The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1908-04-16
YOUNG SAYS Nay
Attorney General Will Not Retire
From (iubernatOriaI Race
DEFlES INTERESTS"
insists That REPUBLICAN Party is on
the Square" and That He'll Be
in at the finish.

Attorney General Edward T. Young
has bid defiance to the interests
including the liquor business, and
denies the report that he has with
drawn from the race for the republic
can nomination for governor
AS noted in the last issue of the
Herald, the Duluth Evening Herald
published a letter from it's st. Paul
correspondent stating that the head
of the states legal department was
weary of the strife, that the Inter
ests' were lining up behind Jacob
son, that he saw that he was up
against a stone wall" and that he
would shortly publish letter stat
ing his position and announce his
withdrawal from the race
Mr.. Young's letter was Forthcoming
last Thursday, but it is not a with
drawal On the contrary it is a bold
def" Of the interests, contains a
hard slap at Bob Dunn and states
that the writer will stay in the race
til, the finish. One of the pungent
sentences in Mr.. Young's letter is
''The republican party is on the
square," The letter is interesting to
read, and in order that those of
The Heralds subscribers who do not
see the daily papers may have an
opportunity to peruse this somewhat
sensational communication it is re-
produced here:
st. Paul, April Z, 1908.
Editor Duluth-Herald, Duluth.
Minn.-Dear Sir: In your Sunday
edition you published an article head
ed Young Is to Quit the Race for
the Governorship" You say that
| am going to withdraw, realizing
the impossibility Of winning against
the combined opposition of the rail-
roads, the liquor interests and the
timber barons. You say that am
up against a stone wall, because, in
addition to Jacobson's personal fol-
lowing, there is 'Dunn's report and
the support of that strong faction
that does as Dunn says, and with
out which no man can succeed
You say further: Next the cor
pOrate interests have tied up with
Jake. Here is Oar Reese represent
ing the liquor interests; Ed Smith.
of Minneapolis, representing the rail-
road interests; Tom Shevlin. of
Minneapolis, representing the lumber
interests; Lee Willcutts, and w. W..
Rich, representing the federal ma
chine, all openly supporting Jake
All of these have been fighting Jake
in all previous history, but now when
they had to choose between Jake
and Young, they chose Jake. Young
had to fight his battles alone
You do me great injustice, Mr..
Editor, when you say that because
tave no corporate support, I have
been fighting my battles alone, and
you also do me an injustice by say
ing that 1 am going to withdraw
from the fight thru fear of the op-
position of these interests. l have
had to fight those interests and many
others for the last three years in
court, trying to uphold the rights
OF the people, and / ana not afraid
to fight them again in a republican
convention. Instead Of the fight for
the guOernatorial nomination being
over, it has only just begun.
THE fact that the liquor and cor
porate interests are opposing my can
didacy has been known to me and
to everyone in this capital for some
time. AS attorney general, l have
made the saloons obey the law as
to closing at night aud on Sunday.