The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-22
Minnesota Politics
Latest Report from Sixth District Tells
OF Rupture Between Buchanan and
Part OF His Machine. Which May Pro-
duce New Alignment in the District.

The sixth district is upholding its rep
utation as the storm center Of state pol
itics The latest report from that direc-
ton says there is a break between Con-
gresham Buchanan and part of his ma
chine. Buchanan, as the story goes, has
announced his intention of dsplacing A.
W. sheets az postmaster at Long Prairie
and putting ina man selected by w. F.
Lee, who leads the other faction. c. c..
Eastman of Wadenass as a sworn ally Of
Sheets In the. perpetual war Waged in
the htty-third senatorial district. East
man and Sheets are supporters of Sen
ator Wood, while Lee and j. D. Jones are
back of James Johnston of@Bertha. East.
man is postmaster at Wadena and has
been Buckman's manager In the county.
He Is standing by Sheets however, and
has drawn =Alvahs Eastman and James A.
Martin In, as they, have all worked to-
gether politically. Buchanan gave them
no assurances when home recently, and
seems to have decided to GUST Sheets
| Sheets friends practically broke with
,Buckman, and going home tried to drag
Brewer into the congressional race, tho
he had made up his mind not to run. y.
| The story is given for what 1t is worth.
| If 1t is true,s this wing Of the Buchanan
| organization will soon be found putting a
candidate for congress in. the field.
The woods are full of possibilities. but
most of them would be considered. not
available either because they are office
| holders under Buchanan, or because Of
local complications. The anti-Buckman
men want a. candidate who has solid sup
port at home, and that is hard to find in
| the sixth district. The present state of
| feeling in the district BODIES ill for Buck
man. 1t has been stirred up by circula-
tion Of the stories Of his domestic career.
=,
candidate. Buchanan would be- almost GER
tainly doomed to defeat at the primaries
i but his organization is working to keep
any formidable candidates out of the way,
and II one enters, others Will doubtless
be brought out to divide the opposition
lstrength.
T The Buchanan opposition does not IA
vor A. F. Foster of Litchfield, who has
made the race twice James A. Martin
has been urged to run, but is handicapped
by being Buchanan postmaster. c. j
Gunderson of Alexandria is impossible
because he comes from Senator Nelson
town. Judge Alley of Buffalo has beer
suggested, and there is considerable talk
of Frank White, county attorney Of Sher-
, burne, who sent Crawford, the boxcal
murderer, to the gallows. Frank M Eddy
would command the anti-Buckma1
support If he consented to run. Others
mentioned are Baumbach of Wadena, w
F.. Lee or Senator E. 3, Wood of Lone
Prairie, G. B. March Of Litchfield, Muir
ray of Wadena, Alderman or Frater O.
Brainerd, or Cole of Walker.
One theory Of; Brewers withdrawal il
that it was done to make things easy 70
uniting the sixth district on Peter E
Hanson for governor. The Jacobson
boomers in the sixth have not let I'D il
their energies, however. Eastman ant
Martin of St. Cloud, Fuller of Little Falls
, Eastman of Wadena, and Eddy Of Saul
Center, and other leading men of the dis
trict, are working for jacobson. The ,op
position to Jacobson hopes to get MI
Hanson to reconsider and permit the us
l Of his name, but he has refused so fal
> They believe that Hanson is the only ma
who can prevent the sixth from goin
nearly solid to jacobson.