The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-18
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Minnesota Politics
Prelin1ina airy Steps Of Republican State
oampai gn Have All Been Taken
State Committee Session Profitable
Chairman Of Statute Revision Com
mission Files for Legislature. II, 81

The republican state. campaign is
have ali been taken 'o and tie head head
quarters in the Globe building, st. Paul,
were opened today. The executive com.
mittee completed its organization at q
meeting yesterday afternoon, following
the adjournment of the main commit
named chairman, and G. II. Warner.
secretary. The Organization was com
pleted by the selection Of DR.. A. B.
Cole as treasurer. This means that the
campaign fund will be disbursed by the
brother of the nominee for governor,
an absolute guarantee that it will be
spent only in the interests Of the
ticket. II
The meeting of the committee yester-
only six absentees, James A. Martin Of
St. Cloud Senator B. E. Sundberg Of
Kennedy, Senator L. o. Thorpe Of Will
mar, P. IL. Kelly of Eagle Lake, Grant
McMann Of Ely, and George w. Beise
Of Morris. They were either absent
from the state or unavoidably detained
by business. The committee left the
question Of business to the executive
committee, and. it's time was spent in
executive session.. The members werc
asked to make frank statements Of the
conditions and the outlook in their re-
.spective sections. The report was gem
orally favorable, but all agreed that
there is need Of well-directed work in
reach the voters and get them to turn
out. The usual problem of the off-year
stay-at-homes must be dealt with, and
also the tendency Of thousands of re-
publicans who two years ago voted for
johnson, to repeat the performance un-
less they are shown some good reason
for not doing 1t. T -
It was the consensus Of opinion that
the campaign must be conducted on a
nigh plane, without resort to person
aities. It will be largely an educa-
tional campaign on state issues. -.t
Members Of the committee had little
to say about congressional and local
contests AS far as possible they are
trying to keep free from fractional en-
tanglements, and so do better work for
the state ticket. The next two months
the primary election campaign will
have the center of the stage, but the
state committee wants to be in posi-
ton to unite all elements after the
primaries in a sincere effort to elect
the whole ticket. e
Judge Daniel Fish, chairman Of the
recent statute revision commission, has
filed as a candidate for representative
in the forty-frst district, comprising
the fifth and sixth wards Of Mime
apolis. His candidacy is of more than
ordinary significance, because the. re-
yised statutes will be the basis for. the
work Of the next legislature, and 1t; will
mean much to the members to have on
the judiciary committee one thoroly
familiar with the. revision. Most of
the leading attorneys in the two houses,
who struggled with the s. code' at the
last session, are dropping out of the
| legislature. A thousand amendments
| to the revision will presented, some
Of them meritorious, and others unnec-
essary or even noxious. Should Judge
| Fish be elected he could be Of great
service to the state in the labors of
codez amendment ,,sgf 81 s>ssr1
! - The Fillmore county senatorship will
not go begging Thomas Frankson OF
Spring Valley has filed, and will oppose
S. A.. Nelson Of Lagesboro, who got in
/ the race. Ebefere--&eRaS eF--T Thompson Z
announcement of his withdrawal. J. G.
Mills and DR.. j. II. Phillips Of Preston
also filed last week, making four en-
| tries. I b. III. M -: ~
j., W. Wright Of Iitchfeld has filed
| ASA candidate for the senate, on the
| republican ticket, in Meeker county,
| nc.> ~. ~ Charles B, .Cheney,i