The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-11
Minnesota Politics
Democrats Not crowdlns Congressional
Candidates In the .FieId--May Make
Showing In Second and Sixth Districts
-Rosers Spending Money to Beat
Stevens In the Fourth.

The democrats are not figuring much
on congressional candidates this sum-
mer. Things are doing in the second
and sixth districts, and Frank D. Lar
rabee has already filed in the fifth. Out
side those districts the state organiza-
ton does not care much whether can
didates are entered or not They would
only tend to draw the attention of vot-
ers to national issues, which might have
the effect of lettering many republicans
from voting for Johnson. It is a notice.
able fact that the state convention is
not to be held this year until after the
last day for candidates to file before the
primaries, which means there will not
be district caucuses at the state con-
vention for selecting congressional can
didates, as the rule has been In the last
two campaigns.
| The last day for filing is Aug %, and
the state convention Is Sept. 4. The
democratic county conventions will be
held Aug. 49, and in good many coun-
ties candidates will be agreed on at that
4 time for legislative and county offices.
| In the second district the democrats
are hoping to induce W. s. Hammond Of
st. James, a member OF the state nor
NAL board and one Of the leading at
torneys OF southwestern Minnesota, to
file for congress. They are banking on
the nomination Of McCleary. and hope
that the anti McCleary republicans will
join in support Of Hammond. as the only
method Of retiring the Mankato man.
Guttersen is going to make a thoro can
vass and a hard fight for the nomination
this fall, and if he fails it will be taken
to mean that McCleary is invincible In
republican primaries. With this argu-
ment the democrats will appeal to tariff
reform republicans to vote for Hammond
tn hn ci1rf1 cfrf~ Nrofe 6r
not expect to make much Of fight un-
less Congressman Buchanan should be
renom1nated. In that event they would
try hard to elect J. D. Sullivan Of St
Cloud, or some other strong candidate
They would have no hope of beating
Lindbergh, but they know there are
, many republicans in the district wht
| would be. quick to Jump the traces for E
reputable democrat, rather than vote fol
Buchanan.
Such a situation would call for atten
, ton from the national congressional
campaign committee, as loss of one o.
two seats in Minnesota might be a seri
T Gus matter If the next house Is close.
1 In the fourth district the Stevens-R og
= ers contest Is already attracting a grea
t deal Of attention, and in the next two
t months the fight will rage hotly. E. G
: Rogers has held the office Of clerk o
| courts for Ramsey county for the pas
+ leight years. It Is a fee office and re
:. puted to be worth $4,000 a year, which
q is more than any other public office i
r the state, so Mr.. Rogers has been abb
! i to save tidy sum, which is going to b
q drawn on freely for the campaign. H
: has already modified an army Of work
e ers in ST. Paul, and has made inroads /
9 Chisago and Washington, especial
8 among the local papers. The Democrat
4 influence in st. Paul favors Rogers. VIII
r Is reputed to have had the help Of TIL
q O'Connors in the past, not only in pr
4 maries, but at the general election. M
" Stevens, however, has his splendid rec
i ord and his present influential positio
n in congress as important consideration
# for the voters to think about
! The jubilation in a contemporary owe
a the Anoka Free Press and It's refusal
"a support Cole sounds good deal like jc
20 over the democrats carrying Texas. tt
j.. Free Press is a democratic paper, whic
+ supported Dunn .two9 years ago for PEI
~. ~; sonal reasons. It has declared from tt
, 20 start Of the present campaign that IL
~ next governor would be either Dunn
:. Johnson, and when the republican col
~. vention forgot to nominate Dunn, 1t W.
"a foregone conclusion that the pap
would drift into the Johnson camp. 1t
hard to find a. republican paper that
not supporting Cole q
--! =
The Little Falls Transcript reasons
.e out this way:
q, The Princeton Union says that some of t
oil members of the new republican state commit
bolted part Of the ticket In 1904. The certain
" of the success Of the whole ticket this year
re based on the evident fact that many republica
49, who did not support the entire ticket two yea
80 ago will do so in this campaign.
u Charles B. Cheney.