Little Falls herald., 1908-10-30
Attorney GeneIal Explains His
Sensational PIe-Conven.
ton Statement.
SAYS HE DID NOT MEAN JAKE.
Had Inferred That,the Interests
Would Name, Head Of Repub-
|ican Ticket. i.

Some time in last April Attorney
General TT. Young, who was at that
time a candidate for governor before
the Republican, convention, wrote an
open letter to the Duluth Herald. The
letter was written in reply to state
ment made. in that paper, under St.
Paul date, that he, Mr. Young, contem-
plated withdrawing from the campaign
because Of the fact that he was OPP
posed by the combined interests Of
the state.
Mr.. Young made emphatic denial
that he intended to withdraw as a can
j1date for governor, stating that the
Republican party was not controlled
by the interests" that he had fought
he liquor interests, the timber thieves
md the rai'rccd corporations in tie
courts and that he would continue to
f!s.jlt tEem in the open during the cam.
paisn. He made specific statements
IS to the opposition against him, nam
Ing Bob Dunn as general in CHIEF CT
',,c forces, Oar Reese as representing
he liquor interests and Tom Snevli:
.rd Ed Smith the lumber and rail.
coads. The letter was extremely vi.
!-iol;c a1d its, publication caused
:e:il 5ation. Ee discovered later that
he was mistaken, the interests did
control the Republican party. On the
morning of the convention, with inev-
table defeat staring him in the face,
se withdrew his candidacy and ap.
peared en- the platform seconding the
ao;nination Of Jacobson. Mr.. Snyder,
whom Mr.. Young had charged with
being stalking horse for Jacobson,
also fell into line with a seconding
speech. Mr.. Heatwole, however, the
Fourth candidate in the field. refused
to bend the knee and bow down before
tho Interests" which Mr. Young had
SO vigorously stigmatized.
AS was only natural Governor John
son has made use of this letter writ
zen by Mr.. Young; in fact he has read
it to his audiences over the state in
proof of his contention that the ''in.
terests" and not the great body of the
Republican party selected the stand
ard bearer Of that organization. He
has taken nothing from the letter, nor
has he added to it. He has simply
read it as published and left it to the
voters to draw their own conclusions
therefrom. In the meantime Mr..
Young has not appeared to take ar
absorbing interest in the campaign of
his successful rival.
The managers of the party, however,
who are engaged in the greatest exhi-
bition Of whipping in" ever practiced
i'll this or any other state. have evil
IDENTIFY applied the lash to Mr.. Young.
He has appeared in an open letter in
the dailies of the Twin Cities, denying
that he ever meant that Mr.. Jacobson,
personally, was the creature OF the
interests" in fact that his letter did
not mean what it said 1t is probable
that Mr.. Young was compelled to
write Tits letter in order to retain his
party regularity, but it certainly does
not clear away the charges made b.
him in his open letter of April last.
Mr. Young is an attorney and has
The happy faculty of making his
charges concise and direct. He stated
for instance, that Bob Dunn was en-.
cheering the fight against him. 1t
will be remembered that Dunn is the
man who, at Republican harmony
banquet at St. Paul in February last,
,reated the political sensation of the
lay by his advocacy of Mr.. Jacobson's
and nomination as against
Mr.. Young, the then sole aspirant in
he field. :.sr