The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-25
Minnesota Politics
Cole Announcement Probably Last Of
series-Jacobson Boomers Organic
ing Counties-Sixth District Demo-
cratic Candidates..

A. e.. Cole IS announcement probably
completes the field Of candidates for
governor. Lord, Block, Diment, Jacob
son.. Somerville and Stephens are al
ready in the game as active or recep-
tive candidates., and P. E. Hanson is
also a factor, in spite Of his statement
that he will not be a candidate, which
he will probably stick to. #s
The Cole statement calls attention to
his legislative record and takes a posi-
tlon on several questions, but empha-
sizes the issue of state development,
which he has fathered. This question
has taken hold remarkably we'll among
the newspapers of the state, and nearly
I:all the influential dailies and weeklies
are stakingSit up in earnest. 5>Ssg
The statement also stands for enact
ment of those already passed; laws to
take road work out Of politics, insur-
ance< legislatio and changes in the
tax laws that will equalize the burdens
of taxation,
The jacobson campaign for delegates
has been started in a systematic way.
The men who. met jacobson when in
Minneapolis at the time of his an
nouneement are at work pulling all the
strings they can, and are organizing
their counties to round up delegates lis
far as possible. TheAStephens and Cole
announcements are direct blows at ia
cObson, because both men are located
! in the heart of territory that Jacob
son was expecting to get. The Jacob
son men, however. are going right after
those counties; Their strength outside
scattered, but it will come from widely
| separated sections of the state. It is
claimed that two or three counties in
| the first will give Jacobson all or part
of their delegates, that he will divide
the second district with Block, and will
get few in the third. The southern
end Of the eighth is claimed for Jacob
son, and the sixth will be a battle
ground; Meeker county has its own to
| will keep several counties in line from
the start. Cole, Block and. Jacobson
will all look for delegates in the rest of
the district. The Stephens men are
trying for a solid ninth district, but
jacobson seem certain to break in
there. AS for the seventh, it. is not
going to be solid. Redwood will be Ju.
in the southern part. They are talking
Stephens in Kandiyohi, and in Grant
and Stevens there will be a contest.
Swift will be neutral In the interests
of E. T. Young. 49,
The Mortified News analyses Julius
Block and decides that he will not do.
1t labels him a machine politician, and
says he does not stand for the railroad
third district. For that reason tho
News does not believe he5will get the
support of the district in the state con-
vention. The News must be careful
how hard it attacks Block, or he will
/ get the Rice county delegation, anyway.
General George P. Wilson has re.
turned from winter vacation in the
south. He is closing eight years. serv-
stood to be willing to serve another
term if the forty-frst district wants
him. If there should be prospect Of a
fight, however, he would not care to go
in again. No other candidate has been
heard of to date. General Wilson has
served the state well, and it would take
a good man to replace him.
A. G.. Broker, former mayor of Wa.
dena, and a well-known attorney there
lis said to have designs on the demo
cratic nomination for congress in the
4 sixth district. ]. d. Sullivan of St
Cloud has his eyes on the same honor.
4 Both men are figuring on a possibility
4 of Buckman's denomination and re-
volt at the polls which would land a
democrat in Office.
4, s. ID. Peterson of New Ulm, who was
4 at the capitol the other day, denied any
i Intention Of fighting Frank Clague for
i the senatorial nomination in the Brown
4 Redwood district He says Clague is
i strong in. the district, and is quite Ger.
4 tain to,be nominated.
80 Charles B. Cheney.