The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-10
Minnesota Politics
Some Big Legislative Districts Where
There Are Hot Contests in the Ap-
preaching Primaries Ben,tdji Com.
pliments Judge Pendergast. s.

Some of the men who will be nomi.
mated for seats in the Legislature next
week ought to have two votes, to make
things really even. In several of the
districts there is such big area and
such large constituency to reach, that
ascandidate for the Legislature has to
make IS a. campaign almost .sas 81 strenuous
as II ne were running for congress. In
most Of these large districts. moreover,
there is the hottest kind Of fight in
progress among the republican candi-
dates There is the seventeenth dis
tr1ct, comprising Lincoln, Lyon and Vel.
Low Medicine counties, with four can.
dldates for the senate. The bitter fight
Is betweene Virgil b. Seward of Mar.
Ole Ostensoe of Candy may slip in be.
tween them, and Robert Faulds of Arco
is making a bid as the only farmer can.
dldate. There are also three candidates
for the house in this district.
Ihen there is the thirty~second dis.
trlct, Chisago, Pine and Kanabcc coun.
ties. 1t has three candidates for the
senate, all from Chisago county,, They
are Victor l.. Johnson Of Center City,
): =. Stone of Rush City and John W.
Nelson of Taylors Falls. H. P. Webb
of Sandstone is the Pine county can,
didate for the house, while Henry Rines
and Charles F. Serline of Mora are the
kanabec county entries
In the big forty-ffth- district there is
another mixup. This district includes
Anoka, Isanti, Mile Laos and sher.
burne counties. C., T. Swanson and
John Goss, both of Apoka county, are
entered for the senate. The district
has three representatives, and there are
six entries, two from each of, the othe.
three counties. - - ?
The great fifty-second district is a
battle ground, This district has been
represented at,athe last two sessions by
Ole N. Mahsten of Aitkin in the senate
and in the house by A. l.. Cole, the re;
publican nominee. for governor, and
cludes Aitkin, Carlton, @Cass and Itasca
counties. Cass county is satisfied with
its place on the state ticket. Mausten
is candidate for the senate, and so is
Swanson, the house member. Dan Gum
of Grand Rapids is. OUT for the senate
and is the only Itasca county entry
Carl E. Taylor of Aitkin also wants to
60 to the senate, making four. There
are FIVE candidates for the house, in.
Guiding G. P. De Laittfe Of Aitkin, who
has withdrawn too late to get his name
off the ballot. The others are George
w. Knox and G. B. Maben of Aitkin
Walter L.. Case Of Cloquet and T. M
Ferguson Of Barker Gum and Swan
son are in the lead for the senate, while
Case and Knox are probably the win
ners for the house. - .at.-+.
The f1fty-third district nearly always
has a fight. Here the Withdrawal OF
Senator Wood and the substitution Of
Representative Asher Murray US a, sena
torial candidate by his friends, has
created a new situation. i; James John
ston Of Bertha had entered against
Wood, and T. j.: Sharkey Of Staples
also filed for the senate. William Dow
er of Wadena and l.: W. Bills Of Park
Rapids are: house candidates lined uI
with Johnston, while z. r. Kinds OF
Hubbard is an ally of Murray. Ed Ryar
of Staples filed, but withdrew.
candidates for the senate, D. c.. Light
Representative u. G.. fSimons of Rec
Lake Falls, This district includes Bel
trami, Clearwater, Norman and Rec
Lake. counties. IN ormah COUNTY elect:
one house. memheEp and the other three
counties elect, another: ,''.
Senator Sundberg has no opposition
in the, sixty,third district, which com
prlSeS klttsOn, Marshall and =ROSeaT
counties, but Representatives II. O
Hanson and @. B. Ekman have three
opponents for the house, Olaf Holdah
and Roger Bell Of Roseau and DAME
Robertson of Argyle},I -. :,
There are lively contests in many
other districts, but they do not covel
as large territory as the ones men
toned. >s>.* d.
Judge Emil Frankberg Of Fergu:
Falls, the king bee of the Otter Tai
county populists, is mot . manifestine
any interest in Governor johnson IS wei
fare. He is running for his sixth tern
as judge of probate, land says he ha:
his own fight to make: He cares yer!
little how the governorship comes out
Some Of the other popnlist leaders are
angry at Frankberg for what they con
slider an attempt on his part to con
ciliate republican voters at the expense
of the state ticket.
Judge Lloyd Garrison Pendergast
the democratic nominee for Lieutenant
governor, was given a non-partizar
demonstration when he reached hi.
home at Bemidji Friday evening. H,
was taken off the train at Eagle Benz
on Thursday, and his old neighbor!
there celebrated over his nomination. A
Bemidji he was met by the band am
large. number of citizens, who marched
him from the the station to his hom'
in honor of his recognition by the
democracy. CHARLES B. Cheney.