates would begin
20 lump into the jacobson wagon.
y IS tlcklish situation for the anti
JACOBSON men to handle.s Already Ja-
copson 8 Leaders are claiming the nom
ination "cinched' for him. That
clam It is not warranted. There are $50
jacobson delegates in sight without
counting any from the cities. He has
one else. on the first ballot, but viii will
then be; for jacobson. They will run
nomination. Unless the -anti.Jacobson
campaign is most skilfully handled. he
will, get the nomination, for he has
enough delegates friendly to him. hut
nledged to other candidates, to swing
the nomination if any monkey business
IS Is tried. Any attempt at improper in
! untoward incident may start the hraal,
to jacobson, even before the convention
meets. WI ol'ion
A. L.. Cole seems the most like1v
IallY1ng point for the opposition. for
two< reasons. One is that he stands ser.
ond IN positive strength attached. The
other IS that most of his delegates IA
vor. Jacobson as second choice. Just
ass as soon n, as an attempt is made to de-
llver them to some other candidate,
and to drop Cole, they will 90 to Ja'
cobson; and there are about enough of
them to nominate That is the case
with the. delegates from Aitkin.~ Carl.
ton: Crow Wing, Morrison. Wadena
Todd and Otter Tail The Stephens DEL
e,gates would go to Cole sooner than
Ihey Iney would to man from southern
| It is a question whether good manv
Of the Lord and somervilleS SGId deiegateys fiaHy
could De thrown to Cole. A good deal
Of Jacobson sentiment developed in The
three southern districts. jacobson will
I have some delegates from Fillmore on
the first ballot, and possibly from
Waseca. On the second ballot it is
claimed that he will get all of Waseca.
ana practically all Of Freeborn. If
| Lord were dropped Houston and Mower
| might go to jacobson also.
jacobson cut into the second dis.
trict5l harder than was expected. He
has Cottonwood solid, which was sup
posed to divide between SomervilIe and
Block. Evidently the farmer delegates
| had not heard Of this Arrangement, and
upset it without consideration for the
FEELINGS of Window. jacobson also has
Rock: and part Of Jackson. One report
says Mobiles is for Somerville, but II h e
ourn rs correspondent finds that
- a majority favor Jacobson.''' Dine
hart has shown up strong over the
state, and should he unite with Jacob
son he would give the Lac aui Parle
man quite a boost.
There is only one break in the sew
I enth district, and that is the divided
delegation from Lvon. It seems likely
that Redwood will go for jacobson,
altho it is primarily for Julius Schmahl.
The other counties are solid for Jacob.
son, and most of them are instructed.
4 One notable feature is the strength
jacobson has developed in the strong
Swedish: counties. Chisago, Isanti and
/ Kauabec have a large majority of
Swedes, and all are for Jacobson. ex.
| ceept minority in the Isanti delega-
tion.. 5s6s$ ~ f.s' ' 2 s. tz9A% ~.
| J: F: jacobson and Samuel Lord were
both in st., Paul yesterday. Neither
strength. Both met twin city friends
and jacobson men were especially iubi.
LIANT. One rumor has it that the Ram
sey delegation is flirting with jacobson
hoping to make deal for some good
appointive places. They can hardly
make deal for Lemon with jacobson
because the sixth district jacobson mer
will stand by Pidgeon all the time.
There may be contesting delegation
was two years ago. This time the trou
bic is over the village Of Greenbush
! the. present terminus Of the Great
/ Northern g extension. AS result Of
a tangle at the caucus, three sets OF
delegates went to the convention an6
fought for admission. Two delegates
: were finally seated by the convention
from the different delegations elected
from the village was shut out, and il
4 Greenbush there is talk Of sending al
independent delegation to Duluth. Sucl
delegation would be for Frank Edd,
for governor. The one elected is un
instructed, but for A. D. Stephens a!
first choice. as%
Nominating speeches are being pu
thru their PAGES in private, in prepar
alton for next Wednesday. The can
didates are not giving it out just ye
who will do their talking. It is not !,
I very important matter, as speeches will
doubtless. be limited to FIVE minutes
and will not influence dozen votes
I From St. Peter it is learned that II. N
!. Benson Of that city will present Block >
? name. It is generally taken for granite,
!. that Frank Eddy will nominate Jacob
II son, but it may be that it will b
, thought better for his county to presen
him, in which case Elias Rachie vii
doubtless do the honors.
81 Samuel G. Iverson has sent out Gil
cular letter to the delegates elected t
the state convention, giving his reason
for asking denomination. He tell
something Of his record during his frs
term. As q member Of the state boar
Of equalization, he says, he helped rails
:. the assessments of The public servic
l corporations Of the twin cities from 81
; 272,95l in 1902 to $12,515, 900 in 100;
He has sold farm lands to the value q
! $l,58S,749.68 in three years and hal:
and $l,S99, ,24l.3S has been realized frol
timber. The mineral lands have brough
! in $431 ,068.30. To show the impor
) ance Of the position he states that th
school and other trust funds alread
amount to $40, 195, ,416.44, and 100000
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