Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-08-04
STATE POLITICS.

quarters on the SlXtu uooF OF the 1Tlonc
building. Rooms 604 COS, and took the
preliminary steps toward opening the cam
paign. pr Cole, the chairman of the state
central committee, intends giving his whole
time to this work and will live in st. Paul
, until after the election. For the present
he will remain at headquarters directing
the organization, but later the work ut
headquarters will be under the direction
of the chairman Of the executive commit.
tee, Senator Thompson, and the secre-
tary. Mr.. Charles FL. Warner, until re-
Gently state immigration agent, while the
doctor will accompany his brother, the
nominee for governor, in tour of the
state.
There have already been great many
callers at headquarters, and the CORE
spondence from every part of the state has
been very large. AS a result of interviews
ana from what was learned from the let
tiers received from politicians who are
usually we'll Informed, the members - the
executive committee feel very much en-
| couragcd over the outlook. There is every
evidence that the Republican ticket will
have behind it a more thoroughly united
party than in any campaign in recent
years. lue ldlk Oh any large utSShcCliOI
towards the head of the ticket is always
somewhere else. A week or two ago it was
represented that the people in Mr.. Jacob
! sons district were in open rebellion, but
visit to Madison and other points in the
! Seventh congressional district reveals the
fact that if there is any general inclina-
ton to bolt the head OF the ticket the neo-
pie there have not heard of it. Now the
diSaffection has shifted its location to
more indefinite part of the state and is
being exuherantly exploited by Democratic
newspapers and huttonhoe politicians. The
fact of the matter is, as it is brought home
to Republican headquarters, conditions are
wonderfully improved in every part of the
state from what they were two years ago.
Tie people are waiting to see Mr.. COle
however, and to hear what he has to say
The opportunity to do this will, I learn,
be afforded them in a short time. Mr.
Cole. who has made a complete recovery
from the indisposition from which he suf-
fered during the closing days Of the cam
p1ign and at Duluth, will be in Minneap-
oils during the Grand Army encampment
and will have rooms at the Hotel Hyser.
on the corner of Fourth street and Nico!-
let avenue, where he expects to meet not
only the old soldiers. but any one who
wGn,d care to make the acquaintance of
the Republican candidate for governor.
About the same time, or possibly before
that. Mr.. Cole expects to make an oppor
tunity to take the public into his conf
1ence as to his views on public questions.
10 f1o in ado w will
be delivered somewhere in the northern
part of the state and not far from his
home in Walker. This speech. on when
Mr.. Cole is now at work. will b" the open
ing gun of his campaign, and it is ex
pected that it will deal with state issues,
if not exhaustively, at least in such
manner that there will be no question as
to Mr.. Coles views on any matter touched
upon in the Republican platform or which
is now or will be at that time Of current
political interest. Those in Mr.. Coles
confidence say that the views that will
then be expressed by him will be in line
with the advanced policy of President
Roosevelt on corporation questions and will
be of such a character as will commend
him to the confidence of the rank and ile
Of the RepubFsan party.
1t is expected that Mr. Cole will, about
Sept 1, start ont to make a tour Of the
: state and that the southern counties will
be the first he will visit. Doubtless
number of addresses will be delivered
while he swings around the circle but,
after all, his principal object in making
the tour will be to meet the people, get
acquainted with them and let them form
their own estimate at close quarters of
the chara cter of the man the Republicans
have nominated to the office of chief ex-
ecutive of the state.
Congressman Tawney was in town few
days ago and from what he said 1t is
plain that the national congressional COM
mittee is getting itself in line to cooperate
with the Republican state central commit
tee for the success of the whole Repub-
lican ticket 1t looks now as though Mr..
Tawney, who. as chairman of the appro-
priations committee of the house of repre-
sentatiyeS, is the most prominent member
of the Minnesota delegation, is to have no
opposition this fall either for the nomina-
tion or later for the election and he will
consequently be in q position to render
valuable service to the state ticket. Mr..
Tawney is an effective and experienced
campaigner and under his leadership it is
expected that the old First district will
roll up it's old time majority for Cole and
the rest of the state ticket.
The St. Paul Dispatch has made an in
teresting contribution to campaign litera-
Iture in the shape of a direct attack on
the so-called merger--the Northern Pacific
and the Great Northern Railroad com
panies-which it alleges and no coubt with
truth, are, Notwithstanding the dissolution
Of the Northern Securities company, still
carrying On their business in such fashion
as is not contemplated by law: that in fact
they completely ignore the statutes de-
mandiug that parallel and competing roads
shall not be operated in the same interest.
The matter has been brought to the atten-
ton of Governor Johnson, who for two
years has of course known, as every one
else has, that the statements and charges
made by the Dispatch are substantially
correct and he has been asked, quite un-
necessarily one would think. inasmrch
as during his entire term of office he has
completely ignored the situation, what be
is going to do about it, Governor John
sons reply is both interesting and sng-
gestive. He admits the fact; says in effect
that the state executive cant help it aud
concludes that lit does not appear to me
to be proper, on the eve of political
campaign, to do some spectacular thing
which might not bring desired results.