The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-20
Minnesota Politics
Eddy suggested for Manager OF State
Campaign WldeII May Come Out for
\ Secretary Of State. After AII--Joe
Heatwole Denies once More-says He'll
Support Nelson, "If"-Dlment Spoke
Too Late.

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Support Nelson, ''If"-Dlment Spoke
Too Late.
Frank M. Eddy for, chairman of the
state central committee is the suggestion
made by Captain c. G.. Whitney In the
Marshall News Messenger. The idea is
likely to take. and If Eddy escapes his
governorship boom 1t would be hard to |
find more capable manager Of the COM
ing state campaign. He Is brainy, far
sighted politician, resourceful and ready !
for any emergency, and If he would take
the management Of the state campaign
there would be something doing all the
time.
A ST. Paul friend of General Gustaf
Widell predicts that the Mankato man
who has been overtaken by business mis-
fortune will yet be a candidate for sec
Fetary of state. He thought of asking
for the nomination at one time, but gave
1T up on account of the press of business;
troubles. Now that he has had to give
up the fight against insolvency this friend
claims that he will go into the race for
state Office He. has not been heard from
directly, and politicians are inclined to
doubt the story. WidelPs hands are full
of business now and will be for some
time. a E &GSa,
Joel P. Heatwole is denying once again.
It's way Joel has when the facts begin
to come out. He is fond of devious ways,
and when his doings break into print he
begins to deny everything-till it is no
longer any use to try concealment. Then
without the slightest hesitation he admits
| the facts he once denied, and starts over
again. He seems to forget that people
remember. .s....... -# 4
In the Mortified News last week Heat
Wole broke out with a column of denial
and abuse of T h e ] ournal which has
been printing some facts about his anti
Nelson plotting, along with the other po-
! Htlcal news. He accuses the writer of
manufacturing news about state politics
to suit Sselfsh interests" This column
cheerfully invites comparison with Heat
wole as to credibility. Two years ago
L h e J Q ur a l said Heatwole had
made combination with Dunn for the
defeat of Senator Clapp. Both Heatwole
and Dunn denied it and abused r h e
j o u + n a l just as Heatwole is doing
now. Everybody knows the outcome Be-
fore election Heatwole furnished T h e
J u r n a a letter written by Dunn, as
evidence to prove the thing he had been
denying. He now admits that he joined
forces with Dunn on that basis and for
no other reason than to- beat Clapp.
How much faith, then, can anyone put
in Heatwole's denials? SO He even denies
that he is opposing Nelson, recognizing
the utility Of opposing man so strongly
entrenched," and in the same paragraph
accuses h e J o urnal of supporting
Nelson because of railroad dictation We
do not believe. T h e ] u rn a needs any
defense from such a charge, least of all
when made by the Tom Lawson Of Min
nesota, who but two years ago was part
and parcel Of the system and it's DO.
litical machine. The Journal was
opposing railroad dictation in politics
then, as it always has; Heatwole wa:
disbursing railroad money to control thu
; republican party of the state. Now he i.
, filling pages with attacks on the rail
roads. His conversion is welcome, n,
matter how it came, but under the cir
, cumstances he will have to serve on pro
baton while before he can pass judg
ment on the sincerity Of others.
!, Heatwole pauses in his abuse of Sena
tor Nelson to say that he will supper
/. him for re-electiona if hee.behaves. = II
! the event proves that Senator. Nelson i
right on railroad and trust legislation
says the editorial referred to, land if h
4 will come out openly and declare himsel
e unequivocally for the people and agains
I the autocratic and unjust demands Of tn
- corporations, the News will heartily sup
Il port him." Senator Nelson will hardl
Il give way to any transports Of joy owe
this offer. Everybody knows that h
stands with the president, and even i
n advance of the president, on the raiiroa
:, rate question, and he is not needing an
= defense among the consistent friends
i railroad legislation. The senior senate
J., Is given to actions rather than word
o and will not lift up his voice in gener;
anticorporation howl for the sake of tt
- News support. He will not expect an
e assistance from that quarter in his can
it paign for reelection, and he will not /
=, disappointed.
i S. Y. Gordon, editor of the Interlal
e Tribune of Browns Valley is in the tw
+. cities. He is one of the original Edo
boomers of two years ago, and is leadir
as In the Eddy brigade again. He sd,
g. that Eddy sentiment is strong in his Sc
- ton of the state. While Eddy does n
r care for the nomination and will do not
". ing to get it, he is like a good MAJ
# other people, and would take 1t If hand
to him. The Eddy brigade is not goil
" to give up its effort TO make. him t
o. nominee. ! =, L .. OIL.
-, The Winona Republican and Herald ris
:. to remark that it isn't because the Ta'
ney organization prefers Lord to Dime
/ that it is generally supporting the Ka
ny son man for governor but because I
'st ment spoke too late. If he had a
st. nounced himself early it is .intimat
80 that he would have had the best of it
~ far as Tawney's friends are concernt
ny 1t would only be natural for them to +
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Ire Among the senatorial candidates in
al, forty ninth district Mayor P. R. Vail
Ely is listed. He does not live in the d
no trict now, but will move to Virginia So
IN and as he is well known in all the rar
country, he will be formidable rival
T. p. e. Bowling. L. A. Barnes of w
Ter Duluth is already in the race, and W
liam Brown is also likely to enter
the J. J. Lomen is not a man to blow
nto own horn, but it has been blown cons
erably of late. His candidacy for sec
tary of state has received all sorts
ov complimentary mention from the. st
press. Charles B. Cheney
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