The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-27
Minnesota Politics
Somerville's Announcement Shows that
He Must Be Reckoned WHITMAN
with Greatest Second Choice Strength
Will Win-Lord as Much in the Race
as Ever.

George w. Somerville is an active
candidate for governor. He has
dropped the receptive attitude and will
be in the game with the, rest to secure
delegates. He will ask for the support
of the second district, and if that is
granted he will have comfortable nu-
cleus Of strength.
SomerYille will figure more as sec
ond-choice candidate, however With
seven or eight men dividing the field,
the indications are all against nomi-
nation on the first ballot. The first
rollcall will tell the relative strength of
come the break. jacobson and Block
strength, but if it seems evident that
they cannot be nominated, the break
will go to Lord, Cole, Stephens, Diment
or Somerville. These five will each
have fair showing of frst-choice dele
gates, but must depend on a breakup
to win. If they can hold their own
strength they will lock the convention
and keep either Jacobson or Block
from winning, since few Jacobson men
would 20 to Block and few Block men
would change to jacobson.
Somerville s announcement and his
meeting in st. Paul Wednesday eve
ming with Samuel Lord, started talk to
the effect that Lord was about to with
draw in Somerville g favor. This is
strenuously denied. Senator Lord says
he is just as much a candidate as he
| ever was. He has never, been candi-
| date in an aggressive sense, but he
hopes to see the convention turn his
way, and has no idea of withdrawing
at this time. He and Somerville are
old Legislative comrades, and neither
one is wishing the other any bad luck,
but each is standing as a candidate sin
cerely on his merits. jacobson met
| Somerville in St. Paul also, and so did
Cole, but neither one Of them is talk.
ing Of withdrawing. Z ~
Now that carcuses and county con
ventions have been called, there is nc
reason why candidates should not be
busy, and they all are. Cole has opened
headquarters at the Ryan in st. Paul
jacobson has been visiting other coun
ties in the seventh district to see how
he stands, and his supporters are con
Quoting busy letter-writing campaign
Block is holding house meetings il
Minneapolis and will open in st. Pau
as soon as the city election is over
Stephens is at work lining up the ninth
district, and has lines out in the sixth
seventh and eighth.
i Somerville's candidacy conflicts witt
two of the entries for treasurer-Voge
Of New Ulm, in Somerville g own coun
ty,. and Dinehart of Slayton. 1t viii
be interesting to see the attitude o
these two toward Somerville. Cover
nor comes first, and it will be hard t
keep second district men from votin
for one of their own people. If Some,
II vile can It win, the district will hav
; another chance when it comes to treas
, urer. q II 81 $3.50 -. 3 , =: ~
E D. NJ Gum of Grand Rapids, who hs
been an important figure in state pc
!, itics for ten or fifteen years, is a pro
pective candidate for the state senat
, in the ffty-second district. He is sal
to have Itasca county pretty we'll unite
= on him. Senator Ole Mausten Of Aitki
: FwiH try for denomination, and 1T
: expected that if A.. T.. Cole of Walk
:. does not get the nomination for go
+, ,ernor he will run. for the senate. II
: district is all friendly to Cole for go
: ernOr. 81. ~ ~ 3
The urbane editor of the Blue Ear
n OSG SILL 1uSlOtS ludG'
: lost representation in the coming sta
+ convention by the slump for job
4 son. It gdoesn't figure out that wa
- Faribault' average vote on the elev'
4 candidates for state office was 2, II
:. on, which the county gets thirteen del
gates. Dunn received 1884 votes, al
81 on that vote. the county would al
&. have thirteen delegates. Leaving Dunn
: vote out entirely, the average for t
,, other ten candidates in Faribault cou
ty was 2,I24, which would still give t
= county thirteen delegates. The !" slun
- for Johnson" only pulled Faribault
~ average down thirteen votes, and max
;s no, differ ence in the size Of the de
70 CATION The average vote scheme il
- about nullifies the influence of tn
~ slump. - go
&c The Redwood Gazette reports that
: M. Olsen Of Sleepy Eye, Senator SOM
+ vile $ law partner. is likely to be
j candidate for the judgeship in the min
', district, to succeed Judge Weber.
90 K. G.. Oldre Of Magnolia is can
se date for the house in the Rock-Pi]
IS stone district. Charles B. Cheney
a. A. - ADJUSTMENTS
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