The Minneapolis journal., 1906-05-24

News IS leaking out every day about
the +. H.. Hanson combination. The
other candidates are being posted as to
its progress, and some of them have dis
covered where it reached into their own
ranks. 1t is thought that some of the
Block leaders in Hennepin are in the
Hanson deal, and while working for a
for Hanson when the time comes It
is significant that while many local men
are predicting that Hanson will be a
strong factor, nobody seems to be doing
any work for him.
=, Over in Ramsey county it has been
learned that some men working under
the Cole banner are in the deal for
Hanson.
Candidates already in the field do
not take kindly to the Hanson move
ment, and some warm talk is being in
candidates were predicting yesterday
that an attempt to break their strength
and nominate Hanson or any other dark
horse would result in a rush to jacobson.
SIhe seven candidates now in the
field,' said one, "have been working
for the nomination, more or less, have
spent time and money, and there are
enough good men in the list to select
q candidate from. They won't stand
TOR any secret scheme to work in an
A good many friends and former sup.
Porters OF Il: G. Dunn have received
letters from him recently, stating his
semphatically that he will not stand
for. Block or Somerville, but will be
quite satisfied with Jacobson, Cole, Lord
or Stephens. The inference is that if
Block or Somerville is nominated, the
Princeton Union will turn "traitor.' -
Some OF jacobson friends claim they
have Dunn s promise of support for
the Lac qui Parle man in the conven.
tion.
G; F. Staples has made another EN-.
He said to The .Journ al TO-
day: IT understand that some
wel-meaning friends of mine are
using my name in connection with the
governorship. It is done without con.
sulting my wishes. I am a candidate
for denomination as railroad commits.
sioner, and not for anything else !
cannot be candidate for two offices
at the same time. No one, can say thai
given any encoura cement to the propo
sition of nominating me for head of
the ticket, and I shall not do 500
Some of the leading republicans ir
the state have urged Mr.. Staples to be
a. candidate, but he has refused con
sistently. AS intimated yesterday, some
OF the men who are still talking Staples
without his consent have motives not
entirely above question. Some of the
Staples talk, there is good reason to be
heve, comes from railroad sources. The
railroads would like to get him off the
commission. If ne became candidat:
for governor, some one else would come
out for railroad commissioner, and ht
might be left high and dry without any
thing, which would just suit some OF
the, interested gentlemen. ...r' .
| 1t is beginning to dawn on the people
who engineered the movement which
made. James NJ. Diment a candidate fol
cleyer5 as. it seemed to be when frs
pulled. off. :. They wanted .Diment t,
run in order to break up. Lord
strength, In that they succeeded, a
| Lord with a divided first district ha
| been unable to gain ground anywher
| else. Diment has Steele and will divid
some Of the other first district countie
with Lord. 1t is now apparent tina
neither one Of the first district candi
dates will go into the convention witt
much positive strength, and the frs
| district men are looking around fo
| some other place to land. The resul
will be to give jacobson a good vote il
the first, district. He is better know
there than any Of the other candidates
and is also strong because Of the stron!
Norwegian element in the four southern
counties.
No one believes that Diment has bee,
willingly a stalking horse for any Oh
else. He has been sincere in his inten
tions, but it took some persuasion t.
get him into the contest, and that per
suasion was not all inspired by consid
Grafton for Diment.
P. F. Dehnel, editor of the Chask
Review, will be a candidate for repre-
sentative from Carver county at tn
republican primaries.
The anti-Iverson move is not maxim.
much Of a surface showing, but there i
considerable work being done in auie
way to develop and weld the opposition
1t does not seem likely that any candi
date will be announced and Odin Hal
den still refuses to- take a stand. With
out an active candidate to rally around
it does not seem likely that the move
ment can succeed, but it is going righ
ahead. One Of the instigators is R. {
Dunn, Iverson' former chief, VIII
hates the present auditor cordially. Da
Reese is also in the game, and som
prominent leaders in Hennepin.
l. The latest suggestion for lieutenan