The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-04
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.

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the machine would retain him In the sem
ate while the wicked insurgents were af-
ter his scalp. Now, counting two girls at +
once Is said to be quite interesting, and If
each is we'll lowered In her own right, it
looks like one of those "straddles' on
fortune, so dear to the heart of the po-
litical CRATER. But the day Of reckoning
comes. It Is here on this. June is de-
livery month for senatorial futures. APP
parently the boss has decided to make |
good on the Martin option and to lose his |
margin on the Gamble deal. In plain |
terms. Mr.. Gamble and Mr.. Martin were |
both promised--in diplomatic terms, no /
doubt, and thru misunderstanding ma |
ch1ne support in 1906 and now the time |
has come when the base betrayal Of Mr.. |
Gamble can no longer be concealed
Mr.. Gamble is a rather mild hammered |
eVen-tempered gentleman, but perhaps
scarcely mild enough to enjoy being |
kicked out the back door by a self-ap
pointed boss, whose purpose he no longer
serves. With Gamble and his friends ar
rayed against him the boss cannot name
delegate between Elk Point and Cham
berla1n outside of Douglass county.
In 1904 Lincoln county sent up solid
antiboss delegation against the supreme
effort of one of her most respected sons.
PROFESSOR G. W. Nash, to prevent it. 1t
is' no guess what she will do this year
with Senator CASH. state leader
against boss rule, as her standard bearer
In Turner, too, the situation Is dis
tlnctly dlscouraging for the boss He can
not deceive the friends Of Gus Bach with
false tales of insurgent hostility for Gus
Is out OF the race. Emil Branch too, who
old effective work for the machine, knows
more OF its nefarious practices now, and
Will nave none Of 1t. In 1904 four Of the
six republican papers in Turner supported
the boss machine. This year the Parker
| Fress, Centerville Journal and Hurley
| Herald have turned their backs on him.
leaving Hackett with the New Era to ex-
plain alone to his boss just 'how it hap
pened."
Mr.. Nipf carried Hutchinson county for
the machine in 1904. Mr.. Nipf Is de-
cent, honest man. He has had opportun-
mites for knowing now, as he did not
then. and as few men In the state know,
the difference in the men and the meth
DDS of the opposing forces. Dawson
county Is another uncertain quantity
There is no capital contest this year with
which to whip men into line. Revolt
against boss rule is widespread and
deep-rooted. Already two Dawson coun-
ty aspirants for state plums have
sprouted blossomed and withered in it's
fierce heat, and the end is not yet.
Even In Minnehaha Senator Kit
redge's home, reckless insurgent has
profaned the holy of holes, has even
spat upon the sacred stone at the corner
of the machine temple, Mr.. Ustrud, a
competent and popular Scandinavian
American, has dared to announce his
candidacy for state superintendent In
open defiance Of the cars ukase, and the
grapevine specials from Minnehaha read
very like the press dispatches from the
Baltic provinces Of Russia.
In Moody county, instead Of stalking
horse delivering delegation by a
feigned candidacy for secretary Of state,
Senator George Rice Is announced for
railroad commissioner The boss will
; scarcely care to monkey with that buzz
saw. Lake county was lost by the real
republicans in 1904, and can only be lost
this year by default of caucuses in coun-
try precincts. One of those tactica
plumbers in distribution Of spoils fo1
which the reignlng dynasty is becoming
noted, has focused public attention or
machine misrule in Lake too recently tt
be forgotten before June.
Brookings county gave the boss sole
delegation in 1904. This year her favor
ite son. the Hon. Philo Hall, is candi
date for congress in open alliance will
the friends Of Mr.. Crawford and Mr.
Gamble, and the influential newspaper
Of the county are opening a vigorous figh
against boss rule.
In Codington Postmaster Corey is sail
to be the machine candidate for congress
But another gentleman far less heavil
Handicapped, is threatening to butt int
the game and give the doughty postmas
i ter the time of his life .z.
: What of Klngsbury? Well little Dicki
9 Halliday may decide to repeat his usue
< antics-with the usual result. That's a
It about Kingsbury. -5
a | And Beadle? Strenuous efforts hay
9 been made to raise doubts as to the 10y
d atty of Mr.. c. lwfords' home count,
u There have been more or less yelled hint
1t h Of d1saHection, rumorS of conflicting car
e didactes by other Well-known gentleme
OF Huron, one for governor, one for stat
" treasurer and one for attorney general
}. recently investigated the situation in HI
l. ron, and am able to say, advisedly, tn;
there is absolutely no ground for any r,
l. NOR of hostility, disaffection or coolnes
nor for two of the three putative conflic
u ing candidates.. I have no other grour
8 for denying the candidacy of Colon
II Stewart for attorney general than conf
N dence in his political shrewdness and al
e around good sense. Editor Longstaff
1T the logical machine leader in Huron. T
is the only man who could organize opp,
= sition there to Mr.. Crawford stror
enough to get into the scattering" CO
umn. He is not afraid to fight any ms
L. if he feels so disposed. But he has d.
In clared in, the columns Of the Huroni
A. that he deprecates the fight of 1904; th
~ if Mr.. Crawford wants to make the RAJ
,e he should have his home county witho
a opposition land that, SO far as he is col
- cerned, he shall have it. ...1
- Jerauld county the boss expects to ca
i. ture thru the candidacy Of Editor Bal
is croft for auditor He may do It, I'll
J. writer Is not possessed of direct, accura
N information from Jerauld But with Bal
$. croft's fight and fiasco of two years ba.
Nv fresh in memory, he would lay a sms
,h sum that if that statesman ever gets in
the state convention 1t will be on the Ha
\ liday plan-with supporting delegate,
not named by himself nor at his dispos;
Sanborn county is to. be- Won over
e. Tipping a crumb, the registership of Il
IT. Mitchell land office, to recent insurger
no The gentleman cannot afford to sell
a the price and. if he does, he will alwa
dy be surprised at the smallness of the he
IN he left in politics by dropping out of
TO Friends of Senator Shober in Hyde coun
ne and over the state are pressing him
up stand for lieutenant governor.
es Hughes county is, of course, claimed |
ne Mr.. Burke, along with the balance of t
earth. He modestly assumes that h
T. nomination is conceded unanimous
That Is his modesty. If the bump
ur caution was equally developed it mig
lis remind him that, in the absence of
tie capital fight or other disturbing factor
on Hughes county politics, he might poss
er bly, become an issue himself-whi
ur would be very dangerous. It is. a sa