New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-03-20
POLITICS In SECOND DISTRICT
Local Congressional Situation Dis
cussed by Minneapolis
Journal.

Charles Is. Cheney, the prolific
political writer for the Minneapolis
Journal, has been talking over Second
district matters with members of the
legislature and the following are some
of his conclusions:
Gilbert Gutterson of Lake Crystal
will be candidate again, as every
one comedies. Without any definite
announcement, he has been a candi-
date ever since the election last year.
He is going abroad this summer for
vacation, and when he returns in the
fall it is expected that he will take up
the threads of the campaign and make
ready to land the next nomination.
Members of the legislature from the
Second district do not believe that Gut
terson will have clear field. The
McCleary organization is not going
to die without fight. Just whom
they will select to make the run is
entirely in the air, and as nearly all
the prominent men of the district have
been against McCleary in the past,
they may have trouble in getting a
strong candidate. OF course he will
not run as McCleary man, or as a
standpatter, for they can deliver him
the McCleary strength without driving
| away others by such an avowal.
There are numerous aspirants in the
district, and with McCleary out of the
way there is likely to be a free-for- all.
Two leading men in the district are
understood to be incapacitated by i'll
health. Herbert j. Miller of Luverne,
who ran in 1904, has recently returned
from California improved in health,
but it is not thought likely that he will
run, and George W. Somerville of
Sleepy Eye has been i'll for some time.
Judge P. E. Brown of Luverne, one of
the strong men of the district, has
absolutely refused to consider con-
gressional candidacy. But there are
others. Senator F. e. Putnam OF
Blue Earth is understood to have con
gressional aspirations. E. T. Smith
of jackson has had the same idea,
and Judge Quinn of Fairmont is talk.
ed of. Edgar Weaver of Mankato is
thought to have the bee. He and Gut.
tersen are both from Blue Earth
county, and would weaken each othe,
if there was a large field of candidates
It is said that Weaver would like te
make deal by which he would run fol
congress and Guttersen would succeed
him as county auditor, but Gutterser
cannot see the lesser position. Lieu
tenant Governor Eberhart is talked of
but his ambitions are not running il
that line. The field of state poll
. tics suits him better, and his friends
predict that he will be a prominen
possibility for governor next year
Senator FL. E. Hanson of Window. /;
new man in politics, is making goot
record and is spoken of as good tim
, Der. There is good deal of feelins
among Second district leaders tina
they could get better results, and with
out such a bitter struggle, under thu
convention system, but the legislator
do not like to tamper with the primar.
and run the risk of popular disap
proval.
{ First Assistant Postmaster Gener
al Hitchcock has made public the de
tails of the increased allowances to b
made to clerks and carriers at post
Offices in the northwest as the resul
of new legislation increasing tn
salaries of these employees. Minnea
polls, st. Paul. Duluth, Winona, Re,
Wing, ST. Cloud, Crookston, Man
kate, Saltwater and Albert Lea en-
) ployes are provided for but the Ne,
) Ulm boys are overlooked.