The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-09
Minnesota Politics
Relations Between Congressman Davis
and His Political Foster Father Be-
coming stralned-st. Paups Democratic
Organ Appears.

There are signs of a break between the
old HeatWole machine in the third dis
trict, and Congressman Davis personal
machine. When Davis was nominated,
with Heatwole's help, in 1902, he fell heir
to the Heatwole organization which was
the best Of it's kind that the state ever
saw. This organization still owned Heat
wole as it's leader, and Davis allowed that
relation to rest for while. He intended
to be boss himself, however, in time, and
has been asserting himself lately. He has
taken the patronage business firmly in
his own hands and has dropped some of
HeatWole's old lieutenants to make room
for his own Others have had to take
poorer places and some moves made late
ly Indicate that the congressman consid-
ers himself independent, and ready to
break with Heatwole if necessary to have
it understood that he Is 'ft'' In the third
district.
st. Paul's democratic machine is try
| ing to make up for the loss of the Globe,
and the first copy Of the new organ has
been issued. It, is called the st. Paul
American and Will be issued weekly at
first but will come out daily after the
campaign becomes warmer. The first
number contains eight pages, and no pub
Usher vouches for it. A big article on
William Randolph Hearst indicates the
intended tone Of the publication. It Is
surmised that the paper will be taken up
by the democratic state organization when
the city campaign is over, and used as an
official organ. Eventually the promoters
hope to turn it over to Hearst to be made
a permanent proposition. The political
powers in st. Paul feel the loss of daily
organ keenly. The Globe used to do some
effective campaign work for de Bob"
He is not suffering much at the hands of
the other dailies, but the O'Connor ad-
ministration wants an organ it can con-
troll. ...
s. A. Langum says in the Preston Times
that nothing would suit the democratic
managers better than late republican
convention, and a prolonged pre-conven
ton fight. 1.-THE longer the delay" says
Senator Lords chief boomer, "the more
danger Of dissensions within the party
and the later the convention the less time
to heal the sores and effect thoro organ
ization. No one knows this better thar
Frank Day and his co-workers, and W.
might add-no one knows it better thar
. the conspirators who just now seem ben
) upon bringing about another republican
| defeat. Let them come out in the opel
and state their true reason-they can foo
no one with their SenseleSS tWaddle abou
f the wishes of the democrats in the prem
/ ises."
e A Redwood county man writes to T h
e Journ al that a great mistake wa
made in the account of the farmers
meeting at Wabasso. It~was gotten u
e by one whom he describes as "a mora
and political Pecksniff," and it was, h
says, composed largely Of village mer
, chants, some bankers and a sprinkling {
. neighboring, farmers, with the riff-raff {
= the village as a makeweight." The write
y 1of the letter is evidently out of sympath
u with the movement.
:. Noting the fact that there is not toda
y a single active candidate for the reput
q lean nomination for governor, the w
u mona Republican and Herald says:
. / The question which naturally arises is, wi
u this ideal gubernatorial campaign last? Or wi
: the old warwhoop be again heard the ho7
h Of battle draws nigh? If the candidates stick
their Favowed plans, and persist in their dete
= mination to make no personal contest, the COZ
;, ing state convention ought to be a model
decorum as we'll of earnest purpose, al
>, whoever is nominated will have behind him Il
= support of "a united party.
" H. M. Hanson of Hanley Falls, Yello
n Medicine county, is out as a candida
y for the house in the seventeenth distric
,e a.. ~ ~ .s-z~ Charles B. Cheney.